(12-12-2014, 03:49 PM)Mister_X Wrote: Hm, maybe giving this command to carriers (in limited numbers of course) wouldn't be a bad idea, it would actually make carriers actually make sense in the game.....
Obviously don't make them spawn cruisers, but perhaps a dozen or so medium-level NPC fighters? And then they can despot them again. A good way of limiting abuse would be to have it be dependent on a certain commodity; so for example, to spawn, say, 10 Lynx, I'd need to buy 10 Lynx commodity at a base, and then any of them that get destroyed during the fight have to be bought again, while you can recall the other ones. And you'd have different types, ranging from CD-equipped light fighters to bombers.
It looks great, even fun maybe. I could see why it would be a lot of fun for a dev to tinker with, and I can totally respect that.
When that is said, I have serious doubts that you'll be able to balance it in a way where it doesn't harm PVP. I'm doubtful that it is possible at all.
The problem is that the more junk that is thrown into the mod, the more difficult it is for everything to work together at a higher level. POB's are a stellar example of something we even eventually had to create new rules for after a while, and it is something that both POB's haters and lovers find unbalanced. That's food for thought. Creating this is perhaps 10 percent of the work, whereas dull balancing and rigorous testing is 90%. I think Disco devs got it the other way round, and I can totally understand that given the fact that it's a volunteer hobby project.
But please, I urge you to not just go "Ooh new and shiny" and chuck it into the mod. 'New' doesn't always equate to 'good'.
Sorry to kill your dreams guys, but there is no chance the community is going to have the ability to spawn their own npc's. The Admins will try and think of creative ways to implement this feature into the mod, but I have a feeling it will simply be used by the Admins to abuse the community member/s of our choice.
(12-12-2014, 04:31 PM)Garrett Jax Wrote: Sorry to kill your dreams guys, but there is no chance the community is going to have the ability to spawn their own npc's. The Admins will try and think of creative ways to implement this feature into the mod, but I have a feeling it will be simply be used by the Admins to abuse the community member/s of our choice.
This would be quite interesting to have on a carrier
So..if carrier gets this feature will the docking module recieve the ability to teleport a player?
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