They're a pain as enemies, though. They patrol at optimum howitzer range and have momentum weapons so they ruin my painstakingly lined up firing positions. That and they're so stupidly tough. They take 40% damage from blast if I'm reading the XML right and reflect particle and ion. They also have so...

For me, it's always been the Fusionfire Howizter, it never needs ammo, is almost as powerful as a Qianlong Archcannon, has a giant bullet, and most of all it NEVER EVER comes back to hit you in the face (looks furiously at XM900 Lucifers). It's a bit slow though... (Only because I got one Pre-St. K...

I never really had the patience for farming ferrians, but I'd loot the wrecks if someone else killed them. Kicking over the hive and killing the ineffectual little beasties as the chase after me is plenty lucrative anyhow. Even with the warship mod they're nowhere near dangerous enough for their tre...

Dorne wrote:Just bad tactics

That's why he called them the dumbest enemies.

I'm not enthusiastic about the omni-particle, which is weaker than the weapon it's supposed to be an upgrade of against some opponents, but it's not as lame as your nomination for the lame weapon award. The Centauri Recoilless is the weakest weapon in the game. If the game rounds fractions up or rou...

It looks like it's not working quite right. Sed seems to not be ignoring leading whitespace the way I thought it did. Leaving the '^' out of the first regular expression should fix that. That would be sed -n "/<ShipClass*/,/<\/ShipClass>/"p TranscendenceSource\*.xml extensions\*.xml > ships.txt in w...

I meant drop as the effect a shield suffers when reduced to zero HP, not disable. The AI doesn't have to do anything to recover from that except wait.

As you said, though, it does use more than just onAttacked and if it only affected the target's shields it would be way too powerful.

I'd be interested to see a seriese of meteorsteel missiles (and a MAG) that would drop shields on contact, but also drop your own shield on launch.

Sed normally feeds a text file to the screen line by line making the changes in the first argument after the switches. -n makes it output nothing. The next argument is a command. The p says to print a line and overrides -n. It is preceded by a line to print or a range of lines. Lines can be by numbe...

There is already a handy little utility that can do what you want. If you're running Transcendence in WINE or have a dual boot with linux just hop into your Transcendance directory and type sed -n "/^<ShipClass*/,/<\/ShipClass>/"p TranscendenceSource\*.xml extensions\*.xml > ships.txt Substitute wha...

NOTE: I just realized I'm still on 0.99b so take this with a larger grain of salt than you would from my just being a new poster. I think early (pre St. K) weapon choice depends on whether you get a laser collimnator or a cannon accelerator. With the former an omni-laser or omni-turbo and a dual las...