No Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Stuff that's currently done through research can only be done through research, and vice versa. No way to mingle.

Nope, that's what I meant (in a "what the hell was he talking about" kind of way). The modifiers abilities and research  use can't be interchanged.

Here's the modifier from the wreckage salvage:

researchFloatModifiers 1
researchModifier
 modifierType "SalvageWreckagePercent"
 baseValue 0.000000
 perLevelValue 0.083330

If you try to use "SalvageWreckagePercent" in an ability, it'll crash because it's not a valid "thing" for an ability to do

Do you have a thread for this? It might be possible to make an ability that does something similar (gives you credits when an enemy ship blows up, I'm not sure if a give credits/resources buff modifier exists) if you want this specific thing. But in general research stuff can't be made into abilities. For one thing, every ability needs a target, and every research subject is global in scope

That's what logging important IM conversations is for

As for where to start, it looks like AbilityStealResources and its corresponding BuffStealResourcesTarget seems to be what I was thinking of:

instantAction
 buffInstantActionType "StealResources"
 instantActionTriggerType "OnBuffFinish"
 resourceToSteal "Credits"
 resourceAmount
  Level:0 100.000000
  Level:1 0.000000
  Level:2 0.000000

Which looks like it gives a flat 100 credits, and looks like it can be used for other resource types. Doesn't seem to be a way to trigger it on target's death, though.. so I don't know what exactly StCobalt was talking about

Well using OnBuffFinish plus the finishCondition of target death I guess would do it. The buff only finished when the target dies and then you get the money? It's about the only thing that I can think of. Volatile Nanites do the on-target-death boom thing, so probably a mix of the two or something.

I jsut got an iea using Karmic retribution and a few other abilities I'll merge together...too bad I once again have bloody university in the middle of the bloody day! Another 5 hours wasted!

Guess I'll only get to test it out when I come back! CRAP!!

Ah well.. suggestions still appreciated!

Justin S.