v1.7.10 - More Baleful, More Xsotan, More Update

• Turns debug off on a few scripts. Sorry for the message spam.
  
• Makes a bunch of changes to lasersniper.lua
  
  • Fixes a bunch of client-side errors on lasersniper.lua. There are still a couple left that I'm not sure I can do anything about, but I'll be working on fixing those over the next few weeks.
    
  • Adds a method to reset the TimeToActive on lasersniper.lua
    
  • Changes how the default target priority is set on lasersniper.lua - if it ias added to a xsotan ship it will default to the xsotan target priority.
• Reduces the scaling of the oppressor script after 30 minutes.
  
• The frenzy buff applied to the overdrive script is now correctly multiplied by the overdrive multiplier (defaults to 2 - can be set on initialization)
  
• Adds reanimator.lua
  
  • This script will, by default, create a Xsotan Revenant out of a nearby ship wreckage every 30 seconds.
    
  • A Xsotan revenant has long-range cannons / missiles.
    
  • It may or may not be able to maneuver on its own - the wreckage plan is infected (adds hull blocks) but used as-is otherwise, so who knows what it could be missing?
    
  • Revenants are not flagged as Xsotan (the same behavior as minions)
    
  • By default, the reanimator script is limited to creating 5 revenants in a sector. This limit is shared between all instances of reanimator.lua.
• Adds secondaryweapons.lua
  
  • This script will keep track of how much firepower a ship initially has.
    
  • Once that drops down past a certain threshold, it will spawn a set of chainguns / bolters on the ship.
    
  • The script can be set to only spawn bolters, and the chainguns / bolters can be customized - values include the # of turrets, weapon range, weapon damage mutiplier, and minimum damage
    
  • This is good for large, tough custom bosses that have turrets that are easily shot off by the player.
    
  • I'm looking at you, Baleful Katana.
• Changes how the default target priority is set on stationsiegegun.lua - if it is added to a xsotan ship it will default to the xsotan target priority.
  
• Adds a method to reset the TimeToActive on stationsiegegun.lua.
  
• Makes the same changes as above to TorpedoSlammer (default target priority / reset TimeToActive)
  
• Buffs the Baleful Katana somewhat.
  
  • The Baleful Katana now has the frenzy and secondaryweapons script in addition to the adaptive defense and overdrive script.
• Makes a bunch of changes to esccdbg:
  
  • Adds buttons to spawn pulverizers and warlocks.
    
  • Adds a button to spawn a ship with the secondary weapons script.
    
  • Adds buttons to run a scratch script of your choice.
    
  • Adds buttons to dump sector dps and upgrade values.
    
  • Changes where the "respawn xwg" button is located - it is no longer under the Long Live The Empress tab.
• Adds a function to esccutil that will return all entity types in a table.
  
• Adds new functions to shiputility.lua - functions to add artillery turrets for pulverizers and revenants.
  
• Adds new types of Xsotan:
  
  • The Warlock - a Xsotan that reanimates local ship wreckages into an enemy.
    
  • The Revenant - an infected and reanimated ship corpse equipped with long-range artillery.
    
  • The Pulverizer - a "normie" Xsotan similar to the jostler / bombardier - Pulverizers are equipped with cannons that impart a massive amount of force to their target.
    
  • The Hierophant - a Xsotan that acts as both a Summoner and a Warlock.
• Nerfs the Xsotan Longinus somewhat - it now does half the amount of damage that it did before and takes roughly 33% more time to target the player.
  
• Adds a function to the Xsotan table that will return a list of functions to spawn "normal" special Xsotan - this includes the Oppressor, Sunmaker, Longinus, Ballistyx and Warlock.
  
• Adds a function to create a generic weaponless Xsotan ship.
  
• Updates the documentation on defense controller a bit.
  
• Updates the readme.

v1.7.9 - The Great Xsotan Update

• Updates mod version to 1.7.9.
  
• Makes the following changes to lasersniper.lua:
  
  • Adds a new parameter called _TargetPriority. LaserSniper has two target priorities available:
    
  • 1 - Pick a randomly chosen enemy.
    
  • 2 - Pick a randomly chosen Non-Xsotan entity.
• Adds oppressor.lua:
  
  • Oppressor gets an exponential damage buff every minute for the first 30 minutes, and then an additive damage buff afterwards.
    
  • The value of the exponential damage buff can be adjusted by adding _Multiplier to the _Values table. It defaults to 1.25.
    
