@Emiricol4Rl Seeing as this relies on the default spawns, I'm pretty sure it won't work with MES. When I get back around to playing SE again, I'll look into MES and see if I think it's worth it to convert it over.

How does this mod interact with Modular Encounter Spawner?

@thomas

Nice, love your mods man, keep up the great work.

@Hammer Hands
So the total number of drones is a per-game setting. The default is 5 active drones per gameworld, and I found a flaw in one of my antenna combos that would allow that number to spawn all within a few minutes. I will close that loophole where I find it, so the most that my changes SHOULD spawn is 4 for valuable ships (except for a very rare case) with 1 or 2 being the most for less valuable ships and stations. I should be able to publish this fix tonight.

Makes, sense, i love the mod, addds a serious challenge to capturing the freighters. Fun stuff. :-)

I will re-check the limit on drones. The game defaults to a small number (3, I think). I believe my limit is 5. I may reduce that to 4 if I find that it's too hard for vanilla weapons.The problem is that I developed this to work with my other, server-side mod, which includes an edited version of the Oki guns.

It depends on what spawns with the distress signals. The spawn groups typically spawn 1 or 2 drones from a list of 3 or 4. If you happen to get a "Union Worker", it's supposed to spawn 2 or 3 additional drones, depending on how close it gets. The Union Worker is a small ship, so it's very weak. Most of the time, it only gets a chance to spawn only a single drone before getting wiped out.

I would like to also note that I have not updated this mod in quite some time. Since the game has finally entered Beta, I will attempt to update what I can. I also still do plan on adding many more drones, encounters, and pirate bases.

How does the mod determine how many responses it will spawn. I've had one that spawned 4 drones at once at less than 1km from me. A bit too much for a solo player to handle. :-)