[IPAndrews]

For everyone's information. I have decided to nickname this vessel "The Big Bus 'O Doom".

[Prophet]

There's something in that ship that creates an eerie Star Trek vibe.

[IPAndrews]

How effective have you found it as a fighter-killier vessel? I threw it in against a load of Zephyrs and the Raiders actually did fairly well. The odds were 4 Haliks versus 12 Zephyrs. Actually though it sort of fits with our rendition of the Brakiri in this mod. Lots of flashy weapons that are fairly ineffective.

[Prophet]

I'll try it out in the moring. My head is getting sleepy...

[Rhythmic]

I missed the joke didn't I?

[Prophet]

Possibly...


@IP I tried the Halik against some falkosi. They did "as well" as I expected. It's a large target.  And I think the bomber flag is limiting its turrets. And a Hyperion totally kicked their ass.
I think there is little we can do without gunboat AI. Right now you can slap some falkosi as escort and I think the Halik does what is expected from a Brakiri military vessel.
I liked the 32mm in the turrets. At least it looks effective.

There's something about the debris though. I noticed considerable jerkyness when lots of Halik debris was in the air.

[IPAndrews]

I missed the joke didn't I?

I posted in the wrong forum. You're seeing some discussion about the new 3.4 beta.

[IPAndrews]

And I think the bomber flag is limiting its turrets.

We have the tools available to us now to have have gunship/gunboat AI if we wish. I think maybe it's time we made use of objecttypes.tbl

[Prophet]

I think maybe it's time we made use of objecttypes.tbl

O RLY?

[IPAndrews]

O RLY?

Better late than never 

[IPAndrews]

I looked at Objecttypes.tbl and the table entry for the Fighter type is the same as that for the Bomber type. 

[Prophet]

And in addition to those there's a Fighter/Bomber entry.
Nah, can't fiddle with tables now. Supernatural is coming from the telly!

[NGTM-1R]

If any of you actually payed attention, you'd realize that VA has already made Gunship AI that way. He even posted it, but nobody payed any attention.

[Prophet]

I remember that. I sacrified a squirrel for him because of that. I thought those were automatically integrated to TBP by our high level fiddlers.

[IPAndrews]

If any of you actually payed attention, you'd realize that VA has already made Gunship AI that way. He even posted it, but nobody payed any attention.

Eh? What did you say? Sorry I was reading the paper.

Either of you care to post a link. I tried a search i'm not entirely lazy, but that got me precisely nowhere.

[Prophet]

Well I am lazy. But I still tried to search and I couldn't find it either.
But it was there! We swears it was.

[IPAndrews]

Yes the search feature is pretty screwy at the moment. There was also a thread which contained a copy of the whole objecttypes.tbl from within the FS2 code. You need that if you are going to add another ship type so you can tell the other ship types to attack it.

[NGTM-1R]

Looking for...this?

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40538.0.html

[IPAndrews]

Thanks ngtm1r.

[NGTM-1R]

You're welcome.