Radiance Class Battleship

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I kind of have a stupid question BUT...

The Radiance Battleship got 2 plasma guns and 2 Beams in the front and several laser batteries at the sides.

When I attack another target, lets say a Starbase, the Radiance always turns its front to the target and only fires with the plasmaguns and the beams. Wouldn't it be more effective to fire the lasers too, so that it turns a little to the side, that all weapons can fire?

Long story short... is there a way to disable the "auto-turn" ability of a ship when focused on one  target? Cause in a big battle and my CPU at the edge of its power I rly can't tell all my Radiance Ships to move all the time so they can fire all weapons...

 

(In the beginning its possible but very annoying. And in addition to that I think with all research to max, the lasers deal most dmg...)

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Long story short... is there a way to disable the "auto-turn" ability of a ship when focused on one target? Cause in a big battle and my CPU at the edge of its power I rly can't tell all my Radiance Ships to move all the time so they can fire all weapons...
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Each ship in Sins has "primary" weapon, that is the weapon that does the most damage per shot, and the ship automatically turns to use it.

Note that the infocard is not always clear on which weapon is the primary because it takes into account all the banks that the weapon is on. So, for example, it it shows a laser that's on 3 banks doing 150, it means it's actually just 50 per bank, which would be inferior to a weapon that only displays 75 damage but is only on one bank.

Hopefully that makes sense. To answer your question, you can change the weapon damage values to switch the ship's primary weapon to a different bank, but that's about it.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 1

Hopefully that makes sense. To answer your question, you can changing the weapon damage values to switch the ship's primary weapon to a different bank, but that's about it.
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how do you do that?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

By modifying the ship .entity files and either increasing the damage of the weapon you want to be primary on the appropriate bank(s), or lowering the damage of the current primary so another weapon bank takes the lead.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

The same principle applies to the Progenitor..  I had a thread about this a while back..  If facing dead on, a Progenitor can have all guns fire at any target the size of an LRF or larger.  However, the AI does not allow this to stay this way, so you will have to do without...

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Annatar11, reply 3
By modifying the ship .entity files and either increasing the damage of the weapon you want to be primary on the appropriate bank(s), or lowering the damage of the current primary so another weapon bank takes the lead.
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So by manipulating the game files? hmmm... Will this be valid in online/ multiplayer games?

Cause... I could easily just double the dmg done by a ship xD (That would be imba^^)

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Will this be valid in online/ multiplayer games?
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No.  Even presuming you don't get a checksum error, you'll get a desync in game.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Darvin3, reply 6

No.  Even presuming you don't get a checksum error, you'll get a desync in game.
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Okay, i'm not so good with gameinternal stuff anyway, so i'm better droppin' it =D

Im already happy cause I managed to copy the soundtrack files into iTunes and listen to them xD

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, the game will realize that two people are playing different versions and will not allow for it.

At any rate, that gives me a good idea...  Now I know what to listen to on iTunes :grin:  

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Volt_Cruelerz, reply 8
Yeah, the game will realize that two people are playing different versions and will not allow for it.

At any rate, that gives me a good idea...  Now I know what to listen to on iTunes  
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If you'd check my last.fm you'd see what I listened to the last 7 Days...

Sins of a solar Empire, Sins of a solar Empire and.... Sins if a solar Empire xD