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Having a mode where the cloak never consumes more than the ship's native power generation makes sense (possible with it only consuming 90% of the native power generation if the ship isn't fullu charged). You'd need to update the UI and messages about ship state though.

Having your signature depend ...

The Allegiance 10 year reunion inspired me to get back into the game and I am -- as you would expect -- getting my head handed to me on a regular basis. It is great fun though.

It got me thinking though about something that could be fun and might make the game more accessible to newcomers. The ...

QUOTE (Weylin @ Apr 22 2008, 05:20 PM) So the shield collision area doesnt initiate on launch...

Interesting...
Whole problem with unmounting a shield is how vulnerable it leaves the ship, and the time required to have it recharge.

There may be a bug in the code for when ships are launched ...

We had considered station shields like the ones described but decided against it because it would encourage lots of people to fly close to the station. That could lead to framerate (lots of people in one area in addition to the big station) problems. That isn't as big a factor now, but when we were ...

Back in the old days, we kept trying to come up with ways to help break camps. One idea I kept playing with was an "aleph destabilizer". It would be a missle like the aleph resonator, except that its effect would be to briefly (~30 seconds) move the exit points on both sides of the aleph (the ...

QUOTE (madpeople @ Aug 3 2007, 04:42 AM) wasn't there also

"the best/fastest way to get a exploit fixed is to use on the game's developers"

Both are different forms of Ribski's rule. I'd previously quoted Ribski's rule as the one above. /blush.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blush ...

Thinking about it, if we are willing to change core format, maybe it would make sense to allow all ships to specify a lifespan (ala pods). For most ships, it would be infinite but for ints (or a flavor of int), it could be something lime 10 minutes.

Who knows, it might even make carriers useful ...

QUOTE (KGJV @ Aug 2 2007, 10:54 PM) The actual code to render the explosion is in ClusterSiteImpl::AddExplosion (wintrek\trekigc.cpp). You'll notice they dont use the ExplosionType but directly the values (we should fix this one day...) so it's a bit confusing and hard to find the matching. (c ...

I wonder if it makes sense for ships to have two scan ranges? One for environmental objects (asteroids, alephs and, probably stations) and one for everything else (ships, mines, probes, etc.).

One problem with reducing the scan range for ints too much is that it doesn't feel quite right to run into ...

QUOTE (asheron2k @ Jul 26 2007, 04:37 PM) Instead of letting it stay broken or fixing it could it simply be changed into a projectile id field and..
On missile death spawn and detonate said projectile.

IIRC, all the fields required to do missile AOE explosions (blast radius, amount of damage) are ...