[ian-reeds-games] sum up

From: "Allan Thompson" <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx>
To: "ian-reeds-games@freelist" <ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:32:15 -0500
I was thinking about summons, since I use it quite a bit.

I was wondering if it was a good idea to be able to summon a named unit. Not 
the title but the actual flag name. Maybe a good idea, maybe bad, I really 
don't know.

My second thought, and yes, I sometimes think and sometimes more then once, 
lol...I was thinking of summoning being able to  summon more then one unit.
This comes up cause I was trying to create a saucer seperation skill, where one 
unit divides into two. The original  plan was to destroy the old unit, and have 
two in it's place which would go off and save the universe or their little part 
of it.
What I have now is a secondary hull useing seperation to summon the saucer, 
which is kind of weird. It's workable, but maybe it could be done? Comma 
seperated list of units maybe?

I have been using summon to simulate a cloaking and uncloaking ship. It is 
actually not to bad. Without hull, the ship can navigate around with impunity 
since the enemy can't damage it, although on the flip side I made sure the 
cloaked ship couldn't do nothing much but move around. It is as close to 
invisibility as one can get at present.

The only problem is, is that  when my ship uncloaks, it gets attacked, and that 
is what I want. However, if the ship decloaks, it is actually kind of working 
as a "heal", cause if I uncloak again, there is no damage since it summoned up 
a brand new uncloaked ship. I guess my question is, is it somehow possible to 
save that old ship and bring it back as it was when it is resummoned again? 

My only answer, was that  maybe a flag could be created that didn't so much 
summon and unsummon a ship, but sort of turned a  flag on and off. Since the 
bad guys don't react much to a ship without damage they can cause to it, 
turning the flag on and off seems like the best overall way to go about doing 
it. All that would have to be saved is the hull point total which would remain 
static until turned on again. 
Does that sound feasible or doable, or even a good idea? 

al 
   



 
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[ian-reeds-games] sum up

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