[delta_v] Assigning ships after misns

[Allan Crossman]

>Actually, I think you could fake it pretty well, but it'd be alot of
>work. If i understand things correctly, you should be able to keep track
>of what ship the player is in by setting control bits on
>purchase/acquisition. Then after the mission completes, send the player to
>a system to "pick up" his old ship where another mission activates that
>switches ships again. How you handle equipment is up to you though.

Quite a bit of work - you'd need a LOT of missions, one for each ship the
player can own; from all these the mission to give back the ship would be
selected (it could be an invisible mission - no need to force the player to
go and pick it up, which he might not want to do anyway).

And you'd need to make sure that each ship sets a unique bit when bought
and unsets it when retired, so the missions (above) can test for their
unique bit.

Equipment would be too hard, I think - there's surely no way to keep track
of how many items of each type one has?

So you'd need some part of the story to explain why the items have been
stolen or something...

But it's a good idea, and not beyond the realms of doability.



                    Allan Crossman
               http://www.faldara.co.uk
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