[Script] TerraCorps Fleet Package

[Dan]

I'm not using FBC because I want to assign the pilots personal to the ships and also to resuply ...but I'm using a carrier like a home base for all my fighters involved in that project...it's ok?....of course I have 36 fighters in that carrier but really I change the pilot manually I don't want to do it automatically...hope it's k...

[djssuk]

Just some thoughts...

I would like some interation with what is loaded to a ship regarding primary weapon choice, perhapps some kind of option for each class.

Also, I think gonig to M6 would be a reasonable stopping point as they are not cheap but not many can get to that skill anyway in a hurry.

Also, some kind of inteligent escape process. If they are above the first rank then they should jumpas soon as they feal they are close to death and get back to a station for repair and thensend a message stating repair complete.

I agree that progrss and promotion should be a lot slower and more basis on speed of promotion based on special attributes. Perhapps an attribute of 'Ambitous', or ' Natural Pilot' could help decide promotion speed.

I think there should be more ranks tooat th elower scales for a sense of hierarchy, so if it was British military it would be Private, Lance Corporal, Corporal, Seargeant, Leuitenant, captain, etc, etc.

Anyway, just some idea

[kamikazepenguin]

I'd like an option to instruct the FBC which kind of ship/variant to buy for each class.

[Reece]

[siath70]

FBC buys just the basic shell of a ship and then outfits them. The only thing it does on purchase it max ther rudder and such.

As far as selecting specific ship types I have thought of this and it's a possibility. I would rather work on the other things for time being and then worry about spiffing up the script.

As far as personally moving pilots I could put in an argument for that so that people could turn it off.

The M6 is still a possibility but for now I have other bigger fish to fry.

Thanks Siath70

[listerz_uk]

Question... started using your script but i am no longer getting a combat report after each patrol... Is this normal?

[siath70]

Yup, if your useing FBC or TF. Only if you are manually sending them on patrols will they report when their done etc etc...

Thanks Siath70

[russbo]

Siath, any chance of adding features to this task force thing, that are similar to Anarkis Carrier Commands? The task force stuff is great, I have three of them now, but I have also found Anarkis Carrier Commands to be very useful when wanting to "command" a carrier by myself. I use them both, not sure how using Anarkis' commands on a Task force carrier might work; I would guess that the Task Force would override it.

[Actorius]

I downloaded this, and set up an EQ dock for the commander... put in all sorts of wares (namely 25mj shields, BIREs, AHEPTS, 5MJ shields, and a few other things that i would use myself) gave the station the FBC command. chose the shipyard, the min price, and the base name.... the first fighter and tender appeared... this is where things started going wrong....

The tender (a mercury superfrighter????) had a jumpdrive and 1 x 25mj shield. NO speed boosts (33M/S!!!! gah!)

The fighter had a single 1mj shield... and NO weapons. tho when it got to the shipyard its speed went from normal unboosted to max... but it was then sent out on patrols with no weapons... and still only 1 shield... despite having 101 1mj shields to pick from....

I wanted the tender to be faster.... so i bought and equiped a mercury with a jumpdrive, max shielding, and max speed/rudder.... sent it to the EQ dock... stopped FBC command, sent the old tender to the shipyard and sold it.... restarted the FBC.....

nothing.... the fighters resumed their patrols (no their hardware wasnt updated) but the mercury never became a tender... and for that matter a new one wasnt bought.

I downloaded fleet package spk yesterday (17/07 for me) and installed it as is... was there something else i was meant to install? some options i missed out on? (which reminds me.. wasnt the patrol sector meant to be more than one sector if you wanted it? i could only ever have the single sector being patrolled at any one time)

This script is a really good idea... but i really cant use it as it is in my game.. it turned out to be a REALLY expensive waste of credits

EDIT the fighters in question where the m5's from the light of heart shipyard

[siath70]

Yes, I knew about the unupgraded freighters. I'm working on that I too dislike them being slow. As far as why it bought a super freighter I don't know why it did that, That I will look in too.

FBC only patrols one sector it's ment to be that way. I'm not sure if I want to change that (I might). My feelings on this would be that it would make TF's almost useless.

If you sold the old tender and bought a new upgraded one and made it homebase the eq dock it should have taken control of it sometimes it doesn't happen right away though. I'll look into this too.

As far as ships being sent on patrol without being equiped I could make it so it checks for weapons and shields before sending them out. The EQ dock needs to have all the wares you want it to use set to min price so the tender will buy from it first. That was one of the things on my todo list make FBC check player stations for the needed eq first before running off and buying it.

Please remember I'm still working out some of the kinks and the only way to find them is for you good people to test and give me feed back.

As far as being sent out on patrol with only one shield the tender hadn't had time to upgrade yet. Had you just sent the tender to a ship yard bought the upgrades you wanted for it and sent it back home it would have out fitted the fighter. I know this sounds wierd but you have to give the commander time to upgrade the ships.

Now I have to figure out why it's buying super freighters..... weird.

On a Side Note EXPECT an update in about a week I'm test a few things I did now I need to go back and fix this damn tender thing.

Siath70

[Actorius]

[siath70]

Hrm I will look into that Like I said I planned on having the FBC look at players stations before it ran out and bought. Guess that just jumped up higher on the list.

Yeah you can set the EQ to not trade with other races and then set the prices on the things you want to keep stocked to one or two credits below the average price and then set your freighters to buy ware at best price .

Siath70

[Actorius]

[siath70]

Remember that FBC is basically a pilot training base, atleast thats how I look at it. Until I can instill some type of AI so that M5's are scouts and stop them from running to their death everytime something bigger comes along.

I use FBC in my friendly sectors to train pilots I have about 5 FBC's running and then after I get enough pilots trained and in M3's M4's I create a TF when I get a high enough ranked pilot.

I have had a few people say they level too slowly now. That being said yes they do level very slowly. Esp when you compair them leveling under the old rules and new rules. I might lower it a bit but for now I'm going to leave it alone and hide and watch to see how they progress.

Siath70

[Charlosfoga]

Just 2 quick noob questions:
I've set up a small taskforce, 7 fighters (3 m5, 2 m4, 2 m3), assigned sectors are all core or border. The m5s are flying around and gaining exp, but the m4s and m3s are just sitting there ("off duty") and they do nothing, nor do they gain any exp. Any ideas?

2nd question: does the taskforce leader gain leadership or experience from being tf leader?

Thx.