so I was thinking about fighters as a special weapon

Cadet 1st Year Joined: Aug 03, 2003 Posts: 23

and then it accoured to me... the drones special weapon already acts like fighters should, going out and attacking a target independently of the mothership... except instead of being full sized ships they are workerbees... essentially anyway... the damage is ajustable in the speacial weapons "gdrones.odf" and in the odf it specifies that the workbee, instead of the normal one be

//sod reference
workerBeeName = "drones"

not only are the drones just a single SOD file, which you could specify to be a fighters SOD... but in fact you can specify the number of fighters you want to use... so you could have different sized carriers with different strengths...

the only thing I haven't quite figured out, and this won't take long, is how to give the special weapon free to carriers... I think I just need to look at the enterprise E's special corbanite reflector and i'll figure that out...

so what do you think??? I'm going to try it now and see if it works... I've already played around with the drones themselves and they can be a very effective weapon... no true they could only attack one target at a time... but I might figure out a way to send them after multiple targets like some other special weapons do.... will report back later with updates...

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:24 am

Sounds interesting Cool

Keep us updated Smile

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:51 am

does sound quiet interesting. I think I will try my hand at this with my A2, after all, I am a man that likes to see new things, and fighters is one of them... might even give me inspiration for Warzones, and Mech Warz... Maybe more.

EO

Cadet 1st Year Joined: Aug 03, 2003 Posts: 23

it works to a point so far... it's going to take ALLOT of fine tuning to get these things to behave correctly and not instantly overwhelm the enemy starship... right now when you set the special weapon on auto the fighters go out and take out battleships in seconds, mind you only doing 40 damage points to a ship with 14000+ shields, sooo I need to do some testing... far more advanced ones than in normal amrada II also... + they seem to fly out at a 45 degree angle... and I have not found a way to scale the sod's yet... but all in good time... I thnk this will work well once I get the bugs fixxed... oh well... time to go work on the car... armada will have to wait...

Ensign Joined: Apr 26, 2003 Posts: 212 Location: Canada

redsix wrote:

it works to a point so far... it's going to take ALLOT of fine tuning to get these things to behave correctly and not instantly overwhelm the enemy starship... right now when you set the special weapon on auto the fighters go out and take out battleships in seconds, mind you only doing 40 damage points to a ship with 14000+ shields, sooo I need to do some testing... far more advanced ones than in normal amrada II also... + they seem to fly out at a 45 degree angle... and I have not found a way to scale the sod's yet... but all in good time... I thnk this will work well once I get the bugs fixxed... oh well... time to go work on the car... armada will have to wait...

I have already accomplished this in my mod, if you would like the odfs just ask. I have the shuttles from tos, they launch out and sorta chase the enemy. when they reach the enemy they create a formation (like the workerbees around a facality when its building) and fire phasers. 40 Damage might be a bit to much, I think I have mine set at one damage and it is very powerful.

Cadet 1st Year Joined: Aug 03, 2003 Posts: 23

very cool... I saw a post about someone wanting fighters to work like a speacial weapon in the wishlist section and I figured it hadn't been done... but that would be neat to see what you've done... do you have to research them or do the ships get them automaticly, like a cloaking device???

Ensign Joined: Apr 26, 2003 Posts: 212 Location: Canada

depending on what you want, I have it so its automatic. It can be changed but im at the stage in my mod where i havent made research stations yet.

Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:04 pm

to answer your question the "once i get it to target multi targets?"
just add the line maxtargets = # (#amount of targets)
dont put it at more than 3 cause it has a tendencie to slow the game down abit

Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:10 pm

Besides fighters, I like the idea of mechanized drones sent out to attack. Like construction worker bees as mechanical Pirahnas swarming a ship. Make it so!

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:33 am

make it so hehehe already have however im getting a life and dage sprite error as it flies out to atack the ship in question
maybe if i copy the sod and rename it and change the nodes (no idea how)
it would make it stop looking like its flying derelects
~only happens when you use a new sod like "drones" to "fscout"

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:52 am

You should check out the Babylon 5 mod for A2 available from AFC. It already has a very similar fighter launch weapon which you could use as a base if you like.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:06 am

thanx man ill use it as a base all credit goes to the babylon 5 mod when it finished
ill send it to you if and when i get it done but im strung out little thin rite now so it might be acouple of days

Cadet 4th Year Joined: Nov 23, 2003 Posts: 110

i've had a go at this fighter lark, so far i'm chuffed with it but i've come accross the same problem as you, even adding scaleSOD into the weapon ODF didnt make the fighters any bigger, i did however manage to use a federation fighter i found in a pack of three from here on AFC for A1 and get some not bad results

Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:37 am

im not sure but there has to be a way to configure this weapn to alow the ships to be overwelllmed by this weapon firing in all diferent directions but not actualy hitting the fighters them selfs