[TC] where to get orbital weapons platforms?

dryzdale · Post by **dryzdale** » Tue, 28. Oct 08, 19:33

pretty much what the title says how/where can you get if you can get OWP's from ive looked everywhere and need some so i can put my ships to better use

Berserker55 · Post by **Berserker55** » Tue, 28. Oct 08, 19:59

you cant buy them

Grimm Spector · Post by **Grimm Spector** » Tue, 28. Oct 08, 20:04

I believe the solution is laser towers, if I remember correctly?

Carlo the Curious · Post by **Carlo the Curious** » Tue, 28. Oct 08, 20:15

I'm not sure if it's different in TC, but vanilla X3R lasertowers sucked OOS.

Berserker55 · Post by **Berserker55** » Tue, 28. Oct 08, 20:19

They still do

Elucca · Post by **Elucca** » Tue, 28. Oct 08, 20:22

Hope they are added in a patch, i see no reason why they shouldn't be buyable.

fud · Post by **fud** » Tue, 28. Oct 08, 20:31

I mentioned in another thread that they could be easily added to a shipyard to buy, but they have no engine stats (0 manuver/speed/accel).

So you're left with the problem of modding them so they can move. Since they're ships and not stations, you can't load them into a TL.

I'm sure there could be a clever way around it with scripts, such as:

Make them a buyable ware at a shipyard, make the ware ST size. buy it with a TL, treated as a station.

When you build/drop the station, the script creates an OWP instead.

I'm sure there's a away around it.

Having played XTM/XFP mods, the OWP "ships" look really odd stuck on a shipyard after buying them.

dryzdale · Post by **dryzdale** » Wed, 29. Oct 08, 11:02

k thanks for your help guys i suppose ill get some laser towers for now

dryzdale · Post by **dryzdale** » Wed, 29. Oct 08, 11:35

i just had an idea about it if you make them available at shipyards then when you buy one it spawns outside the ship yard so you can tractor beam it to where you want to put it

fud · Post by **fud** » Wed, 29. Oct 08, 13:02

That's also an option.

Now that Doubleshadow has a beta editor out, I can start looking at things.

ttheobald · Post by **ttheobald** » Fri, 3. Feb 12, 00:38

I've found that several of the wrecks scattered around (and really only accessible via salvage mods) are OWPs. One can salvage those once the salvage mod is in the game.

Although they have no inherent mobility of their own, you may install a jump-drive and give them energy cells. Instruct it to jump to the sector you want it in (do NOT ride in it - you don't want to be right in the path of whatever is coming out the jump-gate, and if you send it ahead it will get clear), and then tow it into position.

Other than that, as other posters have pointed out, you'll have to do a more direct modification to the game.

T

Edit: when I say 'salvage' I'm referring to the "Utilize and Repair Debris" script found here: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=232573

T

Llama · Post by **Llama** » Fri, 3. Feb 12, 01:02

Are OWPs even that useful anyway? They don't work OOS, and they would have to be really cheap to be a tradeoff for a destroyer

Catra · Post by **Catra** » Fri, 3. Feb 12, 01:05

they only cost a mere 21M 25M 28M, which are cheaper than even the cheapest m7.

Rapier · Post by **Rapier** » Fri, 3. Feb 12, 01:06

You could dock it at an Aran using a docking computer then undock it where you want it; but you probably worked that out by now, given that this thread is over THREE YEARS OLD!

Remember kids; Necromancy is bad.

Ozman202 · Post by **Ozman202** » Fri, 3. Feb 12, 01:07

Elucca wrote:Hope they are added in a patch, i see no reason why they shouldn't be buyable.

Technically they are classified as M1's (carriers) which i think would cause some issues with them being carried and deployed in the current version of the game, the way is see it for them to work without some major scripting they'd have to be rebuilt as a Ware/Structure similar to the Lasertower.

Smart_Bomb · Post by **Smart_Bomb** » Fri, 3. Feb 12, 03:23

dryzdale wrote:k thanks for your help guys i suppose ill get some laser towers for now

Just get 2-3 TM equiped with Phased Repeater Gun's and filled with fighters guarding your stations > laser towers.

pjknibbs · Post by **pjknibbs** » Fri, 3. Feb 12, 07:44

And this one is more than three and a half years old...please stop resurrecting old threads, tteobald.

[TC] where to get orbital weapons platforms?

where to get orbital weapons platforms?

OWPs in-game...