This is a Plug-in file for the hyper-cool Ambrosia game "Escape Velocity". So it requires EV 1.0.1. 'Nuff said.
WHAT IT IS
Take the Heavy Fusion Beam from an Alien Cruiser, slap it in a turret, turn up the juice approx. 50% and there ya go! :-). It can waste a Confed Cruiser in less than a minute. No ifs, no ands, no buts and NO SURVIVORS.
RESOURCES!
I did most of my in-game testing with EV Cheater 1.2 present, so it co-exists with it somewhat nicely, with the following caveat-- EV Cheater has to load BEFORE HFT Mk. 27. You do this by altering the file names so it goes like the following:
EV 1.0.1 Plugin---> Other Plugins---> EV Cheater 1.2--->HFT Mk. 27
It uses/replaces the following resource IDs, in case anyone else writes a plug-in and/or some plug-in doesn't get along w/ HFT Mk. 27.
dësc 3054
oütf 182
PICT 6054
snd 217
STR# 5000, 5004, 5005
wëap 153
SPECS
Type: Turret (Nail 'em from any angle!)
Trigger: Secondary
Ammo: unlimited (Its a laser, duh!)
Mass: 28 tons (Will fit in any non-fighter ship, except for the Shuttle, with not much left to spare on some ships)
Limit:1 (One is enough! TRUST ME!)
Price: Approx $2.75 million (You won't be needing much else in the way of weapons anyway :-) )
Tech lev: 4 (Pretty advanced. Might be available @ places like Sol.)
IF YOU WANT TO...
I am distributing this under the Mail-ware principle. If you use it, you must e-mail me! :-) Thats it! Just a short note about what you like/dislike and/or any suggestions.
HISTORY
I was riding my motorcycle home from work one day, thinking about relaxing with a nice game of EV. I had downloaded and skimmed the EV Bible the day before. While sitting at a traffic light, waiting for a green light, it clicked in my head: "Big a** death dealing laser turret!" And I remembered the EV Bible. I had ResEdit too. So I figured, how hard could it be ? :-) HA! That was over a week ago.
6/15
First try. Start by fiddling with the EV Data file to see what wëaps, spöbs, and oütfs are all about.
6/17
First incarnation. Start off by altering the wëap for the Heavy Fusion Beam. Works sort of ok except for no sound, no way to buy it, and the fact the beam is all of 2 inches long. Back to ResEdit I go.
6/19
Get the beam somewhat stable. Green, lean, and damn mean! (Still SBD & other stuff)
6/20
Advice: Read the EV Bible. Read it again. Keep it open in ClarisWorks while playing with ResEdit.
The big gain is that it now has a nice little turret picture in the outfitting screen. That copy of Infini-D sure came in handy. Whole process took 2.5 hours. Whew!
6/21
Spent part of evening screaming at ResEdit because I couldn't figure out how to edit STR#s (It would be nice if this thing had a name in the game ya know). Finally find my ResEdit manual. Just a matter of click here, -K, and type. Still very annoying. Also changed it from a Primary trigger weapon to a Secondary trigger weapon. It made "capture the ship" missions somewhat impossible. :-)
6/22
Found a nice little sound effect for it. Spend several hours trying to figure out why the sound does not work. No luck.
6/23
Finally figure out that the sound has to be sampled at 11.127 khz EXACTLY, not 11.025 like I had it. Jump for joy, get a Coke and then sit down and write this Readme.
