Drones!!

Kadste · #1 September 19th, 2001, 02:51 AM

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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Tenryu · #2 September 19th, 2001, 03:16 AM

Sure would be interesting to see these in.

Phoenix-D · #3 September 19th, 2001, 03:42 AM

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

Phoenix-D

Lemmy · #4 September 20th, 2001, 01:05 AM

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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

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.

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

Lemmy · #5 September 20th, 2001, 01:11 AM

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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.

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 · #6 September 19th, 2001, 02:34 PM

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 · #7 September 19th, 2001, 03:28 PM

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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.

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).]