Using drones as cargo pods?

[TexMurphy]

Ok this is what I wana do.

I have the WC freighters, these have containers on them.

In a mission I want to create a "pirate" sitation where the agressors steal the cargo containers. Also at the end of that mission I want to have the freighter offload cargo to a space station.

The way I have been thinking of doing this is to create "container drones".

The way Im imagining it possible to work is launching the drones and giving them "dock" order to the base. This way the cargo containers would move to the station. Is this doable?

Next question is, can drones be mounted "vissible" like missiles on a ship?

Next is the "stealing" of the cargo.

The way I see this working is that on the damage event the freighter launches the drones and their iff is set to the enemy number. After this the freighters iff is set to neutral.

Ok this will have the containers moving but. how do I get them to dock with the cap ship picking them up? The ship doesnt have a natural flight deck. But is it possible to create a dummy flight deck underneath the ship and have the container dock with it? Propably yes. But the problem is that upon dock the "ship" is removed. Is there anyway for me to make it so the container "sticks" under the cap ship picking it up so that it will be "towing" it back?

any ideas on this milo?

Tex.

[DamoclesX]

if you figure this out let me know

ive been wanting a way to make the fighters a ship carry show up,

for the raider ship, so it can have fighters on its outside rings.


I could use drones for that, but I hae not gotten drones to show up yet

[TheDeadlyShoe]

I don't think you can do that with Starshatter as currently constituted, Tex. You might be able to do it with fighters.

Damocles: Try giving the raider ship a lot of fighter bays and scatter the spots around and have the Raider fighters in small squadrons that all start on "alert".

For example you could have 6 fighter launch bays with 3 spots each, distributed around the rim of the vessel. You'd want 6 fighter squadrons of 3 ships each all starting on "alert".

The only problem I see with this is that the fighters might launch immediately. *g*

[TexMurphy]

I can make the containers as drones... which is nice as I can have different ammount of containers... as to my plan.. hmmm not sure... but the containers are gonna be drones anyways..

Tex

[DamoclesX]

Damocles: Try giving the raider ship a lot of fighter bays and scatter the spots around and have the Raider fighters in small squadrons that all start on "alert".

hey

thats a good idea

I could just make the launch time ass long, so they stay there for a while

I"ll do it tonight, well have to model the ship first LOL but then I"ll do it

[TexMurphy]

yeah I thought about the long launch time as well... but then what?

How you gonna get them to launch/be removed at will???

Tex

[TheDeadlyShoe]

Damocles:Well you could set it up so that they always are in a situation where they'd want to launch their fighters soon. [;)]

If you need a particular timing, you could simply create a version with different launch times.

Side note: it's probably better to do say 12 flight decks with 1 spot each,a ctually. Otherwise your fighters will taxi on the edge of the hull. *lol*.

Tex: I really can't think of a good way to do that... *scratch head*