auton commands

sfree · Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:30 pm

whan you have a really slow mule auton and some other battle autons there should be a "protect target option" to have the autons surround the target and shoot anything that gets near it.

Yugi · Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:38 pm

Yeah, this seems like something the game is lacking. I don't actually use autons, however.

goat not sheep · Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:39 pm

I do. Alot. Yes a great idea to help me with my korov mission. Hire a lot of 1m/is and 1ms and ask to protect in the 5000 mission.Instant 5000 credits.

Yugi · Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:23 am

goat not sheep wrote:I do. Alot. Yes a great idea to help me with my korov mission. Hire a lot of 1m/is and 1ms and ask to protect in the 5000 mission.Instant 5000 credits.

But isn't buying all of those autons really expensive, making doing this counter-productive unless you don't mind doing the mission about 15 times or so, and even more to make a profit?

F50 · Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:24 pm

what you need is Ageis autons not so many 1m and 1m/i. destroying Corsair IIs and vikings isn't that hard, its stopping the missiles. I was thinking more for companions and the refugee mission.

goat not sheep · Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:09 pm

ahh...ok. Well... money isn't really an issue.I can destroy the station if i want to , too.

FAD · Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:34 am

Pretty kewl idea.
I've noticed that some enemies will target the mule auton before even targetting the playership. Having the "Protect Target" command would be quite handy for protecting the mule. But as already stated here, having such a command could be abused... unless it was aimed for autons to protect only mule autons.
I think it would have to use something like the "guard" code in the commands in order to work.