It crashes alot.
When the Fortress explodes.

It doesn't matter how it explodes, it just crashes.

It doesn't even give a specific error.

Woo, trying it!

This thing is AWESOME.

Giant steam-powered Death Star yeah!!! Testing now.

Erm... I loaded this thing, and it was cool for a few seconds. Then It stopped being able to fly, crashed to the ground, exploded, and then CC crashed. Then my settings.ini corrupted. :/

Now this thing is seriously bad ass I love having these things drop down on the enemy team, and just start rapeing everything I buy. The only problem I have with this is the difficulties controlling, randomlly blowing up, and the game crashing.

This has probably already been said.

Bugs I've encountered:
-Crashes when restart button is pressed while the fortress is still in service.
-The fortress self-destructs upon delivery, does not cause a crash
-It will lose control on a regular/random basis, and needs to switch control to its other cannons/turrets to regain control
-Crashes when it dies.

Quite serious bugs, but not surprising for such a huge unit. You must have done this thing in Ye old hacky way

Anyway, I still like it and hope it will be finished. More bug-fix, better control, and perhaps better sprites.

Hang on I got 1 more strange bug to add to this list give me a second to upload pic.

Edit:

Okay basically the fortress tends to attract anything crab like out of a recently destroyed drop ship. I tried to do this a couple more times and I found out that sometimes when the turrents destroy a drop ship near the fortress it seems to take 1 crab like actor from the cargo of the drop ship and just hold it. This was quite annoying cause well I had a dread hanging off my fortress of pwnage, once I got ride of the dread then a scout drone pops up 3 minutes later.
Then the game crashed

Good one zeno, now its obvious the Lua code could use a check to see if a turret is destroyed.
It seems to keep track of the "attached" turrets and when one is missing, ♥♥♥♥ will hit the fan.

Also just saw Steamboy. HELL YEAH STEAMPUNK. \.../ O_o

I guess some code to foresee possible situations like destroyed turrets or death of the systems(pilot killed) or the fortress itself and do things like destroy the object from the game so it wont refer to in anymore or it will set a switch not to run a specific part of the code.

Btw this mod is fudge MONUMENTAL.


EDIT: Btw, amrobotics, you out of all modders have gone to the most hackiest methods in accomplishing impossible things, so I bet you might have something to say or you've discovered things that could be improved in CC or done otherwise. If you could PM any and all suggestions you have, I will send them to Data and make a ticket(s) to his To Do list.

If this actor-attracting bug can be perfected, it can be used to create combining units. There was a combining clone made before, but it doesn't combine very well and crashes a lot.

Anyway, GJ on finding that bug, zeno, and for keeping the fortress alive for so long without crashing.

Looks like the Technodrome from Ninja Turtles.

amrobotics, I thought you left us.

You still love of though, and know how to show it.

The Lua gods should check the code.
Make sure it's as effective as it is.

I forgot to mention I used Piipu's drone gunship code as a starting point for the lua portion of this mod. I used GetAltitude to determine if the legs should follow the dropship (while airborne) or the dropship follow the legs (on ground). The turrets and legs are ACrabs, main body is ACDropship with lots of attachables. The turrets are currently GetsHitByMOs = 0, because despite the fact I used SetWhichMOToNotHit on them, they were colliding with the armorplating attachables and severely hindering movement.



I see what you're going for with this, but it doesn't seem to work (crashes when you go above the altitude set in z). I'm not entirely familiar with lua syntax yet, so it's a bit blurry for me what's wrong with it. Thanks tho, this is perfect as soon as it works.



Ok.

I will also edit the first post with some more things for the todo list, if anyone has ideas on how to solve any of the stuff on the list, your contribution will be appreciated.

Ahh, turns out I forgot a line or two(should have loaded it in Notepad++ first).
Anyway, this should work: