Probe constructor

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Dome
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Post by Dome »

Need to be have commander ability to build probes like you would a caltrop or tower.

Would mitigate small game problem of not having enough people to eye stuff.

Have probe constructor cost $500 or $1000, have it deployable like a caltrop, only it's a probe. Can only make one at a time like caltrop or tower.

Doable?
TurkeyXIII
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Post by TurkeyXIII »

Easily doable; core issue, in fact. Towers are just probes with an ammunition type.
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Monkage
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Post by Monkage »

The price point would need to be set high enough to be a waste of money in big games. 500 should be plenty. 1000 may be a bit much. Can we make it a "sy off" tech, or does that only work the other way?
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Post by Andon »

You can make it a sy off tech through some hoops - set it to be upgradedd on the SY flag and have the upgraded version unavailable
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Post by kaiser33 »

500 as price would be good, but the probe would have to build about 700 m from stuff alephs or rocks or whatever. not closer i think. u dont want to spend 500 to place a probe on an aleph where a blind int can get in and spot it and shot it down.
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Post by Adaven »

TurkeyXIII wrote:QUOTE (TurkeyXIII @ Feb 11 2013, 01:11 AM) Easily doable; core issue, in fact. Towers are just probes with an ammunition type.
Would they then be limited to 4 at a time, or whatever the drone limit is?

In that case making them cheaper wouldn't hurt anything since they couldn't be overly spammed, but easily replaced if killed.
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_xJammer_
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Post by _xJammer_ »

You do realise that once the drone "plants" it no longer counts in the drone limit? (i.e. you can plant 100 SC towers, 4 at a time). You can make a 30-second blind drone constructor that plants standard probes at ~100$ per. It takes commander's time to micro them around so why not.
TheAlaskan
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Post by TheAlaskan »

If I'm paying 500 it better pick up pods
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Post by Mastametz »

I ran this idea by Noir many years ago, but in a pulse probe constructor fashion. Was going to call it Eye of Sauron or some @#(!.
The constructor was to be infinitely fast and invulnerable, so basically functioning as a temporary view into any sector.
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Post by Shizoku »

Like a terran scan?
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