How can i make a new skills...

[Vassal]

How can i make a new skills in the abilities button???? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" />

 

[Sofus]

how can it be removed???... think it would be cool if everything regarding own skills were removed... in that way hireing officers would get more important.

 

[alan_smithee]

I'm interested in this too... I see files for skill descriptions but nothing for the code that implements them.

 

[NathanKell]

Skills or perks?
The things under the abilities button are perks; things like Sailing, Melee, Luck are skills.
To add to the skills list--hoo boy that'll take some time.
But adding perks is quite easy. GreatZen added a landowner perk. (and the musketry and land troops perks were `re-added`).

The hard part is adding the code for the perk to have a _use_. And if it's a triggerable perk, not an `always-on` perk, that's harder too.

I don't recall the specific steps needed at the moment, though.

 

[alan_smithee]

That's right, it was perks I was thinking of, myself. Like being able to send prize ships home, if KAM can adapt his shipberthing function.

This reminds me of something I wanted to ask a while ago: Could something like the rush perk be activated temporarily in the game through other code? The scenario I picture is this: Once I work in my coffee shop, I think it'd be hilarious to be able to buy a cup of coffee and then you're in rush mode for a few seconds...

 

[NathanKell]

Oh, sure. In fact, it's activated itself normally through scipt--all the perks are (vs. movement, which is `engine-side`).

Boocha a while ago made a `slow-down`-time potion; why don't you do the same, but reverse? Speed up time?

Rather than rush, which is really "berserk" mode, not rush mode.

I've been meaning to* change the way time is handled--add a pchar.basetimescalar and do the time acceleration on top of that, vs. what we have now which `force-sets` it to 1, 3, 10, 30.
It'd be useful for this (so time accel is on top of base speedrate), and also for worldmap (with which we can simulate a slower ship by setting timescale to 0.5 and hourspersec to 2x normal).

*I say this a lot. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" /> {CCC, I oughta listen. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /> }

 

[Vassal]

Speaking of TIME <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pirate2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="pirate2.gif" /> ...i just noticed this...in the start of the game...when you get back to your ship there is a cinematics right <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blah:" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> ...it says "Oxbay 1630"...BUT <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="piratesing.gif" /> when i get to the world map the year is 1690!!!! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_eek.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="icon_eek.gif" /> what a big difference

 

[NathanKell]

Kieron changed the game date to 1690, in view of what ships there were (and in light of the British and French guards' lack of cuirasses too I think).

 

[v_Grimmelshausen]

Changing the worldmap date is no big deal, it´s one of the first things I did. It´s in `worldmap-init`.c or something like this.