Adding More Capital Ships

And its problems of course.

Hi.

I'm attempting to add some reworked ships to each race depending on their styles.

What i've done so far is I made 3 modified capitals, each named as CAPITALSHIP_raceBATTLESHIP2.entity, each is defined and described in the english string, each one is on the player entity tables, the counts are all correct (triple checked), the syntax all seems to be correct.

What i get is the new capital, which is placed at the end of the list in the player entity, is not showing up in game. I change the position to the front, its there, but the last capital isn't.

I modded in long range defenses as well earlier, and those all migrated into the icon lists just fine.

Is there some trick to getting more than 5 capitals working in the gui icon list?

I tried adding duplicates in the list, up to a total of 8, and they still didn't appear on the lower column.
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Reply #1 Top
Currently for some reason there can only be 5 capital ships at a time. I'm trying to find a work around at the moment. I have a few ideas but so far a couple of them didn't work.
Reply #2 Top
Have you tried changing their class to cruisers and adding them to the cruiser list?

I tried that without changing the declaration of the ship, all it got me was the old core dump. But i just realized there may be a way to do it via changing the ship type.

If it were to work, i wonder if it changes the ai. I'd do it now, but no time.

Let me know if you get any progress.

This game would definitely be benefiting the rest of the modders out there by being able to incorporate more cap ships. 5 is a good number, but sometimes we want more :D
Reply #3 Top
Yes you can change them to the Cruiser or Frigate group but that defeats the point when making substantial mods, the problem is is that if you have a full lot of Cruisers and Frigates, then you'll be stuck with 5 Capitals either way.

I'm currently messing around with the page numbers to see what I can muster up.
Reply #4 Top
seems like this might be some kind of gui thing. any more ideas?