Formations

[Samurai]

Hi,
I hope this isn't a stupid question, but is there any way to create (and save) your own formations?

[geoschmo]

You can edit the formations text file. Haven't tried it myself, but others have I hear.

[Tampa_Gamer]

Yes, works like a charm.

[Jubala]

Tampa, what kind of formations have you created? I've been thinking of trying to make a formation in which the beamers stay up front and the missile boats hang back. I haven't really messed around with the formations.txt file so I don't know if it can be done.

I have also been thinking about decreasing the size of the formations drastically to have several small formations instead of one big formation that's hard to swing around with.

[raynor]

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Originally posted by Jubala:
Tampa, what kind of formations have you created? I've been thinking of trying to make a formation in which the beamers stay up front and the missile boats hang back. I haven't really messed around with the formations.txt file so I don't know if it can be done.

I have also been thinking about decreasing the size of the formations drastically to have several small formations instead of one big formation that's hard to swing around with.

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Those both sound like great ideas!

Can you hold off for about a week on experimenting with this? I was gonna see if I couldn't write at least *some* sort of computer program to help automate the process of typing in all those (x,y) coordinates. *WAY* too tedious...

[Jubala]

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Originally posted by raynor:
Those both sound like great ideas!

Can you hold off for about a week on experimenting with this? I was gonna see if I couldn't write at least *some* sort of computer program to help automate the process of typing in all those (x,y) coordinates. *WAY* too tedious...

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That's exactly why I haven't done it yet. I would be very interested in such a program.