[Script] Logain Industries Light Support Drone Carrier (LSDC) - v2 19/08/2009

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Re: [Script] Logain Industries Light Support Drone Carrier - (LSDC) v2 19/08/2009

Post by Logain Abler » Wed, 19. Aug 09, 17:26

hilly32 wrote:
Logain Abler wrote:Logain Industries Light Support Drone Carrier (LSDC)


Deployment:
The carrier can use 3 modes to deploy Drones:
Normal - Deploy as normal, recovered by teleport
Combat Launch - Used teleport to deploy quickly in close vicinity of the Carrier, recovered by teleport
Target Launch - Uses teleport to deploy quickly in close vicinity of the target, recovered by teleport
I don't know if this changed in V2 but in V1 the three options I could see were carrier, combat and target. My assumption was that the LSDC Combat was equal to Normal above, Carrier was equal to Combat and Target was the same.

andrew
Still the same in v2.

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Post by hilly32 » Thu, 20. Aug 09, 02:05

So I am happily building drones on my carriers, they'll be xenon killers in no time!

I have a question on build limits though. I have set limits on the capacities for each drone type. If I now transfer completed drones from another factory onto the carrier will it include those drones in its limit?

In other words if I say 'build 60 drones' and then transfer in 40, will it now only build 20 or will it continue to build 60?

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Post by Logain Abler » Thu, 20. Aug 09, 10:49

hilly32 wrote:So I am happily building drones on my carriers, they'll be xenon killers in no time!

I have a question on build limits though. I have set limits on the capacities for each drone type. If I now transfer completed drones from another factory onto the carrier will it include those drones in its limit?

In other words if I say 'build 60 drones' and then transfer in 40, will it now only build 20 or will it continue to build 60?

andrew
Hi hilly32,

The production task will pause until space becomes available. You may want to keep an eye on this, if your carrier is full and production is pause, then drones are deployed, you could end up with the production task seeing the free space and completing its build. If you don’t lose any drones in the engagement you may not have the space to recover all the drones.

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Post by hilly32 » Thu, 20. Aug 09, 13:07

Logain Abler wrote:
hilly32 wrote:So I am happily building drones on my carriers, they'll be xenon killers in no time!

I have a question on build limits though. I have set limits on the capacities for each drone type. If I now transfer completed drones from another factory onto the carrier will it include those drones in its limit?

In other words if I say 'build 60 drones' and then transfer in 40, will it now only build 20 or will it continue to build 60?

andrew
Hi hilly32,

The production task will pause until space becomes available. You may want to keep an eye on this, if your carrier is full and production is pause, then drones are deployed, you could end up with the production task seeing the free space and completing its build. If you don’t lose any drones in the engagement you may not have the space to recover all the drones.

LA
Ah, okay. I think I get it. I just put 3 carriers to work on producing drones so i'll see how it goes.

Thanks for all the replies, your mods are great and you are very helpful and patient too!

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Post by Logain Abler » Thu, 20. Aug 09, 13:09

hilly32 wrote:
Logain Abler wrote:
hilly32 wrote:So I am happily building drones on my carriers, they'll be xenon killers in no time!

I have a question on build limits though. I have set limits on the capacities for each drone type. If I now transfer completed drones from another factory onto the carrier will it include those drones in its limit?

In other words if I say 'build 60 drones' and then transfer in 40, will it now only build 20 or will it continue to build 60?

andrew
Hi hilly32,

The production task will pause until space becomes available. You may want to keep an eye on this, if your carrier is full and production is pause, then drones are deployed, you could end up with the production task seeing the free space and completing its build. If you don’t lose any drones in the engagement you may not have the space to recover all the drones.

LA
Ah, okay. I think I get it. I just put 3 carriers to work on producing drones so i'll see how it goes.

Thanks for all the replies, your mods are great and you are very helpful and patient too!

andrew
No problem, let me know how you get on.

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Post by Fragile Ego » Tue, 1. Sep 09, 16:11

Hi Logain, love the idea and about to try it out in my game. Totally agree with you that static/semi-static sector defense desperately needed improvement from vanilla.

Just a question about compatible ships. Does 'carrier-class' include anything with a hanger? So TM, TL, M7 and M1? Or is it just M1s and the carrier-like Panther and Griffon?
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Post by Logain Abler » Tue, 1. Sep 09, 16:55

Fragile Ego wrote:Hi Logain, love the idea and about to try it out in my game. Totally agree with you that static/semi-static sector defense desperately needed improvement from vanilla.

Just a question about compatible ships. Does 'carrier-class' include anything with a hanger? So TM, TL, M7 and M1? Or is it just M1s and the carrier-like Panther and Griffon?
I've only tested o the Griffin, a TL & a M1, but should work on anything classed as a Carrier.

