Commit Graph

47 Commits

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onpon4 cf034ffa4a Don't combine temporary and permanent upgrade price in Classic difficulty. 2016-11-27 23:24:03 -05:00
onpon4 eecdb15445 Don't auto-sell rocket capacity when buying laser/charger in Classic.
Classic difficulty penalizes you for selling items, so it's best not
to automatically sell anything that doesn't need to be. It could be,
for example, that you want to switch to a laser and then back to
rockets, in which case the auto-selling could make this much more
costly or cripple your missiles when you come back to them.
2016-11-26 13:12:15 -05:00
onpon4 1ba51f0e58 Moved most structs to the modules they obviously belong to.
The ones with names that don't correspond to modules and are used
in multiple places have been left alone.
2016-11-25 18:35:25 -05:00
onpon4 d336bb2c83 More cleanup. 2016-11-25 18:21:31 -05:00
onpon4 60ed5cbd65 More cleanup.
It looks like I'm finally almost done with this! The only thing left
is gradually replacing "Starfighter.h" imports with imports of what
actually is needed.
2016-11-25 18:01:36 -05:00
onpon4 1be0fd1164 Lots of cleanup done on how weapons are handled.
I did one structural change to the way ship_fireBullet works. It
previously had two separate places for reducing ammo from the player.
I changed this so that it removes ammo in the same place regardless
of which weapon it is, but then performs the plasma "out of ammo"
action afterwards. It seems to work properly.

Also fixed a flaw in the saving which would in some cases cause
the stationed planet to not get saved properly.
2016-11-25 13:50:16 -05:00
onpon4 063020df22 More cleanup. 2016-11-16 19:43:03 -05:00
onpon4 8de37af9cd A little cleanup. 2016-01-08 11:27:28 -05:00
onpon4 0f6807d4ad Adjusted the price of plasma and rocket ammo.
There are two adjustments here:

First, Classic difficulty now gives these items the same price as
the original (50), which is important because the original made it
very easy to grind by filling up on plasma at interceptions and then
selling it. $25 is a lot more than $5.

Second, for every other difficulty, the price has been dropped down
from 10 to 1. The reason I'm doing this is unlike in the original,
you now pretty much have to routinely fill up on rockets and/or
plasma ammo to use these weapons, and it puts the weapons which
don't need ammo (laser and charger) at an unfair advantage, basically
turning use of rockets into a mistake. By making the prices very low,
you still want to conserve plasma and rockets, but the effect is more
to deprive you of their use later on in the mission than to drain
your money.
2016-01-08 11:13:56 -05:00
onpon4 822ff849e4 Removed the very last of the image-related magic numbers (in source code).
The only magic numbers left now are related to positioning, image
sizing, and the remaining "data" files (the "planets" and "brief" ones).
At least, I'm pretty sure that's the case.
2016-01-06 20:35:37 -05:00
onpon4 97f1f441c2 Removed more magic numbers. 2016-01-05 06:44:26 -05:00
onpon4 73af622c54 Started getting rid of magic numbers on the intermission screen. 2016-01-04 22:25:00 -05:00
onpon4 697a302fc6 Some cleanup I forgot to do in gfx.cpp. 2016-01-03 22:39:16 -05:00
onpon4 ce94477b70 More cleanup. 2016-01-02 16:59:48 -05:00
onpon4 651a7f55fb Did some more cleanup, removing more "shape" magic numbers. 2015-12-31 10:47:27 -05:00
onpon4 67d464433d Removed the second "drawString" function.
It wasn't very useful. All it did was offer the option to center
text and take away the option to wrap text. I've moved the text
centering option to gfx_renderString and replaced all uses of this
function with that function.
2015-11-06 10:12:57 -05:00
onpon4 c68cb3f920 More cleanup. 2015-09-26 08:49:21 -04:00
onpon4 0f10c6d5c7 Converted the three "collision" functions to four differently-named ones.
The fourth is simply a duplicate of ship_collision for bullets. A
bit redundant, but I figure it's clearer of a definition. Besides,
this opens up the door to possibly making bullets a different struct
type in the future, if that turns out to be desirable.
2015-09-25 16:28:09 -04:00
onpon4 5964066969 Sell for only half price in original difficulty. 2015-06-07 22:51:16 -04:00
onpon4 f306825636 Removed the "nomove" and "nofire" cheats.
I honestly don't understand why these cheats were here. Preventing
enemies from moving breaks some missions and doesn't do anything
useful, and preventing enemies from firing is basically no better
than the invincibility cheat (and might even be worse, if it applies
to Sid; I didn't check).
2015-05-20 19:41:43 -04:00
onpon4 ae15b66e60 Fixed shop bug which caused loss of super charge. 2015-04-08 20:33:53 -04:00
onpon4 b00bf9d7b2 Fixed an infinite loop. 2015-03-29 08:58:03 -04:00
onpon4 4a72111a46 Adjusted shop prices.
I noticed that in "original" difficulty, plasma upgrades are basically
prohibitively expensive, which is not at all like the original. To
fix this, I've given that difficulty the original prices for those.
I've also slightly reduced the normal cost of permanent upgrades.
2015-03-28 19:52:03 -04:00
onpon4 ec7fb908a3 Fixed failure to sell double rockets when buying another special. 2015-03-17 19:20:04 -04:00
onpon4 ad8a2f2ad9 Replaced various "limit" functions with LIMIT and LIMIT_ADD macros.
This is mainly because the old "limit" functions were all restricted
to certain types, which is incredibly silly given how simple they are.
Macros are much simpler, and a warning gets raised if they're used
improperly with multiple types, anyway.

