[JagdShark]

Hey guys,

I just realized I have a bit of a silly problem. I'm creating a mission where the player jumps into a Shivan cargo depot, the mission objective is to find and scan a cargo container containing Shivan prototypes so that freighters can jump in and capture it. I have everything working in that regard down to the letter.

Where my problem lies is that the player's wingmen count all the cargo containers as hostile and attempt to destroy them and issuing orders to ignore the special container is a no go because it gives away which container the player is supposed to scan. I've been playing around with the trees but cannot for the life of me get my wingmen to stop blowing up the cargo depot. Anyone have any tips?

[JSRNerdo]

Use the protect ship flag on all containers in the depot. This prevents the AI from targeting that specific ship, and can be found under Misc in the ship window.

[0rph3u5]

That...

As an alternative you could give the wingmen something else to do (with high priorities and a higher tier AI class), basically include a B-scenario into the mission that the wingmen have to accomplish (sentry guns, intercept an enemy scouting wing, taking out a comm node etc etc - choose your weapon)

[Nightmare]

Use the protection ship option, once the player has identified the cargo use the ship-unprotect (or something like that) sexp to allow the wingmates to destroy the rest. Of course you can set up a secondary target (like Orph3u5 wrote) so that they are not hanging around.

[JagdShark]

Thanks for the reply. I forgot all about enabling and disabling protected status.