Disable-Only Escorts

my first "real" plug-in

Do your escorts tend to kill those ships you wanted to board before you could board them?
I'm making a plug-in which will allow you to hire disable-only variants of many escorts. This adds up to every non-fighter weapon having a disable only counterpart, and several low end ship variants that come with these disable only weapons. I may or may not add a system where you have to go to hire these ships. So in a nutshell:

You'll only be able to hire disable only counterparts of ships like the PVII or the Fed Destroyer destroyer class. I may come out with a fully developed plug where you could hire disable only counterparts of higher end ship variants like the PVIV or the Fed Destroyer heavy missile class.
You won't see these guys flying around (if I am able to do this correctly), so you will be forced to pay the price of hiring. You could of coure hire them, release them, disable them, and recapture them.
These escorts will have the same availability bits as their counterparts. You won't be able to hire a disable only abomination after the rebel string.
I'm already nearing completion, it won't be too long before I am done.

Groovy.

Nice to grow your combat rating there then..

Heh, what is this influx of .net members? First me, then crimp, then hannibal and now Iced?

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Ravenheart, on Feb 23 2006, 01:13 PM, said:

Heh, what is this influx of .net members? First me, then crimp, then hannibal and now Iced?

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Heh, without us, EV-Nova.net would be such a dull place. So, we just had to bring our shiny smiling faces here! After all, what would the universe do without The CrimpMaster?

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The CrimpMaster, on Feb 23 2006, 09:37 PM, said:

After all, what would the universe do without The CrimpMaster?
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Alot of great things...

Nelsonic, on Feb 23 2006, 08:46 PM, said:

Alot of great things...
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Rather true, I suspect...

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Iced_Plasma, on Feb 18 2006, 12:12 AM, said:

You could of coure hire them, release them, disable them, and recapture them.View Post

I seem to think this isn't possible.

Okay guys, expect this plug-in around mid-april. Just a bit more to go.

NebuchadnezzaR, on Feb 24 2006, 12:50 PM, said:

I seem to think this isn't possible.
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I don't know about capturing them for your own use, but I distinctly remember doing some long-range exploration where I needed to hire escorts as portable fuel reserves. Release, disable, capture, and take their fuel.

@ravenheart, on Feb 23 2006, 04:13 PM, said in Disable-Only Escorts:

Heh, what is this influx of .net members? First me, then crimp, then hannibal and now Iced?

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You musn't forget the smiley-color(ed) Yellow!

I'm a walking awful pun machine.

@derakon, on Mar 19 2006, 05:30 PM, said in Disable-Only Escorts:

I don't know about capturing them for your own use, but I distinctly remember doing some long-range exploration where I needed to hire escorts as portable fuel reserves. Release, disable, capture, and take their fuel.

Do u have an old version of Nova or somthing cause for me if I have an escort and I release it and then disable it. I only got the message " cannot board ship"...

@yellow, on Mar 21 2006, 01:43 PM, said in Disable-Only Escorts:

You musn't forget the smiley-color(ed) Yellow!

I'm a walking awful pun machine.

Now you just need a yellow avatar. 😛

@1purevengeance1, on Mar 24 2006, 12:03 PM, said in Disable-Only Escorts:

Do u have an old version of Nova or somthing cause for me if I have an escort and I release it and then disable it. I only got the message " cannot board ship"...

Apparently so. You're using 1.0.9?