Shadow,

                I got the boarding party raider to work!!  Haha, sorta... Its a bit of a story, but basically i broke it down into several steps instead of trying to get an ability that would launch and calculate percent success and then take over the ship.

What i did was get a ship, a capital actually to launch the raiders; the small ships from the frigatecolonize, to launch during combat, i gave the ships a good speed to reach the enemy, with short ranges on the guns and auto attack, so they would get close. The degen health launches first, because its first slot with lower am cost, then the domination, with a 10 second delay to act as the "chance to succeed" variable. In ten seconds the enemy could be destroyed, or get out of range (short range on the domination ability) or leave the gravity well.  Anyway, after the delay, if still in range, the ship is boarded and converted. Voila!!!      Haha, anyway, i was working on it earlier tonight, it must have been mulling around in my head the last several months since you brought it up and we talked about it, and anyway, i worked and worked on an ability til i wanted to pull my hair out!!  Haha, anyway, i got away for a bit, an hour or so to watch a movie, and then came back and all the pieces just sorta fell together in my head!!  Haha, it was a gift right out of thin air! 

Anyway, i've been testing it, and it works pretty good, succeeds sometimes, fails sometimes.  I have it in the patch that i'm going to upload, just the gameinfo, the meshes, and the string, all together about 18-19 mb. But that wont be for a few more hours, then upload and bed for me. 

Give me a pm with your im, i can use the web-im, i still gotta make an account, but that should be quick, and we can talk about it.    Hope the exams go well, take care and Happy Modding!!!  We gotta work on something together, one of your "Modes" or something!! 

Anyway, take care and good night!!!

-Teal