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onpon4 a3efbc06cc Substantially increased the cost of plasma upgrades.
I feel these were extremely underpriced. $1000 for triple bullets?
That's dirt-cheap! Even in hard mode, I have no trouble getting that.
2015-03-07 09:42:24 -05:00
onpon4 9974848ce8 Moved some things. 2015-03-06 23:18:31 -05:00
onpon4 37befa8d3c Automatically sell things that are removed when buying new things.
Previously, when you bought something that took the place of something
you already had, such as buying a new secondary weapon, the old one
was just discarded. Now, it is sold, so you get money back for it
(the same as if you had manually sold everything).
2015-03-06 19:51:25 -05:00
onpon4 604b8644b5 Give the player full price when selling, not half price.
All the half-price penalty does is punish you for upgrading early
when it turns out that you need to change weaponry.
2015-03-06 16:30:33 -05:00
onpon4 09e1f1f72e Some adjustments to weapons.
* Modified the upgrade limits, to both be uniform and allow upgrades for
  every factor. (In fact, each one can be upgraded exactly once now.)
* Gave triple-spread weapon double damage.
* Micro rocket damage down from 7 to 6. Total damage is now equal to
  double rockets.
2015-03-06 16:25:12 -05:00
onpon4 dad8a41114 Improved shop code. 2015-03-06 15:22:10 -05:00
onpon4 19936f67c9 Substantially reduced the amount you can upgrade your plasma cannons.
I've tested this a lot, and I think these are good numbers to go by.
Plasma damage has been limited the most, because it is the upgrade
that quickly breaks the balance of the weapons, making the plasma
cannon the obviously most powerful weapon. I don't want this; the
powerful weapon should be the secondary weapon, while the plasma
cannon is the fast-firing weapon with much more ammo.

Basically, I want to make a tactic I found myself using, which was
to carefully keep my plasma power at maximum and take out most
enemies in one plasma shot, obsolete. As a result, missiles should
now be much more cost-effective (because even a single missile's
power of 15 greatly exceeds plasma's maximum power of 3*2=6).

None of these reductions in limits apply to easy mode; that mode
still has the old limits of 3 for min and 5 for max.
2015-03-06 12:36:02 -05:00
onpon4 cbfd6ff153 Make permanent upgrades cost more when you don't have the temporary ones.
The way it was previously, it was tactically beneficial to ignore
temporary upgrades, if you were going to do a permanent upgrade to
that level anyway. This is silly. Now, you don't lose anything by
making the temporary upgrade first. You just get lesser access to
the upgrade earlier on.
2015-03-06 11:48:45 -05:00
onpon4 50122bb0ef Don't charge more for increased firing rate.
I don't really understand why the original developer felt that
increased firing rate was so superior to the other upgrades as to
justify a far more inflated cost. Frankly, I find this upgrade to
be *inferior* to the power and output upgrades, for two reasons:
one, it doesn't increase the amount of damage inflicted per second
much; two, it increases plasma ammo usage as well, whereas the output
and power upgrades have no effect on plasma ammo usage. If anything,
firing rate upgrades should be *cheaper*, not more expensive!
2015-03-06 11:36:08 -05:00
onpon4 8a8da04560 Don't restrict enemies from passing through other enemies.
This was inconsistent and had no particular benefits. The only minor
benefit I can see is that it prevents smaller enemies from hiding
inside bigger enemies, and in my test run through Spirit, this only
happened once. Not at all significant compared to how incredibly
awkward the aliens look when they're acting as if they can't move
through other ships.

This commit also includes more function name changes and other minor
style fixes.
2015-03-06 09:37:21 -05:00
onpon4 7ed2d1a991 More name updates... 2015-03-05 10:47:30 -05:00
onpon4 3f4c3b894a Increased the damage of micro rockets.
3 damage? Really?! No wonder this weapon felt so weak compared to
the double rockets!

