Sleeper Service wrote:Cool! Although as an event this is very close to the CE auto cruiser encounters. It does not really offer meaningful choices and as a combat event it is extremely static. Vanilla events that lead straight to combat usually draw their texts from a text list, which at least hides to some extend that you encounter the same event again. Your event will always illustrate the same circumstances and ultimately its main intention seems to be promoting your player ship. *shrug*
I've seen those lists... Seeing how I already need to create a separate version of the auto-cruiser, I can always try to create a list for that as well.
Shouldn't be that hard to write 3 or 4 different flavor texts for the first encounter.
The surrender event would've been the main hook to the entire encounter though. Even if it doesn't get in, it would still be a good practice run... which I clearly needed. So I am planning on finishing it. The plan from the start would already have been to make it look like just the next auto cruiser encounter, until it "surrendered".
I don't see a lot of events (if any) where you have to do stuff or get blue options after the fighting has been done (except for the Zoltan Diplomacy and piracy options) hence I thought it stood a chance. I'll convince you yet !
As far as promoting my own ship goes, well, I think only people who have seen my own mod before might remember it.
People unaware of it would probably see the end I had in store for this event and then go "Ah, that's why it's called that way."
Besides, changing the name will take 2 seconds. Heck, changing the entire ship wouldn't take more than 2 minutes.
Still, seems like some work to get just 1 event in...
Now that I think about it, hasn't this happened before ?
I recall an event that loads up the ship named C_PIRATE_CRUISER_ARTILLERY (Yes... used that hull myself as well once...)
I don't recall the ship being used anywhere else... and either I'm missing out, but other than the ship looking great, the event doesn't seem to lead anywhere either (as far as blue options goes... can't seem to locate the event itself though.)
All that just to wonder what the odds are for an event that requires more than simply editing 1 events.xml to actually make it in...
Either way, it will be good practice for me no matter what.
One of the reason that I started with one so "complicated" as this one, instead of just one with just text and options.