Missile w. Domina-esque Wave Effect?

[Aeonic]

I'm trying to get a missile (or more precisely, a mine, for mining) to detonate with the same wave effect that you get from Domina's powers, or alternatively the F-Bomb or IFX Fusion Blast from Xelerus. So far, I haven't had any success in getting this to work, and I'm not even sure if it's doable. Any help?

[Arisaya]

what you want is to put the source explosion in you new weapons fragment tags and use one fragment. look at some of the heavy namis

[Prophet]

I didn't think it would work at first, but, it does.

It's not only effective but fun too! although, when it does extract ore from the asteroid it tosses it pretty far so you have to chase it down. I think this is one of those weapons that crosses over from being just a mining tool into something that has some combat potential.
Did I mention it's fun, too?!

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<ItemType UNID="&itBoringMineLauncher;"
        name=				"Boring mine launcher"
        level=				"4"
        value=				"6000"
        mass=				"4000"
        frequency=			"rare"
        numberAppearing=	"1"
        modifiers=			"MajorItem; Mining"

        description=		"Taking mining into the 25th century!  Why mine with lasers when you can use exploding clouds of superheated ionized particles?"
        
        >

    <Image imageID="&rsItems1;" imageX="96" imageY="0" imageWidth="96" imageHeight="96"/>

    <Weapon
            fireRate=			"30"
            powerUse=			"10"
            launcher=			"true"
            >
        <Missiles>
            <Missile ammoID="&itBoringMine;"
                    type=			"missile"
                    fragmentCount=	"1"
                    damage=			"kinetic:1d4;"
                    missileSpeed=	"3"
                    hitPoints=		"20"
                    lifetime=		"180"
                    sound=			"&snMissileLauncher;"
                    >
                <Effect>
                    <Image imageID="&rsMissiles6;" imageX="0" imageY="0" imageWidth="24" imageHeight="24" imageFrameCount="12" imageTicksPerFrame="5"/>
                </Effect>
                
                <Fragment
                        type=			"area"
                        damage=			"blast:1d24; momentum7; WMD3; mining4"
                        expansionSpeed=	"40"
                        missileSpeed=	"0"
                        lifetime=		"20"
                        >
                    <Effect>
                        <Shockwave
                                fadeStart=	"200"
                                >
                            <Image imageID=				"&rsShatterShockwave;"
                                    imageX=				"0" 
                                    imageY=				"0" 
                                    imageWidth=			"512" 
                                    imageHeight=		"128"
                                    imageFrameCount=	"1"
                                    imageTicksPerFrame=	"1"/>
                        </Shockwave>
                    </Effect>
                </Fragment>
            </Missile>
        </Missiles>
    </Weapon>

</ItemType>

[digdug]

ahah, an area fragment that can mine

[Aeonic]

It's not only effective but fun too! although, when it does extract ore from the asteroid it tosses it pretty far so you have to chase it down. ...
Did I mention it's fun, too?!

Well, you said there needed to be something more than point, shoot, collect, sell and repeat. Now you can add "chase" to that list.

Oddly enough though I tried this last night and it totally didn't work. I'll have to figure out what I did wrong later.

You need to be very careful about giving anything with a wave effect, especially a large one, any kind of weapons potential. Its easy to hide on a planet, asteroid or wreckage and just set off wave after wave while enemies and stations nearby are helpless to stop you. In other words, its easy to break the game with it.

[digdug]

Oddly enough though I tried this last night and it totally didn't work. I'll have to figure out what I did wrong later.

strange, we already have in the game a weapon like that, try to have a look at the Ares Warhammer nukes in AresOrthodoxy.xml, it's a missile that fragments in an area type explosion, just add the mine event.

To get area type fragmenting mines, besides the mines of the NAMI mine launcher, you can have a look at the ChargeBots Autons mod (made by Bobby and me)
http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=79
It contains some area fragmenting autons, that can be used as mines.

[Aeonic]

I already figured out the problem - I was confusing <Missile> with <Missiles>, apparently. Now I have a nice little ICX wave generator that works fabulously.