Simulator Formations?

[Foosnark]

Puke said:
speaking of simulator formations, i ran into a problem with the squidies in the simulator, once. I forget who I had them fighting, but i'll try to recreate it.

Basically, they took their normal 'circle' formation, but none of them moved. a single AI ship (kwangi, probably. I think i was facing a bunch of ships against one in an AI duel) then went through them one by one, picking them off.

Friendly ships just sit around not doing anything... were you pitting two fleets against each other while watching as a Deep Hunter maybe?

[Fingers]

Correct, if you make a fleet of the same race as the player, you can (and have to) control its ships.

[Puke]

ah ha! i think that was exactly it. maybe theres a way to run the simulator without a player race being inculded? or maybe in a patch?

or maybe the answer is to mod in an additional race with a cloaked ship, so you can watch without compramising the squidies.

[MrFantastic]

Just play a zorg fighter instead and telport right into the middle immediatly. You can still watch after you die.