Who sets Damage Standards?

[GAMALON]

Hello

Im just getting started in Modding and Plan to Make My own ships
& weapons. what i wanted to ask was Who sets the standards on How much damage a Weapon can do to another ship.I mean
whats to stop some one from Cheating and Using a 1 SHOT 1 KILL WEAPON?? Are there Rules to How Much Power a Weapon can have??If So Where can i see those Rules?? I Guess I need to Know If im Designing a Weapon for a Ship ,What exactly that weapon Can or Cannot do. Thank You


GAMALON

[Aurek akareth]

There are none, its up to you how you want to balance ships firepower against one another.

I suggest you open up the homeworld big file (do you know how?) and look at relics .shp files. Use those as a base for you're own work.

[Retroboy]

I'd say the players do, GAMALON. If you create a one-shot-kill uberweapon, nobody will play your mod. :)

-- Retro

[Zefram]

...unless you enjoy utter domination :)

[Ammon Ra]

lol...players decide tese things...be wary of them...they're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadd.....;)

[Darkfyre]

I'd say you can't make a weapon that destroys anything in one shot, but some of the weapons on the cap-ships can destroy a fighter or corvette in one assuming they hit of course.

Ships have power ratings, you need to keep things in proportion and fairly realistic, otherwise people won't play.

[starfleet]

I agree here with what they say, no matter what you make you have to balance it all.. if you give one side a 'superweapon' which you'll note RELIC hate then you have to give the other side one as well.

Best way is to just be realistic i'm guessing something in the system would prevent player A from modding files and playing with player B.

[Ranger]

Also, keep in mind that one-shot-kill weapons will be available to *everyone*, as long as they are playing the race with those weapons. So, you can't really cheat in that sense.

[DemonInfinite]

StartWeaponConfig(NewWeaponType,"Gimble","InstantHit","IonBeam","Normal",0,4000,0,4,2,0,20,0,1,7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.1,"Normal",0,0,1000)
AddWeaponResult(NewWeaponType,"Hit","DamageHealth","Target",2200,2200 ,"")
AddWeaponResult(NewWeaponType,"Hit","Push","Target",-100,-100,"")
setPenetration(NewWeaponType,30,1,{
PlanetKillerArmour = 0,
},{
SubSystemArmour = 0.3,
},{
ResArmour = 0.2,
})
setAccuracy(NewWeaponType,1,{
Fighter = 0.1,
},{
Corvette = 0.08,
},{
munition = 0.1,
})
setAngles(NewWeaponType,6,0,0,0,0)

in red are the numbers that affect how much damage that weapon will do. i have yet to discover a limit.

-here is a supr missile destroyer mod and some screenshots
http://demoninfinite.star-fleet.org/ss00036.jpg
http://demoninfinite.star-fleet.org/ss00038.jpg
http://demoninfinite.star-fleet.org/ss00039.jpg
http://demoninfinite.star-fleet.org/md1.zip

[Amur_Tiger]

while massivly overpowered it does look cool, good work and try to balance it(ie crank down the damage)

[Aeq]

I hope you're not talking about the post above yours, because that is the weapon of the most useless craft in HW2, and it is UNDERpowered. unless you're talking about the swarm missile DD :P

[Alex Drake]

Another note, missile volume is good for nothing but looks, as craft can't dodge or shoot down missiles (save for a couple mods).

[Langy]

Aeq, are you telling me a ship that can take out a Battlecruiser in under a second is underpowered?

[Aeq]

a ICF can take out a BC in under a second?

[DemonInfinite]

actually it took out the carrier, mothership and most of the resource collectors in one burst of missiles.

[DemonInfinite]

and if thats "UNDERPOWERED", ill post something with about 20x the power later today.............keep an eye on this forum or the one i go tin the completed mods section......

[DemonInfinite]

here it is, a very powerful vgr battlecruiser, over 350,000,000 in attack power.....
its goes up agaisnt 10 battlecruisers, carrier,mothership
-images
http://demoninfinite.star-fleet.org/images/ss00000.jpg
http://demoninfinite.star-fleet.org/images/ss00008.jpg
http://demoninfinite.star-fleet.org/images/ss00009.jpg
http://demoninfinite.star-fleet.org/images/ss00007.jpg
-download
http://demoninfinite.star-fleet.org/images/universalweaponbc.zip

[DmD666]

ONLY 9 dreadnaught chin turrets with 300000 damage? pfft why not 10? and a defense field =P defense fields are nice when they never run out..

[DemonInfinite]

9 x 300,000 = not over 350,000,000
the main cannon it self fires like a machine gun, i can't ge t a screen shot of the red balls of plasma because of the range and speed that it kills everything.
you guys are neverending with how inadequte my ships are even though the damn thing would easily kill every thing on the map, no contest.
ill post something far more powerful tonight.

[Ammon Ra]

bah...that's not a super weapon :p....imo...

my superweapon/ship can destroy ships even when it's dead...it will hunt ships untill they die...sort of like a revenge thingie ;)

[DmD666]

No, demoninfinite your ships arent inadequite(sp)..their just...not...uuh...well the ships need to look cool while their kickin ass.