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I've actually had these done for awhile, but I've been working on some UI stuff, that I don't wanna show you guys just yet. Also, getting the ships ingame, is really simple, the only thing is that the room layout system is time consuming.

I think it would be interesting if only protoss started with shields. Might need to re balance weapons around ships having fewer/no shields.

Yeah, I was thinking about that, I think it would work pretty well, I just have to figure out how to balance that. I am thinking that MAYBE, I could give the Terran/Zerg an invisible zoltan shield, that would take a few hits, but wouldn't regen like the units in Starcraft.

Tuesday wrote:Yeah, I was thinking about that, I think it would work pretty well, I just have to figure out how to balance that. I am thinking that MAYBE, I could give the Terran/Zerg an invisible zoltan shield, that would take a few hits, but wouldn't regen like the units in Starcraft.

My thought would be that terran would have solid hull strength, but would be shieldless and dependent on repair drones (reskin to SCVs).

The Zoltan shield would make for a nice 'defensive matrix' for terran, but they still wouldn't have normal shields (normal shields being the domain of the protoss).

Whale Cancer wrote:

Tuesday wrote:Yeah, I was thinking about that, I think it would work pretty well, I just have to figure out how to balance that. I am thinking that MAYBE, I could give the Terran/Zerg an invisible zoltan shield, that would take a few hits, but wouldn't regen like the units in Starcraft.

My thought would be that terran would have solid hull strength, but would be shieldless and dependent on repair drones (reskin to SCVs).

The Zoltan shield would make for a nice 'defensive matrix' for terran, but they still wouldn't have normal shields (normal shields being the domain of the protoss).

Solid hull strength?


If I went with the zoltan idea, I wouldn't allow the Terran/Zerg to upgrade the shield into the normal blue ones. (Kinda like the Zoltan layout B)

Also, Having used the Stealth ship, without a shield of some kind I found it very annoying dealing with enemies in the first few sectors.

Tuesday wrote:

Whale Cancer wrote:

Tuesday wrote:Yeah, I was thinking about that, I think it would work pretty well, I just have to figure out how to balance that. I am thinking that MAYBE, I could give the Terran/Zerg an invisible zoltan shield, that would take a few hits, but wouldn't regen like the units in Starcraft.

My thought would be that terran would have solid hull strength, but would be shieldless and dependent on repair drones (reskin to SCVs).

The Zoltan shield would make for a nice 'defensive matrix' for terran, but they still wouldn't have normal shields (normal shields being the domain of the protoss).

Solid hull strength?


If I went with the zoltan idea, I wouldn't allow the Terran/Zerg to upgrade the shield into the normal blue ones. (Kinda like the Zoltan layout B)

By default all player ships have 30 hull strength. You could increase that for Terran vessels. Titanium Housing and Rock Plating could both be renamed and used on certain terran vessels (or bought/given by events, depending on how far you are going with this).

Whale Cancer wrote:
By default all player ships have 30 hull strength. You could increase that for Terran vessels. Titanium Housing and Rock Plating could both be renamed and used on certain terran vessels (or bought/given by events, depending on how far you are going with this).

Is there a way to change the UI depending on the ship being currently used??

Tuesday wrote:

Whale Cancer wrote:
By default all player ships have 30 hull strength. You could increase that for Terran vessels. Titanium Housing and Rock Plating could both be renamed and used on certain terran vessels (or bought/given by events, depending on how far you are going with this).

Is there a way to change the UI depending on the ship being currently used??

No. What you could do, however, is have multiple UIs available for loading through Grognak's Mod Manager. It's only a little bit more work for those who use your mod.

I haven't even looked at Grognaks mod manager yet.

If not I may be able to make the UI health bar longer, and then have special lines on the bar to designate the maximum for a ship.

Tuesday wrote:I haven't even looked at Groganks mod manager yet.

If not I may be able to make the UI health bar longer, and then have special lines on the bar to designate the maximum for a ship.

You can't make the bar longer, but you can edit the sprite that has the lines on it. I did this for my 15 hull point ships (filled in every other line).