Believe it or not...

Believe it or not, there IS a way to make ships that can build ships. All you have to do, is, set the flag on the ship as an object that can

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There is no way to make a ship that can build other ships. Instead, make a planet with defences. Also, you can not make a mobile planet. So don't try.

BTW, somone PLEASE take the net scenario "battlestations" off of the ares addons page. It's a peice of cr*p and it's had far too many downloads...

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Originally posted by Madman:
**There is no way to make a ship that can build other ships. Instead, make a planet with defences. Also, you can not make a mobile planet. So don't try.

BTW, somone PLEASE take the net scenario "battlestations" off of the ares addons page. It's a peice of cr*p and it's had far too many downloads...

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Battlestations is fun!

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Originally posted by Madman:
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BTW, somone PLEASE take the net scenario "battlestations" off of the ares addons page. It's a peice of cr*p and it's had far too many downloads...

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No. Tough.

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There's a base called an Astrome in M:Inv. It's able to build ships because...

clunk

thud

We'll just have to see if it really does work (still in theoretical process)

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Ships that run around and fight and still can build ships is very possible, I've done it before. Just takes a few minutes of fiddling around. And the ship I made wouldn't take any orders, but it's still potentially useful.

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Astromes can 😛
I really hope this thing actually works so we can show the world that ship-building objects that take orders are possible!

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I myself don't know. I know I generally assumed that a base would not move, but I don't know how limiting that assumption might be for what you are attempting.

If memory serves, though, I think that the enemy AI does some calculations at the beginning of a level, and it may get confused if a base that used to be nearby is suddenly far away.

Still, the AI is confused anyway, so you may not be able to notice if it gets a little more confused.

Good luck.

I'll give you a hint: The Base isn't REALLY building ships... but it's undetectable that it isn't...
Actually, the Astrome will only make 2 appearances as far as I know, and one is in a Net Level, so that's not important.

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Still, the AI is confused anyway, so you may not be able to notice if it gets a little more confused.

Probably not. 🙂

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It shouldn't be to hard to make that. I'll go make one now. Or at least try.

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Originally posted by Pallas Athene:
**I'll give you a hint: The Base isn't REALLY building ships... but it's undetectable that it isn't...
Actually, the Astrome will only make 2 appearances as far as I know, and one is in a Net Level, so that's not important.
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Let me have a guess...maybe an invisible planet that takes the build orders, then builds the ships, and a condition that instantly teleports the new ship over to the Astrome?

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I should have -snip-ped that...
Oh well, we'll see if it works, and if it does, then we'll all know how.

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It works, and it's EASY!

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If you were talking about my theory, then I'm very happy.

This is what I do best in Hera - talk in a string of apparently incoherent words, then let someone else test it and realize that it actually works.

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I made a ship-building ship that I had direct control over. The only problem was that it's name disappeared, even after I did a name override.

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How did you do it? Did you just make a ship and add build types to it?

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