Honor Harrington Mod Discussion

[AJC]

Drone launcher with its own cargo space? Make it take up less space than it actually holds - call it a missile pod?

[Phoenix-D]

Eh, maybe. The problem is that doesn't really accuratly represent the pods. Right now the missile tubes hold 1 shot each. If I make a "missile pod" that is, say, the size of 4 missiles but holds and shoots 5, people will use *just* the pods, and fire multiple missiles out of the "pod".

Phoenix-D

[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 ]

[AJC]

Thinking about the Missile Pod - How about creating a component that is really quite large cumbersome and somewhat pricey if its just placed on a ship.... Until you put it on a mount.

make a mount specifically for the missile pod that reduces its size/cost - the explanation that its a mounted pod. limit the size of a pod component by hull size.

The size of the Pod component could be a representation of multiple pods. Limit the pod to one per hull and increase fire power of the pod by 25% per ship hull size or something along those lines.

The mount(s) can be easily designed with the upcoming features for mounts in the next release!

[Phoenix-D]

"increase fire power of the pod by 25% per ship hull size or something along those lines."

Cannot be done; you can't change the number of drones launched with a mount, and you especially can't change the damage done by a drone by modding it's launcher.

[oleg]

Little off topic: Do you guys know that "On Basilisk Station" and "The Honor of the Queen" are available free for download from http://www.baen.com/library/ ?

The Free Library is hosted by the official Baen Books publishing company. It is not pirate.

[Mind Elemental]

Yep.

Could you model SD(P)s by creating a component called, oh, "Hollow Core Pod Launcher" that's limited to 1 per ship, takes up a huge amount of room, but can also launch /and/ store a very large number of drones?