In the process, I also found and fixed a bug: it seems the original
author intended for escaping enemies to gradually accelerate to
fleeing speed, but the low value was indicated as the max value, and
the way limitFloat was written, that caused the max value to be used
(it was supposed to reduce the speed to a minimum of -15, but it
instead effectively assigned the speed to -15). It might be a good
idea to re-implement the old buggy behavior intentionally; depends
on whether the acceleration of jumping looks better or worse than
just immediately going to jump speed.
2015-03-17 19:00:13 -04:00
onpon4 05c370feb4 Capitalized "max" and "min" macros. 2015-03-17 16:54:00 -04:00
onpon4 4b3cb9c1d3 Fixed some problems. 2015-03-07 15:34:47 -05:00
onpon4 22fcdae8cc Several adjustments for difficulty purposes.
Started out adjusting prices, then ended up doing other things
while testing. Committing this now before I start doing other
random stuff!

But all of the changes are related to balancing difficulty, mostly
with prices, except for a couple bugfixes in the shop. Most notably:

* Ammo now costs $10, not $50. You no longer have to worry about
  saving ammo quite as much as a result.
* Plasma upgrades' cost is now calculated differently, and the result
  is slightly lower prices than before.
* Easy mode now grants the player more max ammo than other difficulties.
* Increasing max plasma ammo now costs less at the start, and increases
  in cost faster.
* You increase max plasma ammo by 25 at a time, not 10. (10 was just too
  small of a number.)
* Destroying enemy ships no longer gives you money. I found that, even
  in hard mode, I had *way* too much money coming in, and this cuts it
  down substantially. It also makes the shield bonus at the end of missions
  much more significant. To compensate for the loss of massive bonuses
  bosses used to give, these bosses now drop a lot more stuff.
* Kline has decreased health in his first encounter, and increased health
  in his last two encounters (the numbers have been reversed).
2015-03-07 12:19:35 -05:00
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 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 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 9959c47f98 Updated copyright notices on all files based on git-blame. 2015-03-01 15:37:32 -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 edda015169 Fixed shop's min rocket ammo for double/micro missiles. 2015-02-28 08:47:26 -05:00
onpon4 182ea70ba1 Removed gameplay option, have different max shield based on difficulty 2015-02-26 20:52:20 -05:00
onpon4 f385c9448e Upgraded to GPLv3. 2015-02-26 11:20:36 -05:00
Guus Sliepen 593ea01386 Initial conversion to SDL2. 2013-09-30 16:52:43 +02:00
Guus Sliepen 8810b090fa Remove external files for missions, shop items, aliens and weapons.
The source code contains routines to initialise all these resources, but also
functions to load from and store to external files.  Support for external files
has now been removed; this removes a potential difference between compiling
with or without USEPAK, and makes it easier to change missions in the code.
2013-07-11 15:29:37 +02:00
Guus Sliepen bd4a449e10 Rename code/ to src/. 2013-07-11 14:24:37 +02:00