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Anonymous - Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:23 pm
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Is there a way to set a ship's initial bomb and gun level to L4? I edited it in my cfg, but it just didn't give me ANY bombs.

Thank you for your time, effort, and consideration.

Dr. Sunglasses (creator of the Genius Zone, in game "I'm Smart!!")

Cyan~Fire - Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:41 pm
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Not possible. It's actually impossible to have L4 weapons, you just get them with flag upgrades. In my zone I used a little trick that's kinda hokey but works. To simulate L4 bullets, I just did simultanous-fire L3 bullets. I'll tell you how if that's what your looking for.

Cyan~Fire

Anonymous - Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:43 pm
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Yes, i guess that would work, but wouldn't you need to modify the bullet cost so you don't pay six times the L1 price instead of 4 for L4s? And can you do that with bombs?

Cyan~Fire - Wed Jul 23, 2003 6:53 pm
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Bombs? Yeah.
This is how I did it.:

[Whatever Ship]
BulletFireEnergy=Initial Energy/2 - 2*BulletUpgradeEnergy
MultiFireEnergy=Initial Energy - 2*BulletUpgradeEnergy
BulletFireDelay=1
MultiFireDelay=1
InitialGuns=3
MultiFireAngle=1

Just do the same thing with bombs to use bombs this way (although I dunno why you'd want it.)
I did the multifire thing so that if they get multifire, it has the same effect but more reliable.

Cyan~Fire

SuSE - Wed Jul 23, 2003 8:30 pm
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heheh, you could put a bunch of soccer balls in the spawn area

Katie - Wed Jul 23, 2003 10:00 pm
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Hey, I wonder if there is an "Never Drop" option like on flags....

Cyan~Fire - Wed Jul 23, 2003 10:56 pm
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Well yeah you can change
[Flag]
FlagDropDelay=0
And you'll never drop 'em.
But if you get all of them you win, duh.

Katie - Thu Jul 24, 2003 4:02 pm
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Quote:

wonder if there is an "Never Drop" option like on flags....

Duh... but he was talking about the soccer ball....

SuSE - Thu Jul 24, 2003 4:15 pm
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ship:soccerthrowtime=0

Anonymous - Sat Jul 26, 2003 8:35 pm
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I just wanted to have a ship with L4 bombs for the challenge of using them. Sure, they are powerful, but the blast range would make them almost impossibe to use, and that ship isn't set to maneuver that well. It's like a super Leviathan. It would be cool for turrets, though, pack one on the more manueverable ships (that have guns) and BOOM!

SuSE - Sat Jul 26, 2003 10:51 pm
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you can make it so just the one ship can pick up the ball - and then have it never dropped

FudLe Pucker - Sun Jul 27, 2003 2:59 pm
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here's sumtin u can do. edit the serevr cfg so the ships would spawn somewhere other than the center. Then put like a hundred soccer balls in the arena and set the flag/prize/ball spawn radius to about 10, so it'll be like a spot where players would go for a ball to upgrade their weapons

dumb idea, but hey maybe its fun.

Mine GO BOOM - Sun Jul 27, 2003 4:33 pm
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I recommend you never going above 5 balls. In fact, i think the server crashes on > 8.

Donkano - Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:35 pm
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How do you make the balls upgrade your bombs/guns to L4 no matter what they are currently at, L1, L2 or L3?

Mine GO BOOM - Mon Jul 28, 2003 10:11 pm
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They can only upgrade one level, you need to already have L3 to get L4 upgrades.