What do the "class" fields do, chiefly in the shďp, oütf and gövt resources?

Apparently, they're supposed to be there to assign groupings, but I'm still a little unsure as to what they do.

I know that Nova uses the gövt class fields, but I'm not sure how this effects the actual governments (Nova Bible says that if gövt 128 and 129 are classmates, they aren't necessarily allies (unless defined by "Ally" field), so how does this effect Nova?).

Nova completely eschews the oütf and shďp class fields, however. Is there something that can be done with them?

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Govt classes are pretty simple. If 128 and 129 are classmates (class 1, say), they are not nessesarilly allies, but if you want govt 130 to hate both of them, you could put class 1 as govt 130's enemy. You could also have 128 and 129 be enemies of eachother, i think. Say you wanted to have 4 govts that hate eachother, but are related and thus treated similarly by the rest of the galaxy - put them into a class, have them as enemies of thier own class, and viola.

The outfit class field is used in conjunction with the pers resource to grant items when you board a pers. It is unrelated to govt classes

Ships dont have a class field.
-Az

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Ships dont have a class field.

Huh, you're right. I could have sworn they did. Oh well...

Anyhow, thanks.

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Originally posted by Zzap212:
**I know that Nova uses the gövt class fields, but I'm not sure how this effects the actual governments (Nova Bible says that if gövt 128 and 129 are classmates, they aren't necessarily allies (unless defined by "Ally" field), so how does this effect Nova?).
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To be clear: the fact two governments are in the same class has no consequence whatsoever in itself. It's when you tell a third government to be an ally (or an ennemy) of the class that this third government will be an ally (ennemy) of both the first ones (but still has no consequence whatsoever in the releationship between the first two).

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By ship classes, you might be thinking of class IV or class D. Those refer to how much a ship has been upgraded and has nothing to do with governments.

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So, on the topic of gövt classes:

What if 128 was 1, 129 was one, and one or both had 1 in their ally/enemy fields? Would they fight amongst themselves if you set it in the enemy fields? Would there be any change in behavior if you set it in the ally fieds?

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(This message has been edited by orcaloverbri9 (edited 03-17-2004).)