Players docking on other Player aircraft

[atlantis2112]

Still the carrier should be strong , but yes, weapons should beremoved if they get fighterwings.

So a big floating target in essence?

[elgeeko]

Removed? heck no! just downsized to be battleship equivalent or so.
Thus making the Carrier's advantage, the reason your faction shelled out more credits than half of Manhattan is worth, its fighter wing but not leaving it completely defenseless.

I can't think of a single sci-fi carrier ship that wasn't battleship equivalent or better with its own weapons...

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[Gemini893]

I would think, if Carriers were to spawn NPC, that it shouldn't hurt the server much at all since people still take missions at peak times that also spawn extra NPC.

The only issue would be if someone carelessly scheduled an event for a peak time and all the cap whores spawned their NPCs too closely together. Then again, maybe people will use their brains and not schedule an event for peak server traffic time too.

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[reavengitair]

I can see many problems with this, but I'm all for it.

Carriers pwn fighters/bomber/gunboats, cruisers and battleships pwn them...

So carriers become the new anti-fighter battleship?

Maybe the "secondary" line should become a "carrier turret".

ALSO, if you hit your own NPCs, like, through a flak or something... we will need to make it that they don't turn hostile on you...

[Birdtalon]

Spawning NPCs... Major Server lag, especially if there is 198 people.

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[Niezck]

Olololol.

[NomadRevenge]

would it not be possible to make npc fighters ammunition for a kind of missile launcher? you whould equip an npc launcher turret onto your carrier and stock up on npc ship ammo and fly off. then you could press fire and you would release an npc fighter. they could be more powerful depending on what class of turret it is (affecting the class of ammo you could buy) and different npc faction ammo could be sold by the according faction.

[reavengitair]

would it not be possible to make npc fighters ammunition for a kind of missile launcher? you whould equip an npc launcher turret onto your carrier and stock up on npc ship ammo and fly off. then you could press fire and you would release an npc fighter. they could be more powerful depending on what class of turret it is (affecting the class of ammo you could buy) and different npc faction ammo could be sold by the according faction.

I've been thinking something along the lines of this. However, I don't think its possible.

Right, it's definately gonna happen, it's just going to take some time to do. I need to add an invisible base to every system ingame and edit the insides if said bases, and Cannon is working on the plugin. I talked to Igiss and he likes the idea, so, it's just a matter of time.

Any news? Seems like a really great idea! Good job everyone working on this!

[Seth Karlo]

Well, Niezck a long time ago used Fox Unit 01's mod to make wingmen for our battleships. I've now got the mod, and am talking to Fox about it. Once I figure out how it works (I think they force spawn NPC's) I'll try and make some for Discovery.

Bloody hell, Fox is a genius (The guy who made the mod in the first place). I'm going to attempt to edit it now.

-Seth

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[Niezck]

I spoke to Fox for quite a while when I was experimenting with it, and think I got to know how it worked quite well. Should you need any help and he be unavaliable, feel free to poke me on Skype.