Computer Ship Autons?

[Aeonic]

Is there any way to setup ships so that they're being escorted by autons the same way that they work with the player? I'm just curious because having some little Teraton autons escorting this massive Teraton bad news ship would be pretty sweet.

[Prophet]

Absolutely, there are a number of ways to do it.

If you have a custom station you can use something like:

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<Ships>
    <Table>
        <Group chance="75">
            <Ship			count="1" class="&scBigShip;"		orders="patrol" patrolDist="15"/>
            <Escorts>
                <Ship			count="1d6"	class="&scLittleShip;"	orders="escort"/>
            </Escorts>
        </Group>
        <Ship chance="25"	count="1"	class="&scBigShip;"		orders="wander" >
            <Escorts>
                <Ship			count="1d6"	class="&scLittleShip;"	orders="escort"/>
            </Escorts>
        </Ship>
    </Table>
</Ships>

If you have autons folowing you and you want them to escort some other ship try Bobby's UGWingmen Mod, which provides much more functionality to your wingmen and autons.
UGWingmen.xml


There's also alterecco's GODMOD
GODMOD.xml


And if all else fails you can force it in the console with some script.

[Bobby]

or you could add an onCreate event that spawns some autons.

It could randomly enhance weapons or armor too, see volkov for an example.