shiplist

The Basic Parts

The shiplist or Ship List is where the specs for all the ships in the game are located. The shiplist holds the information for (In order):

The shiplist file does not include descriptions for each, so I'll give them here.............

Race: This is the empire that fields this ship.

Hull Type: This determines what type of hull a ship is, the only player selectable types are FF, CL, CA, & DN.

Hull Type Table FF = Frigate Cl = Light Cruiser CA = Heavy Cruiser DN = Dreadnought SHT = Shuttle FTR = Pseudo-Fighter F = Freighter AB = Asteroid Base BS = Base Station BT = Battle Station SB = Starbase KDP = Defense Platform KLP = Listening Post KSD = Fleet Repair Dock BOX = Cargo Box MAM = Astrominer MDM = Doomsday Machine MLC = Living Cage MMT = M-Eater MSG = Sunglider MSS = SpaceShell MIT = Astrominer Asteroid = Asteroid Planet = Planet Star = Star UNKNOWN = Unknown Unit

Class: This is a ship's classification, whether being the original ship of its class (F-FF) or a refit of that class (F-FFD+).

Class Type: This is a ship's classification type. The only types that are acceptable to the game are SPECIAL, FREIGHTER, CARRIER, PF, FRIGATE, WAR_DESTROYER, DESTROYER, LIGHT_CRUISER, NEW_HEAVY_CRUISER, HEAVY_CRUISER, HEAVY_BATTLECRUISER, DREADNOUGHT, BATTLESHIP, BASE_STATION, BATTLE_STATION, STARBASE, MONSTER, PLANET and NONE.

BPV or Battle Point Value: Gives a relational system to match a unit's combat abilities against another. All unit's components have a BPV and added up make the approximate worth of the unit in combat. (This number is automatically calibrated in Shipedit).

Special Role: This is the role a ship serves in battle.

Role Letter Table C = Command Ship M = Commando Ship D = Drone Ship R = Restricted S = Sublight q = Small Q-Ship or Small Armed Freighter Q = Large Q-Ship or Large Armed Freighter P = Police Ship E = Escort Ship V = Carrier T = Tournament NT = Unable to transport to.

Year First Available: This is the year that a ship is first available in a campaign or conquest. The game starts at year 2263, any number placed here will be added to that year therefore year 0 is year 2263 and year 50 is year 2313 and so on and so forth, the maximum you can add on is 999 years.

Era Year Table Early = 0 Middle = 20 or less Late = 0 thru 999

Year Last Available: This is the year that a ship is last available. In campaign mode, beyond this year a ship is considered decomissioned if sold and will not be able to be bought back.

Size Class: Determines the hull size of the ship to get placed into the Ship Library for your viewing.

Size Number Table 6 = SHT, FTR 5 = KLP, KDP, MSS 4 = FF, CL, MLC, MTM 3 = CA, MSG 2 = DN, KSD, MAM 1 = SB, MDM, PUCK

Turn Mode: This is how manueverable a ship is.

Turn Mode Letter Table The numbers given are seconds per 360° turns at game speed 7, ship speed 10. AA = 19 A = 24 B = 28 C = 31 D = 34 E = 39 F = 44 G = 59 H = Immobile

Move Cost: This determines how much energy it costs for a ship to move a distance of 1.00.

Move Cost Table The numbers given are energy cost per distance of 1.00 traveled. Parenthical numbers are the percentage of the class given. ~ is approximate percent. 0.25 = FTR (100), FF (~25) 0.33 = F (~50), FF (<50) 0.50 = F (~50), FF (<25), CL (<20) 0.67 = FF (<10), CL (75), CA (25) 1.00 = CL (25), CA (75), SB (100) 1.50 = DN (100 DN Hull) 2.00 = DN (100 BB Hull)

HET +2 Turns & Nimble: This determines how well a ship can make a High Energy Turn or HET. An entry of 1 gives a 100% chance of making a HET. 0.01 thru 0.99 gives 1% thru 99% chance. Each point from 2 thru 28 gives an additional 33%, up to 999%. More than 28 will crash the game.

HET Breakdown: This determines, with an entry of 1 thru 6, if a ship can make a HET without a hull breakdown once the chances of making a HET drop below 100%.

Example: A HET is performed with less than 100% chance of making it. A 2 gives 28% chance of success, or 72% chance of failure.