  • The number of ticks that the exponential damage buff lasts for can be adjusted by adding _MaxTicks to the _Values table.
• Makes the following changes to stationsiegegun.lua:
  
  • Changes _UseEntityDmgMult to _UseEntityDamageMult for consistency with TorpedoSlammer and LaserSniper.
    
  • Adds a new TargetPriority
    
  • 8 - Pick a randomly chosen Non-Xsotan entity.
• Updates tankemspecial.lua accordingly.
  
• Makes the following changes to torpedoslammer.lua:
  
  • Adds a new TargetPriority
    
  • 3 - Pick a randomly chosen Non-Xsotan entity.
• Adds five new types of Xsotan:
  
  • Infestor - A stronger summoner that drops better loot.
    
  • Oppressor - A standard xsotan ship with the oppressor script added.
    
  • Sunmaker - A xsotan ship with a siege gun script attached - does 1500 * the sector's DPS every 30 seconds.
    
  • Ballistyx - A xsotan ship with the torpedo slammer script attached - fires a randomly chosen torpedo type once every 4 seconds.
    
  • Longinus - A xsotan ship with the laser sniper script attached - does 500 * the sector's DPS every tick.
• Updates esccdbg to allow for the spawning of the new Xsotan types.

v1.7.8 - Major overhaul / stability update

• Removes 1.3.8 support.
  
  • Sorry. Needed to remove more includes for stability's sake and 1.3.8 support was adding around 10 unnecessary instances of it.
• Removes unnecessary includes from the following scripts:
  
  • afterburn.lua
    
  • avenger.lua
    
  • eternal.lua
    
  • overdrive.lua
    
  • phasemode.lua
    
  • esccutil.lua
    
  • shipmentcontroller.lua
• Adds frenzied to the list of possible buffs that allybooster.lua can hand out.
  
• Adds frenzied.lua
  
  • frenzied.lua will increase the damage of a ship under 33% health.
    
  • Unlike the Avenger script, this is an additive buff and does not multiply expoentially.
• Adds music scripts for a couple of the .ogg files.
  
• Adds "TimeToActive" to lasersniper.lua - this will allow for a delayed activation of the script so it is not active immediately.
  
• Fixes a bug where megablocker and terminalblocker can be bypassed.
  
• Adds "TimeToActive" to stationsiegegun.lua - this will allow for a delayed activation of the script so it is not active immediately.
  
• Adds functions to esccdbg to test the out of sector attack scripts and material rarity probabilities of a given sector.
  
• Gets rid of ESCCUtil.compatibleJumpAnimation. This was causing unnecessary includes in a number of scripts.
  
• Changes some of the ESCC logging to remove a redundant [ESCC] in the messages.
  
• Reduces the amount of loot that Prowlers, Pillagers, Devastators, and Executioners drop.
  
  • Prowlers now do not drop any extra loot.
    
  • Pillagers now drop 2 extra turrets. (Down from 3 extra turrets + 1 extra system)
    
  • Devastators now drop 2 extra turrets and 1 extra system. (Down from 3 extra turrets + 1 extra system)
    
  • Executioners now drop 3 extra turrets and 1 extra system. (Down from 4 extra turrets + 1 extra system)
• Makes an adjustment to how far apart defense controller waves spawn (was 200 distance apart - now is 250)
  
• Moves some music files to this mod.

v1.7.7 - Balance / stability update

• Another major update on a patch version. Lucky you! (:
  
• Turns off debug mode on absolutepointdefense and lasersniper. Oops!
  
• Removes esccdebuglogging.
  
• Removes dependencies on esccdebuglogging from the following files:
  
  • supply.lua
    
  • escctimeddelete.lua
    
  • asyncpirategenerator.lua
    
  • asyncshipgenerator.lua
    
  • esccutil.lua
    
  • shipgenerator.lua
• Removes a number of extra includes from esccbossutil.lua
  
• Some scorchers now have new icons.
  
• Jammers now have new icons.
  
• Changes the mod description.
  
• Adds a readme.

v1.7.6 - Major update

• This SHOULD be version 1.8, but I got tired of people whining whenever I updated the minor version # so you get a patch version instead. Don't you feel lucky!
  
• Rewrites the Absolute Point Defense script to take a _Values instead of a series of arguments. This script has not changed otherwise.
  
• The following changes have been made to adaptivedefense.lua:
  
  • It now takes a _Values argument! So you can customize exactly how resilient the ship is.
    
