Tharglets

Post by **Eric Walch** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 12:42 pm

another_commander wrote:
The fix I applied was not related to becomeUncontrolledThargon. ...I had not considered that a becomeUncontrolledThargon would be issued to anything other than Thargons, it seems a bit unorthodox to me.

You are right. Looking at it more closely it are two unrelated issues. But it would still be a good idea when this command also would also remove any pilot.

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:39 pm

another_commander wrote:
The fix I applied was not related to becomeUncontrolledThargon. ...I had not considered that a becomeUncontrolledThargon would be issued to anything other than Thargons, it seems a bit unorthodox to me.

It's actually quite a useful command for any spawned/pylon-launched entity that you may later want to recover and re-use. For example if you look in both my Drones and Probe OXPs, they use it. That way the introduced equipment can operate as independent ships, but at a suitable point go dormant (via becomeUncontrolledThargon) and be properly scoopable for re-use.