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Motherships

February 25, 2009 3:41:17 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

Im sure im not the first to have this idea but how about a mothership?

A ship that has high health, weak weapons, holds 10 strikecraft and can build capital ships and frigates.

It can be like a ship you can only build one of in a game.

It would save alot of time to build a fleet. when a ship is done being built by the mothership it can be added to the battle immediatley.

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Reply #1 February 25, 2009 3:57:02 PM
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well cant exicute it like you want since its not possible to make a mobile unit that builds cap ships. also cant limit it to 1, the only thing you can do is make a normal cap ship requite a LOT of research to build as well as creating it to upgrade and whatnot as you research items. you could try making a starbase like phase in the shape of a giant ship but it wont be able to phase or move out of the grav well.

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Reply #2 February 25, 2009 5:12:22 PM
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Oh. Well what if it had an ability to build ships? I dont see why not? one of the Psi frigates can clone its self so this could be like a clone that lasts hours.

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Reply #3 February 25, 2009 6:39:36 PM
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can only make frigates/cruisers this way, cap ships are a no no as far as ability spawning is concerned.

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Reply #4 February 25, 2009 6:50:31 PM
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Actually you can make a mobile ship that builds capital ships, it'd just be slow as hell, and huge.

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Reply #5 February 25, 2009 7:18:23 PM
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you cant build capital ships with a ability, to my knowledge, unless its new with entrenchment.

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Reply #6 February 25, 2009 7:22:08 PM
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I have a mobile FRIGATE FACTORY as I agree with StCobalt that to my knoledge..capitals are not regarded the smae way as frigates and thus cannot be spawned by ability!

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Reply #7 February 25, 2009 7:26:13 PM
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shadow, go on msn (or re add me if you got a new one). got to talk to you.

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Reply #8 February 25, 2009 7:40:24 PM
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ok! I'm loading it now!

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Reply #9 February 26, 2009 3:31:47 PM
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Oh. Well what if i made a firgate that looks exactly tha same as a cap. ship? Kinda like the derelicts in solar sins but an exact clone of the mesh and texturing?

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Reply #10 February 26, 2009 5:49:37 PM
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ya, you can do that, just it wont level at all, and its abilities will have to be static (only 1 level) and will either need to be researched or the ship will be able to use them as soon as it is built.

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Reply #11 March 2, 2009 11:37:39 PM
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 Shadow, you got a mobile frigate factory?    My my that sounds very very interesting.  

-Teal

 

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Reply #12 March 2, 2009 11:43:03 PM
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I think Wraith built a Mothership for his HomeWorld mod, it was beautiful!!!!   But i think he had the same difficulty, it couldnt actually build ships like the one in the real HW.    But it was an intersting idea.

And the spawnable ships are possible, check out the abilitydeploycombatturret and the frigatecombatturret. You can also change the 180 second life span of the ship to -1 so its permanent. So we can get ships to spawn other frigates, just not caps yet, though, the frigate caps is possible. Ive seen that done in some mods. As for a ship building real caps, wont the starbase do that in Entrenchment? If so then it just a matter of getting the starbase spawnship in the fleet out to the other planets.    I dont know about vanilla sins though, 115. I dont think i saw it done earlier, and 115 i dont know, but it may share certain things with Entrenchment, and if it does it, but im not sure on that, it would be way cool, and get you almost what you are asking.  

-Teal

 

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Reply #13 March 3, 2009 12:14:23 AM
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Quoting Teal,
reply 11
 Shadow, you got a mobile frigate factory?    My my that sounds very very interesting.  

-Teal

I'll rectify by saying I HAD ONE! Like I told you before Teal, I regretably and stupidly deleted my ENTIRE mod folder with the  arrival of v1.14 and all affiliated files (that means the 10GB mod folder I had on desktop with EVERY SINGLE MOD WORKED ON OR DOWNLOADED) so...as of yet..I've reconverted from Race making to Sins game mode making which I find SO MUCH MORE REWARDING AND EXCITING! since other people can play along

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Reply #14 March 4, 2009 12:33:51 AM
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  That is Very Very Cool!!  You are doing very well at it too!!!     This makes what? 4 or 5 that you have made now.   Haha, im jealous!!  Just kidding, we are very proud of you, you are doing great!!! 

Keep up the good work!!

-Teal

 

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