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commodoreobvious
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I'm looking to create a mission where one defeats a ship, then boards it, so I don't want the defeated ship to explode? Is this possible/how it is done?
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You can't make it so that when a ship gets down to a certain health it stops dead in its tracks and becomes friendly so it can't be shot at.
However, I wanted to do this in one of my very early missions. So what I did was have the combat encounter, you tell a boff that you want to disable the ship (a Reman Scimitar in this case). You defeat the ship and it blows up. You yell at your boff for not following orders, he tells you there was no way it should have been destroyed from how you were hitting it. You run a sensor sweep and find the scimitar (a new NPC contact that I spawned when the combat mob was destroyed) a short distance away. Your boff speculates that it must have set off a big explosion and cloaked to try and fake its own destruction to escape, but, it was damaged enough that it didn't make it very far.
Then you fly over and board it, which takes you to an interior map.
Several of the early Fed. missions against the Klingons, have just this type of thing happen.
And they've been in the game since day one.
Must be a bit of code that They don't want to share or haven't figured out how to port it over yet.
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Back to the topic, aside from Drogyn suggestion, you can make a text based encounter, you see an encounter, ask the player to move close, then use a waypoint to trigger a conversation. Use invisible wall to avoid a fight. Then, you tell your BOFF to neutralize the ship. Once it's selected, the enemy ship+invisible walls are removed, and a neutral NPC with the proper animation (venting plasma or something) spawn in its place.
The player will not see the "switch" as he will be in the conversation, and will only have his boff telling him "it's done", then see the derelict ship.