[Mod] Playership Drones v2

Amariithynar · Tue May 10, 2011 5:21 pm

Apparently I do not. If I update it mid game, will it ruin my previous stuff, or not work at all? Or will it just update fine?

Tue May 10, 2011 5:42 pm

It sounds like you have a version more than a couple releases old. The latest version will break your current game if you update. Download and play it only after you finish your current game.

Sat May 14, 2011 8:58 pm

New update (May 14, 2011).

List of changes:
* Added Iocrym sentinel as a playable ship.
* Added toggle to automatic ship scuttling. Drones can loot ships without scuttling them.
* Drones without the player escort will avoid looting objects near active enemy bases (range 50 or less). They also abort looting if alone, under attack, and damaged enough.

Restart after update is required.

Sun May 15, 2011 12:31 am

PM, pick up your MOtM banner here

Sun May 15, 2011 2:25 am

[sdw195] If the point of your post is why my signature does not use the banner, it is because I tried to use the banner from the dropbox link, but it did not work. I get the message "It was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image."

Drako Slyith · Sun May 15, 2011 3:21 am

Yeah, I got a similar issue when trying to edit my sig. I can't change my sig without deleting my banner. (obviously, I am keeping my banner.

Sun May 15, 2011 10:37 am

as a matter of netiquette, you are NOT supposed to use the banner from MY dropbox, but copy it to yours (or any other online service of your choice) and link it from there.
you are not linking the banner from my dropbox, are you ?

Sun May 15, 2011 12:58 pm

There is a dropbox for each forum member?!

Drako Slyith · Sun May 15, 2011 10:13 pm

digdug wrote:as a matter of netiquette, you are NOT supposed to use the banner from MY dropbox, but copy it to yours (or any other online service of your choice) and link it from there.
you are not linking the banner from my dropbox, are you ?

I use the link that is in the banners thread, if that is yours, sorry. But I hate the hassle of signing up to things like dropbox (and photobucket hates me. It said I was 'ineligible' to sign up) I'll see what I can do.

Sun May 15, 2011 10:37 pm

you can register to dropbox here:
http://db.tt/Qov7CUP
that's my referral, you get 250Mb more for free (for a total of 2.25Gb of free space, and me too).

Drako, other free image hosting solutions are (that I know, probably there are more out there)
http://imgur.com/
http://imageshack.us/
http://tinypic.com/

It takes a bit more than copy and pasting my convenient dropbox link, but again, please do not abuse my dropbox

Sun May 15, 2011 11:06 pm

this still doesn't solve the "It was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image" problem as yesterday i tired using http://imgur.com/ and still got that error

Drako Slyith · Mon May 16, 2011 9:14 pm

I'll register to dropbox as soon as I can, but my laptop's charger just fried so its getting fixed. I think I can get the dropbox tomorrow, but I will get my own as soon as possible. sorry again. (I'm on my parents' computer and I don't want to download anything.)

Amariithynar · Mon May 23, 2011 3:50 am

By the by, PM; is the Polar fixable with a Shipwright in the newer version? *still trudging through my latest playthrough, and don't want to restart yet*

Mon May 23, 2011 12:55 pm

No. None of the large enemy ships can be rebuilt. In a future version, they will be.

Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:02 am

Progress report for Playership Drones v3:
* Shipyard code updated for 1.06, mostly currency stuff.
* Armor and shield HUD graphics for all ships (that need it) are done.
* Most ships with maneuverability greater than 2 have 40 facings.

To do:
* Add a lower level limited shipbuilder item or two so the player does not need to backtrack several systems to acquire an early game ship such as Centauri or Himal ships.
* Add optional support for 40 facings NPC ships.
* Attempt to support linked fire weapons for playerships. If this gets too troublesome, I will defer this until 1.07.
* Split Playership Drones into three or four parts so it can be uploaded to Xelerus. The zip file for the whole mod is about 14 MB.

Features I would like, but will probably defer for later:
* Add [M]ine command for drones.

Other notes:
The player can have up to four regular ships, represented as CPUs in the mod, just like in later v2. v2 has no ship worth four, but v3 will. Tier 4 ships cannot be rebuilt (or bought for that matter), and they include Commonwealth Star Carrier, Phobos Dreadnought, Xenophobe Ark, and the Iocrym Command Ship.