[colecampbell666]

Question about bombs:

Is there a way to encourage the AI to use a weapon to disable and disarm stuff?
I'm thinking of something like the "bomber+" flag that encourages AI to use weapons with it against bombers.

Look at the table entry for the Stiletto.

[Nuke]

wouldn't a laser turret for this role be properly considered as a 'point defence turret'?

that would be correct. but i don't see why the same turret couldn't be used against fighters when it is free. its likes the phalanx turrets on us carriers. they can shoot at incoming anti ship missiles just as well as incoming fighters. i don't even go through the trouble of putting blob turrets on my ships, i find a couple extra flak guns makes up for the absence of 12 or so blob turrets. a shotgun or scattering gatling type weapon would be a perfect weapon to have to kill incoming warheads.

[Titan]

shotgun... me likes. Steve-O made a weapon that does that perfectly. can't remember what it was...

[Nuke]

also another cool feature is to have turrets armed with both a light, fast firing weapon for hitting bombs and a heavier, slower weapon for hitting fighters and bombers. just a matter of making the ai use the right weapon for the right job.

[colecampbell666]

Look at the ancient weapons in PI.

[--Steve-O--]

i did make a bomb that launches a bunch of dummy bombs that can occupy a ship's turrets long enough so that you can land a real bomb.

damn...you beat me to the Bomber Buddy^tm idea
not really ^tm though.

[Polpolion]

wouldn't a laser turret for this role be properly considered as a 'point defence turret'?

that would be correct. but i don't see why the same turret couldn't be used against fighters when it is free. its likes the phalanx turrets on us carriers. they can shoot at incoming anti ship missiles just as well as incoming fighters. i don't even go through the trouble of putting blob turrets on my ships, i find a couple extra flak guns makes up for the absence of 12 or so blob turrets. a shotgun or scattering gatling type weapon would be a perfect weapon to have to kill incoming warheads.

From what the first post says, I think these turrets are having trouble prioritizing bombs over fighters/bombers.

Regardless, you have the "small_only" flag in there, right? That forces the turret to only attack fighters, bombers, and bombs.

EDIT: That guy who said bombs had 50hp according to the code: Where does it say that in the code? I looked at first in the object.cpp, but it's not exactly easy looking for this stuff.

[Wanderer]

See weapons.cpp line 5639 or so...

[Nuke]

it would probibly be a good idea to go over nukemod's weapons. theres tonnes of new flags added since i last updated them, some of which i was waiting to mature. i made of weapon models that arent in he last version. i gotta script the rumrunner's gatling turretsto spin when firing. and swap the valhalla's missile turrets with railgun turrets. weapons alone would be a major overhaul.