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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Black Wolf on July 13, 2010, 03:51:03 am
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Another mod for the supar sekret* project, the Stalker Class Probe, More commonly called the "Miss Muffet".
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DOWNLOAD (http://sectorgame.com/f2s/downloads.php?action=downloads&id=545)
Wiki (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Stalker_Class_Probe)
Though technically called the Stalker class probe, this device is almost universally referred to by it's nickname, the Miss Muffet, or just Muffet. The Muffet is a reconnaissance probe, designed to be released en-masse in a newly invaded system, or to serve in other intelligence gathering roles. It gets its nickname from two sources. Firstly, the position of the scanning apparatus perched on top of the large, bulbous reactor and subspace drive (the most compact and advanced model ever designed by the GTA) recalls the position of the nursery rhyme character perched on her tuffet, but more significantly it is the behaviour of the probe which recalls the nursery rhyme. Any activity within a certain proximity of the probe without the proper clearance codes being transmitted will cause the probe to automatically engage its subspace drive and jump to a pre-programmed location, in a sense "frightening Miss Muffet away".
The subspace drive is only capable of a certain number of jumps before it requires recalibration, and so retrieval of these probes is considered a high priority. However, the risks of unmanned subspace jumping means that very few ever make it back to the GTA for redeployment. The intel these devices provide, however, more than covers the expense of producing them.
Not much to it, but it works nicely ingame. Everything goes where you'd expect it to go. Texturing is designed to fit in with the Canberra Class (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=69832.msg1381653#msg1381653), as they're from the same era (hence the enormous subspace drive/reactor sitting underneath the probey bits). Ususal stuff, feel free to use this in your own projects should you want to, but let me know, not for permission, but just because I like to know if/when my stuff gets used. :D
*Note - Project is not actually secret.
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Looks like something from Star Wars if I'm perfectly honest. :P
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smooth looking probe hehe :D
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Looks like something from Star Wars if I'm perfectly honest. :P
Definitely. Has a Sullustian/Nemoidian feel about it.
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Is it probe week or something? Why only last night . . :nervous:
I've said too much already. . . . When you say "invading systems" what do you mean exactly?
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I've said too much already. . . . When you say "invading systems" what do you mean exactly?
Killing zods. You'll love it.
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When you say "invading systems" what do you mean exactly?
Killing zods. You'll love it.
Yub yub. Circa 2322.
NB for the Star Wars-esque vibe, I guess that's because of the sphericity of the main part? For what it's worth, that's entirely functional - the sphere is protecting a large reactor/ss drive setup (as the Tech Description says, the smallest the Terrans can build in 2322, and still the size of a decent bomber). The slits in the sphere... well, they're pretty much rule of cool TBH. But the distinctly non-freespacey design is a deliberate response to in-universe factors, not some kind of design choice persay.
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Well I like it.
RogerRoger.
Yes Snail. . . . . . . I look forward to slaying as i'm playing.
Do you have Zod orphanage ships yet?
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It looks StarWars-y because of this guy: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/IT-O_Interrogator
I like the idea of the probe though, and it looks cool.