Killing friendly probes

Andon · Post by **Andon** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:13 am

For some reason, I decided to test something that I had done a while ago - setting a nanite to deal negative damage via the damage modifier rather than the weapon itself. This would make it deal positive damage to stuff (A negative times a negative is a positive).

Now, when you use this against anything else (Bases, ships, etc) Alleg gets all screwy and does some strange things. Bases that go below 0 health in this manner don't die, they just go into negative health. Ships that go below 0 health with this just jump up to full.

The only thing that it did anything useful to was probes. A friendly probe that was brought to below 0 health would actually die.

Setting the DC for nanites against the 'parts' AC to negative will make bad friendly probes no more of a problem. It should be put into cores for two reasons:
1) People don't have to deal with doors having friendly probes
2) Nanning a probe is useless.

EDIT: I thought that Towers and TP probes had different ACs.
EDIT II: This could still be used, just as a separate weapon

Mordechaj · Post by **Mordechaj** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:25 am

we already have a "retard gun", but it's not so retarded any more.
do we call this one "idiot gun"? because you have to clean up after some idiot...
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kinda sad that we have to make a gun just for shooting friendly probes dropped in front of base doors, don't you think so?

parcival · Post by **parcival** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:01 pm

Can we just make it so that we can ram-kill them? (like sanctuaries)

Andon · Post by **Andon** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:53 pm

that would require a code change

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:28 pm

parcival wrote:QUOTE (parcival @ Dec 16 2007, 06:01 PM) Can we just make it so that we can ram-kill them? (like sanctuaries)

been suggested before, some people use friendly probe ramming to their advantage as it can stop you pretty much instantly.

Avalanche · Post by **Avalanche** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:28 am

I have started a solution that simply involves destroying probes too close to a base or aleph. It will probably show up in R5.

Andon · Post by **Andon** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:54 am

Avalanche wrote:QUOTE (Avalanche @ Dec 28 2007, 08:28 PM) I have started a solution that simply involves destroying probes too close to a base or aleph. It will probably show up in R5.

Aha! That's even better, because then you can't have a probe within the base by one fluke or another