Mod idea: Repair pods - Page 3

Ragnarok · #21 January 6th, 2003, 06:19 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by Krsqk:
Can you send drones to your own ships? I don't think the Attack button works like that, and that could be a problem for repair drones.

Good point. Drones would nto work at all. Well, not very well anyway. You could move your pod ferry to the site of the damaged ships and launch the repair drones I suppose.

Geoschmo

Wasn't that being fixed in the next patch? To where you can move drones without the attack order? I may be mistaken, in fact I probably am.

dogscoff · #22 January 6th, 2003, 06:29 PM

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Wasn't that being fixed in the next patch? To where you can move drones without the attack order? I may be mistaken, in fact I probably am.

Yes. And no. The next patch will allow drones to "attack" warp points and warp through them. You still can't give a drone "move to" orders.

Phoenix-D · #23 January 6th, 2003, 10:04 PM

Hmm. Drones only have an attack order. Can you order them to attack your own ships? Or an ally's?

See, if you do that with ships what happens is the ship follows the target. I don't think it works on your own ships, but I don't think I've tested it either.

Phoenix-D

geoschmo · #24 January 6th, 2003, 10:25 PM

Attack ally's, yes. They will tag along whereever the target ship goes, lagging a move behind them each time. Attack your own, no. Unless drones are different then ships. That is the case for ships I know.

Geo

Krsqk · #25 January 7th, 2003, 02:54 AM

Can you send drones to your own ships? I don't think the Attack button works like that, and that could be a problem for repair drones.

[ January 06, 2003, 13:03: Message edited by: Krsqk ]

F Te antKe · #26 February 6th, 2003, 05:39 AM

Let's say I want to create Repair Satellites.
Which method is better?
Should I create a small Repair Bay component
That can only be used in a Satellite
or
Create a Satellite with the Repair ability?

Fyron · #27 February 6th, 2003, 05:51 AM

It all depends on what affect you want to create. Neither is necessarily "better" than the other.

F Te antKe · #28 February 6th, 2003, 01:35 PM

Imperator Fyron
What do you mean by “affect”? I just want a Satellite that will repair ships.
A couple of things did occur to me.
If I want the Satellite to have more than one it does need to have a component.
Any idea how much to “charge” for these?

Suicide Junkie · #29 February 6th, 2003, 05:20 PM

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What do you mean by “affect”? I just want a Satellite that will repair ships.

He means "effect".

If you put the ability into a component, you can design custom repair sats, while leaving the hull sizes untouched.

If you put the ability into the hull, you can have more rigid control over the properties of the repair sats. You could make the repair sats extremely small without worrying about players exploiting the small repair component size by placing lots on one large sat.

PS:
When in a stack, units act like component on a ship.
If there is a "one effective per ship" ability, the entire stack gets the best ability on any single unit, and the rest are ignored.
Repair ability fully stacks, so there shouldn't be a problem here.

[ February 06, 2003, 15:23: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

Nodachi · #30 February 7th, 2003, 02:01 AM

Guys, I don't mean to be a downer but isn't there a problem when putting abilities on units? I seem to recall that a stack of units will only use an ability once regardless of how many units have the ability. Hopefully I'm mistaken?