[Retsof]

Is it possible to get a support ship to arrive from a hangar rather than subspace.  I suppose I could have it arrive in the beginning and guardian it, but if I can do the former then it would be better.

[Mobius]

Of course!

Disallow support ships in Mission Specs and use the SEXP set-support-ship during the mission(for ex. when the ship you want the support ships to come from jumps in). That SEXP offers many options and all of them are intuitive and easy to manage. You can also set a max number of support ships the player can call during the mission

[Retsof]

It worked, thanks.

[Mobius]

No problem

[karajorma]

I suspect you don't actually need to disable support ships if you specify the ship that the support ship will arrive from right at the start of the mission.

If the ship is present at mission start you definitely don't need to.

[Mobius]

Yeah but I thought we was having something like a destroyer arriving during the mission in mind.

[Retsof]

Nah, the destroyer is there to start with, and i didn't dissallow support ships.  It works without that.

[Mobius]

Which is even better

[karajorma]

Yeah but I thought we was having something like a destroyer arriving during the mission in mind.

Like I said, I've not tried it but if you have the GTD Bastion arriving 3 minutes into a mission having an event like this should work.

when
-true
-set-support-ship
--Docking Bay
--GTD Bastion
--Docking Bay
--GTD Bastion
--GTS Hygiea
--1

The game should be smart enough to check if the ship is present.

[Mobius]

I didn't try that because I feared crashes...good to know