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GoHiigara

This mod aims to give you the experience of a Homeworld campaign where you travel towards a target (Hiigara)

It tries that by spawning increasingly tougher enemies near you the nearer you get to a dangerzone. Dangerzones can be defined in the config file.

To get the mod working you need to have some drones ready in your prefab list. That takes some work and I will probably release some of the prefabs we use for our HW campaign.

The default configuration is made for EasyEarthStart and assumes the alien planet to be hiigara. Every other planet's sphere of influence is meant to be a safezone, so that no drones spawn in gravity or atmosphere.

There are 3 chat commands:
/travel - gives you information about the distance to the target and current threatlevel
/position - print out your position
/spawn - only available for the admin, spawns a wave immeadiatly and resets the timers

The spawning works dependant on your distance to the target and the available prefabs. The default is that the maximum threatlevel is 5 at the border to Hiigara and 1 in the orbit of earth. So halfway to Hiigara you have a threat of 2.5. Assume you have 3 prefabs: 1xlvl1 , 1xlvl2, 1xlvl3. Then you can have a wave spawned that consists of the lvl2 drone or two of the lvl1 drones.

You can set the maximum yourself for every dangerzone and have them spawn drones for different factions. They can even come in and battle against each other.

Please make sure you set the spawn times so that you can handle the incoming enemy. For every player there is a timer running and if you have 5 players in one spot... well, it can get chaotic.


Keep in mind this is the work of 3 hours coding and my first plugin. I'm just publishing it to be able to test it on a dedicated server.

When using this mod the quality of the experience really depends on the quaility of the available drones.

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Roadmap:
- Tracking of spawned drones to delete them when the completly out of range
- Scenario adjustments like distance to hiigara more fitting for the jump drive
- Sync the target position from server to clients

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Known issues:
- not enough testing -
- clients only know the correct position when having the same config as the server

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Credits:
-midspace's admin commands git hub helped a lot to understand ship spawning and i used the debugger
-cython's (Beta) Shields helped me to understand how one can use config files in SE