Borers and Ferian ships are industrial. The Earthzone is like a bus or van, right?

The cost and monotony of space travel means most civilian ships would be business ventures. Small IAV's doing odd jobs and scavenging might be the smallest sustainable independent ships.

A religious upbringing?

Although the slaves in Transcendence are not necessarily children, I think this part of the game references the association of RCC nuns with orphanges.

I thought Ringers and Teratons didn't have standard ships, because they had better things to do than move cargo, raid bases, or salvage wrecks. They would have research vessels and build specialized ships to construct and populate new stations, but use Ferian and human ships for (relatively) unskill...

It seems to work for me. You made launcher an attribute of the Weapon tag, right?

Shrike wrote:The pastebin is HERE.

On ll. 162-173 and ll. 201-202 the attributes are outside the tags again.

When creating the ships with sysCreateShip, the controller argument (you used "aresfleetcommand" and "aresfleet") is not an arbitrary label. I think it is a hardcoded AI setting. "fleetcommand" and "fleet" are valid controller settings and are used for both Commonwealth and Ares ships in Point Juno.

How about power limits for device slots? The power conduits on a light freighter can only deliver 5MW to the weapon mount, but 50MW to the drive. For a light gunship, the limits are reversed. In addition to being less maneuverable and using more armor slots, large ships could require more power for ...

When the Antarctica is saved, it should hold position for a time before moving to gate. Could the problem be with shpOrderHold? I have had problems with ships holding indefinitely when ordered to hold for a specified time.

A ship ordered to wait does not face enemies or fire. A ship ordered to hold does. shpOrderHold works for me on a hostile ship with no eventHandler and no other orders that was specifically created with a script (not a random encounter or otherwise associated with a station). Setting the aggressor a...

When positioning, I hold down the drag key while thrusting. I use arrow keys, so holding the down-arrow while positioning would require the uncomfortable use of my thumb. Hijack: why do you stop? I usually only stop the ship to do someting cheap and/or boring, like grind a base or hide behind/atop a...

* (block) accepts initializers for locals. This sounds very promising, but I could not find any (obvious) example in the xml. Would you mind giving an example of it's use? I saw this in StKatherines.xml (ll. 2218-9): (block ((status (itmGetData theItem "status")) (expireTime (itmGetData theItem "ex...

Terminate entity reference w/ semicolon:

It should be possible to fight without self-destruction by waiting for shields to regenerate after a weapon chamber explosion. Increasing misfires and jams while reducing weapon chamber explosions might help prevent damage in the early game and still make damaged weapons unusable in the later game, ...

Typo in mod Commenwealth with Custom Ships, file Commonwealth with Custom Ships.xml, line 36: class="csStalwartMk1;". This might cause a crash only when the ship is generated.

Are they still attacking asteroids, or only destroyed stations now? The check to prevent warriors from attacking inanimate objects is missing from the script where warriors are constructed by a living colony.