Oolite Bulletins

I know there is formation flying, but is there something like formation attacking,
can for example three ships attack another and stay in certain formation?

Something like this, perhaps? Not exactly 'formation' attack, but beautifully synchronised.



That was a Thargoid Warship at the focal point of those simultaneous strikes.

During my various tests I have very often seen Vipers performing formation attacks on targets. This was especially evident when there were large numbers of police and pirates in the scene.

I have not studied the fighting AI recently, but whether this was by design or not, it certainly looked very cool.

That is indeed a beautifully 'synchronised' attack and presumably very deadly,
but I mean more like the formations here simulated inside the red circles.



If this behaviour current isnot present, I think one way would be to create packversions of a ship which contain several ships as subentities of the pack ( but how would this affect the aim of the subentities ) ?

The idea of additional fighters as subentities seem to work, although flying formations are restricted to dock sizes if one wants to launch a squad...

Here are some cylon raiders







I tried shoot the subentities-raiders to see how the whole squad would react, but these buggers are so fast and agile I 'kept bumping into the lot´ ...