A Library of Spaceship Designs

2024-06-06

While tuning the spaceship AI scripts for enemies and the designs they control, I became annoyed by how difficult it was to set up a test for one ship versus another. After some deliberation, I added a new "spaceship design library" to the ship editor where you can get an overview of stored designs, load or update an existing design, or save a new one.

One really nice addition to this screen is the ability to select a ship and then test your active design against it. This is a great way to test how well your current design holds up to an enemy of that type, but it also helps me in tuning ship AI by letting me iterate quicker. A good example of "eating your own dog food."

While the library works really well, I would like to add some more features, such as filtering by budget.