docking escorts

Will · #1 May 2nd, 2001, 02:09 AM

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Originally posted by Deathstalker:
This sounds like the role Drones will fill when they are finally implimented.

Hopefully in a patch or two....

Actually, the drone description says that they will be launched from a planet, can't be recovered, head to a target, and then they die (I think they're basically big missiles that ram into a planet and go boom). At least that's what it was when MM was saying stuff about drones way back when...

Mark Walton · #2 May 2nd, 2001, 08:19 AM

I've been playing with this, and I think the only way is to make a big fighter, then to mod a load of tech to make it usable on fighters (as per the comment about the pirate/nomad mod)

There's too much hard coded - I tried to make a satellite which could move, but I can't find a way to give a sat movement- whatever do, when they launch they just sit there.
Drone doesn't seem to be implemented at all,
I didn't even try weapon platform,
and I couldn't find away to make a "ship" launchable.

Nitram Draw · #3 May 3rd, 2001, 01:27 AM

Some things you just can't do

but since MM keeps adding to the game maybe one day it will work. A carrier full of destroyers, wow a scary thought!

dogscoff · #4 May 3rd, 2001, 01:49 AM

If they ever do add that perhaps they could put in a planetary dock facility - hide ships on a planet's surface so your enemies can't see your defences. (unless they have scanners)

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Coal · #5 May 2nd, 2001, 02:48 PM

Planetary dock? That sounds neat. One thing that could do along with hide a ship is reduce its maintence costs, since its engines and systems wouldn't be running all the time.

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dogscoff · #6 May 2nd, 2001, 02:57 PM

Yeah, but with a time and/or resource penalty to reflect the extra effort involved in moving around within a planet's atmosphere. Either that or require that a ship has a small "atmospheric maneuvering" component to allow it to get into and out of orbit.

Maybe planets with no atmos could have an advantage here? A use for those tiny moons at Last...

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Coal · #7 May 2nd, 2001, 03:20 PM

I read something about that. Using small, low-gravity, no-atmosphere moons and asteroids for starship bases. That would be usefull in SEIV. You could build a secret base in the asderoids of the enemys systems.

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[This message has been edited by Maverick (edited 02 May 2001).]