It involves what to do with cargo wingmen. There are currently two ways of doing this; ejecting them as cargo or launching them as guns/missiles.
Care to check out both?
http://www.spiritplumber.com/priv_remak ... _cargo.zip
Give yourself a caernaven (or purchase one). This is a test and will only work with a caernaven for now. YOU WILL HAVE TO RESET THE CAERNAVEN (erase the caernaven.stock entry in ./privateer100/serialized_xml) or run reset_universe.bat for this to work.
Buy some cargo wingmen in the commodity exchange.
Go to the upgrades screen, under ammunition, buy a Scramble Launcher and mount it in the capship-heavy slot. It's at the very end of the list, scroll down.
The cargo wingmen haven't been changed. The second method involves firing the ships like a gun (it will show up as scramble.scramble and launch a talon). BE SURE TO TURN OFF YOUR ANTIMATTER GUN OR IT WILL BLOW UP THE SHIP YOU JUST LAUNCHED
Both types will obey your commands the same way, and both types can be tractored in (should be anyway). Right now both end up in the cargo bay (and can be ejected again) but we will add a "rearm" option if launchtubes are preferred.
We will aslo make it so that you have to wait before ejecting cargo wingmen (already implemented in the "launch tube" mode.
Please tell me which method is most easy to use!!!! Also tell me other improvements you may want (example, buying those fighters in the ship dealer screen) that are related to the topic.
THIS WILL PROBABLY ALSO AFFECT VEGASTRIKE IN GENERAL.
Let me know which method is more convenient!
(I'm not making this a poll to allow people to give an answer bigger than yes/no, just reply under this thread)
ADVANTAGES OF CARGO METHOD:
* It already works (especially the retrieval)
* Cargo bay limits # of fighters, which makes sense.
* Slightly cleaner spawn logic.
* Possible to mix and match fighters up to capacity.
ADVANTAGES OF LAUNCHTUBE METHOD:
* We can have an external hangar pod if so desired (same as how the missile launchers are done right now), it also becomes an upgrade we can add to a ship (logically it would have to be a capship but you get my idea)
* Launch delay already done
* This is how the AI launches its ships already, having 1 method for player and nonplayer ships would be good.
* Possible to define different sizes for launch tubes = different sizes of fighters you can carry.
Once in flight both types of wingmen act the same, this is merely a launch thing. If you don't want to launch as a gun, we can launch as a missile or even add another key entirely. Actually we might add a extra key anyway
