How Can I Mod a ROM?

[erik dela cruz]

Ok that's it, I wanna mod George's super hyper weapon rom. What category does it belong? How do I start?

It must not overwrite the existing weapon optimizer rom & it has a military tag & can only be bought in the ungoverned territories. It's available only in the BM, Thors, Adventurers and Ringers and can be looted. No it can't be ordered in the Corporate trading post and has a 10k credits value.

[PM]

Ok that's it, I wanna mod George's super hyper weapon rom. What category does it belong? How do I start?

Category: Usable

It must not overwrite the existing weapon optimizer rom & it has a military tag & can only be bought in the ungoverned territories. It's available only in the BM, Thors, Adventurers and Ringers and can be looted. No it can't be ordered in the Corporate trading post and has a 10k credits value.

Thor's stations do not spawn military items, although they can sell them. Ringers are mostly in the Outer Realm and tend to carry higher level stuff than the previous stations.

Below is code you can cut-and-paste into an xml file and upload to Xelerus.

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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE TranscendenceExtension
[
	<!ENTITY unidExtension              "0xedc10000">
	<!ENTITY itSuperROM                 "0xedc10001">
]>

<TranscendenceExtension UNID="&unidExtension;"
	apiVersion="12"
	name="Super Weapon ROM"
	credits="erik dela cruz"
>

	<ItemType UNID="&itSuperROM;"
			name=				"weapon maximizer ROM"
			level=				"6"
			value=				"10000"
			mass=				"1"
			frequency=			"uncommon"
			unknownType=		"&itUnknownROM;"
			attributes=			"CannotOrder; Info; Military; MinorItem"

			description=		"This ROM maximizes the rate of fire of the ship's primary weapon."
			>

		<Image imageID="&rsItems1;" imageX="192" imageY="96" imageWidth="96" imageHeight="96"/>

		<Invoke>
			(intEnhanceWeaponUse 0x1009 Nil "has a maximized fire rate")
		</Invoke>
	</ItemType>

</TranscendenceExtension>

[erik dela cruz]

WHOA!!!! Super thanks PM. That was thorough.

[erik dela cruz]

still testing...also trying to make a version II(level 8) quantum speed if possible....

[PM]

What do you mean; fire even faster? It can't. +Fast (0x1009) is as fast as it goes. Higher enhancement values (up to 0x100f) did not seem to make slow-firing weapons like howitzers fire any faster. In any event, no weapon can have a fire rate faster than thirty times per second.

[sun1404]

I guess you could use events to make weapons fire faster, though it would still not show on the item desc. in shops and inventory.

[Aury]

Its literally not possible to fire faster than 30 times per second, because the game only updates the system state 30 times per second. Instead you would have to create additional projectiles (producing 2 projectiles per tick would provide 60 shots per second, but still only 30 times in that second were they generated. You'd have to deal with overlap issues as well)

[digdug]

Instead you would have to create additional projectiles (producing 2 projectiles per tick would provide 60 shots per second, but still only 30 times in that second were they generated. You'd have to deal with overlap issues as well)

You can use Configurations.
Configurations allow projectiles to overlap, but they will show up in buy/sell screens as "damage(x2), 30/sec" for a simulated 60/sec weapon.

[erik dela cruz]

Will test on 1.2 RC1. Am having difficulty finding it myself in 1.2B4. hehehe.

[erik dela cruz]

.....i've stashed about a dozen of it right now & it seems to be everywhere. Do i need to make it "rare"?(the omniturbolaser canon is more "rare" than uncommon nowadays)

[erik dela cruz]

Instead you would have to create additional projectiles (producing 2 projectiles per tick would provide 60 shots per second, but still only 30 times in that second were they generated. You'd have to deal with overlap issues as well)

You can use Configurations.
Configurations allow projectiles to overlap, but they will show up in buy/sell screens as "damage(x2), 30/sec" for a simulated 60/sec weapon.

GREAT IDEA! hmm....i'd try it next time thanks guys.

[erik dela cruz]

Instead you would have to create additional projectiles (producing 2 projectiles per tick would provide 60 shots per second, but still only 30 times in that second were they generated. You'd have to deal with overlap issues as well)

You can use Configurations.
Configurations allow projectiles to overlap, but they will show up in buy/sell screens as "damage(x2), 30/sec" for a simulated 60/sec weapon.

im a bit confused on configuration manipulation. how will the syntax read when i double the damage(as per digdug's example) and get to see an "alternating" configuration?(i prefer it over "dual"- too common)