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Post by Fragile Ego » Wed, 2. Sep 09, 02:06

OK I just tried it out on my Hyperion and the script worked perfectly. Used Cycrow's cheat package to add 50 of each (MkI, MkII, and Keris) and set Teladi to Foe with a Gannet and escort in system. Unfortunately the lot of them where slaughtered by Flails :( Damn that reacquiring software!
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Post by Logain Abler » Wed, 2. Sep 09, 10:27

Fragile Ego wrote:OK I just tried it out on my Hyperion and the script worked perfectly. Used Cycrow's cheat package to add 50 of each (MkI, MkII, and Keris) and set Teladi to Foe with a Gannet and escort in system. Unfortunately the lot of them where slaughtered by Flails :( Damn that reacquiring software!
Cheers for the update & feedback :)

As a test I setup an Argon M1full of drones a couple of M2’s and four M7’s, jumped the lot into a Xenon sector (forgot which), I set LSDC to engage everything below M7 class,and used my cap ships to engage other cap ships in turn. Worked a treat, I love combined fleet operations.

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Post by Logain Abler » Fri, 11. Sep 09, 08:59

I’ve been rebuilding my SSDN mod with the aim or incorporating LSDC into it. This for me was the next natural progression as both scripts do a similar job and share a lot of code.

This doesn’t mean the end of LSDC, just the option of only having to install SSDN if you want to use both. LDSC will still be supported for anyone who just wants to use Drone Carriers.

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Post by sharvah » Fri, 11. Sep 09, 11:52

Have you considered the earlier post of adding these drone carriers to the AI fleets or is it possible.

It might be fun, "OH a pirate TM, six ships (forget what that ship is called)" OH FRAG where did all theses drones come from......
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Post by Logain Abler » Fri, 11. Sep 09, 12:12

sharvah wrote:Have you considered the earlier post of adding these drone carriers to the AI fleets or is it possible.

It might be fun, "OH a pirate TM, six ships (forget what that ship is called)" OH FRAG where did all theses drones come from......
Once I'm happy with SSDN & LSDC I'll look at the AI side of things.

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Post by Crathes » Wed, 14. Oct 09, 14:15

I cant get the script to work properly. I just bought a Griffon and installed the needed software, but the ship doesnt send out drones to attack enemies when i find some.
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Post by Logain Abler » Thu, 15. Oct 09, 08:24

Crathes wrote:I cant get the script to work properly. I just bought a Griffon and installed the needed software, but the ship doesnt send out drones to attack enemies when i find some.
Crathes wrote:I cant get the script to work properly. I just bought a Griffon and installed the needed software, but the ship doesnt send out drones to attack enemies when i find some.
Sorry for the late reply, been an unexpectedly busy week RL wise!

Have you turned it on?

Have you set the ROE so it knows what to engage?

Also the ship will only deploy drones that is detects within its own sensor range, not yours.

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Post by Crathes » Fri, 16. Oct 09, 16:35

Oh, sorry... forgot i wrote this :oops:
I was sure i turned it on, but i found later i hadn't 8)
Thanks for answer though! :P
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Post by dakingmaster » Mon, 30. Nov 09, 11:54

Hi

I'm having slight problems with this @%^*#%&&@!~#%^&*$%^ rapidshare and therefore I'd like to ask if anyone can paste a link with which I could download this mod without having to be a "premium member"? :)
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Post by qwizzie » Mon, 4. Jan 10, 22:13

[quote="dakingmaster"]Hi

I'm having slight problems with this @%^*#%&&@!~#%^&*$%^ rapidshare and therefore I'd like to ask if anyone can paste a link with which I could download this mod without having to be a "premium member"? :)[/quote]

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same here... tried downloading it for a few days now but rapidshare
is closed for non-premium users... can someone pls provide me also
with a link.... thnks

EDIT : ok, got it downloaded now.. gonna try it out tonight..
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Post by Valkyrie004 » Wed, 27. Jan 10, 20:59

Hi, does anyone have a download link for this script? The one provided doesn't work.
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Post by Logain Abler » Thu, 28. Jan 10, 00:44

Valkyrie004 wrote:Hi, does anyone have a download link for this script? The one provided doesn't work.
Try this:

http://labler.stormmage.org/LSDCv2.rar

SSDN also contains the carrier element.

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Post by Valkyrie004 » Fri, 29. Jan 10, 17:33

Logain Abler wrote:
Valkyrie004 wrote:Hi, does anyone have a download link for this script? The one provided doesn't work.
Try this:

http://labler.stormmage.org/LSDCv2.rar

SSDN also contains the carrier element.

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