Suggestions for Next Patch/update
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:41 am
Well, I've been playing the game, and gotten deep into HDS9: A Slippery Slope where things got really crazy, with 100~ planes downed on both sides, and ships shooting their AAW armament dry. [:D][X(]
I've also been playing around with the editors, and one thing I noticed; is that it's relatively hard for a neophyte to add ship names to the game to be used in the Scenrio Editor.
For example; USS America was ordered as the second ship in the Enterprise class, as CVAN-66, but due to rising costs, she was re-ordered as a repeat Kitty Hawk; same happened to CVAN-67; the third ship -- was reordered as a conventional carrier, which became the John F Kennedy.
Right now, you're limited to a single CVN-65 class in the "CommonDB"; which makes hypotheticals much harder to do.
Sure, you could load up the CommonDB, add the names you want in the Platform Editor, then re-export, and use that in the game; but I don't think many people have that competency or knowledge. So I mocked up this hypothetical screen; for when you exceed the names allocated for a ship class. A new dialog button that would allow you to type in your own name (it's up to YOU to remember what you typed in, so you don't get repeating Enterprises -- and it doesn't edit the database files; so you have to remember the names each time, instead of them being added to the list)
I've also been playing around with the editors, and one thing I noticed; is that it's relatively hard for a neophyte to add ship names to the game to be used in the Scenrio Editor.
For example; USS America was ordered as the second ship in the Enterprise class, as CVAN-66, but due to rising costs, she was re-ordered as a repeat Kitty Hawk; same happened to CVAN-67; the third ship -- was reordered as a conventional carrier, which became the John F Kennedy.
Right now, you're limited to a single CVN-65 class in the "CommonDB"; which makes hypotheticals much harder to do.
Sure, you could load up the CommonDB, add the names you want in the Platform Editor, then re-export, and use that in the game; but I don't think many people have that competency or knowledge. So I mocked up this hypothetical screen; for when you exceed the names allocated for a ship class. A new dialog button that would allow you to type in your own name (it's up to YOU to remember what you typed in, so you don't get repeating Enterprises -- and it doesn't edit the database files; so you have to remember the names each time, instead of them being added to the list)