[karajorma]

Spawn them.

Or not. I have no idea how well the ship-create SEXP works in multiplayer, it might work flawlessly or it might create a whole bunch of problems.

[Shade]

Well, it's worth a shot. I have an old mission where I messed around with ship-create among other things, it would be a 5 minute job to make it an MP mission and test it. In fact, I'm gonna do that right now. Once I dig it up.

[Edit] They spawn well enough in MP, and seem to take orders too. I crashed shortly after though, but it seemed to be unrelated as it was just an assert during a weapon switch (and I wouldn't put much stock in that - Build was oldish and the mission referenced all kinds of crap that wasn't available as I didn't bother to enable any mods).

[CP5670]

The ship-create sexp was not very stable even in singleplayer, at least the last time I tried it. It doesn't crash often but maybe 5% of the times it's called. If you call it several times in succession though, the chances of a crash increase a lot.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

It may work on the host end but did you test the client side as well? 

[Shade]

Only as host. I can throw up a game quick if you want to test the client side as well, though.

[Edit] I know for sure now my crash was not related to spawning ships. Was able to reproduce it after ripping everything spawn related out, and it doesn't happen on the build I normally play with anyway. So far I've been able to kill 3 waves of spawned ships as host without any problems, though how it works for clients still needs to be seen.

As for spawn related crashes, back when I experimented with them I found that those usually came from spawning a ship type that wasn't already in the mission or from trying to give them orders using an incorrect name. Once those are worked around it's actually quite stable in my experience. But that was all in single player mode.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

I'll have to give that a try then.  One ship is only cosmetic that arrives at the end of the mission so I'll try it with that one.

[captain-custard]

a more intelligent targetting system would be nice , maybe one with a few different modes , like attacking ( as is), defend ( select friendly target and autotarget selects ships that are causing most damage to said vessel) and self preservation ( assess the most dangerous ship when your being gang raped by missiles etc)

[Shade]

Those are not really multiplayer suggestions, though. I'd suggest making it a seperate feature request

[captain-custard]

i think your rght but they can be used in multiplayer and as i rarey play single player these days i want them for multi.....

[jedimasterseth]

By the time I'm bacvk and gaming again I want all the issues sorted. I also want a brand new build. I want I want I want (and i always get)

[captain-custard]

By the time I'm bacvk and gaming again I want all the issues sorted. I also want a brand new build. I want I want I want (and i always get)

SLAPPED VERY HARD