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[madpeople]

I don't believe I've seen this idea before. You win a prize! The prize is an invisible badge saying you had an original idea.

As Dorjan said, this is somewhat non-trivial.

That said it could be worked into a grander upgrade of control for core devs - allow them to specify the effects for weapons on all aspects of a ship [not just hull and shield] (e.g. guns that remove enemy's energy, deployables, missiles, reduce/increase thrust force etc).
Then allow core devs to specify if probes fire on friendly's or enemies.
Then, this idea would simply be a core change of: Create a probe that has the targets friendlies flag set, with particles that increase energy, hull, fuel, shield, missiles, deployables (or whatever ship stat you want - perhaps a probe that increases thruster force - could have a scout flying in front of a con push dropping speed probes, or drop one on a camped aleph to make enemies who don't set throttle to zero go faster through the mines than they expected).

QUOTE (DasSmiter @ Nov 3 2010, 04:31 AM) But yea, code change

This is the code suggestions forum

QUOTE (Botzman @ Nov 2 2010, 01:40 PM) We need to store all ideas in one place even craziest ones.

An actual organised and maintained archive of suggestions might actually be quite useful. It would have to include a summary of the idea and the arguments for and against. If only so we can point new people to it so they don't suggest the same things over and over.

[Adaven]

I had almost finished typing a post last night but had to quit. I come back and Mad's said the exact same thing (even the same sample attributes I was going to mention).

So, what he said.