Minor Modding Help

posted on August 17th, 2012, 1:12 am

Yeah, the way the devs do it is kind of a cheat. Their program manually adjusts the coded values of every ship that has a pasive to meet its requirements. The passive weapon doesn't actually do anything but give an icon and a label.

posted on August 17th, 2012, 1:46 am

Ok so there's no point to actually putting in a passive if all it does is give an icon. For my new ships I don't have build buttons or ship background images etc. unfortunately i haven't seen any build button/system background packs for different ships specifically for FO, so there is no reason for me to put in passives if it doesn't actually change anything. I have antimatter containers on my veteran constellation and i have the special energy in the ship odf set at 155 i was expecting to have 455 with the antimatter container. Is it the same thing for the shield passives to? Like optimized shields don't actually provide resistance against beam/pulse/torpedo weapons?

posted on August 17th, 2012, 1:54 am

All the passives tend to work that way. Ones that reduce damage (like the Optimized Shields) also need changes to the odf to work, all affected weapons in this case.