Re: Fighter question

[Tony Christney <tchristney@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You will have to set some extra parameters in the XML file to
make FighterGroup objects work properly. Here is an example:

         <FighterGroup id="1102">
             <Position x="0.0" y="0.0"/>
             <Heading heading="2"/>
             <Race>New Anglian Confederation</Race>
             <Type>Torpedo</Type>
             <Count>6</Count>
             <Endurance>0</Endurance>
             <PilotQuality>Normal</PilotQuality>
             <Carrier id="1100"/>
			<OnBoard value="true"/>
			<FighterBay id="20"/>
         </FighterGroup>

Note that some new child elements of the FighterGroup element are
required for the FighterGroup to be considered on board the ship.
The Carrier element has the single attribute id which must match
the id attribute of the Ship that is its home Ship. The OnBoard
element represents a boolean value to signify that the group is
on board the ship. The FighterBay element is used to specify the
id attribute of the FighterBay that the FighterGroup has landed in.

Having just written this out for the first time, it looks like some
redundancy needs to be removed. This may change by version 1.0...

You may find that it will be easiest to keep the fighters in flight
at the beginning of the scenario, but to add the Carrier element
to allow the fighters to use the "Return Home" order.

HTH,
Tony C.


On 19-Jan-06, at 4:47 PM, Eliot Hemingway wrote:

> I have a question as well about fighters: in scenario construction 
> (XML file
> editing), do ships that have fighter bays automatically carry fighters
> unless told otherwise?  I have a scenario that I build last spring 
> that has
> been waiting for fighter rules, but it currently has all its fighters 
> in
> flight at the beginning of the scenario.
>
>
>