Capital ship releasing fighters

Waverider · 2003-03-04T23:04:49

When I play Freespace, and I am attacking a capital ship, there is always an abundance of fighter craft to antagonize me. When I used to play TIE Fighter, I realized that new waves would only appear after the entire current wave was destroyed (TIE Bombers Beta 1, 2, and 3, etc.). I would take advantage of that, destroying two of them but leaving one damaged and limping back to its mother ship. This would delay the release of the next wave. I didn't really notice in Freespace what the logic was to the craft being released - I guess because it never gave me a warning that more craft were emerging, so I couldn't key it to anything. Still, I'm wondering what logic they used. Perhaps they released the next wave when the current wave was down to one, or maybe it was a timed release. Heck, if the capital ship really wanted to defend itself, it would launch many waves to overwhelm the opposition, but that would make the game impossible. For those of you who have designed such scenarios, how would you design the logic of releasing more waves? Would you release the next wave when the first one is destroyed or returns? Would it be a timed release so that the opposition has to keep up with their release? Would you give the capital ship a limited supply, so that the player could actually run the ship out of defenses? Or what other kind of method would you use? [edited by - Waverider on March 3, 2003 7:02:06 PM]