Question on Nanite Training Mission and Potentially a New Core

BobtheHobo · Post by **BobtheHobo** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:29 am

I was wondering how the newest training mission was made possible. Basically I want to know, is it possible to create drones which are nanites, and drones which are bombers just as you build fighter drones in the faction Phoenix?

If so, it could be interesting to create a core made for 1 vs. 1 games. Everything would be very similar to our current cores except instead of having pilots you buy them. Build a nan scouts, find the enemy miners, build a few ints and kill them, assign those nan scouts to your miners along with some ints to take out the enemy stealth fighter drones, all while you buy a bomber (Possibly turreted?) and more nans for a bomb run on their Tac.

Pure conjecture, but is it possible without code changes?

Andon · Post by **Andon** » Thu May 15, 2008 3:30 am

It would be Rix and TF only. Drones don't use missiles.

And such a core has been thought of before, but it would not be allegiance, and it would not be helpful in any way. No teamwork would be needed at all, just drones. And massive amounts of drones make the servers unhappy

Post by **TheBored** » Thu May 15, 2008 4:42 am

Bob The Hobo wrote:QUOTE (Bob The Hobo @ May 14 2008, 08:29 PM) <stuff>

There are a million obstacles we had to cover in order to get the mission working. Due to the state of Alleg's code, the training mission is pretty much one gigantic hack. The code change that you would need in order to achieve your 1v1 core would be MASSIVE. If you really want more details, I can go dig up my notes from when I was working on the training mission.

TB

Dark_Sponge · Post by **Dark_Sponge** » Thu May 15, 2008 4:51 am

Bob The Hobo wrote:QUOTE (Bob The Hobo @ May 14 2008, 08:29 PM) I was wondering how the newest training mission was made possible. Basically I want to know, is it possible to create drones which are nanites, and drones which are bombers just as you build fighter drones in the faction Phoenix?

If so, it could be interesting to create a core made for 1 vs. 1 games. Everything would be very similar to our current cores except instead of having pilots you buy them. Build a nan scouts, find the enemy miners, build a few ints and kill them, assign those nan scouts to your miners along with some ints to take out the enemy stealth fighter drones, all while you buy a bomber (Possibly turreted?) and more nans for a bomb run on their Tac.

I am currently working on a drone-based core along these lines. Other factions are in fact possible (all bombers must use energy based antibase weapons). However, trust me when I say that 1 vs 1 drone only games would be extremely boring. I have attempted a short simulated game and scouting is so boring it makes your brain bleed. If you make all alephs visible at the start it is only a little better. Also, normal bombing is the only end game strategy (without turrets though). HTTing and TPing is impossible (without code changes anyway). Stealth bombing could be possible, but cloaking is not so you'd have to make SBs so naturally stealthy they'd be stupidly uber. So again, normal bombing is the only end-game strategy.

That being said, I am still making it. The point of the core is to make late night games more fun (real ppl playing with drone support) and for it to be used as a training tool.

Andon · Post by **Andon** » Thu May 15, 2008 4:54 am

Messing with drones also lets you know ICE, and consequentially Allegiance, better

BobtheHobo · Post by **BobtheHobo** » Fri May 16, 2008 12:33 am

Well, seeing as how such a core is already in production I will return to my non-productive lazy Hobo state and eagerly await its completion.

Thanks to everyone who was answered my questions.

Malicious Wraith · Post by **Malicious Wraith** » Wed May 28, 2008 3:33 pm

You could just get Sins of a Solar Empire and play that /laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />