I think you'd probably need a loadout file for it like they have for NPC ships in order to do that
I also wonder if you could make a shield hardpoint and attach a shield so it would be harder to destroy the torpedo

Hmmm, try, it probably can be done, maybe try making light hardpoints on torpedo...
using utf and hardcmp...try...

But giving loadout to ammo?..will it work?..

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But giving loadout to ammo?..will it work?..

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Cool! Torpedoes could fire weapons! Like some kind of drones!

If that could be done...

Edited by - magnet14 on 2/21/2007 3:41:03 PM

hmm....a torpedo with 100000 damege for shield and hull + a shield + weapons = total and utter chaous! there is only one problem, how do you make the torpedo use the loadout that you created for it?

Edited by - sabreman on 2/21/2007 4:44:12 PM

you could try setting up weapon hardpoints and allocate the weapons and shields in the goods.ini file
not sure if that'd let you fire the weapons or not but, it would probably work for the shields since they don't require a button press to use them

The torpedo would need a pilot to fire weaopons if I am not mistaken, but then is it truely a torp then? I would not think this would work out to well.

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you are probably right about it not working right
would be impossible to pilot 2 ships with one mouse

He means an entry for a pilot, an npc pilot I believe, so that weapons could be fired.

that could work
you would have no control over who it shoots though
it would depend on the pilots faction
unless you could find a way to make it have the same faction aliances you do

But, why have a piloted destructive ordinance?
Presently, I've modified a Sunslayer so it will track & follow it's target. (funny to watch this one) But, I also gave it 250000 damage with a 1000 radius. (It will take out an entire wing of ships including capitals as well as completely disarm a fully loaded out station. Consequentially, with the 250000 hull damage, the game engine assigned 125000 energy damage (saved me the trouble of putting it in).
I set the max angular velocity to 5.5 to give it its unique tracking ability. Also, I changed it's explosion characteristic FX to mimic that of the CSX Flash explosion with the additional FX of the destruction of a liberty dreadnaught.

Not being totally satisfied with this, I designed and built an Armageddon Torpedo that has this characteristic. It's large enough to be clearly seen from a distance and has to mount on the outside of a capital ship. In theory, a "pilot" could be placed in it provided a hardpoint is used.
Then again, I would ask why would you want a pilotable destructive ordinance?

Well there would be benifits. I mean you would not need a pilot but some sort of a drone wich would fly around chasing the target and shooting it. Hey... maby if we could get this to work and put a launcher on a capital ship it would look like the capital ship is launching fighters that not only can cause damege with weapons but act like BIG[b/ torpedoes

You could give a item insanely high mass and low hp and set it's turning in such a way so that when you ramm a object you die and inflict heavy damage.

hmmmmmmmmm...........interesting thought there. I think that is worth checking out.