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Question about formations
« on: January 31, 2020, 08:24:08 AM »

Is anyone working on, or would it even be possible, to create a mod to make ships move into pre set formations with a single keystroke? Perhaps even deployment formations? Something similar to what Homeworld has.
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Re: Question about formations
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2020, 04:20:56 PM »

I'd love to add that functionality to my AI, but I don't have time right now. 

It's something that would require work on an AI's steering function; it's not possible to make the Vanilla AI do it with any reliability by just feeding it some coordinates it's supposed to move through via Orders.  It'd also take a fair bit of doing, because of the way that Orders are implemented.
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Re: Question about formations
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2020, 12:44:39 PM »

Sounds hard. That is to bad it would have been cool. I appreciate you replying to my question. I like the mods you make, used the AI one in my last playthrough.
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