Drone Thoughts

[Xaren Hypr]

Does combat movement use any supplies for units/ships? I have an idea for a unit variant (as the base unit types are probably hard-coded), and it was going to be restricted to combat movement with it's supplies determining its "time to live."

[ May 19, 2003, 08:45: Message edited by: Xaren Hypr ]

[dogscoff]

I don't think it works the way you want it to Maybe you could mod it in using some kind of weapon that drains supplies..?

[Xaren Hypr]

I guess that I've been watching/playing a bit too much Robotech, but I was thinking of how it would be just to let loose an anime-style swarm of missles.

I was thinking of something like "mini-fighters" with only a single engine, a lot of bonus movement (combat-only for both, of course), a warhead of some type (specialty loads anyone ?), and set to kamikaze attack. I wanted the supply limitation to simulate limited fuel supplies. Point defense would still rip through a stack of these of course...but since I still use tactical for some of my trickier combats, I thought it would look kinda cool to see a "missle"-ship launch a stack of 50-or so mini missles .

Probably not easily do-able, but I'm going to give it a go...I mean, other than a lot of time, what have I got to lose?

[Suicide Junkie]

Why not just use drones?

Design a variant hull size and let loose packs of self guided ramming mini-ships.

[Xaren Hypr]

I didn't think of using drones...hmm...then a couple of side questions:

1) If I design the "mini-drone" with [Uses Engines = False], will it still be able to use the Combat Movement ability that I put on the chassis?

2) I want to design the new Launcher component (Capacity is too small for usefulness with regular drones, but just big enough for a volley of the mini ones) with the ability to manufacture more of them when outside of combat. How would I best set the SY ability to prevent, or at least try to , using the mini-fac to build cruisers or something ?

I've got bits and pieces of a mod I've been fiddling with floating around on my HDD...just another bit of flotsam to add to it, neh?

[ZeroAdunn]

Also: Don't forget different damage types don't work on ramming warheads.