Drones!!

[Phoenix-D]

Kadste, instead of setting the requirement to 0, try changing the "Requires Life Support" to false.

Phoenix-D

[Lemmy]

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Kadste, instead of setting the requirement to 0, try changing the "Requires Life Support" to false.

Phoenix-D

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won't work, i tried that, but i think it is hardcoded that any ship size needs Bridge, Life Support and Crew Quarters to get max. movement.

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Originally posted by Kadste:
I have tried to set Requirement Min Life Support and Requirement Min Crew Quarters to zero. But, this resulted in a max movement of two. The only way that I could get around it was to give my "drone" the Ship Life Support and Ship Crew Quarters Abilities. I also gave my drone the Ship Bridge, Extra Movement Generation and Combat Movement Abilities to solve my problem with drone movement. On my drones you can only choose one component, the warhead. This also solved a problem with placing unwanted components on drones.

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i just gave my drone the Master Computer ability.
And how did you manage to only put warheads on drones ?

[Lemmy]

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Just change the Life Support/Crew Quarters requirement on your 'drones' to '0' and see if that doesn't remove the problem. Then you can just make a "drone computer core" like the one for satellites to handle the bridge requirements.

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but if a drone is a ship size, then a "normal ship" can also use this component, maybe Kadste has found a way around this.

[Kadste]

Yes, Ships must have "Ship Life Support", "Ship Crew Quarters" and "Ship Bridge" Abilities to get max movement.

Weapon Abilities do not seem to work though. I tried to give my drone a "Mine Sweeping" Ability, but it never swept mines. When I added it as a component it will sweep mines.

Because my drones are ships, they can have components. Give them a size of 30 and one mine sweeping component.

Added Abilities for movement to model the way I wanted my drones to move.

Cannot get the drone to launch or get stored as cargo, though. You have to manage them as ships in a fleet.



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[Lemmy]

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Originally posted by Kadste :
On my drones you can only choose one component, the warhead. This also solved a problem with placing unwanted components on drones.

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Because my drones are ships, they can have components. Give them a size of 30 and one mine sweeping component.

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now i lost it, are you saying your drones can only have warheads, or can they have any shipcomponent

[This message has been edited by LemmyM (edited 19 September 2001).]

[mac5732]

If you use them as ships, then what is the range/supply? LemmyM you stated they were expendable and would self destruct. Do you mean that once they deliver whatever, they automaticly would be coded to destroy themselves? My opinion only, you may want to look at 2 or more different types of drones, those that deliver supply, trps, etc, those that are used for spying and those used as missles, Each one might have to be different in size and capabilities. This might be done, by saying those used as missles could only be of small or medium and those for transport up to large. But if you use as ship types, this might take away the Drone concept. Drones in space warfare are usually small, very fast, missle type units. I guess it would depend on what you want them to do/accomplish. I like the idea of cruise missles, this could be used to assault defended worm holes.

just some ideas mac

[Kadste]

LemmyM,

Sorry for the confusion. The size of my drones are set up so I can only choose one component. Like a drone for minesweeping purposes. In VehicleSize.txt my drone has a tonnage of 30. This will allow me only to have one mine sweeping component.

A drone set up as a missile, like the Strategic Bombardment Missile from Starfire, has a tonnage that only allows one warhead component, the Cobalt Warhead I. This drone has a tonnage of 50.




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