Destructible asteroids: how about random salvage?

posted on June 12th, 2012, 3:37 pm

Hi. I've been trying to keep up with new map features and like the idea of destructible terrain, specifically the asteroids. From what I've seen, the code written supports hidden tritanium/dilithium moons. How about a random generated ship to salvage? For example a fully stocked mining ship, construction ship etc. For most races this wouldn't be much of a problem because you can set the crew number to zero but if the ship race is one where the ship is a drone or organic (thinking of the caidan and noxter on this) it wouldn't work so their out. Also the out of phase race, the Iconians probably couldn't get in on this because their ships are out of phase (according to their fluff they cannot board ships and they can't be boarded. However I think the idea still has merit. Perhaps even make the rocks randomly drift around the maps (without bumping into things hopefully) until somebody hooks it with a tractor beam?

P.S And a picture for fun.

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posted on June 12th, 2012, 7:43 pm

Random salvageable vessels would be interesting. Currently there are already several NPC units planned for future versions.

This topic and the Star Trek Voyager episode "Rise" did give me an idea though.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Rise_%28episode%29

In that episode the hostile species adjusted their shields to look like an asteroid to long range scanners.
Perhaps a semi holographic cloak can be used to replicate that effect in FO.

posted on June 12th, 2012, 10:00 pm

Hey andre.. that cool, disguiseing yourself as an asteroid... i think i'm going to put that in my mod

posted on June 13th, 2012, 7:01 pm

Hey andre.. that cool, disguiseing yourself as an asteroid... i think i'm going to put that in my mod

That's the void right?