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jh145

That workaround would go too far the other way, nullifying one of the most satisfying features of my ridiculous super-ship. I like my turrets wiping out mafia kingpins while I'm busy pouring another beer

Is unattributable plasma recognised as a core game bug? Do we agree it should be?

jh145

I'm flying a Fer-de-Lance 3G+(t). To my almost unending joy, it has forward-facing turrets that are just wonderful for warming the paintwork of ships spiralling out of my cross-hairs. But ... purists may think it natural justice ... it means I often miss out on Random Hits kills! The problem seems t...

jh145

... or was it UK_Eliter that wrote:
Of course someone might have just made a pink ship!

That particular ship, and its turret-bearing oft-invisible cousin, has been a major cause of game-overs recently

jh145

Wouldn't it be nice if it were possible to pan the F5/F6 maps and zoom out/in?
[Rhetorical question of course. Coding hell not underestimated at all.]

jh145

Smivs wrote:
A very expensive option might be my Contractor Mk II, fast with sharp and impressive handling, and quite tough as well.

Incidentally, also the joint-toughest (with the pirate king flavour of the Fer-de-Lance 3G) of the NPCs that I've tested so far.

jh145

QCS wrote:
Before we had heavy fights with fugitives on one side (including a carrier) and me, my escorts and police ships of various sorts on the winning side directly in vicinity of the station, being watched by civilians.

Unhelpfully OT: that sounds great! - what OXPs got you into that fight?

jh145

Thanks cim. I don't know how you find the time!

jh145

A few small changes? Cursor left/right always page the list of OXPs up/down, not just when you're already at the top/bottom of a page. Display date of last change -- helps instil confidence that the OXP is somewhat current. Or display number of downloads in the last four weeks -- same reason. I'm lo...

jh145

al.khwarizmi wrote:
... but the estimates are already done

A couple are off by a tenth. You can get exact figures by looping over the masked MARKET_RND byte for each economy, no Monte Carlo required.

jh145

I have something basically working. The add-on spawns two groups of five same-type ships either side of a buoy a little way back (away from the planet) from the witchpoint. They attack the heck out of each other until no-one's left or a timer calls it quits (learnt the hard way from watching two sma...

jh145

It would require a fair bit of reorganisation to make it possible, and both of the obvious ways it could be done would probably cause problems for other OXPs. Which properties are you wanting to edit? I've no burning desire to change any one particular thing; I just felt uncomfortable that the curr...

jh145

cim wrote:
you can't - in effect - define shipdata.plist entries at run-time.

I can probably hack round it as you suggest but, still, I'm curious: does the code need to forbid runtime customisation before spawning, or is that just the way it happens to work today?

jh145

I'm spawning random ships, but would like to get them alone, without escorts. More generally, I'd like to pick a random ship type, edit the attributes I don't like (e.g. ensure escorts=0), then spawn. Is this possible? I definitely want to make these customisations at runtime, not hard-coded into a ...

jh145

cim wrote:
Okay, slight modification needed, then: ...

I looked it up and decided to go with:

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this._myCallbackFunction = function() {
  // ...
  this._score += 1;
}.bind(this)    // within the function, "this" is the worldscript

jh145

Hi, two questions ... How can I get my script to see all ships currently defined by the game? That's ship type, like "[ferdelance]", not spawned instance, so I can have a menu of things from which to select for creative spawning. What's the cleanest way of maintaining "global" st...

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