Quoting GoaFan77,

reply 375

So with enough buffs it maybe possible.

One MILLION buffs...and we will call it, The Alan Parsons Project!

My goal is to have a variety of planet bonuses that can simulate solar flares, planet and radiation storms, etc.--all strong enough to do things like destroy scouts, stop colonization, prevent combat, etc. but to have them randomly appear so players can't simply sit and wait for a predictable rotation.

I think I can feel my headache already.  Ow.

No Ryat...I was sirius.

C-C-C-Combo Breaker!

If my logic is correct, its more like 3x+c function, where x is the number of different "phases" you have that rotate between each other. For each phase one buff applies the chance buff right away and then waits until the buff ends after t seconds to apply the buff for the next phase. In the chance buff, you simply have an ApplyBuff instant action with an on chance, which if successful finally applies the buff that does whatever effect you want.

Of course you may need a few additional buffs to start the cycle or to apply the solar flair particle effect, which would be the constant c, but whats one or two more buffs right?

so ... all I have to do as a player to stop an entire enemy fleet from running away is disable a capital ship?

Ok...it's official...I am suing you for mental anguish.

FYI...if anyone would like to suggest any specific posts that are uniquely helpful to modder's I'll attach them at the head of this thread.  Thanks.

Little does he know I failed two years of algebra in H.S. ....grrrrrrr.

If you want to make say, transfer the Cobalt to the Vasari, you'll do the following:

Take FrigateTechLight (the cobalt's entity file) from the gameinfo folder.  Ordinarily, this is just referenced in the entity.manifest and PlayerTech.entity, but you'll want to reference it in PlayerPhase.entity under FrigateInfo.  Put it on page 0 with the other files and increase the count by one.  Play game.

Very cool, thanks!

Appreciate the answers!

My first year of Algebra I thought it ws insanely easy--until I got my grade average which was...16 (of 100).  The teacher was new in a new school and class full of jocks and cried at her desk everyday.  I learned nothing.  My father then forced me to take Algebra II and the teacher's first words on the first day were, "Transfer immediately from this class if math isn't going to be your major in college."  My average at the end of the year was 34.

The following year, my dad made me repeat algebra and in my first after school study with the teacher his words to me were, "I never really wanted to teach people like you--I wanted to teach gifted classes in math."  Year-end average, 50.

I estimate that in another two years I might have graduated with a 70.  So I can understand young, frustrated modders here--which I am.  

You can do insane geometry with your models but algebra was too much?

For pretty much all of Algebra II in HS I would make little programs that would just need me to plug in all the information the exercises gave me and then immediately spit out an answer in the exact format the book wanted. Granted I think most people would agree if you can program a computer to do something you must be able to do it yourself, put who does manual calculations these days?

Well, geometry is just pressing extrude and moving stuff around, no math involved. Algebra never even made the slightest shred of sense to me.

Also, I've never been able to so much as print, much less write, much less read writing.

Calculus was fun for me!

edit: Though I have forgotten most of it.

You remind me of my girlfriend when you talk like that. 

While I'm off double specializing in computer science and double minoring, she decides to double major in CS and math...  Ugh...  I don't see how people can like that stuff so dang much.

I took calc I and II in high school (along with basically every other AP and duel credit course we had, even if it only existed because I took it), but hated every moment of it.  I hate calc so freaking much.  I'm taking it and being done with it.  Of course, after that, I'm taking AI's, Compilers, and Linear Algebra, so those might be (and probably will be) worse.

Oh well.. At the end of it all, I'll have a double specialty in AI's and Computer Graphics with minors in psych and philosophy.  Hopefully the math isn't more than a speed bump along the way.

And guess who wants to develop video games    

(Seriously, how many other fields would ever have those two things required?)