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Stoo suggested this effect, or rather settled for it when he learned that creating a controllable escape pod was impossible. At any rate, it will let swarmers feel better about sending dozens of brave pilots to their doom attacking a Defense Field Frigate. A few lines of code create a small escape pod (actually the Kushan Drone model) that is fired out of the ship as it explodes. It's quite fast and very small, so it's easy to miss, but it is there.

Instructions

Unzip this into your Homeworld directory. Find the Death section in R1.script (right at the top) and replace the fighter and corvette deaths like so:

setDeathEvent           R1,CLASS_Fighter,damage,destdamageescape.ebg
setDeathEvent           R1,CLASS_Fighter,projectile,destprojectileescape.ebg
setDeathEvent           R1,CLASS_Fighter,beam, destbeamescape.ebg

setDeathEvent           R1,CLASS_Corvette,damage,destdamageescape.ebg
setDeathEvent           R1,CLASS_Corvette,projectile,destprojectileescape.ebg
setDeathEvent           R1,CLASS_Corvette,beam,destbeamescape.ebg