Is there a way to force a planetary landing?

Mazer Rackham

I know it is possible to use control bits to leave a planet, but is it possible to use them to land on a planet?

If so, my fighter-pilot workaround has just gotten the go-ahead...

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Skyfox

No

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Kame

You can force system changes but that's the closest you can get.

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kauthor

Which was not used a lot in the default EVN Scenario. It is something I will like to see in future TCs, or plugs.

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Martin Turner

Yes, of course you can.

Create an outfit that increases the hyper-jump minimum distance from centre to something ridiculous, or one which reduces the player's jumping fuel capacity to nothing. Have a mission that grants this item to the player (either a Special Ship mission or a PERS mission with auto-abort, although you will need to test which of these works) while in the system. Have the Mission DESC tell the player that his hyper drive has failed and he will have to land for repairs. On planet have an outfit at the outfitters called 'hyper repairs' which simply removes this item, for a price.

And there you have it.

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Mazer Rackham

Cool, Martin, but thats not what I had in mind. I was hoping someone could find some way to make you land on a planet using control bits, I.E. you complete a mission and automatically land on the planet.

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Eegras Studios

You can. It just wont switch over. In the mission complete Bits feild put the Mxxx in it. So when you are on the planet and you complete the mission, It will move you into that planet. But, You have to leave then land again to get the settings for the second planet.

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Jonathan Boyd

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Originally posted by The Cheat:
**You can. It just wont switch over. In the mission complete Bits feild put the Mxxx in it. So when you are on the planet and you complete the mission, It will move you into that planet. But, You have to leave then land again to get the settings for the second planet.

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He's looking for a way to force you to land on a planet, while you're still in space, without having to land anywhere manually, I think, so sadly that doesn't help. It seems like the more goodies there are in an EV engine, the more things we find missing ;^)

Edit: just thought of a workaround. Ish. Create a system with a 'mother-ship' planet. Use Mxxx to move the player there. so far, already suggested, but here's the new part - give the mother-ship so much gravity that the player can't possibly move and all they can do is land. Looks like the closest you can get.

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(This message has been edited by Jonathan Boyd (edited 09-13-2003).)

getcrack4me

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Originally posted by Jonathan Boyd:
**...give the mother-ship so much gravity that the player can't possibly move and all they can do is land. Looks like the closest you can get.

**

That's a clever idea. However, if Mazer wants to have other ships in the area all of the AI ships will get dragged there too, and that would look really ludicrous.

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Jonathan Boyd

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Originally posted by getcrack4me:
**That's a clever idea. However, if Mazer wants to have other ships in the area all of the AI ships will get dragged there too, and that would look really ludicrous.

**

This is slightly off-topic, but low gravity in systems with AI ships is a handy way of keeping battles restricted to the system centre. It's a subtle effect, so the AI doesn't go crazy trying to fly where it wants, but if you keep the value low (even just 1 or 2 works okay), they'll get a nudge into the middle of whatever planets have gravity.
Makes it easy to find disabled ships too - they all pile up eventually.

Or, if you just give it to wormholes, no more long winded hunts round systems. Used that in Classic4Nova.

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mrxak

One addition to the gravity plan (and I prefer insane amounts of gravity) is have a whole bunch of other ships hyper in and hail you, demanding that you land immediately, over and over and over again. Make them hostile too, so that if you don't land quickly, you die.

Mwua-ha-ha-ha!!!

Skyfox

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Originally posted by mrxak:
**One addition to the gravity plan (and I prefer insane amounts of gravity) is have a whole bunch of other ships hyper in and hail you, demanding that you land immediately, over and over and over again. Make them hostile too, so that if you don't land quickly, you die.

Mwua-ha-ha-ha!!!

**

When I read that, I was sitting just right in the sun so that when i looked over at your name, the moderator looked like it read muderator. Heh.

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mrxak

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Originally posted by Skyfox:
**When I read that, I was sitting just right in the sun so that when i looked over at your name, the moderator looked like it read muderator. Heh.

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When I first read your post, I read it as murderator. That may just be because I'm evil (I'm not in the sun after all).

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