It has been quite a while since anyone has posted here so let me be the first to break some ice.
I have done
it.
The
it to which I refer is the problem of how to launch drones automatically with no input from the player what so ever. Yes, now AI only ships can launch drones! The solution to this problem has baffled me for some time now but after perusing youtube, watching some random starmade videos, doing extensive testing, designing, redesigning, and more... well, you get the drift.
Presenting the answer to our AI buddy drone launch issues.
As you can see while the core is docked, the signal is turned
OFF. Should the core be destroyed, say by, overzealous core targeting AI protocols (currently AIs shoot for the cores). Then the signal will become inverted and turned
ON. This means any number of things can happen, including a drone launch sequence. The only issues are as follows...
- A core must be lost for this sequence to even start
- There is a waiting time before the core will overload and be destroyed.
The second one is particularly annoying as the wait time can be several minutes or only a few seconds depending on how much overkill was apparently done to the core. There appears to be a ton of factors involved with it, suffice it to say this will be a one minute doom timer at best.
In spite of those facts however, this will finally allow us to launch drones automatically without having to push any buttons, go into build mode, or even leave the core of our ship. My drone-sense is tingling, I sense a disturbance coming in the near future of drone tech.