Stealth (+ECM): This determines how much undetectable (Hence Stealth) Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) is added on to your regular amount of ECM. Values vary between 0 to 6, any more than six will be ignored by the game. This is mainly used on shuttles, fighters, special, and Orion Ships.

Regular Crew: This is the regular crew aboard a ship.

Boarding Parties Base: This is the stock amount of Boarding Parties that comes on a ship.

Boarding Parties Max: This is the maximum amount of Boarding Parties that a ship can carry (This is normally double that of the Boarding Parties Base).

Deck Crews: This determines the number of crews that reload/repair fighters when in the bay.

Total Crew:This is the total amount of crew aboard. It is calculated by adding up the Regular Crew, half of the Boarding Parties Base, and half the Deck Crews.

Min Crew:This is the least amount of crew aboard that is possible.

Shield 1: This is the strength of the forward shield. (Note: All shield values are doubled in-game) INVESTIGATE THIS!!!!!

Shield 2 _ 6: This is the strength of the port-bow and starboard-bow shields.

Shield 3 _ 5: This is the strength of the port-aft and starboard-aft shields.

Shield 4: This is the strength of the aft shield.

Shield Total: This is the total amount of strength of all six individual shields combined.

Cloak: This is how much power the cloaking device requires to operate.

The Hardpoints

The hardpoints are subdivided into three parts.

Num: This is the amount of times that a HP can fire per turn.

Heavy Weapon or Weapon: This is the weapon type being either Heavy (Heavy Weapon) or Primary (Weapon).

Arc: This is the HP's range of fire, consult the Volume II Arc Chart if necessary.

The Basic Parts (Continued)

Probes: This is the amount of probes on a ship.

T Bombs Base: This is the stock amount of T Bombs (mines) that comes on a ship.

T Bombs Max: This is the maximum amount of T Bombs a ship can carry.

Nuclear Mine Base: This is the stock amount of Nuclear Mines that comes on a ship, Romulan only.

Nuclear Mine Max: This is the maximum amount of Nuclear Mines that a ship can carry.

Drone Control: This is the maximum amount of missiles that a ship can keep track of, exceeding this number will result in the lose of the first missile and so on.

ADD_6: Anti-Drone Drone with a six round magazine. In SFC this are called AMD. This is used to fend off missile drones before having to use phasers.

ADD_12: Same as ADD_6, but with a twelve round magazine.

Shuttles Size: This determines how many shuttles the shuttle bay can hold at one time.

Launch Rate: This is how many shuttles can be launched at one time.

General Base: This is the stock amount of shuttles that comes with a ship.

General Max: This is the maximum amount of shuttles that a ship can carry.

The Fighter Bays

The four fighter bays are subdivided into two parts.

Fighter Bay 1-4: This determines how many fighters this bay can carry.

Fighter Type 1-4: This is the stock type of fighter that a ship will carry. The type must match the type of the fighter in the ftrlist.

The Basic Parts (Continued)

Armor: This determines how many hits a ship can take before its systems begin to take damage.

Forward Hull: Hull is sectioned on each ship into Forward, Aft, and Center Hull boxes (assuming the ship is large enough to have that much) that are destroyed on certain hits on the Damage Allocation Chart. Hull is the basic structure of a ship and is just stuff to hit and hold you together.

Center Hull: See Forward Hull above.

Aft Hull: See Forward Hull above

Cargo: This determines how much cargo space a ship has.

Barracks: These are used to house marines, especially in Commando (M) ships.

Repair: This represents shipyard repair ability, mainly placed on Fleet Repair Docks and Bases.

R_L_Warp: This determines how much power each engine puts out. If a ship has two engines, like any Federation starship, this value is doubled.

C_Warp: This is how much power the warp engine core puts out. In case of two engines, like the Federation battleship, double this value.

Impulse: This is how much power a ship allocates to the impulse engines. Only one point is used towards propulsion, extra is used for anything else.

Apr: This is the reactor's power output, it can only be used for powering systems not propulsion.

Battery: This is power reserves which are charged with extra, unused power, and stored for use when all other power systems are used up.

Bridge: This is all the bridge, auxiliary bridge, and flag bridge systems. This affects how well a ship handles, accelerates, and turns. Damage to this will result in the loss of maneuverability.

Security: This helps aid in repelling Hit & Run Raids, and preventing captures.

Lab: This determines how well a ship's shields regenerate.

