[Unknown Target]

Can someone please put this in? It would be really usefull for a couple big mods *wink wink*

[karajorma]

Assuming that you mean having a limited number of fighters/weapons on a ship this is something that could be done taking advantage of the persistant variables code.
 Of course new code would be needed for the team loadout editor.

[Unknown Target]

Whoops, my bad, should've been more specific, I meant;

external depletable stores

[Goober5000]

Can you elaborate?  I have no idea what you're talking about.

[karajorma]

Now I'm completely lost too.

That said what about my idea of using persistant variables to provide the number of ships available? It would be really cool for campaigns set on a single ship and would add a lot of depth to the campaign (i.e if your squadron wipes out all the Perseus fighters out you might end up in the later missions flying intercept in an Ares or even a bomber )

[diamondgeezer]

I think he means actual missiles and stuff modeled on wing pylons or whatever, which would fire off and thus deplete. This was been disucessed many times befire, but tis hardly a realistic proposition given the existing engine, er, stuff. Or something. Ahem.

[Rictor]

I think he means having a limited number of reinforcements, as well as having the number of dead squad members reflect in future mission...

[diamondgeezer]

I think we're talking about different people. I was refering to the thread's actuial topic, i.e UT's suggestion for depleting external stores. 'External stores' these days basically means anything you carry on the outside of your plane, like missiles and laser pods and stuff.

[WMCoolmon]

...and I thought he meant having limited amounts of ammo on a support ship. (ie if your wingmate rearms his Harbinger launchers, you might not be able to resupply your own.)

[CP5670]

lol, and I thought he was talking about having the reserves in the weapon loadout screen carry between missions (which I think might be possible even now). This is confusing.

[Nico]

I think he should just rephrase.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by CP5670
lol, and I thought he was talking about having the reserves in the weapon loadout screen carry between missions (which I think might be possible even now). This is confusing.

It's fairly obvious that I thought that too. Personally I think the mistaken idea is the better one. I'd love to see campaigns where you only have a limited number of fighters and if you use them all up you have to fly the next mission in something different

For this reason I'm officially hijacking this thread.  No offence meant UT but whatever you want start a new thread about it and explain it clearly this time

[Unknown Target]

MISSLES! I MEANT MISSLES!

[Woolie Wool]

Missiles where? In the support ships?

[kasperl]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
MISSLES! I MEANT MISSLES!

uhm, check your spelling, and please, take your time to explain.

[RangerKarl]

He means missiles on external hardpoints. Like on your basic modern 20th century fighter. Or in Starlancer. Take your pick.

[diamondgeezer]

Told you

[Unknown Target]

Ever seen an F-18? They got those big tubes hanging under their wings and fall off. After they fall off, a little motor at the back goes "poof" and they go forward. After they go forward and hit something, they go boom.

How much more specific do I need to be?!

[Goober5000]

You could have told us that in the first post instead of going *hint hint, wink wink* the whole time.

[Unknown Target]

That wink wink was for the mods part, not the part about what I wanted

Besides, I assumed "External Depletable Stores" was pretty easy to understand. I meant missles, weapons, chaff pods, fuel pods, tertiary weapon pods, ammo pods, etc.