Info : Camera Drone - the drone that looks like a drone but behaves like a M5

[qwizzie]

Just to let you all know about the possibility's with this
little drone thats in the tships but not beeing used in
the game itself so far i know (except as a ware strangely
enough).

ID : SS_SH_Cameradrone
Class : M5

This means it has the looks of a drone but behaves as a ship
and therefore doesnt shutdown like all other drones do.

Cargo size, Cargo min & max, speed and shields are
all easily adjustable as in any ship in the tships.

You can adjust its Cargo size to XL with a volume of
2000 making it an effective freightdrone

You can make it a Spy drone that goes really fast with
for example a triplexscanner installed already
(build in, ware 86)

You can make it a cap drone that can go really close to
claimable ships (with for example system override software
installed)

lots and lots of possiblities. You have to cheat it in with the
cheatcollection package or maybe add it to a shipyard...

Its just for your info, in case someone by any chance was looking for something like this.

[Killjaeden]

You can also make a freightdrone out of a fightdrone or a titan ... ^^

The only thing you can't make out of it is a new model (via simple Xeditor editing) - that's what counts solely in that matter. Heck, you can even use a Paranid Tradestation as big M2 with little efford.

There are a couple of other not-in-vanilla ships / shipmodels. For example 2 Mobile Factory ships from XTM or the Sohnen M3 from XTM. Or an entirely new (veeery different in design) khaak cluster. etc.

[boogieman335]

I use one of the Terran Freight drones with Universe Explorer software and Advanced sats as exploration drones. I tweak the speed up as obviously drones should be able to handle many more G 's than biological pilots. Also makes it harder for the pirates and everything else in the universe to destroy them to quickly. Just doesn't make me feel so bad when I get notified I've had a drone destroyed as it does an M5 fighter.

[qwizzie]

a thought keeps creeping in .. a thought of an universe
filled with these little droids that have replaced the TS ships
with their new compression technology and differentiate from
each other by racecolour (maybe Argon droid could blink blue,
Boron could blink green .. etc) cargo space, speed, hull and shields. Maybe they can even drop fighterdrones too when attacked.

So you see a lot of blinking lights moving around .. would be
a weird sight.

hmmmm if i could just stop these thoughts somehow, before i totally
mess up my tships file by meddling with it without knowing exactly
what i'm doing

note to boogieman : thats a good way too, its only doesnt let you use it personally i think..
note to killjaeden or anyone else: any suggestions on my weird idea of replacing TS with drones? it obviously included some modding which i dont have experience with.

[Killjaeden]

you can replace the shipmodels, yeah. Colors are no big problem eihter. Its still efford and it would be pretty boring after a while if you see the same thing again and again.