Need Help Modify Ships?

[Cursed Rascal]

Is it possible to modify ships? For example, If I wanted to give the Cursed Dutchman 30 cannons on each side instead of 26, how could I do this?

I've tried editing it in PROGRAM/Ships/Ships_init.c and reloading the game, but that does nothing.

 

[DavyJack]

You can't modify the cannons. I asked that question some time ago and the answer was too complex.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

The way to give a ship more cannons is to build a new ship. Building a new ship takes 9-18 months for someone who knows what he is doing.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Technically, adding more cannons does sort-of work, but only sort-of.

Anyway, any changes require an F11 Reinitialize on a savegame, then remove the // in front of this line in console.c to re-give your modified ship to yourself:

GiveShip2Character(pchar,pchar.ship.type,pchar.ship.name,-1,PIRATE,true,true);

Then use F12 to make it happen.

 

[Armada]

The way to give a ship more cannons is to build a new ship. Building a new ship takes 9-18 months for someone who knows what he is doing.

Technically you'd only need to add more guns and gunports to an existing ship. Would still be a lot of effort, indeed.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Technically you'd only need to add more guns and gunports to an existing ship. Would still be a lot of effort, indeed.

That is kinda what I was meaning. It would be a lot easier to just get a bigger ship. The Dutchman is pretty impregnable as is methinks.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

If I recall, there actually IS code in place to make the last cannons on the ship fire several times if a ship is coded to have more cannons than the model has.
Not entirely sure how well that works though.