Carrier Battles Mod

Sivran · #1 February 9th, 2005, 09:14 PM

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They'll just get cut to shreds by the sheer volume of tiny guns.

This sounds like a problem to me, at least at first glance. Let me know if I'm right, because the impression I get from this statement is that of a swarm of Wildcats being able to strafe the Yamato to death. That's something I don't think should happen, so perhaps some emissive armor is in order. (Or just targetting restrictions. Might be easier)

A swarm of Dauntlesses dive-bombing the Yamato to death, well, that's a different story.

Suicide Junkie · #2 February 9th, 2005, 09:48 PM

The leaky shields do help a LOT against the tiny fighter weapons, and if you force them to spread out into smaller stacks with anti-fighter missiles, then the leaky shields work even better.

But when there are hundreds of fighters zinging around, some with mini-torpedoes, you'll simply get crushed by the massive volume of fire... one of those hits will leak through to a shield generator and your defenses will start to crumble.

The distraction may be worth it, and allow your fighters to get a few rounds of free hits to turn the tide of the fighter war, or the enemy fighters may just ignore your ship in favour of blasting at your cloud of fighters.
It all depends on the strategies you each have set, really.

TurinTurambar · #3 February 9th, 2005, 10:29 PM

Uh... hate to sound dense... but remind me what program opens a .rar file...

Turin

Phoenix-D · #4 February 9th, 2005, 10:31 PM

Speaking of strategies, what happens if two types of fighters in a stack have different strategies?

Suicide Junkie · #5 February 9th, 2005, 11:06 PM

In combat, they'll be launched as separate stacks, I'm pretty sure.

Strategic launched mixed stacks would probably use the strategy of the first fighter to be launched.

However, since large stacks of fighters are bad for combat, and for the most part, fighters don't have strategic movement, this shouldn't come up too often.

Suicide Junkie · #6 February 14th, 2005, 11:06 PM

The zip has been updated on imagemodserver (under miscellaneous mods)

I've fleshed out the direct fire weapons tech, and picked out some nifty images for them all.

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Suggestions and comments are welcome.

PS:
For winamp users, I made this the other night:
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/nick/t...ara_Sunset.avs
Pretty nifty.

douglas · #7 February 9th, 2005, 10:51 PM

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TurinTurambar said:
Uh... hate to sound dense... but remind me what program opens a .rar file...

Turin

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