What about specifying the exact amount of torpedoes. Let's say I want to fire 42 quantums. Could you do a spin box or edit field for that? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Miner STFC News.
> Hi Tom, > The dynamic menus sound great, I am lloiking forward to using them to > kill > some borgs with extreme predjudice. grin. > One question, and forgive me if you had mentioned this somewhere else. I > was > wondering if the weapons firing choices will reflect the remaining left > number of torpedoes or energy that might be available. > For instance, a player has three hundred quantums and fires 150 of them. > When he goes to fire a second salvo using quantums, will the amount of > quantums left, in this case 150, be reflected in the choose number of > quantums to fire menu? > Currently, these numbers aren't made available when choosing, but rather > every ship has a standard choice to launch, I think a max of three > hundred, > even though the player might not have that amount available. > thanks, and I hope I asked that question right, grin. > > The truth will set you free... > Jesus of Nazareth 33 AD > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 4:02 PM > Subject: [Audyssey] Miner STFC News. > > >> >> Hi all, >> Just a quick news report about STFC. As the subject states STFC now has >> dynamic rather than static menus. What does this mean? >> With the new dynamic menu systems in the ships and stations menu, >> formally the vessels menu, destroyed ships will no longer show up in the >> list of options. That way only ships or stations that remain in your >> fleet will be listed. >> Another new change with dynamic menus is your status menus, weapons >> menus, and even your main menu will be customised to that specific ship >> or station. >> For example, if you are currently Deep Space 9 you will have no options >> for impulse drive, autopilot, warp, etc because it is a station not a >> ship. The new menu system is smart enough to realise that and removes >> certain navigational options from stations, but leaves them in for ships. >> Likewise your weapons menu will change to reflect the ship or station >> you are commanding. If you are playing for example, Defiant, you will >> have an option for a cloaking device. If you then switch to Enterprise >> the Ccloaking device option will be removed from your weapons menu. >> The status menu is also similar to the weapons menus. You will not be >> able to check status for something that does not exist for that ship. If >> you are Defiant or Sal Paulo you can check the status of the cloaking >> device. If you are anyone else the cloaking device will not be in the >> status menu. Since stations don't have warp drives that will not be in >> the menu when commanding a station. >> Another nice feature with the dynamic menus is when you end up on the >> main menu it will first announce the ship you are commanding followed by >> the prompt to select and command. This should help players remember >> which ship or station is currently being commanded >> One other new change is the bridge ambience is slightly changed >> depending on the type of starship or station you are commanding. This >> should help identify if you are commanding say a starship or a starbase, >> and also breaks up the constant sound of the same ambience over and >> over again. >> >> Thomas Ward >> USA Games Entertainment >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org >> To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can >> visit >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >> any subscription changes via the web. >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
