BUG:Quick supplies from fighters

Puke · #1 September 13th, 2001, 10:13 AM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Good idea, but how would you keep human players from putting engines on these hulls?

Could you put a negative bonus movement on, to negate any engines?

with an engine limit of zero?

just like baseships are limited to 2, DNs 4, BBs 5, and everything else 6.

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dogscoff · #2 September 13th, 2001, 11:01 AM

Oh yeah, I knew that.

*Dogscoff slaps forehead...

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john · #3 September 13th, 2001, 11:49 AM

I think bases should behave like big satellites in regard to supplies. I.e. neither produce nor consume them.

Suicide Junkie · #4 September 14th, 2001, 01:53 AM

That would essentially be making a base non-fleet-able. If its not in a fleet it can't share supplies.

But, if you got that route, it requires a tiny bit of hardcode, and disallows the "power station" idea. Having a limited supply storage on bases, and using solar panels, you could resupply ships, but only so many, so fast before your base runs dry.

dogscoff · #5 September 13th, 2001, 02:00 PM

QUOTE:
with an engine limit of zero?

just like baseships are limited to 2, DNs 4, BBs 5, and everything else 6.
/QUOTE

What about solar sails, emergency propulsion etc?

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SE4 Code:
L GdY $ Fr- C- Sd T!+ Sf-- Tcp-- A% M>M+ MpD! RV Pw Fq+ Nd- Rp+ G-
/SE4 Code
Go to my meagre SEIV pages to generate your own code.

Suicide Junkie · #6 September 13th, 2001, 07:54 PM

Those can be modded to be ship only, rather than "Ship/Base" as they currently are.

Solar sails are useless if the ship has zero standard movement.
On fighters, solar sails will provide movement even with out engines, but SE4 has a quirk with ships that if they have no engines, sails don't help.

Emergency propulsion could be modded to be an engine with a "pulse" mode, whereby you get a burst of speed, then travel slower until it is repaired. In this way, the base would not be allowed to have E.P., since they count as engines.