Custom Status Debuffs?

[Hatsuya Kanzaki]

Is it possible to make custom debuffs? Like there's a weapon that will wrap your ship into an iceberg? or someone fired napalm shells, rendering your ship burning while on flight?

I kinda needed to come up with custom debuffs for my Star Light Crisis AdvEx, so that it will be slightly unique.

"Magic and technology in a space war? Guys, we're goin' Nanoha-Gundam here!"
~Tehanna Yorbissa, 505th Neo-Ares Brigade

[Bobby]

not that i am aware of, you could draw an image over a ship with code, but would be different for every ship, and keeping directions matching is a challenge.

perhaps a cyberdefense weapon could make the target(s) have a field around them, like the peaceful constraint, but have it look like fire and do damage.

[george moromisato]

Look at the implementation of the Domina powers (Domina.xml). That's the closest thing to a debuff.

The next version will have better support for buffs and debuffs.

[alterecco]

The next version will have better support for buffs and debuffs.

That sounds awesome. Care to spoil us some more?

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[Arisaya]

The next version will have better support for buffs and debuffs.

That sounds awesome. Care to spoil us some more?

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I am now a very happy wolf :3
*wants version 1.0*
Thanks George!

[Prophet]

Will these be an expansion of the current barrles/roms/crystals with access to more attributes or are we talking something more like a 'power-up' that has a duration more like the power?

[Arisaya]

Will these be an expansion of the current barrles/roms/crystals with access to more attributes or are we talking something more like a 'power-up' that has a duration more like the power?

I hope we can script the attribute in or at least define how big/small the buff/debuff is and if it stacks or not ^^

[george moromisato]

What I have working right now improves on <ShipEnergyFieldType> which is used in Domina.xml. Since they are more general now, I've renamed them to <OverlayType>.

An overlay is something that you can attach to a ship (not yet a station) using the (objAddOverlay) function.

An overlay has an OnUpdate event that fires every 10 ticks. You can use whatever script you want to affect the ship. For example, I used it to implement a fuel-drain attack.

You can use it to repair (or damage) armor or shields, to generate ammo, or even to automatically damage enemies.

[Arisaya]

What I have working right now improves on <ShipEnergyFieldType> which is used in Domina.xml. Since they are more general now, I've renamed them to <OverlayType>.

An overlay is something that you can attach to a ship (not yet a station) using the (objAddOverlay) function.

An overlay has an OnUpdate event that fires every 10 ticks. You can use whatever script you want to affect the ship. For example, I used it to implement a fuel-drain attack.

You can use it to repair (or damage) armor or shields, to generate ammo, or even to automatically damage enemies.

This is going to be so much fun!

Thanks george!

(And I saw your little spoiler there! )

[Betelgeuse]

For example, I used it to implement a fuel-drain attack.

Does this mean that you have implemented a kind of onStrike event for weapons that runs script when the weapon hits or does it mean that weapons can add overlays or is it something else entirely?

[Prophet]

More events are always welcome!

George wrote:
An overlay has an OnUpdate event that fires every 10 ticks. You can use whatever script you want to affect the ship.

any script?? This is going to be so awesome!

Thanks George!

[Hatsuya Kanzaki]

Finally, I can make Ares suffer by launching a missile loaded with infectious gas [almost same as radiation, but shorter], or even make a bunch of CSCs crawling with armor-breaking bugs!

[Bobby]

are the debuffs exclusive or do they stack? if they stack is there a way to tell how many of a certain one are currently active on a ship?

I wouldn't want to have something put 24 armor eating fields on the a ship at the same time, but 1 or 3 is fine.

you forgot to mention one more thing they can be used for, making modders' jaws drop on sight, thanks George, not just for the debuffs, but the whole game.

[Arisaya]

It shouldn't be too hard to manually get each debuff/buff to tell how many of that type there are on the ship at any particular time, so you could allow them to stack, but not too much.

[Betelgeuse]

will weapons be able to give statuses and do 0 damage? I would like to make weapons that all they do is give statuses.

Will we be able to make resistances to these overlays?
Can a ship start with a overlay or have a chance to start with an overlay?
Do overlays have graphics and will they rotate with the ship?

(I don't really expect you to answer these just making sure you are aware of them)