I am aware that my thread(s) are all me begging people smarter than myself to investigate things for me, but uh:

Explosions cannot be given a weapon_type for WeaponModDB purposes, meaning that something like interclass balance (in the case of Discovery) using shield resistances kind of falls flat the second you mix in a missile or flak-like weapon that uses explosion damage.

I’d be interested to know if it’s possible for explosives to be capable of having a weapon type assigned, and if it is possible, how difficult it’d be.

We’re currently using a negative power draw shield generator as a workaround, yes. It’s not elegant and a little bit unintuitive for players, as they’ll get the audio notification “Shield Destroyed” when the collision group bites the dust. Doesn’t help that a major other collision group governs the actual shield of these ships, making it so players may get confused and think they lost their actual shield when instead they lost a portion of their powercore recharge.

Alright, I have a new request as I’ve learned linked_equip in CollisionGroups can be used to damage types of equipment on CollisionGroup destruction, including the “Power” type.

Would it be possible to make the game read and “respect” hit_pts for “power”-type equipment? That way, doing a specific amount of damage could destroy a specific piece of equipment while not destroying the main powerplant. Right now, doing any damage at all to “power” objects destroys every powerplant present on the ship.

I believe HpEngine01 is the only one that matters, but I might be wrong. But yeah, I’m aware. It’s the power plants I am interested in unfortunately.

I can’t say I’m incredibly surprised, thanks for answering.

I have recently been playing around with purchasable Power Plants using Adoxa’s EngClass plugin. My goal was to add a power plant booster of sorts that could be destroyed by killing a ship CollisionGroup, so I parented the hardpoint to the ship part. This turned out to not work, as the power plant would remain on my ship, although it disappears from my equipment window as the hardpoint does go missing.

I asked someone with a slightly better understanding of the game’s inner workings to have a look, and he concluded that EngClass actually attaches the extra powerplant to the ship’s Bay, or root, and the hardpoint it is placed on is basically purely cosmetic. This means that it’s impossible to use conventional ‘hardpoint destruction’ methods like collision groups and fuses to destroy one.

Could Engines/Power Plants be attached to the hardpoint specified, allowing them to be ‘conventionally’ destroyed?