I've increased the damage to 7, which causes the total damage of the
weapon to be 35 (slightly more than the total damage of the double
rockets, which is 30).
2015-03-05 08:19:44 -05:00
onpon4 66a6169c81 Better loopable Space Dimensions.
Again, courtesy of matthew.pablo.
2015-03-05 08:09:45 -05:00
onpon4 9efaff2783 Started renaming functions.
I'm going to completely reorganize this absolute mess of a codebase.
First thing is to fix the names so that it's more obvious what files
they're defined in. Second thing is to move around some functions,
and rename some of the cpp and h files, to organize them better.
I'm doing these both at once.
2015-03-04 21:30:23 -05:00
onpon4 aa187ef5f7 Prevent inclusion of headers multiple times, on an individual level.
Previously, Starfighter depended on a single check in Starfighter.h
to prevent this. Now, the proper code is in all header files.
2015-03-04 09:11:04 -05:00
onpon4 69f87ec5fb Optimized asteroid compression. 2015-03-04 08:26:47 -05:00
onpon4 60783849e4 Removed the extro text from the credits.
I don't feel it's really necessary, and besides, it's annoying that
due to the way it's implemented it prevents you from doing anything
while it's shown.
2015-03-04 08:20:11 -05:00
onpon4 6465468a8c Fixed the end of frozen_jam being cut off. 2015-03-03 19:42:00 -05:00
onpon4 3d1ad2b674 Autosave when changing planets and when buying/selling.
Previously, it just saved after completing a mission, so it wasn't
something you could really rely on. Now it saves every time something
changes.
2015-03-03 19:28:15 -05:00
onpon4 cc6989328d Fixed the ammo limit of double missiles. 2015-03-03 09:25:32 -05:00
onpon4 bce8932119 Changed the mercenary's claim about his ship being an upgraded Firefly.
The claim made sense with the original graphics, but with the current
graphics replacements, the Firefly and his ship look nothing alike.
To remedy this, the mercenary's dialog no longer calls it an
"upgrade to the standard Firefly". He just thanks Chris and says that
he made it.
2015-03-03 07:55:33 -05:00
onpon4 e2c2fdf944 Added JunglistMilitia to the credits. 2015-03-03 07:32:28 -05:00
onpon4 87f67e02fa Added Sound and Silence music track.
Also made the first mission always play the same music.
2015-03-03 01:08:47 -05:00
onpon4 1f2ef8ac50 Dedicated autosave slot + much improved menu code.
I found it kind of odd to be able to manually save to the autosave
slot, *and* have no reliable way to even know what the autosave
slot is. I noticed that it's an actual problem when my brothers
played Starfighter; one of them used an autosave slot, and the
other unwittingly ended up erasing the first one's save because of
this. To fix this, I have replaced the behavior of allowing the
player to define a slot as autosave, with a dedicated autosave
slot.

While I was there, I had no choice but to vastly improve on this
game's *atrocious* menu system. Granted, I didn't do much more
than replace the magic numbers with enums, but it makes the code
much more clear and more easy to edit.
2015-03-02 23:32:48 -05:00
onpon4 39254f42bb If a powerup is currently useless, replace it with plasma ammo. 2015-03-02 21:21:31 -05:00
onpon4 eef98d1795 Changed the usual music volume to match the usual sound effect volume. 2015-03-02 10:51:17 -05:00
onpon4 bb30f183a0 Removed unnecessary thing 2015-03-02 08:39:25 -05:00
onpon4 cfeac68b36 Updated joystick controls to work well with most gamepads.
All gamepads I've come across work OK with button 2 or 3 as the primary
button, and button 1 or 4 as the secondary button. For the rest,
basically invariably, buttons 5 and 7 are the left shoulder buttons,
buttons 6 and 8 are the right shoulder buttons, button 9 is "Select"
or "Back", and button 10 is "Start". Based on this, I've changed
the gamepad controls to something that should work for most gamepads.

Also fixed some bad HTML in the documentation, and removed the
build instructions from there (they will soon be obsolete; I'm
working on replacing the hand-made Makefile with GNU Autoconf).
2015-03-01 19:59:27 -05:00
onpon4 9959c47f98 Updated copyright notices on all files based on git-blame. 2015-03-01 15:37:32 -05:00
onpon4 288d96a39b Include SDL headers properly.
Using <SDL/SDL.h>, or in this case <SDL2/SDL.h>, and others like this
is not the proper way to include SDL headers. The proper way is to
pass the -lSDL2 flag to the compiler. The place I put it might be
awkward, but I'm planning to replace this hand-written makefile with
Autoconf/Automake scripts, anyway.
2015-03-01 14:26:14 -05:00
onpon4 23d95f99b6 Fixed a problem. 2015-03-01 04:48:47 -05:00
onpon4 23a92bb594 Define compile-time options in defs.h, unless already defined. 2015-03-01 04:30:11 -05:00
onpon4 8c51811b3e More style corrections 2015-02-28 21:49:56 -05:00
onpon4 6d939729a3 Minor style corrections 2015-02-28 21:49:06 -05:00
onpon4 f620334510 Caused charge cannon damage to be reduced in a different way. 2015-02-28 20:20:36 -05:00
onpon4 224b3ea8b1 Increased max missiles for double homing to 15.
It's incredibly silly for it to be 10; what's the advantage of the
double homing missile launcher over the regular homing missile launcher
otherwise? It's just much slower and less versatile. Now it should
be slightly better, because you can effectively shoot 30 missiles
total, instead of just 20.

