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Hangar pets still not working correctly
kortaag
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Since so many ships are now injected with at least one hangar, I thought I might put a sole spotlight on hangar pets. I've compiled a noticeable list of issues surrounding them. Need info to replicate the problem? Simply fly a ship with a hangar; it's rather easy to do.
Shield Repair Units (Both standard and very rare)
1. They do not escort and heal other targets.
2. They are getting caught in a functional loop where at times it fails to heal all together or will do nothing but heal. (Further note: When stuck in a non stop healing cycle the pets provide negligible assistance)
3. These units suffer from consistent ADHD as their inability to gain rank while performing works maybe 30% of the time but when it does their improvement is merely a trickle in speed.
Issues affecting all other hangar types
1. When hangar units are engaging a target under attack mode, the pets will proceed to attack nearby targets even if it is unintended. There are situations in which surrounding targets may attack said pets after some which employ AoE engagements (FAW, etc). To this measure, it is understandable however even units which were not engaged or attacked will join attacking the unintended target. Effectively this makes using the attack mode a one-time use, from initial formation. With one further mention, choosing another target under attack mode seems to have no effect when it is actually desired to do so.
2. When choosing escort mode, units seem to respond well to engaging, when you are engaged. It is only when it becomes necessary to leave an area whilst previously engaged do the units disobey the escort mode, continuing to attack their own respective targets. Only after a target has been destroyed do they make any effort to escort you again.
3. Intercept mode seems to behave just like escort mode.
4. Recall mode seems to function but only after targets have been destroyed.
It would appear they're all going off of the same module or something. If there's no fix for this, will you devs at least let us use the hangar bay for a console at least? Like how Kira helped rig the cargo vessel with a planetary defense disruptor?
Shield Repair Units (Both standard and very rare)
1. They do not escort and heal other targets.
2. They are getting caught in a functional loop where at times it fails to heal all together or will do nothing but heal. (Further note: When stuck in a non stop healing cycle the pets provide negligible assistance)
3. These units suffer from consistent ADHD as their inability to gain rank while performing works maybe 30% of the time but when it does their improvement is merely a trickle in speed.
Issues affecting all other hangar types
1. When hangar units are engaging a target under attack mode, the pets will proceed to attack nearby targets even if it is unintended. There are situations in which surrounding targets may attack said pets after some which employ AoE engagements (FAW, etc). To this measure, it is understandable however even units which were not engaged or attacked will join attacking the unintended target. Effectively this makes using the attack mode a one-time use, from initial formation. With one further mention, choosing another target under attack mode seems to have no effect when it is actually desired to do so.
2. When choosing escort mode, units seem to respond well to engaging, when you are engaged. It is only when it becomes necessary to leave an area whilst previously engaged do the units disobey the escort mode, continuing to attack their own respective targets. Only after a target has been destroyed do they make any effort to escort you again.
3. Intercept mode seems to behave just like escort mode.
4. Recall mode seems to function but only after targets have been destroyed.
It would appear they're all going off of the same module or something. If there's no fix for this, will you devs at least let us use the hangar bay for a console at least? Like how Kira helped rig the cargo vessel with a planetary defense disruptor?
May good management be with you.
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This is one of biggest gripes with carrier pets atm.
Really, devs, play a KASE with a carrier, preferably with frigates.
They tend to get to interested in firing at stuff they can't hurt yet, such as gateways and transformers... Recalling and redeploying doesn't even always fix things.
What's worse, under the old pet system, you could just respawn them, destroying the old ones in the process, but you can't do that anymore...
I'd like the devs to try to use anything that exists outside ship I.E. saucer/ chevron sep, photonic fleet, auquarius, any hangar pet.
They all do what ever they damn well please, and hangar ones pretend to do what you want until you arent looking. They are all essentially misbehaved children.
Seriously why is my saucer flying to the otherside of the map from me?
I am Il Shadow and i approve these Shennanigans!
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
This made me chuckle. It's so true.
I've been known to encounter MVAE and carrier pets I thought long lost at the end of missions, when they finally decided to rejoin me because every other distraction was gone from the map. And that's when you're lucky, as that kind of waywardness generally just tends to get them killed.
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If they want to do it right, they should build distinct universal modules which explicitly perform the roles they are designed for and respond to the carrier commands correspondingly. That should eliminate if not most of these all too common bugs.
Yup. If we could actually send those shield units to escort folks it would be a lot better. It's a pretty rudimentary function in theory.