[REL] Ship damage from fires

Sniper297 · 03-15-14, 11:29 PM

Well, I don't see. Two problems; (1) if he gave a concise explanation of how it works and what sections in which files have what effect, then it would no longer be a MYSTERY. If it wasn't so mysterious we might be able to tweak it so it's actually useful, then where would we be?

(2) you have to have a fire for it to work even if it was tweaked enough to be useful, if you have a badly damaged BB or CV steaming off over the horizon with no fire you're out of luck.

Think I'll have better luck adjusting the "crash depth" in assorted BB, CV, and CA zon files, fire or no fire all that's needed is enough flooding to make it sink a little deeper and it will start taking "crash damage" losing 1 hitpoint every couple seconds. For some screwy reason they added that to all the surface ships and set it at 300. A surface ship at a 990 foot depth taking 0.5 hitpoints of damage per second that it remained below that depth would be somewhat pointless, I think it's already sunk.

Someplace around 4 to 8 meters actually does something useful, a cruiser with waves lapping over the deck is 4-5 meters deeper than usual so starts taking hit points, sinks about 20-30 minutes later.

03-15-14, 11:29 PM	#30
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	Well, I don't see. Two problems; (1) if he gave a concise explanation of how it works and what sections in which files have what effect, then it would no longer be a MYSTERY. If it wasn't so mysterious we might be able to tweak it so it's actually useful, then where would we be? (2) you have to have a fire for it to work even if it was tweaked enough to be useful, if you have a badly damaged BB or CV steaming off over the horizon with no fire you're out of luck. Think I'll have better luck adjusting the "crash depth" in assorted BB, CV, and CA zon files, fire or no fire all that's needed is enough flooding to make it sink a little deeper and it will start taking "crash damage" losing 1 hitpoint every couple seconds. For some screwy reason they added that to all the surface ships and set it at 300. A surface ship at a 990 foot depth taking 0.5 hitpoints of damage per second that it remained below that depth would be somewhat pointless, I think it's already sunk. Someplace around 4 to 8 meters actually does something useful, a cruiser with waves lapping over the deck is 4-5 meters deeper than usual so starts taking hit points, sinks about 20-30 minutes later.