Task forces

Coal · #1 April 14th, 2001, 12:18 AM

A few months ago I was reading a sci-fi book series by David Weber and Steve White. I think someone posted that the books and the game were connected. One of the things that was interesting that was in the book was a system that would allow ships to electronically link together and work as a single force. I thought it would be neat to have such a device in SEIV. It could be a small device (10-30kt), and you would have and option button, somewhere, that would let you chose which ships to link into a team. On the combat screen the ships or stations could be stacked like fighters and there weapons would fire together as one. I've been getting tired of haveing to move huge fleets around the combat screen. Either a component as mentioned above or an option somewhere would be nice to have. Any opinions?

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Possum · #2 April 14th, 2001, 01:01 AM

that was in the old original Starfire, and it was called Datalink...

rdouglass · #3 April 14th, 2001, 01:18 AM

There is a component already in SE4. I can't remember specifically the name, but IIRC it is a tech gained by discovering an ancient ruin... Maybe a mod of that????

Anyone with the name? ...I think it was Neural Net or something like that... It may not be exactly like it - I think it gains all the experience of the best ship in the fleet...

[This message has been edited by rdouglass (edited 14 April 2001).]

Suicide Junkie · #4 April 14th, 2001, 01:39 AM

Do you just want to be able to fire a fleet's weapons with one click?

You can use formations to move your fleets around in tactical.

Coal · #5 April 14th, 2001, 04:25 AM

The neural net shares experience point betweens ships. What I am talking about is something that would make a group of ships basicly one ship, like having five battleships moving and fighting as one. It would be just like the fighters, with the five battleships stacked together in one tile with weapons firing in a single bLast at the same target. You could take a fleet of 30 and have them divided into 6 teams of five each. The formations option spreads out your fleet and makes it harder to move the ships around each other. It could also allow a force of destroyers to kill a battleship.

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mottlee · #6 April 14th, 2001, 04:29 AM

In SE4 you can not stack ships. I know what you are saying and I agree it is a bother to do it how ever if you get 5 BBs with wave gun III and there will be trouble

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