Question regarding special asteroids

Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:12 pm by shasla5

Ok, one of the more annoying things to me is that mining consists of shooting little floating rock chunks. So I was wondering- Since the little asteroids are much different that their bigger counterparts in that they are mobile, affected by you hitting them, temporary, and minable/destroyable, would it be possible to make the asteroid fields out of lots of small ones, but, they are all bigger, with more hitpoints, and have more mass, effectively making a semi realistic moving asteroid belt, and you could have special mining lasers, with extreme hull damage (so they can cut through the big ones), but with no shield damage and very very short range so they are useless in combat. Why would this not work, or why am I a raving idiot?

Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:36 pm by [HoTa]ConQUesT

I believe Mephistoles pioneered the design for dynamic asteroid fields you may wish to run a search on it..

I do recall there being problems tho regarding altering of mass and hitpoints

Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:41 pm by Mace_166

I`ve added minable asteroids to a mod that i`m working on (frontierspace), but they are the solar ones so they don`t move. You just give them a loadout and the hit points. I can`t get them to explode properly though, or for the loot to scatter. I did have a look through the fuses but couldn`t get my head around it..
I added the mining lasers too, though, i didn`t think of changing their range. If was just refire 1 and with a high weapon mod so its weak against all types of shield. The problem is I use the destroyable universe, and the bases and defences don`t have any shields. So the low range idea will work well for that.
There is a guy on hear called Mephistopheles who has added a dynamic asteroid field with bigger rocks. He also added a tutorial in its forum if you were interested..

Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:58 pm by shasla5

Ok thanks. May I ask if your mod (which sounds pretty impressive from what you've said elsewhere) will take ships and stuff out of movies, or will fit in with the universe?

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