Write an alert meassage...

posted on July 13th, 2013, 11:27 am

What I need is a way to alert the player before an event happens, like in the ceasefire mode in instant action.
I want to alarm the players a few minutes before, and when my era changing pod advances the game to a new era of Star Trek. It would be even greater if there would be a running clock which counts back down to the time when the pod's weapon triggers.

posted on July 15th, 2013, 5:05 pm

Why not just have another weapon that does the alarm in sequence?

I know of no way currently to do such a message other than with a dummyweapon.

posted on July 16th, 2013, 8:27 pm

It doesn't really matter how it will work exactly as long as it works
What is a "dummyweapon" or what ship/station uses it? I didn't find any reference about it.

posted on July 16th, 2013, 9:10 pm

Oh, I just meant a weapon that doesn't do anything except announce your event

posted on July 17th, 2013, 5:37 pm

what about the dominion hyperspaceartillery weapon, just without the damage
you just need something like a "clocktower" that uses something with this efect near of it or in the middle of it
maybe put it near every starting point or in the middle of the map

by the way ... is this possible as a background ?

posted on July 21st, 2013, 6:39 pm

Oh, I just meant a weapon that doesn't do anything except announce your event

Oh I see.... But the question remains: How? I couldn't find it on the Hitchhiker Guide and I can't remember any weapon that writes a message to copypaste from there

posted on July 21st, 2013, 6:42 pm

Oh I see - the appropriate Weapon ODF command is FireEventID