Simulator Formations?

Puke · #1 December 28th, 2005, 07:03 PM

speaking of simulator formations, i ran into a problem with the squidies in the simulator, once. I forget who I had them fighting, but i'll try to recreate it.

Basically, they took their normal 'circle' formation, but none of them moved. a single AI ship (kwangi, probably. I think i was facing a bunch of ships against one in an AI duel) then went through them one by one, picking them off.

ImUrOBGYN · #2 December 28th, 2005, 07:44 PM

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Puke said:
speaking of simulator formations, i ran into a problem with the squidies in the simulator, once. I forget who I had them fighting, but i'll try to recreate it.

Basically, they took their normal 'circle' formation, but none of them moved. a single AI ship (kwangi, probably. I think i was facing a bunch of ships against one in an AI duel) then went through them one by one, picking them off.

I've had this happen once, as well. And I also believe the sim would be much more fun if you could set formations or at least the enemies would use their in-game formation, too.

Shadowcat · #3 December 28th, 2005, 10:16 PM

And not to mention setting the load-out for your ships, of course

Foosnark · #4 December 28th, 2005, 11:00 PM

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Puke said:
speaking of simulator formations, i ran into a problem with the squidies in the simulator, once. I forget who I had them fighting, but i'll try to recreate it.

Basically, they took their normal 'circle' formation, but none of them moved. a single AI ship (kwangi, probably. I think i was facing a bunch of ships against one in an AI duel) then went through them one by one, picking them off.

Friendly ships just sit around not doing anything... were you pitting two fleets against each other while watching as a Deep Hunter maybe?

Fingers · #5 December 29th, 2005, 03:43 AM

Correct, if you make a fleet of the same race as the player, you can (and have to) control its ships.

Puke · #6 December 29th, 2005, 07:39 AM

ah ha! i think that was exactly it. maybe theres a way to run the simulator without a player race being inculded? or maybe in a patch?

or maybe the answer is to mod in an additional race with a cloaked ship, so you can watch without compramising the squidies.

MrFantastic · #7 December 30th, 2005, 04:32 AM

Just play a zorg fighter instead and telport right into the middle immediatly. You can still watch after you die.