[Request] Add Dronebay to Sucellus

apollion83 · Post by **apollion83** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 06:08

Can anyone create a mod that adds a dronebay to the Sucellus pls?
Its not for repairs its just to let me use drones with my favorite ship xD

Lander1979 · Post by **Lander1979** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 10:13

IIRC there are mods that do this, maybe the section of code that adds the drone bay can be made into a stand-alone mod.

oliverjanda · Post by **oliverjanda** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 10:22

This is pretty easy.
Just take a look at the xenon hunt mod:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=368437

Post by **linolafett** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 10:40

I never knew that this ship has no dronedock. I will add it as soon as i can

YorrickVander · Post by **YorrickVander** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 12:08

could we have one for the balor too so it can repair please?

Red Jack · Post by **Red Jack** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 13:08

Uhm... a ship can have multiple dronebays? And it use all of them or is hardcoded the use of only one?

Post by **UniTrader** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 13:11

afaik the Arawn has two of them.

Post by **linolafett** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 14:57

Added dronedocks to the sucellus and the balor. The next patch should update your ships. Have fun

YorrickVander · Post by **YorrickVander** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 15:16

/hug linola

Marvin Martian · Post by **Marvin Martian** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 16:51

linolafett wrote:Added dronedocks to the sucellus and the balor. The next patch should update your ships. Have fun

would you like to add dronedocks to the Xenonships too?
this would be increase the repairspeed

Post by **linolafett** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 16:54

We do not have a xenon dronelaunchpad, sticking a normal launchpad on that thing wont look good. We also do not have xenon repairdrones. It would be a bigger task to do this, so i have to say "no" sorry

Any other ships with issues similiar to the dronelaunchpad? example non protected surface elements?

Marvin Martian · Post by **Marvin Martian** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 17:02

serious? you kidding me?
but Xenon use the same Shieldprojectors as the others

so maybe they gonna steal that Dronebays and Drones - for any reason they must attack all the ships -> to free our drone brothers!!! Xenon against droneslavery!!

YorrickVander · Post by **YorrickVander** » Fri, 13. Mar 15, 18:19

It might be more complicated to implement that it seems from a players perspective, but I'd like to see different drone bay types for say carriers compared to miners or non carrier combat ships. It seems odd that a mining ship can carry the same loadout as a dedicated drone carrier like the sul.

maybe an industrial bay + mini combat bay for these ships? and a larger combat bay variant for the carriers to make them really seem like carriers.

swatti · Post by **swatti** » Mon, 16. Mar 15, 16:15

Gangrene Chaser has a dronebay "inside" its hull so xenon could work the same way... Alltho they dont really need a bay tbh

Post by **Sparky Sparkycorp** » Mon, 16. Mar 15, 17:21

linolafett wrote: Any other ships with issues similiar to the dronelaunchpad? example non protected surface elements?

Not sure of the following are fixed or not (sorry) but cannot easily check at the moment.

Vulture: three issues in the OP and a docking issue mentioned in a reply:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=374536

Gangrene Chaser: Has unique weapon model but ship info window was calling them PLASMA/MA instead of Ragefire:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... 39#4467839

Post by **Sparky Sparkycorp** » Mon, 16. Mar 15, 17:25

linolafett wrote:Added dronedocks to the sucellus and the balor. The next patch should update your ships. Have fun

Thanks so much for doing this!

I (and others) have been asking for this for ages. Historically, to increase the economic and roleplay value of constructing the plot URV forge. Recently to prevent a repair disparity following the change to the mechanic to speed things up if drones are present.

Vandragorax · Post by **Vandragorax** » Fri, 27. Mar 15, 13:02

Sorry to drag this thread back up, but please check in this other thread where it is also reported that the Marauder Succelus doesn't have a drone bay still: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... sc&start=0

Could this be an oversight and it needs adding to the Marauder version as well?

Cheers.

Post by **linolafett** » Fri, 27. Mar 15, 13:07

cant find a note of a marauder succellus, could you link the exact post?
I actually think that boths ships are the same asset, so the should behave similiar.
I also removed your session ID from your posted URL, it is not secure to post your session id here

YorrickVander · Post by **YorrickVander** » Fri, 27. Mar 15, 13:25

@blackdemon - are you running wwx mod? I know BlackRain has added his own variants to ships there which might account for the difference.

Requiemfang · Post by **Requiemfang** » Fri, 27. Mar 15, 16:31

BlackDemon wrote:Sorry to drag this thread back up, but please check in this other thread where it is also reported that the Marauder Succelus doesn't have a drone bay still: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... sc&start=0

Could this be an oversight and it needs adding to the Marauder version as well?

Cheers.

I might not have been a Marauder Succelus as I originally said in that thread. It was a capped one that spawned from a mission, it did have a drone deploy bay on it but I couldn't load any drones onto that one. I recently capped another one that was spawned via a mission and I'll try to confirm if the issue is persistent.