Ship Type

posted on April 28th, 2009, 11:49 pm

would it be possible to get ships of the same class but at different rank levels or built using the pushBuildItem built ships (like the avatar built scout and construction ships) to be selectable if a yard built version is double clicked.

eg. if a rank 2 ship was double clicked the rank 3 ship next to it gets selected aswell or if you double click the push build scout then the yard built scouts get selected aswell

posted on April 28th, 2009, 11:53 pm

Why not take this a step further? Why not have it so that different ships of the same class can have different properties, but all be selectable by double-clicking on one of them? So, for example, a number of different ships each have different voiceovers, but are all selectable with one double-click. The way I see it, some sort of reverse inclusion would work best. There is a base .odf, containing perhaps some basic stats for every ship in the class. Then, there is a list of all the different .odfs comprising that class. In the shipyard, that base .odf is built, and it randomly selects one of the ships in the list to be built. The same idea could go for stations. The upside of this is, it would also allow ships with registries to be included in A2 for the first time, plus the fact that a wide range of voices could be used, to simulate different captains and whatnot.

posted on April 28th, 2009, 11:57 pm

Ive noticed this too, it would be good to be changed either way

posted on April 29th, 2009, 1:48 am

Thats because they use different odfs (note im sure you guys know this but this is for anyone else who reads this). However it would be very nice if a2 could be "tricked" into thinking they are the same.

posted on April 29th, 2009, 2:00 am

yes I know this I was just saying I had noticed it was anoying

posted on April 29th, 2009, 5:52 pm

thats a planed feature, but not yet possible

posted on April 29th, 2009, 5:56 pm

that would be hard to do, I certainly cant think of a way to do it.