Topic: SFC1 Scripting API?

[NuclearWessels]

Heya folks,

anyone out there still have the SFC1 Scripting API floating around?

EDIT:  Whoops!  Nevermind, tracked it down.

thx,
dave

[Panzergranate]

Where, Where??!!

I need one!!

[Klingon Fanatic]

  My favorite CUSTOM mission for SFC1 was the "The Quantum Factor". I so want it to be converted to SFC: OP. In the mission you fly as a Fed investigating why a stock FDD "USS Richtofen [sp?]" and an FSB have completely lost ALL power. It was one of the biggest mission maps I recall from SFC1. Hidden in the asteroid belt is an energy draining monster. Can you kill it before your ship loses power too?

Now, the implications for this script are two fold:

1. You get a cool monster mission.

and

2. If the energy dampining can be scripted into campaign or skirmish missions for SFC: EAW or OP then you can have the Breen energy dampining weapon from DS9!

This assumes I am correct that such a weapon is something that is a background feature like start up damage that can be called up a la SFC1's skirmish mission: "The Repair Roundevous". One would hope that the ship using such a weapon could have that put into the shiplist somehow. There has to be a way if the AI "Quantum" monster can cause a reduction in player ship power after each successful hit.


Qapla'

KF

[NuclearWessels]

Where, Where??!!

I need one!!

Here's the link: http://sfc.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/missionapi.shtml

dave

[Panzergranate]

I've played the "Quantum Factor" and it is a nice long scenario. However my instict not to go charging after the "object in the asteroid field" but to send some "Red Shirt" in a shuttle to investigate resulted in the shuttle and the subsequent one becoming disabled. I figured thatthe monster had some means of instantly killing the shuttles before they could fire.

In the mean time I'd approched the DD and had scanned it, beamed a boarding party over and had a tractor tow on it.

I figured that the monster was more interested in my  cruiser than the DD and dropped the tow to lead it away. I maintained distance and plastered it with Phasers and Photons. As I closed with it the power levels began to drop but as the monster was nearly dead by then it didn't make much difference.

Probally one of the best scenario scripts written for SFC 1.

Now shouldn't the Doomsday Machine also have the same energy dampening field?? It should alos make Photons impossible to fire due to its rendering anti-matter impotent.

Unfortunately I don't have Visual C++, I have Borland C++ and a few other C++ compilers. So much for the portability of C++!!