  • This now works the way that I originally intended it to work, providing both shield and hull resistance. The hull resistance is 10% better than the shield resistance. This is a buff to both the Baleful Katana and the Vigilant Shield.
• Made the following changes to allybooster.lua:
  
  • This will now stock up charges and boost an ally for each charge accumulated when there are allies to boost.
    
  • The maximum # of charges defaults to 0, which means that it will attempt to immediately boost an ally if one is around, then discard the charge if there are no allies available.
    
  • Fixes a bug with how it adjusts ship titles. My bad on letting that stay broken for so long.
• Made the following changes to lasersniper.lua:
  
  • This now takes three additional arguments, _IncreaseDamageOT, _IncreaseDOTCycle, and _IncreaseDOTAmount.
    
  • _IncreaseDamageOT will enable / disable a mechanism for increasing the amount of damage per frame the laser sniper script does when hitting the player.
    
  • _IncreaseDOTCycle provides the time cycle over which you wish to buff the laser - for example, setting this to 60 will cause the laser's damage to increase every 60 seconds.
    
  • _IncreaseDOTAmount provides the amount of dmaage that you wish to buff the laser by - for example, setting this to 60000 will cause the laser's damage to increase by 60000 every _IncreaseDOTCycle seconds.
• Added some usage examples to torpedoslammer.lua's comments.
  
• Updates esccdbg to add a mechanism for testing allybooster's charge stacking.
  
• Updates pirategenerator to account for the _Values arg of the APD script.
  
• Makes the following changes to the ESCC boss ships (Increasing Threat / Core Encounters):
  
  • Fixes a bug where Vigilant Shield would spawn without weapons.
    
  • Re-introduced the RNG controller for the Relentless Hellcat.
    
  • Made the range of the Relentless Hellcat's primary weapons slightly shorter.
    
  • Rewrote both the Steadfast Hunter and Vigilant Shield's spawning code to account for the APD script changes.
    
  • Made the range of the Steadfast Hunter's turrets shorter.
    
  • The Steadfast Hunter's laser will now increase its damage per frame by 15000 every 30 seconds.
    
  • Adjusts the Devish Goliath's torpedo slam rate to 2, since realistically speaking the torpedoslammer can't do fractional updates anymore.

v1.7.5 - Minor update

• The ships spawned by the DCD script spawn farther apart now.

v1.7.4 - Iron Curtain rework

• Fixes the tankem and iron curtain script so that hopefully they will perform better.
  
• Adds a button to spawn Swenks by himself to the LOTW tab in escc dbg.
  
• Adds a button to spawn a phaser enemy to escc dbg.

v1.7.3 - BulletinBoard, Debug, and Balance update

• Increases the minimum damage of the Relentless Hellcat's lasers.
  
• Renames the 'Executioner' tab to 'Boss Ships' and adds a button to clear LOTW values to esscdbg.
  
• Adds logging functions to BulletinBoard.lua

v1.7.2 - Torpedoes and Transports update

• Adds a special texture for Torpedo Slammer enemies.
  
• Slightly increases the minimum damage of the Vigilant Shield's cannons.
  
• Significantly increases the minimum damage of the Scouring Phoenix's cannons.
  
• Increases the damage and block penetration of the Steadfast Hunter's railguns.
  
• Adds functions to the ship and async ship generator to create a Civil Transport - these work similarly to the Prison Transports / Cruise Ships from Boxelware's scripts.
  
• Adds a plan generator function to create a Civil Transport - again, this works similarly to Boxelware's.
  
• Changes how the pirate titles are set so that they work similarly to boxelware scripts.
  
• Moves some buttons in esccdbg.
  
• Changes ESCC boss util so that the 6 bosses will not drop their ridiculously overpowered attached turrets.
  
• Fixes a bug with torpedo slammer where setting it to too slow of a fire cycle would cause it to not activate in time.
  
  • i.e. setting it to a fire cycle of 9 and a scriptActive value of 10 would cause the script to activate after 18 seconds because it would update every 9 seconds.
• Adds an AI script where you can effectively order an enemy to relentlessly target an enemy with a certain script value (getValue(""))

V1.7.1 - Torpedo Slammer rewrite

• Rewrites Torpedoslammer.lua to use a table for arguments instead of a list.
  
• Trust me, it's better this way.
  
• Adds two new parameters to Torpedo Slammer - a target priority and a target script value.
  
  • Use _TargetPriority and _TargetScriptValue to set these.
    
  • 1 targets the highest firepower entity in the sector - special scripts not included.
    
  • 2 targets entities with a specific script value set by _TargetScriptValue.