And going back to the topic (which incidentally wasn't the subject of this topic and this topic was supposed to be in Commonwealth anyway because it just drew parallels between how space travel in the future would be like sea travel in the 17th century) once more - The game uses some sort of tech to...

All you need is the opposite of a positive number. Hence forward is '+', although you don't write that, so reverse is '-'. I tested this, and it does work. So, the (random 1 1000) becomes (random -1000 -1). Thanks for the help. I've gained at least a working understanding of how the xml works, for ...

I wondered about that too. Somehow I keep forgetting to ask whenever I go online. I don't know about tactical either but I guess it has something to do with how it helps in battle. Have you ever noticed how it takes a while to bring down a ship's armor after 100 damage even if you are firing at the ...

And docked friendlies don't realise the station they have been docked to has been moved either. :lol: Fun fun fun Could you change the code so that they are teleported on the basis of the direction you are facing in? Like you are running away and you could teleport an enemy in the opposite direction...

Maybe an indicator somewhere of the speed you are traveling with would help. You could have the indicator show the current speed and max speed. That would make a lot of things simpler

But what if I get lucky find 10 Diamond Etherium crystals and I use them on a Mammoth 100. Then the silly Ventari comes by and damages my shield. Then wouldn't I lose the upgrades of all TEN field crystals? Couldn't you make it so that only the last enhancement will be lost (i.e. in this case only t...

The closest I could come to the repulsor beam was by giving it a kinetic damage of 0-1 (1d2-1), high refire rate and a high level. I also made it fire 3 projectiles in the same direction. The kinetic damage type and low damage made it impossible for me to do any damage to any decent shield or armor....

Talking about the mule auton, wouldn't it be nice if the game showed the available space in both the auton and your ship on the screen when you dock with it? It does get a little confusing....

I've been playing with a bunch of custom mod ships and I find it easier to beat the Iocrym with a ship with Maxspeed =6 as this matches that of the Iocrym and it becomes easy to maintain a constant distance of 25 and not worry about its repellers and plasma throwers. What I don't like is that its ea...

WAHT? Class III after St.K's? I go for a yoroi 100 or 500 or a mammoth welll before St.K's. If I can't find any of them, then I use a solon. And you often find them lying about at armor dealers early on. Hell, you can find them in Eridani if you are lucky enough. A bit of careful trading and korolov...

Well, okay, so we'll have only the CW with variable ships. Which ships are going to be variable? Would all the centurions and CSC's vary or only one of them? And what about the smaller factions?

P.S. It's a unified force. An is not used before all vowels but before all vowel sounds.

Which ships would vary? The CSC's, the centurions or, if it is ever introduced, the Aquilla cruiser? And if the commonwealth ships vary, then shouldn't the Ares fleet have different configs for the Tundras and the Cometfalls? And what about the scarab and polar superfreighters. If you compare them t...

Perhaps you can increase the damage they'd take before denying you access and then have the station automatically charge you when you dock with them (like they do for decomtamination). That still doesn't answer how to keep them from getting angry when you shoot down one of the docked ships by mistak...

Yeah, uploadline isn't working. They were talking about problems and how premium users get 1 month extension and now they are completely gone and are giving premium users 1yr extension.

So, evilbob, why don't you put it up on your site on freewebs like you did with the last few releases?

Hmmm... so you are saying the game would lose its unique touch if you are not allowed to do the imagination yourself. I never thought about it that way but I think retroactive is right. That's why people (including myself) still play games like ADOM even when there are much cooler looking games out ...