Cooparative scavenger fleet

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:50 pm

Ok so the deal here is that Maarten and I have decided to build a fleet together. It will be expanded as we go, and others are welcome to join but the idea here is just to be creative.

GUIDELINES(rough)
You are a group of engineers aboard the Confederation fast axillary depot ship, "Reliance". The Confederation has fallen apart; it's fleets spread thin across it's many star systems and destroyed, it's worlds rendered mostly uninhabitable by one or more of your enemies. All that is irrelevant now as you struggle to survive!

*Whoever wants to can submit undamaged ships. These don't have to be new, you could have released them somewhere else, but I'd prefer to have a variety, not just warships but cruise liners, freighters, transports, even a station or two.

*Once a ship is submitted and agreed upon, make it damaged. This could be done with damaged sprites if you have them or as we create them along the way. Remember to release them to the others though! If not, just simulate battle damage by deleting various sections, or even run it through battle to get an idea of how it would look damaged. The .shp file must be modified to reflect this damage though, and it must be crippling damage including missing engines, weapons, and sensors since anything less wouldn't have killed the crew or prevented them from continuing the fight!

*Once we 'find' a damaged ship, we will decide if it is salvageable using what parts we have available or can manufacture on the Reliance, or if we should break it down for scrap (in which case we get all the sections to repair the next ships with). If we need to manufacture a part, we will have to enter a star system and find a planet or asteroid field to mine. There won't be any values for sections, but we have to make a run regardless if we don't have another section to use and want to repair that part of a ship.

*There will be battles that this fleet will have to survive, so the faster we can improvise armor, engines(yes, a ship with no engines won't be able to move during battle), and weapons, the better. Battles will occur randomly as pirates or aliens attack the fleet in deep space, or in a star system which is occupied or where there are other scavengers/raiders.

Ship guidelines
As I said, they don't have to be new ships but to make all things equal:
*Try to keep weapons stock for now.
*Keep them relatively small. All the major warships(that we know of) were destroyed so if you do submit a huge ship, expect to have to make it very damaged and not likely be able to salvage it.
*Try to make the ships fit a niche. Various types of warships, but also whatever other functions you can think of. Mining, construction, exploration, etc. It is important that you not give a mining ship a bunch of weapons though because a real one wouldn't have any. The whole point here is to add stuff to them in a creative way.

Battle guidelines
*Battles will be run by me for now, unless we decide to alternate.
*Attacking fleets will probably be stock(which is another reason to leave the weapons stock) unless someone wants to be ambitious and design raiders.
*When a battle is about to start, all ships in the fleet will be loaded, either in deep space, an asteroid field, or near a planet. These all present inherent dangers, for example in deep space if engines are damaged severely, we will have to scrap the ship or abandon it.
*If the fleet is more than 50% damaged, I will sound a retreat. At that point though, we will not be able to salvage or return for any resources or critically damaged ships.
*During a battle, one ship will be controlled by the player staging the battle, while the others will be AI controlled.
*Results will be posted after a battle in the form of screen shots with a narrative of the battle.

If I think of anything else or am giving suggestions, I will add to this.

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:51 pm

Heres my first ship: WIP

Its a repair frigate, thus far without any weapons, although some may be added as abandoned ships are savaged. In the event of an attack by raiders, the ship has come to rely on the crane crew to block incoming shots with whatever spare material is available. Yes, it actually does that and blocks a fair amount of shots. I'm also planning to have a ship be built during battle, probably by doing something with fading.

maarten · Post by **maarten** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:46 pm

Well here's my first ship for the fleet.

It's a looted assualt ship. Packed with heavy armor, it can withstand quite a punishment. It's a bit low on weapons though.
(On a side note, It kinda tends to chainreact when the corner armor is blown of.)

Just want to add something to JWA's statement: If you want to join, PM one of us. Don't just post here.

Homer · Post by **Homer** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:48 am

These look nice I especially like the little deconstruction hangar on it but a suggestion why you use some of Lord garcias damaged sections? To give it a damaged feel. Maarten your ship looks like a brick with engines but a good brick with engines.

jwa8402 · Post by **jwa8402** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:16 am

Hmm interesting idea, I think I will do that. I didn't want to make the repair ship like that because its the one finding damaged ships. What we'll probably do is build damaged ships using those and for each one submitted decide whether to repair the damage with the parts we have(which will be limited) or strip it down(which will give us the parts to repair future ships with). I'll come up with a list of starter parts but it will be limited so even if we partially repair a ship, it may still have damaged(garcias) portions.

brenwasp · Post by **brenwasp** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:18 am

Where do you get those engine sections?

maarten · Post by **maarten** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:51 am

brenwasp wrote:Where do you get those engine sections?

Danny released them at some point, I had to beg JWA to give me the link. But here it is. http://www.mediafire.com/?hmo1zmhoozt[/quote]
And JWA that's another brilliant Idea you got there. I am looking forward to some of the great ships to loot.

brenwasp · Post by **brenwasp** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:52 am

Btw, I sent you a PM Asking to help you.

brenwasp · Post by **brenwasp** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:33 am

Eh...My second try. I'm still new to this damaged stuff..

It includes sparks, A Glow for an engine, and a turret.
I guess it's a corvette or something?

Danny420Dale · Post by **Danny420Dale** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:07 am

Put another engine (or two smaller ones) on the other side. Thrust asymmetry that obvious makes my sense of physics start to hurt.

brenwasp · Post by **brenwasp** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:21 am

Good enough for you?

maarten · Post by **maarten** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:56 pm

Better although I would use fraxy sprites for engine glows.

And please note people that that's my ship, even though it's heavily damaged.

brenwasp · Post by **brenwasp** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:54 pm

Actually, I started from scratch for this one.

Corporal Jomn · Post by **Corporal Jomn** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:46 am

Could you please say the name of the ship, it's pretty good.

brenwasp · Post by **brenwasp** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:48 am

Scavenger Corvette. That's basic, and I couldn't think of anything else.