Developers Diary

posted on November 2nd, 2005, 4:13 pm

I've been working on something like this before. Best way i figured out was using Drones, but set it to automatically fire. So whenever an enemy gets near the carrier, the fighters launch. Plus all drones come back after a bit anyway, but if you set the fire rate right, they'd come back, and then a second later launch....

posted on November 4th, 2005, 12:35 am

So how will these fighters attack emenies? Will they surround the target or just do an all out attack?

posted on November 4th, 2005, 2:17 am

They might just use sticks and harsh language.

posted on November 4th, 2005, 2:52 am

Starfleet-issued sticks? probably comes with 5 blinking lights and is 2x the size/mass it should be, nah sticks are too inefficient

posted on November 4th, 2005, 2:21 pm

they would surrond there target and fire at it like the cardy drones weapon does in A2 only using a different sod and weapon sprite for the fighters.

posted on November 4th, 2005, 3:07 pm

they launch, fly their attack cycle and return to the hangar docks. Very similar to the Starcraft Protoss Carrier

posted on November 4th, 2005, 11:02 pm

Awesome! (I love the Protoss!)

posted on November 5th, 2005, 2:22 am

Humm... similar to the protoss carrier eh? just .. how similar? i remember the ai in starcraft being really buggy when facing carriers, any non-human player would fire at the drones and rarely kill them, while the carriers themselves remained undamaged. something to think about when doing this

posted on November 5th, 2005, 2:25 am

yeah, optec what happens to the fighters if the carrier gets destroyed?

posted on November 5th, 2005, 3:37 am

I assume the fighters won't buzz around as fast as the Protoss ones will, and will therefore be easier to hit.

posted on November 5th, 2005, 9:45 am

The fighters wont be selectable or attackable. If the Carrier is destroyed they will try to return to another nearby carrier. If this also fails for some reason they will explode The poor pilots get crazy alone in the dark

posted on November 5th, 2005, 2:21 pm

hi, Optec
can you give more img or pic?? from :
the Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations V3

posted on November 5th, 2005, 5:08 pm

I feel sorry for the polits

posted on November 5th, 2005, 8:32 pm

Do you have a screenshot of the fighters in action? And also, is the Avalon armed, or does it rely entirely on the fighters for defence?

posted on November 5th, 2005, 9:19 pm

the ship itself had no weapons. someone stated it somewhere on the forum