Drone Thoughts

StarBaseSweeper · #1 May 19th, 2003, 11:13 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
Also: Don't forget different damage types don't work on ramming warheads.

Its not that they don't work, it is that it is impossible to assign them. For a weapon to do damage when ramming, it has to have the warhead damage type. So, it can not have any other damage type, and hence can not do only engines and such.

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A thought though....if I put an ability (Combat to Hit Defence Plus, Armor Regenerstion, Component Repair) on a weapon, does it operate as normal..or just not at all?

They will work the same as on any other component.

As shown in the description below, I think it is indedd that the damage type is not taken into account. (I read it somewhere, and was disappointed at that time also.)

Are you sure it works on Mine? I thought the damage type doesn't work on mine as well.

I would like to have "Engine only mine" to create space cimeteries, with old ships hanging around, like in Ulysse31...

Krsqk · #2 May 19th, 2003, 03:31 PM

The problem isn't with the Warhead weapon type, but with ramming. Ramming always does standard damage, modified by the values in Settings.txt. Mine warheads can use any damage type, although some (like Skips Normal Shields and Skips All Shields) are pointless on mines.

Xaren Hypr · #3 May 19th, 2003, 05:02 PM

Ah well..I tried

, thx for the help anyways...

Time for work..

Loser · #4 May 19th, 2003, 05:37 PM

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Originally posted by StarBaseSweeper:
I would like to have "Engine only mine" to create space cimeteries, with old ships hanging around, like in Ulysse31...

Oooo.... I like that. And then you keep some capture ships and a repair ship just a sector away....
Yeessss...
How devious....

Xaren Hypr · #5 May 19th, 2003, 11:57 PM

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Originally posted by Loser:

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Originally posted by StarBaseSweeper:
I would like to have "Engine only mine" to create space cimeteries, with old ships hanging around, like in Ulysse31...

Oooo.... I like that. And then you keep some capture ships and a repair ship just a sector away....
Yeessss...
How devious....

Not really an option for me right now...all of the AI's use SDDs....

I need to mod in a way around it, probably using the "Only Security Stations" damage type on some sort of weapon and giving the SDD comp a Security Station value of 0, or something...

[ May 19, 2003, 22:58: Message edited by: Xaren Hypr ]

PvK · #6 May 20th, 2003, 12:10 AM

Another option might be to make it a seeker? They do have limited combat range.