friendly ai pings / orders

posted on May 17th, 2010, 7:45 am

you know the kind of map ping where the ai/player responds to a need for assistance to defend or to attack

ie defend this stations/area
    attack here
    guard  etc
<3

posted on May 17th, 2010, 8:22 am

we would love to, but thats impossible at the moment

posted on May 17th, 2010, 8:27 am

:detective:

posted on May 17th, 2010, 4:27 pm

What about somekind of map object that creates pings? It could be created by a starbase special weapon or something?

I mean there were a different of pings in A2, any way to bring them over in a more desirable form?

posted on May 17th, 2010, 6:21 pm

Ability: Distress Call
Call for help from your allies, and pray that they actually will help you.

DISCLAIMER:
Calling for help with the distress call ability can have one or more of the following side effects:
- You will become a wimp for being unable to defend yourself.
- A German player will quote Hitler saying, "A man who cannot defend his soil does not deserve it."
- Boggz will laugh at you and call you a tit for the rest of your life.
- You may be instantly classified as a N00B.
- You maybe feeling a slight amount of guilt that you could not be strong enough to defend yourself, climb onto a couch, and cry endlessly in fetal position.
- You may be insulted by either of the following players: Mal, Boggz, Mort, Dominus Noctis, Unleash Mayhem, T.U.N., Nuclear Dude, Optec, or any other experienced player.
- You will lose you dignity and self confidence.
- You may lose any MP skills you have, thereby losing the ability to win anymore.
- You may become depressed when no one comes to help you.
- A Jem'Hadar might come out of your bedroom closet and shoot you in your sleep for being a weakling.
- You may receive any of the following nicknames: p'taQ, Romulan, eunuch, pushover, or any other insulting name.
- You may be arrested by the Star Trek Fleet Ops Police for being a wimpy player
- You may be blacklisted from the FO guide site
- You may be blacklisted from all currently used MP VPN services.
- You may be forced to exile on an island with no internet, or electricity.
- You may be forced to exile on Pluto.
- You may develop a tumor inhibiting your ability to play fleet ops.
- Other Players may become allergic to you.
- A Klingon (or ex-girlfriend) might stab you in the back because you are a coward.
- Your computer may be confiscated by the local authorities because of not being game savy on your computer.
- You might be forced to live with your Mother-in-law.
- You may be banned from all other star trek games.
- Your computer might self destruct.
- Your computer might uninstall fleet ops on you.
- Your computer might downgrade to a Win 95. And then write protect the entire OS preventing any chance of erasing to install an FO compatible OS.
- Your IQ may drop by 30.
- Your girlfriend might break up with you.
- You might be blacklisted from the forums.

If you do not experience any of the preceding experiences, then you were lucky. Though you will still need to avoid operating heavy machinery, drinking alcohol, or taking any other emotion altering medicines until you know how this ability affects you. Please talk to your doctor if you have a weird tingle in your head as this may be signs of the first stages of a possibly debilitating tumor. Talk to your doctor if you take anti-depressants or any other mind-altering drug as you may need to change your dose per day when you use this ability. Do not smoke, or drink alcohol, as these when combined with doing this ability, can be at times fatal. Do not use this ability if you have heart problems, as this can increase your chance of heart attack or cardiac arrest. And do not use this ability when playing Instant Action as you know that it will just waste away a few minutes of your life. Do not use this ability more than once per game or it may increase the chance of any of the listed side affects to occur.

posted on May 17th, 2010, 6:31 pm

stop writing stuff small gamer, its very annoying.

posted on May 17th, 2010, 6:46 pm

disclaimers are always in smaller fonts.

posted on May 21st, 2010, 9:40 am

Just bumped beacuse I wanted some feedback on what I said.

What about somekind of map object that creates pings? It could be created by a starbase special weapon or something?

I mean there were a different of pings in A2, any way to bring them over in a more desirable form?

posted on May 21st, 2010, 10:16 am

- You may be insulted by either of the following players: Mal, Boggz, Mort, Dominus Noctis, Unleash Mayhem, T.U.N., Nuclear Dude, Optec, or any other experienced player.

Haha. I did not know you thought I was an experienced player 

Thanks 

posted on May 21st, 2010, 2:21 pm

Me neither.

But I thought you considered yourself a pro in that game you played against me nuclear

posted on May 21st, 2010, 3:34 pm

Heh, I've been proven the opposite. Never can I be called experienced until I complete my initiation requirement. Have a winning streak of 3 games or more with no allies.

I know, high stakes, but that is what I keep expecting of myself.

posted on May 22nd, 2010, 8:34 am

My AI allies like to follow my fleets around sometimes, or attack what I'm attacking so I have to turn around and waste a few of its ships so it doesn't steal all my kills/exp, the bastard.

Besides, human players aren't necessarily going to come running every time..

posted on May 22nd, 2010, 9:26 am

But it makes communication much much easier.

posted on May 22nd, 2010, 9:45 am

Maybe a concept similar to the CS bot's responding in certain ways to the radio messages.

TYPE:  COME HERE
sets ai to value that particular area higher, for a limited time, sending ships to protect it.

There were triggers in the starcraft map editor that would do similar things, as I recall.

posted on May 22nd, 2010, 10:17 am

That would only help with AI