Local...Ha...what is it good for?

Dark_Sponge · Post by **Dark_Sponge** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:24 am

I want to force certain drones to launch from a specific base. Alas, giving them a local tag for that base seems to do nothing. Does it not work for drones? If so why do miners have a local tag set?

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 2:54 pm

well, if the drone docks in the base, it can't just die if the base doesn't have it's local.

and they launch from where everything else launches from - you couldn't build them if something they needed was only def'd by a local.

but locals do work for getting player ships and tech. (it's how i made some things in the capcore tidier by making it so you could only load them at sy)

Dark_Sponge · Post by **Dark_Sponge** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:04 pm

No way to force a drone to launch from a particular base then?

apochboi · Post by **apochboi** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:14 pm

Yes there is, i did it on Warpcore X1.2 With the techoflux unimatrix.

What you need to do is give the base a unique local value, and then give the ship the same local value under its Pre.

That will sort that problem for you.

Dark_Sponge · Post by **Dark_Sponge** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:25 pm