I was able to create a map including the Cardassians, and have been able to play some basic missions with them- so there's an improvement over NDF, which only let's you fight the Dominion. I've still got a few problems, some I think I can fix but others I need help with:
1) Several of the ships (most) I imported from NDF show up in the "Invalid Ships" file with notations such as "Overloaded Power Space", "Overloaded Shield Space". In fact, those two seem to be paired most often. I can provide a copy of the list if anyone has an idea on how to fix it. I tried increasing the power and shield space entries in "DefaultCore" but the game crashed. BTW, the models and the DefaultCore/DefaultLoadout entries were copied straight from NDF.
2) I still get a "Defender has already died" message when I attempt to engage single ships in combat. I think this may be related to the issue above- my theory is that if the overloaded ships aren't available, the computer would give that message...maybe? I can attack freighter convoys, and starbases, but nothing else.
3) This may be related to the model names, but the game loads the same model for starbase, battlestation, or stardock...I think it's the stardock model being loaded, the game calls it "Legate", which it in no way resembles.
4) Some of the ships in the convoy mission (the escorts) show up with ??? for name- I presume I need to load Cardassian ship names?
5) There's no way to view the Cardassian ships in the vessel library- I was hoping I could load up the ships, adjust their settings, and fix it that way...
I think these problems are fixable, but it would take me a lot longer to fix the overload issue. Maybe someone already has the answers? It looks like mapmaking is achievable now, so multi-race custom maps would be a piece of cake.
Topic: Overloaded ships' spaces (Read 1995 times)