Ship Request : Mantis AI Ship

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DragonMaster2962
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Ship Request : Mantis AI Ship

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If some one could please make this ship that would be great

Unique Things :

The ship starts with drone control and has 2 special boarding drone that dose the damage of a mantis but also has the health of one; no O2; Weapons (system) and Med-bay which makes it useless against other AI Ships and unable to carey crew; 20 Max Hull; and finally high-ish level engines

prices to get the missing systems :
Med-bay : 75 Scrap
O2 : 75 Scrap
Weapons : 150 Scrap
Cloak : 150 Scrap

Backstory : You come up with one! :mrgreen:
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Re: Ship Request : Mantis AI Ship

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that would be hard...

1) I do not think you can change the health of drones or damage. (how ever it already does mantis damage and has the same health as a rock I think at the moment)

2) it wouldn't be useless against an auto ship, the drone will keep fighting the rooms (that do repair themselves if there is no breach) til the hull drindles out.

3) this isn't specifically lore friendly but it's interesting.

I think I can take on the challenge of doing something like this I guess.
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Re: Ship Request : Mantis AI Ship

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R4V3-0N wrote:that would be hard...

1) I do not think you can change the health of drones or damage. (how ever it already does mantis damage and has the same health as a rock I think at the moment)

2) it wouldn't be useless against an auto ship, the drone will keep fighting the rooms (that do repair themselves if there is no breach) til the hull drindles out.

3) this isn't specifically lore friendly but it's interesting.

I think I can take on the challenge of doing something like this I guess.
its supposed to be useless against AI Ships; that's it weakness; and there no backstory yet so who knows, maybe a mantis stole Rebel drone AI
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Re: Ship Request : Mantis AI Ship

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I was thinking more the lines of stealing engi tech, makes more sense due to the fact there at war in FTL.

Also it is impossible to make a drone boarding ship that will not kill auto ships. Technically.
You simply can not change those kind of drones at all, besides speed I think as seen in captains edition.

The only way we can make it really bad against Auto ships is if we not make the Mantis AI ship an AI (I know there other ways around this but I do not know how to do it myself, it involves events) and give it a teleporter. because to destroy an AI, you'll need to then A) loose a crew member, or B) have any kind of weapon to finish them off.
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Re: Ship Request : Mantis AI Ship

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R4V3-0N wrote:I was thinking more the lines of stealing engi tech, makes more sense due to the fact there at war in FTL.

Also it is impossible to make a drone boarding ship that will not kill auto ships. Technically.
You simply can not change those kind of drones at all, besides speed I think as seen in captains edition.

The only way we can make it really bad against Auto ships is if we not make the Mantis AI ship an AI (I know there other ways around this but I do not know how to do it myself, it involves events) and give it a teleporter. because to destroy an AI, you'll need to then A) loose a crew member, or B) have any kind of weapon to finish them off.
well i honestly if don't care if the ship uses altered boarding drones; i just thought it could have some better ones but not known that there already quite good or not. a ship will be quite bade against AI Ships and with only boarding drones cause the drones cant really get around on the combat ones and destroying the systems wont do enough damage to destroy the ship, so yea...

as for the stealing from engi tech i didint come up with a backstory in the first place so yea and i thought the mantis and rebel were neutral and the rebels have AI ships so i figured a mantis stole from the rebels...

no that we got that out of the way can you get to work on the ship please? (don't mean to sound rude if it sounds rude)
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Re: Ship Request : Mantis AI Ship

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I would but I assume you wouldn't know how busy my life is at the moment, because technically I'm homeless at the moment and got no running water either. Moving out due to earthquake damage while EQC goes repair the ceiling/ roof/ walls.

I would also want to finish a mod I kinda started on, I am getting tired of starting on something then leaving it for later, then I will end up forgetting what I was at (eg what bugs are in it) (the current ship I'm making has something different and unique but minor).

Oh and we are not 100% sure on the allegiance between Rebel and Mantis.

The only time we see anything referring to such is in the Engi "Stealth cruiser" quest... how ever we do not even know how exactly the rebels could have gotten the ships, instead of gifts they could be stolen/ captured.

The evidence against the Rebel + Mantis Neutral/ Allience is...

1) The Mantis culture and such.
2) The fact it extremely hates humans, federation or not. (shown in a lost mantis nebula quest).


I will eventually get to this request sooner or later but if you want something quick I think one of the other guys could help.
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Re: Ship Request : Mantis AI Ship

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ill be happy as long as it gets done eventually :)
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