Warp openers/closers that can only be repaired at a space yard.

[geoschmo]

It's been requested, a LOT. People don't like the fact that you can create a little ship with a warp opener/closer and a repair bay and wander around opening and closing warp points all over the galaxy.

Well, EUREKA!, it can be done now.

What you do is give the warp opener/closer component another ability. Emergency resupply. Just a small amount, like 10 or so. Interestingly you have to have some amount of supply, you can't simply set it to zero or this doesn't work. Then when the warp component is used it can't be repaired until you find a space yard.

You could have a ship with a space yard and a warp opener, or have another ship tag along with a space yard on it. But at least this way you have to have a bigger ship.

Another quirky thing is the ship will have two icons lit. The stellar manip icon and the "use component" icon. When you do the stellar manip, you don't actually get the supply. You can however use the component withth ehother icon and get the supply, but then you can't do stellar manip with it till you repair it.

There you go. Don't say I never gave you anything.

Geoschmo

[Rollo]

Very clever .

[DavidG]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
It's been requested, a LOT. People don't like the fact that you can create a little ship with a warp opener/closer and a repair bay and wander around opening and closing warp points all over the galaxy.

Geoschmo

Well I did not know this (the fact that people don't like it). Just so MM doesn't implement this in the next patch my 2 cents worth is that this is just fine with me. In fact what I don't like is the components that break on use.

[geoschmo]

[quote]Originally posted by DavidG:

Well I did not know this (the fact that people don't like it). Just so MM doesn't implement this in the next patch my 2 cents worth is that this is just fine with me. In fact what I don't like is the components that break on use.

Well, that's easily modded out. Just remove that ability from the components if you don't want it. I don't think anyone has suggested Malfador make the hard code change to require these components to need a space yard like the emergency resupply. What we have been asking for is a seperate ability that controls this so we can add it to any component we want.

Geoschmo

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
What we have been asking for is a seperate ability that controls this so we can add it to any component we want.

Geoschmo

This is an excellent idea for MM to implement, just off the top of my head I'm thinking of a use once cloaking device would be interesting - you could drop it to attack, but then you'd have to have it repaired.

[Taera]

First off, the idea with supply generation actually makes sense because warp manips manipulate objects of great energy, making sense for them to be able to get some of the energy for the ship.

Talking about Cloaking - how about implementing that - highest leveled cloaks CAN still be caught by the best sensors, yet you can outfit your ship with super-cloak which is though use-once only with the Emergency Propulsion thingy that could make your ship absolutely invisible.