Mod idea: Repair pods

geoschmo · #1 January 6th, 2003, 10:25 PM

Attack ally's, yes. They will tag along whereever the target ship goes, lagging a move behind them each time. Attack your own, no. Unless drones are different then ships. That is the case for ships I know.

Geo

F Te antKe · #2 February 6th, 2003, 05:39 AM

Let's say I want to create Repair Satellites.
Which method is better?
Should I create a small Repair Bay component
That can only be used in a Satellite
or
Create a Satellite with the Repair ability?

Fyron · #3 February 6th, 2003, 05:51 AM

It all depends on what affect you want to create. Neither is necessarily "better" than the other.

F Te antKe · #4 February 6th, 2003, 01:35 PM

Imperator Fyron
What do you mean by “affect”? I just want a Satellite that will repair ships.
A couple of things did occur to me.
If I want the Satellite to have more than one it does need to have a component.
Any idea how much to “charge” for these?

Nodachi · #5 February 7th, 2003, 02:01 AM

Guys, I don't mean to be a downer but isn't there a problem when putting abilities on units? I seem to recall that a stack of units will only use an ability once regardless of how many units have the ability. Hopefully I'm mistaken?

Suicide Junkie · #6 February 6th, 2003, 05:20 PM

Quote:

What do you mean by “affect”? I just want a Satellite that will repair ships.

He means "effect".

If you put the ability into a component, you can design custom repair sats, while leaving the hull sizes untouched.

If you put the ability into the hull, you can have more rigid control over the properties of the repair sats. You could make the repair sats extremely small without worrying about players exploiting the small repair component size by placing lots on one large sat.

PS:
When in a stack, units act like component on a ship.
If there is a "one effective per ship" ability, the entire stack gets the best ability on any single unit, and the rest are ignored.
Repair ability fully stacks, so there shouldn't be a problem here.

[ February 06, 2003, 15:23: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

Nodachi · #7 February 7th, 2003, 02:04 AM

SJ said:

Quote:

Repair ability fully stacks, so there shouldn't be a problem here.

Cool. I was worried that a simple game-mechanic was going to ruin what seems like a great idea.

Next issue would be balance. Something like this could make repairing large ships extremely cheap, which is fine if that's the effect you're going for. But in a mod like P&N

small armor pieces could be repaired so quickly as to unbalance the game. My suggestion would be to bump up the cost and/or move them up the tech tree.

Hey! How'd I wind up being devil's advocate?