Useful Multi-Vector Assault Mode

posted on March 4th, 2010, 8:54 am

The best part of having a Prometheus Class starship is the MVAM. At least it should be, because the implementation in Armada II or Fleet Operations is not very useful. It needs a lot of micromanagement to separate the ship, then collect all of the parts and reintegrate them. And what happens if you lost one of the parts? You need four slots in the shipyard for a single3 ship... One for the ship and three for the sections. All in all, it's not too effective.
I was wondering how could the MVAM be more useful and I have an idea, I just don't know if it's possible 
Add a new weapon to the Prometheus called "Attack Pattern Alpha" for example. If you activate it, with a replaceweapon, the ship switches mesh. The mesh is an animated one, starting from an integrated Prometheus which separates into three parts, the parts make a few circle around a spot. There will the targeted ship suited, so the animation will look like the sections are circling around that ship. In the end, the parts return to starting position and reintegrate. If you set in the ODF to play the animation once per click, it would look like they follow an attack pattern and then they return.
The only problem that I don't know how could the weapon automatically switch back to the ship.

What do you think? Is it possible? Any ideas? Suggestions?

posted on March 4th, 2010, 9:02 am

Can one of the parts be destroyed, whyle thesse attack patterns are active or will it be invulerable in the meantime?

posted on March 4th, 2010, 9:04 am

possible but weapon fire would look odd as hps can not be animated (unless thats been changed) and shield effect would look strange (one shild for 3 ships)

but why wud you need to rebuild sections if you loose a section then it cant reintergrate just usa the ship as 2 weaker ships same as stock galaxy seperation were you couldnt build new saucers or star drives. (alternatively you could make some new versions with only 2 pars like top-mid, top-bot, mid-bot) so if you loose a part then you can still combine the last 2