Anyone tried to add new ships components?

[Anonymous@98]

so, I can add new components just fine, (utilities so far) but I can't get new icons!

grr.

 

[Foraven]

Did you find a way to make it work for AI aswell?

From my experience the ai doesn't use your own made components, would like to see the ai using armor more often aswell.

Seem to me the AI is a bit smarter than we think it is when designing ships. It doesn't use pre-defined loadouts like so many other games use but does compare items and pick what it consider more appropriate according to battle data. As far as i can tel the auto-fill feature is the same the AI use and results differ each time we fight something; it swap weapons, armor and shields depending on the results of the last battle.

Edit: the AI don't like armor in the vanilla game because so many weapons are armor piercing, it will mostly use shields until it gets crystal armor.

 

[Anonymous@98]

okay, I managed to add weapons in, I just can't add in new graphics (icons, etc.)

Also, the csv file doesn't seem to overide anything yet for me, perhaps that's why I can't see whether or not the weapon I created penetrates shields, etc.

 

[InfinityArts]

Atanvaryar made a mod with working icons: Rangefinder.

I don't know what he used to modify the vanilla icons, but I used GIMP with a DDS plug-in when I made a compatibility patch for a Beautiful Battles-compatible rangefinder.

Shameless plug: BB: Rangefinder.