(Micro homing missiles are different; the advantage of having several
weak missiles instead of a smaller numer of strong missiles is
actually quite significant.)
2015-02-28 19:06:11 -05:00
onpon4 98bd62be46 Made the multi-homing missiles cheaper.
These weapons are severely overpriced. They should be expensive,
but not *that* expensive.
2015-02-28 19:01:18 -05:00
onpon4 901000245b Changed Klein's position in the final battle.
And something else I don't remember.
2015-02-28 18:56:24 -05:00
onpon4 2bac42ce61 Don't spawn transports if you can't benefit from bonuses. 2015-02-28 15:22:27 -05:00
onpon4 86a8ca4efa Fixed Uranus boss being placed right on top of you.
Such that it's riding Uranus, you could say. Unfair and annoying.
2015-02-28 12:34:48 -05:00
onpon4 1c691323d0 When you move slower or faster in mission 18, don't make enemies do the same. 2015-02-28 12:10:51 -05:00
onpon4 03dfdd69fb Removed enemy ships with missiles from the cargo capture mission. 2015-02-28 10:32:20 -05:00
onpon4 81663aca52 Fixed not being able to complete missions after destroying interceptions.
There was a check that was supposed to prevent completing missions on
death, but it also prevented completing missions after an area was
finished. This was in particular a problem in interceptions, where
rescuing slaves after destroying interceptions didn't have any effect
on the slave rescue mission.
2015-02-28 10:03:27 -05:00
onpon4 2eaa3b94c2 Completely eliminate the chance of grinding at interceptions.
It was previously just ineffective. Now it's impossible.

The reason I'm doing this is when you *can* grind (in this case, by
constantly getting free plasma and selling it), it kind of feels
like an obligation to do so.

It's still possible to grind within missions whose progress depends
on your pace, which aren't timed and keep generating more enemies
until you win. Namely: the missile boat mission, the miner mission,
and the third boss. (There might be others.) However, grinding in
these situations is quite dangerous and likely to take away the much
larger shield bonus at the end, and plus if you mess up when trying
to do this you're set back quite a bit, so I think these are sufficiently
worthless activities that no one will do them. (I never did.)
2015-02-28 09:45:26 -05:00
onpon4 cc68479156 Deny the Supercharge on bosses, except when on easy difficulty.
A supercharge at this point can suddenly make bosses much easier
(especially the case with the Star Killer). This kind of takes away
the tension, so it's undesired. (It's fine for Easy difficulty,
because it's possible to take in a Supercharge from an earlier level
anyway.)
2015-02-28 09:22:15 -05:00
onpon4 edda015169 Fixed shop's min rocket ammo for double/micro missiles. 2015-02-28 08:47:26 -05:00
onpon4 91fa93b448 Reduced charger's max charge, make it fire when it reaches max.
The original charge cannon is so overpowered it's ridiculous. The
strongest weapon in the game, unlimited ammo, and the only setback
it has is that you need to charge it a bit. The lack of balance
obsoletes the laser weapon, which is fine, but it also obsoletes
homing missile weapons, *including* ones that are newer and more
expensive than the charge cannon!

Now, it's much more balanced. You actually need to shoot the thing
before it hits max (or have your target in sight when it does),
rather than being able to just hold the button at max forever and
release when optimal like you previously could. Basically, the charge
cannon is still the weapon which does the most damage, but it's now
much harder to use. Incidentally, not only should homing missiles
be a sensible option now, even the laser cannon has a place after
the charge cannon becomes available.
2015-02-28 08:36:04 -05:00
onpon4 26a82a6385 Some code cleanup.
Fixed some cases where I put spaces instead of tabs earlier, and
changed all cases of "weapons[0]" with "weapons[W_PLAYER_WEAPON]".
2015-02-28 08:15:53 -05:00
onpon4 71abee2a16 Fixed camera jerking in a direction really fast. 2015-02-27 23:14:33 -05:00
onpon4 9a910cfdfd Replaced Orbital Colossus with a loopable version (courtesy of matthew.pablo) 2015-02-27 22:58:59 -05:00