Questions here: an inquiry thread! [Updated Sep 15th, 2014]

[NewAgeOfPower]

List of active questions:

1.

Can you make a Defense drone that can target both Lasers/missiles and Drones?

2.

What am I doing wrong? Or is FTL Dat manager messed up?

3.

Somewhat related question for Sleeper: why didn't they work, and what were they meant to be?

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[dalolorn]

{erhaps a dumb question:

Will I have to use sector_data.xml, rather than .xml.append?

Same with events?

To put it in one word: Yes.

[NewAgeOfPower]

To put it in one word: Yes.

Thanks.

[kartoFlane]

To put it in one word: Yes.

To correct you: no. You should always use .xml.append, unless you want other mods to be incompatible with yours / the purpose of your mod is to fix the original game files.
You can add new / modify existing sectors or sectorTypes just fine via .xml.append

Though of course, I could be missing the context of the original question, seeing as it was edited out... *shrug*

edit
Welp. Looks like I was missing context...

[NewAgeOfPower]

Ah. I was trying to remove all the old events. And sectors.

Writing a different (although in-universe) campaign, 2 parallel series of missions per arc.

[NewAgeOfPower]

Question: How can I spawn multiple enemies ships per beacon, ala making an additional opponent after a kill via Events?

Context: I'm constructing a basic training first sector, explaining the optimal usage of that factions weapons for that campaign. It would be easier to have another target drone appear after you take out the first one.

[agigabyte]

Question: How can I spawn multiple enemies ships per beacon, ala making an additional opponent after a kill via Events?

Context: I'm constructing a basic training first sector, explaining the optimal usage of that factions weapons for that campaign. It would be easier to have another target drone appear after you take out the first one.

Impossible, do what Whale cancer did and make a quest chain.

[NewAgeOfPower]

Link please.

[agigabyte]

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3637&hilit=mantis+combat

Took me 10 minutes to find.

[XionGaTaosenai]

Has anyone made decent pictures of Engi Pirate ships? I want to add the Engi Scout and Engi Bomber to the list of ships that Pirates can be commanding, so I need pictures of those Engi ships with the telltale purple paint job.