Planned Spawns

[GRHayes]

First, Love the updates that have been coming. The new spawn manager is a great idea.
I can think of a simple improvement to it though.
Allow building spawns of various ship types.

It would be nice to see something like some fighters escorting a transport or cargo / merchant ship.

Fixing this feature in would allow building better encounters such as you could run into a pirate cap ship with fighters and so on. Or maybe they are bringing back a captured hauler...

 

[Criss]

Consider this feature already planned.

 

[StormWing0]

Another thing it could use is spawn ranges for the numbers instead of a specific number of a given ship. Could also have it so we could even do this to the blueprints as well so sometimes a BP for a given wave and level wouldn't spawn but other times it would.

 

[Zaphord]

While we're at it, I think the spawned fleets could use a navigator. I've had tg fleets come by to resupply my shop, only to bounce off the hull of my station and fly away. They still restock the shop, but do they really have to bump into my station like that? A flyby would be just fine.

 

[Rixxan]

While we're at it, I think the spawned fleets could use a navigator. I've had tg fleets come by to resupply my shop, only to bounce off the hull of my station and fly away. They still restock the shop, but do they really have to bump into my station like that? A flyby would be just fine.

Or if the USD type dock is adopted by everyone have them recognize and dock to the rail dockers, ect. to have them connected then undock and fly away.

 

[StormWing0]

Or if the USD type dock is adopted by everyone have them recognize and dock to the rail dockers, ect. to have them connected then undock and fly away.

Or just find a dock they can dock with, no need to check anything other than can they fit.

 

[Rixxan]

Or just find a dock they can dock with, no need to check anything other than can they fit.

True enough, but if they use USD it can fit nicely and look good, but yes, any dock should work nicely.

 

[GRHayes]

USD's don't necessarily fit a ships design. As you can see the two different size cargo transports can both connect on my dock. A USD would be the size of the smaller ships cockpit while A USD can fit fine on the larger ship. The difference is 900 mass vs 4300 mass. Also shape of a ship and stuff can lend a lot of factors. As you can see the station I have also has landing pads for ships not designed to dock. However I can see adding a few USDs to the station but I certainly would not make all of them that. Then you have to decide on which USD is the better option. After all there is more than 1 design of a USD. When it comes to just the placement of the rail and docker not including corners on the order of (12^2)^4 ways to set them. 12 positions 2 blocks 4 ways of aligning each being facing up,down,left right. That's approx 430 million combinations.