Cap Ship research

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OK, so as a mod for my own personal use, i want to be able to make a specific cap ship become a huge burden on resources to get. I have already changed all the ships, but if it is available as a cap ship from the start, it becomes free, and you end up with an incredible ship at the start of the game. How do i tie a cap ship to a research icon?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

you need to create a new Research subject. Doing so is harder than it sounds, as you need an open space in the trees, to assess how many labs (the tier #) you need to access it, if it's still accesible w/out said # of labs (most, if not all researchable ship types aren't), the cost/time of the research, etc. etc.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

i just want i tied to a tier 8 research, not a NEW tier 8 research

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting riviaguy221, reply 2
i just want i tied to a tier 8 research, not a NEW tier 8 research
End of riviaguy221's quote

 

You could do this by tying it with the Cannon research for each race which is on the 8th tier. All you would need to do for each races capitalship entity file is look for the section which says

Prerequisites
    NumResearchPrerequisites 0

and add this for Tech

Prerequisites
    NumResearchPrerequisites 1
    ResearchPrerequisite
        Subject "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PLANETMODULEACCESS_CANNONTECH"
        Level 1

replace the bold lettering with

RESEARCHSUBJECT_PLANETMODULEACCESS_CANNONPSI for Advent Capitalship

RESEARCHSUBJECT_PLANETMODULEACCESS_CANNONPHASE for Vasari Capitalship

in their respective entity files. Job done. ^_^

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

ok, thank you, that worked great

 

PS, sorry for the late reply, i forgot to reply... i was quite busy, with editing files, working and getting ready for school...