Plugin Manager Help - Ship Creator - Balance Profiles

Balance profiles are used when balancing ships, the profiles determin the range each set of values should be in. IE, the varge shields a ship of each class should have, etc.

Each profile is for a different class, and you can have multiple profiles for the same class, so you can create seperate profiles for each mod so you can balance a ship against a different mod.

One example would be for the M7 class ship, as the game doesn't have a specific M7 class, they are usually classed as M1 or M2. So you can create profile for M2 but to M7 specs. When you come to balance the ship you can select the M7 profile instead of the M2 for a different set of balance values.

To manage profiles, you need to goto the Profile Manager option in the tools menu or from the toolbar.

Each profile is stored in an XBP file in the Profiles directory, the list displays all the files found in that directory, so to add new profiles you've got from someone else, just copy them into the directory and they will be automatically used by the program.

• Profile: This is the name of the program
• Ship Class: The class the profile is for.
• Filename: The filename without extension, ie the file myprofile.xbp, will display the filename as myprofile.

To edit an existing profile, simple double click on the item in the List, or select the "Create New Profile" button to create a new one. They wil lboth open the profile editor dialog.

Using Creating a new profile, everything will be blank, you need to enter the profile name before you can save the profile.

I suggest only editing or creating profiles if you understand the X3 Data files, especially TShips.

• Profile Name: The name of the profile, so you can easily see what the profile is for, this is what is displayed when you select the profile to use for the ship balance.
• Ship Class: This is the class the ship is for, its one of the X3 classes, not other classes such as M7, M8, etc

Most options have a min and max settings, this is for the range of the values, so the ships never go below the minimum and never above the maximum values set.

• Speed: This is the speed value for the ships, its the value found in TShips, not the speed found in the game
• Accel: The accerlation of the ship, again, this is the value from TShips.
• Turning: This is the turning abilty of the ship, this is the value from in game, and includes a single decimal places, ie, the value of 119, equates to a turning of 11.9rot/min
• Tuning: This is the number of engine and rudder tunings the ship has. The higher the speed the more tunings, so at th bottom of the speed, the tunings will be 12, at the top it will be 16, somewhere in the middle with be 14.
• Weapons: This is the weapons energy in J.
• Recharge: This is the weapons recharge rate, the value is for J/s.
• Cargo: The maximum cargo size.
• Cargo Average: This is the average minimum cargo space, when the ship is not upgraded
• Cardo Diff: The different for minimum cargo space, used with the Cargo Average to balance the minimum cargo space with the maximum.
• Shield: The shield amount, set the shield type and the amount of shields.
• Reacor: The reactor size in MW
• Hull: The hull strenght of the ship.

The Import button allows you to fill in the values for a certain class from an existing TShips files, will read all ship entries and work out the range for all ships in that class.