PEREGRINE FIGHTERS

posted on May 9th, 2007, 9:22 pm

Thats Perfect!
have 4 invisible points around the ship and when you click on fighter special have a build time of 1 sec and boom you have 4 fighter groups.  the only problem would be equiping them with weapons

posted on May 10th, 2007, 5:10 am

I thought of the Avalon building that station-fighter with the fighter-pods already available. If one fighter of the squad gets destroyed, one pod would be destroyed, so the rest of the squad is still available until the station-fighter itself will be destroyed.
Indeed there is more than one problem:
as you said, Adama, I don't know either how to equip them with weapons that would look realistic after one of the fighters has been destroyed. (Imagine phaser-fire from out of nowhere next to some fighters... ghost-fighter, I assume..)
The next problem: if you destroy the station, all pods are destroyed with it. That makes sense in case of a station with pods but not if you've got a group of fighters. (Unless they commit suicide...)
Uhm.. not to forget: a ship building ships is weird....

posted on May 10th, 2007, 9:08 am

nah, things are ok the way they are in regards to fighters.

what your saying would effectively make the avalon a moving station, having to build these fighters, thus having you click on the build button like a madman. i mean come on even 4-5 fighters at a time, who is honestly gonna bother with that in the middle of a fleet battle?

posted on May 10th, 2007, 11:45 am

I can hardly think of anyone. So please let the Avalon the way it is and give the Descent a facelift. 

posted on May 10th, 2007, 8:30 pm

There could be 1 master button which builds them all in one second. One of the problems is that ai never repair ships that are actually like stations. I know because i am awaiting the release of a BSG mod and one of thier problems is that they made the battlestars stations so that they could build vipers and now the ai cant cope with it. and to seer. the fighters should be destroyrd because they need a carrier to survive(i.e. refuel and get the piolots food)

posted on May 10th, 2007, 8:53 pm

and to seer. the fighters should be destroyrd because they need a carrier to survive(i.e. refuel and get the piolots food)

I agree with you. My post was based on the idea that one of the fighters would be the station and the rest of the squad would be pods. In that case it would not have made any sense to have the rest of the squad destroyed when the "station-fighter" would be destroyed.
But if the Avalon itself would be the station you are right.

posted on May 10th, 2007, 10:42 pm

oh lol
hey speak of the devil.  look at this
http://armada2.filefront.com/file/Turret_Base;78790

posted on May 17th, 2007, 4:26 pm

well it's not fighters but hell it's a stationary weapon's platform lol I think the Fed's BIG ship should get a major FACELIFT. The decent looks like it was mothballed the thrown back into service just cuz it's BIG. I would suggest the Excalibur class but I know it's a bit over rated. Something new and sleek would be nice though. Make the Avalon's fighters a passive weapon. Part of a normal attack not using special energy.

posted on May 17th, 2007, 8:43 pm

gee thats sound familiar.  oh yea!  i sugested that

posted on May 18th, 2007, 6:49 pm

I was just reiterating the "good idea". I don't like how it takes so long for them to be launched. Should be automatic. Maybe find a different way to "swam" them.

posted on May 18th, 2007, 10:00 pm

wouldn't mind them flying CAP around the ship when not fighting.  make it look like the star beses shuttles

posted on May 21st, 2007, 5:18 am

I don't mind them as they are, although giving them a button would help so you can tell them when to go.

posted on May 21st, 2007, 6:45 am

And it would be nice if you could also tell them where to go.
Maybe they could at least work like the probe, technically.

posted on May 21st, 2007, 10:09 pm

No, they should be a passive part of the Avalon's special.  Make them stafe the enemy ship that you tell the Avalon to attack.

posted on May 22nd, 2007, 5:06 am

How is this solution for  Peragrine fighters  come 4 per Avalon (Basic) .Refit Avlon has  Capacity for 4 more  but Support pod must be be built  on the Tech tree  and Ship  must be built at  the large Federation  yard. Plus  you cannot add any more  fighters to the Avalon class  ship till it goes to the Starship yard to R/Recrew. Plus  so eqiupped ships  get a 20% Speed and manurverability  penality. Also give Capacity for  a new type of Assault  Fighter  With a Micro torpedo Launcher  and two Torpedos  Reloads . But no Phasers. like the TOS  Gannon Mod of the  the Standard work bee's in to a  Light fighter  (Hornet? /And wasp?). one had one standard Phonton torpedo /or a small Phaser emmiter in the port side.  but only can bulid two  per avalon.  Sorry Cant find my  ST refrence book to get the names of the work bee fighters  names .  Pappy063