Flagship mod |
This might not be possible as it would probably require some hard coding into the game. But it would be a good idea anyway.
I tried something similar with SEIV and it proved quite interesting. Basically turn on every minister on for your empire, so that the computer is playing 'you'. Then take 1 ship which you control exclusivly and see if you can make a difference. The only rule is you can only have one ship. If you need to upgrade you've got to scrap the ship and make a new one at the same planet.
Anyway the mod is this. Allow the creation of a flag-ship. This ship has a special 'captain' that gains better bonuses for experience. More ranks and with those ranks gets special bonuses such as, +1 movement, regeneration, generates supplies etc. The difficulty in making such a mod would be adding the ability for the captain to change ships. I suppose a special cargo, doesn't weigh anything, only one allowed in existence, only one allowed per ship.
Linking that cargo with experience would be very difficult, it's probably not possible. But it would be cool to have a flag-ship like this (or hero if you will)
Well spotted, I've found it
Well spotted, I've found it in VehicleUnitTypes.txt and the capability is called "Ability added to parent while in cargo". I wouldn't be supprised if MM were tinkering with the idea themselves so they added that one in.
Ok, so 1/2 the battle is over. Just need to find a way to make that 'cargo' level up. I can't see that being easy to do however.
Your lord and master (below Foamy) LordHavoc
You also need to make sure..
..that setting actually works.
Another use of this, is that
Another use of this, is that any troops your ship may have carried in cargo, may be able to fight off enemy boarding parties...
There is a setting somewhere
There is a setting somewhere (I think it is in VehicleHullTypes.txt) which will allow a unit to transfer its bonuses to the ship or planet carrying it. So you could mod in "leaders" as a special form of Troop unit; there just may not be a way to limit each leader to one instance besides making them generic "Legendary Admiral" units ala Civ4 (instead of named units such as "Sparky the Meklar Engineer" ala MOO2) and giving them exorbitant prices and maintenance...
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