10-13-2012, 07:50 AM
I've always wished players understood how ship/zone settings worked. They could answer a lot of their own questions about what is possible. Maybe that's asking too much because it kinda requires you to run a zone to learn the nitty gritty and limits of many settings... It would still be nice if they at least looked at a settings file and understood how they function, especially with what the bots can/can't do.
Sysop commands are kinda the same... you don't want to start with 0 bounty and then just green. 0 bounty = 0 speed/thrust etc = takes FOREVER to get enough stats to even make greening productive. You can start at 0 bounty and have the bots green you with exactly the greens needed... but then ploss might make it miss a couple and you get a massive spam with each new ship. Ship recycling real quick can cause doubling up depending on the prizes granted and lag.
For the record, SVS settings are much more than just what the ship stats are and the special item properties. One thing I noticed today in SVS98 settings is that the minimum downgrade energy is way higher than it's supposed to be. But the SVS98 setting currently active is probably at about 400, and it should be around 150 or something, if I remember correctly. Prizeweights seem off a bit too... but maybe I'm remembering settings for a different zone that did real SVS <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Sysop commands are kinda the same... you don't want to start with 0 bounty and then just green. 0 bounty = 0 speed/thrust etc = takes FOREVER to get enough stats to even make greening productive. You can start at 0 bounty and have the bots green you with exactly the greens needed... but then ploss might make it miss a couple and you get a massive spam with each new ship. Ship recycling real quick can cause doubling up depending on the prizes granted and lag.
For the record, SVS settings are much more than just what the ship stats are and the special item properties. One thing I noticed today in SVS98 settings is that the minimum downgrade energy is way higher than it's supposed to be. But the SVS98 setting currently active is probably at about 400, and it should be around 150 or something, if I remember correctly. Prizeweights seem off a bit too... but maybe I'm remembering settings for a different zone that did real SVS <img src='http://www.subspace.co/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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