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Old August 1st, 2004, 10:28 PM

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Default Hmmm a sudden mod concept.

Hmm... I've got this strange idea for a mod, tell me what you think.

What if... we can mod the game to represent your ship as a fleet instead of just a single ship..
and that the components can be modded to represent individual ships(or at least one aspect of a battle group).

The only problem is that you can't choose a formation.. unless each ship class itself is a formation... but then you'll need to "purchase" a formation everytime you want to change..now won't you? doesn't seem logical.

I got this idea after playing Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu 4 again... in that game you don't control individual ships.. but fleets.

Anyone got anymore ideas or if this can actually be done?
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Default Re: Hmmm a sudden mod concept.

Hmmm, very good ideas.
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Default Re: Hmmm a sudden mod concept.

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The only problem is that you can't choose a formation.. unless each ship class itself is a formation... but then you'll need to "purchase" a formation everytime you want to change..now won't you? doesn't seem logical.

Anyone got anymore ideas or if this can actually be done?
The formations/class idea could easily be changed. All you'd have to do is make the cost of each ship/formation be 0. And have all the formations avaible at all locations.
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Default Re: Hmmm a sudden mod concept.

I think u already can do that (and with more fun) with fighters, I don't see the point in modding the game to make it like that :/ (IMHO)
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Default Re: Hmmm a sudden mod concept.

The problem with fighters is that they tend to ram into each other, you, any objects on the map, etc. extremely often...
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Default Re: Hmmm a sudden mod concept.

You will have to make a poly of each ship/formation that is added. Each ship/formation poly would then have to be skinned, components slots added, ect. It would take some work, but it is a great idea.
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I think u already can do that (and with more fun) with fighters, I don't see the point in modding the game to make it like that :/ (IMHO)
The thing with fighters is that you can't control them with much precision.. they're pretty much drones that get themselves killed far too easily.

Besides, I really want to command fleet of capital ships, not fighters... again I don't know if the engine can handle displaying multiple models as a single unit.. but it's an idea anyway.. :/

I guess in my mod concept the original fighters will remain fighters.. but instead each fighter will now represent a squadron, like how SFC did it with the hydrans.
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Default Re: Hmmm a sudden mod concept.

I got the idea: anyway that seems to be a very difficult Mod to do!

That would be much cooler if SF supported animated 3D sections for the Ship Models... or maybe animated textures
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