[AJC]

unfortunately its probably impossible to simulate the books perfectly.

If limiting number of components on a ship is working correctly that would help , then you could restrict its use as far as how many can be on a ship and make them cheaper than normal launchers. Several different components could be created limiting the size of ship that they can be on. Each pod component holding a few more missiles(drones) to simulate numerous pods on bigger ships.

how about component destroyed on use? maybe this would encourage using more than just the pods, set the value for the number of missile(drones) being launched at maximum number when fired. I.e. 5. Repairing the Pod could be considered part of rearming them. they should take up little space and be cheap however.

Another thought is find a way using the new mounts capabilities coming in patch 2 and do a combination of abilities and mounts.

[ August 14, 2002, 00:13: Message edited by: AJC ]