v1.62 (Pre-Release) Patch Available

Murgh · Post by **Murgh** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:15 am

is anyone else seeing a trader/victim tendency to always fire off two missiles at the same time, and that hitting ECM only destroys one of them..?

lex_talionis · Post by **lex_talionis** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:24 am

*nods*

i've died that way, too...

Post by **winston** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:50 am

Don't forget about ECM hardened missiles. If the rake of missiles that is coming your way includes a hardened missile, you're buggered unless you spot it in time and hit the witch fuel injectors.

Actually, one thing I'd like to see is some limited learning by enemy ships - i.e. if the enemy fires a missile and I ECM it, the enemy doesn't keep firing missiles at me because it's a waste (except hardened missiles or at extremely short range).

lex_talionis · Post by **lex_talionis** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:29 pm

i know that winston - and i've been caught that way before. but in the case i was referring to, a second hit of the ECM killed missile #2.

in other matters, has anyone else gone to restock on missiles and discovered that there are 2 entries in the equipment screen that offer ECM-hardened missiles?

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:12 pm

lex_talionis wrote:
in other matters, has anyone else gone to restock on missiles and discovered that there are 2 entries in the equipment screen that offer ECM-hardened missiles?

Yes, repeatedly.

Cmdr. Wombat · Post by **Cmdr. Wombat** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:30 pm

Rxke wrote:
lex_talionis wrote:
in other matters, has anyone else gone to restock on missiles and discovered that there are 2 entries in the equipment screen that offer ECM-hardened missiles?
Yes, repeatedly.

All the time in fact (in high enough TL systems).

I also get the occaisional double missile barrage launched at me.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:07 pm

Cmdr. Wombat wrote:
I also get the occaisional double missile barrage launched at me.

Ditto, but never had the problem having to ECM repeatedly in such cases... In fact I kinda like it, seeing a salvo... Those double, blue arcing exhaustplumes...

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:10 pm

...are we going for a new category for 'pseud's corner'...???

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:06 pm

pseud's corner?

What's that?

Bug?: I have the feeling he maintenaince overhaul doesn't happen anymore... Used to be quite frequent, but now I never have to do it, despite having been kicked around pretty hard sometimes (loss of shields, equipment etc...)

Maybe it is now just less frequent?

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:36 pm

Sorry Rxke!
...there is an English magazine called 'Private Eye' - it's been around for years, and it used to have a column called Pseud's Corner, where someone would describe something mundane in an ecstatic arty way that was pretty inappropriate...

..it was the 'I kinda like it, seeing a salvo... Those double, blue arcing exhaustplumes'...

...I think I'll shut up now...

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:24 pm

/me imagining Star Gazer flying over a battlefield... Navigator screaming INCOMING! INCOMING! MY GOD TWO SAM!!!

Star Gazer: "Pffff... Mundane stuff...."

lex_talionis · Post by **lex_talionis** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:49 pm

i don't know if this is just a quirk of my computer, but my scanner targetting enhancement thingy has disappear, to be replaced by the multi-targetting system - which i don't want. it always used to be that targetting someone brought up a wee square round them that told me all the details.

can someone fling across the code i need to paste into my savefile to get the damn thing back?

lex_talionis · Post by **lex_talionis** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:14 pm

bah, ignore that. i just bought a new ship of the same type. interestingly though, on the bit that tells you what kit the ship already has, scanner targetting enhancement wasn't meantion, and neither was the multi-targetting thing. however - both turned up on my spec list when i bought the ship!

how strange.

Wiggy · Post by **Wiggy** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:36 pm

If you've got 2 ECM hardened missiles in the Purchase Equipment list, check your OXPs.
Gile introduced them in an OXP called aegidian-special.oxp, but then made them standard in the game from a certain version onwards. If you've got the OXP and a recent version, that causes the missiles to appear twice in the list.
(At least, that worked for me...)

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:00 pm

Wiggy wrote:
If you've got 2 ECM hardened missiles in the Purchase Equipment list, check your OXPs.
Giles introduced them in an OXP called aegidian-special.oxp, but then made them standard in the game from a certain version onwards. If you've got the OXP and a recent version, that causes the missiles to appear twice in the list.

Oh, well spotted!

I was beginning to wonder if I'd made anopther bug!