Stargate Atlantis (SGA) Mod [Development halted]

Tsamsiyu

HMS-Hood
I hoped it would not come to this, but you're kinda right...
I simply don't have time to keep developing this mod due to school stuff. So I probably will change the tag to abandoned.
Which does not mean that won't continue to try and support anyone who uses/wants to use my mod. It just means that there will not be any new parts added to the existing project.

Mrmecilai007
I am aware that some of these bugs really can kill the fun of playing, but i sadlay have to say that i was not able to fix most of them even with the help of some other developers of well known mods.
And due to the reasons i mentioned earlier, i don't have the time necessary to try and fix them.

So I announce that further development on this mod is halted but i will still respond to messages posted here or sent to me via email.
Anyone is free to use my sprites and source code in their mods as long as they give me credit and notify me.
If someone else might be willing to take over development of this project, would be super great too.

jabonshampu

nice mod

jabonshampu

anybody know how the energy conductor works?

Tsamsiyu

jabonshampu
Do you mean the shielded armor plating?

Or do you mean the "PDSConduit" part in version 0.15.31 ?
These were prototypes that were meant to be added in that version. 0.13.31 is the latest one where all parts are fully implemented.
The Power Delivery System (PDS) is not fully implemented. I couldn't get it to work, maybe i will fix it when i resume development.

jabonshampu

Tsamsiyu yeah , i was talking about the PDSConduit, tnks

GOLDSTANDARD

Tsamsiyu LOVE THIS MOD, "Mostly that internal shield" BUT there's a problem... That magic super cool internal shield and it's armor is SUPEROVERPOWERD I feel that the 2x1 armor shield block having 60,000 shield strength plus the 10,000 hit points is... too much... I think you should debuff them a ton, maybe into the area of 7,000 shield health and 5,000 hit points is much more reasonable.

jabonshampu

GOLDSTANDARD but on the TV series the ancient shield can resist days under heavy fire :V

jabonshampu

GOLDSTANDARD u can change the stats yourself, i can show you how to do that

Tsamsiyu

GOLDSTANDARD
i'm glad you like the mod.

I know that the stats of the shield system are way overpoverd compared to vanilla parts.
I balanced the mod for use with other mods like ABH and others, which also have overpowered parts.

I can rebalance the mod for use in vanilla games and publish it here as a separate version.
...might take a few days before i find the time to do that, though...

jabonshampu But i'm open to suggestions concerning the new stat values.

GOLDSTANDARD

jabonshampu I mean for the sake of the game balance they should be changed, it is great for early mid defense but it's way to OP. Maybe a weaker version? And the one right now can be like SUPER expensive...

Tsamsiyu

jabonshampu
when supplied with at least one ZPM, that is...

GOLDSTANDARD

jabonshampu It's ok, it's nice to be realistic but for such an awesome feature to be that overpowered is slightly unreasonable and I love this mod but I can't really use it because of this...

Tsamsiyu

GOLDSTANDARD
I currently have no time to add a different version of the shield to the existing collection of parts.

changing a few numbers won't take long and since rebalancing the shields then also requires a rebalancing of the different weapons. So releasing a separate version makes sense.

Mrmecilai007

It seems to me that the main problem of the mod is even in too strong shields (although they have the second place in this list) and in crashes that occur with a heavy load on the Internal Shield Generator in a mod that wraps around the body, everything is fine in a mod with bubble projection.

Jared

ZendikaroftheWest
nor a necropost hen its about a mod that's up to date and is talking about the mod and their issue
Necropsts really only apply if its something that's been solved and/or is well outdated,like mods that have not been touched for a year or dissection's that are a year old

ZendikaroftheWest

Jared
Ah.

Damian12612

where i can download version 15.17?

Tsamsiyu

Damian12612
(sorry for the late answer)
If you talk about the game version 0.15.17, you find the download on the game's homepage.
If you talk about the mod's version 0,15.17, there is no such version...

Tsamsiyu

I recently got a message from @StealthDrifter about the annoying known bug, which makes the mod virtually not usable due to crashes.
Through some testing on their side, we were able to somewhat identify what causes the game to crash:
When a shield gets hit at the same time as the part it originates from gets destroyed, the game seems to first delete the part's object from memory and as it then tries to play the hit effect on the shield, the part it tries to reference no longer exists.
The same behavior was observed with a vanilla shield generator with reduced shield radius.

Cause is the placement of the shields arc in relation to the parts hitbox: Shield and hitbox are quite close together, so explosive damage as found in missiles, flak and even exploding reactors, would then be able to damage the shield and the part at the same time.

I cannot really do anything to fix this bug myself, but to report it to the devs.
But i can try to reduce the amount of crashes that happen by moving the shield on all shield armor parts further away from the part itself.
A modified version of the files should follow within the next week or so..

Tsamsiyu

I uploaded 0.13.31-Patch1 which is supposed to reduce crashing due to explosive damage on the sield armor.
It works exactly the same as before but the sields are further away from the parts that generate them, making it harder to hit both at the same time.
I did some quick testing on the latest version of cosmoteer and the issure did not reappear. (no guarantee that it won't happen again, since the bug in the game code is still there)

Find the patch download in the original post