Re: Creating systems
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:00 am
You forgot some:Sleeper Service wrote:As shown by the picture, cloned systems with or without (0x0 rooms) physical presence on the ship are possible. I played around with that a little in the development of this whole encased system thing that carto flane also uses in his auto cruiser mod. Clone systems behave much like a glitched out single system. Enemies can upgrade them independently. The clones provide the stat from the clone that is upgraded highest, as far as i can tell. Damage dealt to one of the clones will also be dealt to the other clone system. I did't test how they behave when repaired. Also did not test it on player ships. Other than for aesthetic purpose I see little use for this.Kieve wrote:I've wondered now and then if this was possible - cloning systems to multiple rooms, I mean. Assuming it's functional in-game and doesn't crash or glitch out if the "clone" system is hit, powered/unpowered, or activated (dual cloaking?), there might actually be some very creative applications here.
I have no idea what those might be, but hey, we have 0x0 rooms and those opened up some interesting possibilities.
I look forward to seeing where this goes.
Potential applications for this so far:
-It would be interesting to see how the clones behave when repaired. If they have to be repaired independently to restore their functionality this could be used to create weaker ships that need more repairs to get running again after getting hit.
-Depending on how enemies actually get their upgrades, cloned systems might be used to make enemies dump their scrap, upgrade points or whatever resources they use (if they do at all) into useless systems, essentially weakening them.
- Make it possible for a weapon to deal damage to a system by impacting one of several rooms.
- Allow bigger effective room size without actually making bigger rooms. (4 2x2 medbays instead of one 4x4, for example?)
Edit: I think I'm going to play around with this, try and figure out what can and what can't be done with this. I'll let you guys know as soon as I have any info.
Re-edit: Okay, one problem. I can't seem to reproduce any system duplication.
Re-re-edit: To clarify:
I can achieve the in-hangar duplication, as seen on the screenshot. I have 2 teleporters of identical power (though I set one to lvl 3 and another to lvl 1...
), and in rooms 12 and 13 on the Nesasio. However, the hangar claims there are 2 lvl 1 teleporters, and that the teleporter is in room 12. Furthermore, once I get ingame, the power control for the second teleporter vanishes, along with any trace of the presence of the second teleporter, EXCEPT one - the cloaking and teleporter control buttons now mysteriously go "BEEEEEEP" instead of "beep" whenever you mouse over them, suggesting that the game is repeatedly playing the same sound in quick succession.