Custom Spawnable Derelict Ships

[Sven_The_Slayer]

So with the fact that warheads ignore the shields of the ship they are attached to you can, with a simple clock, make a ship that will explode as soon as it spawns. Set this ship to be enemy usable and it will spawn with waves of pirates as if those pirates just took out an innocent transport.

Now the spawning mechanics of the game are a not entirely clear to me and this is just a proof of concept. It will take more tests to see if this is a viable solution to add these types on "instances" into the game. Set the wrong ship as a derelict and it will spawn too often or not at all.

Of course server ops can spawn these ships in the middle of nowhere as treasure hunts. They can be loaded with "rare" blocks in cargo holds... well as rare as any block in this game is anyway.

 

[Lidren]

Should be totally viable. I'd love to see this working.

 

[Sven_The_Slayer]

Should be totally viable. I'd love to see this working.

I flew around for an hour last night harassing a station and it never spawned a derelict. The games spawning mechanics is really the limiting factor here. I was hoping to come across some random spawns as well but they are rather infrequent.

Here's hoping for custom AI factions

 

[Ravenskysong]

I've seen some turrents/ships with the derelict stations. would it be possible to make a fake, attacked ship as the pirate spawning station itself or would that not fool anyone? I think it would be cool to have derelicts, or debris fields, spawn at random like asteroids do. battlefields or something. and some could have pirates and good loot, and some could be old and not have pirates and have less loot. they would both have a cool ship blown to bits floating around

 

[jayman38]

I've seen some turrents/ships with the derelict stations. would it be possible to make a fake, attacked ship as the pirate spawning station itself or would that not fool anyone? I think it would be cool to have derelicts, or debris fields, spawn at random like asteroids do. battlefields or something. and some could have pirates and good loot, and some could be old and not have pirates and have less loot. they would both have a cool ship blown to bits floating around

The Shangra-La might be perfect addition to the pirate station folder for this.

http://starmadedock.net/content/lost-shangra-la.997/