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Suggestions / Enabling wolfpack through commands
« on: March 18, 2024, 07:53:35 PM »
Today I was messing around in the sim with a phase frigate and thought what better way to wrangle my other phase frigates than to pilot one myself and tell them to escort me. The problem is though they keep the standard escort behavior of staying behind the escortee and only try to hang out to the left or right (seemed only on the left though, they really liked being on the left despite there being 4 of them). Ideally, for a wolfpack, they'd maneuver to surround my target.
So the suggestion is: modify escort behavior so that if escorting same size class ship, be more aggressive at flanking their target. This behavior should exclude pure carriers. Alternatively, a "pack" command that works similar to defend but ships are not automatically assigned to it. This way you could assign a group of ships to one ship and then set that leader ship to search and destroy so it can seek out targets for its pack to take down instead of setting them all to search and destroy and potentially getting scattered, or constantly having to use eliminate commands to prevent them from returning to the main line. Possibly even make the leader ship prefer to go after ships that are far away from other enemy ships.
So the suggestion is: modify escort behavior so that if escorting same size class ship, be more aggressive at flanking their target. This behavior should exclude pure carriers. Alternatively, a "pack" command that works similar to defend but ships are not automatically assigned to it. This way you could assign a group of ships to one ship and then set that leader ship to search and destroy so it can seek out targets for its pack to take down instead of setting them all to search and destroy and potentially getting scattered, or constantly having to use eliminate commands to prevent them from returning to the main line. Possibly even make the leader ship prefer to go after ships that are far away from other enemy ships.