Transporters: This determines how many Marines you can send over to another unit at once, and how many mines you can transport a distance into space at one time.

Tractors: The number of tractors a ship has. Used to hold other units or multiple missiles (The number of missles that a ship can hold at one time is restricted to this number).

Mech Tractors: Denotes the number of external Mechanical Tractor Beams used to dock the PF's that the ship carries.

Special Sensors: Used in SFB for Scout class vessels, In SFC they are just another free hit.

Sensors: This is the quality of the sensor track which degrades as it is damaged. The better the sensors, the less they degrade with damage. In SFC the sensors are used to control seeking weapons that need guidance.

Scanners: This is how well a ship can target and fire upon other units. They degrade with damage like sensors.

Explosion Strength: This is how much damage a ship will inflict on any other unit within a range of 1.00 when said ship explodes.

Acceleration: This determines how well a ship can get up to speed.

Acceleration Table The following numbers to ships are general ratios found in the game, other numbers can be entered with varying or unpredictable results. 5 = Large Ships or Freighters 10 = Average Sized Ships 15 = Shuttles or Fighters

Damage Control: Determines how much damage can be repaired without the help of a repair facility. In SFC this is reflected in the number of repair parts (Screw boxes as seen in the in-battle repair screen) the ship can carry.

Extra Damage: This is additional hull type boxes that take damage after an existing system or hull is completely destroyed. When this is completely eliminated the ship explodes.

Ship Cost: This is the prestige point cost of a ship for campaign aquisition.

Refit Base Class: Determines the ship that was the original design for the variant(s) being built.

Geometry: This is where the Model's MOD file is located (Assets/Models/Model Folder Name/Mod File Name.mod).

UI or User Interface: This determines what pre-defined HP positions and dorsal (Similar to Volume III's VL) images for certain classes show up. The only game capatible UI's are:

User Interface Table ()FA = Freighter ()FF = Frigate ()DD = Destroyer ()CL = Light Cruiser ()CA = Heavy Cruiser ()BC = Battlecruiser ()DN = Dreadnought ()BB = Battleship ()CV = Carrier ()BS = Battle/Base Station ()SB = Starbase ()DX = Advanced Destroyer ()CX = Advanced Cruiser ()FT = Pseudo-Fighter XBOX = Cargo Box XAB = Asteroid Base XDP = Defense Platform XLP = Listening Post KSD = Fleet Repair Dock Asteroid = Asteroid Star = Star Race Specific UI's Federation XLUX = Luxury/Presidential Liner XMMER = Merchant Ship Klingon RKL = Romulan Sparrowhawk Romulan RDE = Seahawk RFR = Eagle RLN = Sparrowhawk RKFF = Klingon Frigate RKDD = Klingon Destroyer RKCL = Klingon Light Cruiser RDK = Klingon Dreadnought Lyran LPFT = Pseudo-Fighter Hydran HD7 = Captured Klingon D7 KSD = Fleet Repair Dock Pirate PNDN = Godfather Dreadnought XPD = Lifepod XSH = Shuttle XMN = Puck XPY = Unknown XSS = Base/Battle Station XWRECK = Unknown Monster MAM = Astrominer MDM = Doomsday Machine MLC = Living Cage MMT = M-Eater MSG = Sunglider MSS = Spaceshell MINT = Astrominer

Full Name: This is the name that a ship will show as.

refits: Short list of items changed from the Base Class.

Balance: Used for mission matching, it adds or subtracts from the BPV of a ship to help it get better draws. Even though some ships look good on paper and are a stated worth, testing has shown that not all ships are equal to the sum of their parts, some adjustments must be made.

End: This is not used in the game, this column is blank anyway.

W1-25 or Individual Weapon BPV: This determines each weapon's BPV.

Weapon BPV: This is the total of all the individual weapon BPV combined.

FB1-4 or Individual Fighter Bay BPV: This determines each fighter bay's BPV.

Fighter Subtotal: This is the total amount of fighters currenty on a ship.

System BPV: This determines the total BPV of the systems on the ship.

BPV Subtotal: This is the total of all the BPV subtotals combined.

SFB Year First Available: This is the first year that a ship is available in the source material. It is supposed to keep ships that are out of era from showing in missions, but the script API overrides this.

SFB Year Last Available: This is the last year that a ship is available in the source material. It is supposed to keep ships that are out of era from showing in missions, but the script API overrides this.