Trap Lord
Posted 26 May 2014 - 09:13 PM
Haven't you see any scifi/action shows? It takes at least 5 minutes to activate the self destruct, OBVIOUSLY
In all seriousness, this has been bounced around before, and turned down for a combination of reasons. AI would freak out, pretty difficult to code, and it's really not worth it.
The scuttle button does however, work against the flood - the timer keeps going after you lose control and the AI doesn't know how to handle it.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear - Marcus Aurelius
UniMinion
Posted 27 May 2014 - 02:20 AM
The scuttle button does however, work against the flood - the timer keeps going after you lose control and the AI doesn't know how to handle it.
Coordinator
Posted 27 May 2014 - 06:51 AM
I've had a lot of names.......
Posted 27 May 2014 - 07:55 AM
yeah I scuttle my ships sometimes when battling the flood, it works when you do it exactly when the flood takes control of one of you're big ship.
some people call me The Flood.......others call me Didact........
Most Call me Night Of Eternal Darkness.....You will never know which one.....
Petty Officer Second Class
Posted 27 May 2014 - 10:08 AM
Perhaps a research could be made that gives a chance of causing units and structures to self destruct in the event of them being taken over. Sorta like a passive ability.
Cautiously Captivated
Posted 27 May 2014 - 10:54 AM
I've always been in support of something like this.Perhaps a research could be made that gives a chance of causing units and structures to self destruct in the event of them being taken over. Sorta like a passive ability.
Reclaimer
Posted 27 May 2014 - 11:05 AM
Perhaps a research could be made that gives a chance of causing units and structures to self destruct in the event of them being taken over. Sorta like a passive ability.
im willing to bet uni is going to put his hardcoding picture as a response to this...
Trap Lord
Posted 27 May 2014 - 12:11 PM
im willing to bet uni is going to put his hardcoding picture as a response to this...
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear - Marcus Aurelius
Reclaimer
Posted 27 May 2014 - 12:16 PM
Yeah, almost positive this wouldn't work. Unless it required antimatter and you gave the ship antimatter regen when it gets infected. Again, I don't know
not even that, the best way to implement any form of this ability is A. hacky as hell, and B. laggy as hell
Authorized Playtester
Posted 27 May 2014 - 02:58 PM
Could it not be added as part of the infect ability, making it chance based? Or perhaps a very hacky way of doing it would be giving the infectors an ability to deal allot of damage to a target every so often as well as giving the ship the infected effect, giving the impression of a ship self destructing to prevent infection?
Reclaimer
Posted 27 May 2014 - 03:02 PM
Could it not be added as part of the infect ability, making it chance based? Or perhaps a very hacky way of doing it would be giving the infectors an ability to deal allot of damage to a target every so often as well as giving the ship the infected effect, giving the impression of a ship self destructing to prevent infection?
This is how it would work, IF it was even implemented: a ship would have a buff that activated every second and checked if its owner was changed (meaning, flood infection), and if it popped a yes, the ship would self destruct. Simple enough, except that it would happen every second, for HUNDREDS of ships, possibly thousands, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. This is something that would crash sins.
Authorized Playtester
Posted 28 May 2014 - 05:51 AM
True, not very efficient and it would not be ideal anyway as you would not want a certain type of ship to always self destruct no matter what. Is it not possible for an ability to also have a chance to deal damage? Say, 5% of the time it deals 5000 damage to a ship which would either flat out kill or cripple that ship.
Reclaimer
Posted 28 May 2014 - 07:23 AM
True, not very efficient and it would not be ideal anyway as you would not want a certain type of ship to always self destruct no matter what. Is it not possible for an ability to also have a chance to deal damage? Say, 5% of the time it deals 5000 damage to a ship which would either flat out kill or cripple that ship.
someone tried a similar thing last year, it completely broke the balance of the mod
Petty Officer Second Class
Posted 28 May 2014 - 10:16 AM
Lol, I remember that, critical hits would disable the vast majority of their fleets and it was hilarious to watch the fleets just float around.
Authorized Playtester
Posted 28 May 2014 - 12:29 PM
True, but that was with the MAC while this would be say, a 2-5% chance of it occurring whenever a ship is infected.
Banned user who criticised terrorists
Posted 28 May 2014 - 12:36 PM
True, but that was with the MAC while this would be say, a 2-5% chance of it occurring whenever a ship is infected.
Remind me what the chances were of encountering MOI?
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Reclaimer
Posted 28 May 2014 - 12:51 PM
Remind me what the chances were of encountering MOI?
1/1000
Petty Officer Second Class
Posted 28 May 2014 - 12:56 PM
Or.... maybe we should look at this differently... if a ship gets infected it becomes disabled for a short period (say like a minute or two) and no "Spores" are able to spawn for a while the flood wrestle for control of the ships systems.
UniMinion
Posted 28 May 2014 - 01:34 PM
Or.... maybe we should look at this differently... if a ship gets infected it becomes disabled for a short period (say like a minute or two) and no "Spores" are able to spawn for a while the flood wrestle for control of the ships systems.
Isn't that what we have in the PT version?
Warden of the North
Posted 28 May 2014 - 02:01 PM
I dunno about UNSC ships, but I remember Voro 'Mantakree telling his officers to have the self destruct sequence ready in case of Flood contamination.
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