People are working on minefields, but you can always make one yourself. The key things you'll need are the code from the Advent self-destruct ability and from the various capital ships that spawn missile/siege platforms. Giving a structure or ship the ability to spawn a platform that can self destruct.. set on autocast... gets you partway there.
Big issues here; if a fleet is too small, it cannot overcome defenses. If the enemy has 7 hangar defenses, a repair bay, and a few turrets, then you need a fairly good fleet to break through. Resolution: Make -anything- with weapons on it consume the same ship supply, and replace the existing static defenses with exceedingly slow-moving but still mobile versions. There is never a good reason to split your fleets unless the enemy is also attacking from multiple d
Missile Pods - 1 supply ships which are single-shot missile launchers. Have no attacks and only a single auto-cast special ability, which kills them and launches a volley of missiles at up to 5 targets. Low health; use a mass of them to break into heavily defended systems. Should not be able to damage fighters. Flak Pods - Just like the Missile pods, but have a single-shot detonation of our classic capital ship Flak ability, allowing them to rapidly clear out fighters if 2-3 are deplo
The best one to check is "AbilityRepairDroids". aiUseTime "Anytime" aiUseTargetCondition "HullDamageExceedsAmount" onlyAutoCastWhenTargetHullDamageExceedsAmount //Here's the key bit; Level:0 150.000000 //The ability triggers when a target has lost at least 150 hps. Level:1 0.000000 Level:2 0.000000 isAutoCastAvailable TRUE isAutoCastOnByDefault TRUE This makes it so it w
"OnlyautocastwhendamagexceedsPerc". I'd say make it an immobilization effect that also significantly boosts shield regen and mildly boosts armor regen; the engineers shut down the engines for repair if the ship is critically damaged. You can do it manually, but it only does it automatically if the ship takes X damage. And no, you can't "Force" the ship to use this power. In order to do something like that, you'd need to create an "AoE" effect; eit
Well, I did a few 'suicidal' things. One ship launches a hypermissile spray as it suicides; hitting up to 5 targets for some damage. Then there's the 'minesweeper'; a frigate that has a low-damage AoE ability that does -just- enough damage to kill all the mines in a good area before it has to wait 60 seconds to use it again.
Imagine a "Missile Generator"; it has an autocast ability that, once every 30 seconds, summons a missile that has a 120 second duration and is a homing suicide bomb, with a antimatter cost of 0, or cheap enough it never runs out. You leave a bank of them next to a phase lane, and just alt-select all the missiles and order them through. Every 30 seconds you can launch another wave. I did a "Mine generator" the same way, though the mines had a much longer duration, and a much lower spee
How about if, instead of firing, the ship has a long-cooldown power that creates a ship(Named "Missile") that expires when the cooldown ends? The "Missile" goes through a warp point and then self-destructs with certain effects.
Is there any way to adjust the ratio that governs exiting to hyperspace/building construction so that structures can be made at entrances? I adjusted the entry area to 2%, making it so that you enter/exit hyperspace from a very tiny area at the end of each range, and wanted to make it so you could build structures right on this area; including both existing structures and a minefield structure I made. (uses Hangar Defense code with fighters that home in and self-destruct)
Would the Beast be possible? 5 races: Imperialist(Or Republican, depending on era) Taidan Vagyr Kushan/"Mercantile Hiigarans" Military Hiigarans Beast The Beast would have duplicates of many Taidan ships, simply "Corrupted". Each race would have only a few capital ships; Carriers, Dreadnaughts, and Motherships. Using existing in-game powers, we can give a Mothership a long recharge time on a "Call the dark fleet" type power; allowing it to summ
A bit more story; either in the form of a few custom scenarios with triggered events, or maybe even just putting it in the hands of some of the mod folks and letting them do it. (I,E: Make one big map, set the three races on it, and have the story described in the manual occur, maybe answering the question of just -what- wiped out the Dark Fleet)
