distressSignal?

Murgh · Post by **Murgh** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:08 am

a small request that, I hope will make sense, and be a bagatelle to implement:

in the AI, when using broadcastDistressMessage, the distressed ship will signal for help from authorities (within range), make ripples around the radar icon, and send a distress comms message from the entries in descriptions.plist..

what I would wish for is a slightly more discrete option that only triggers the first two (a basic signal-based SOS), allowing for a customized descriptions.plist distress call -that could be more relevant to the particular entity, so that an "comms-invisible" broadcastDistressSignal could work both as a more repeated reminder to absent-minded or late-arriving police, and in tandem with a custom descriptions.plist entry without flooding the comms panel.

eh. is this understandable?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:39 am

It is.

I’d quite like the ability to send out a distress signal. Especially when police walk in on a battle, allowing you to try to bamboozle them into thinking it’s the other guy who’s a pirate, just for comedy value. ;-)

Post by **winston** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:49 am

Yes, but your undoubted Fugitive status would be a dead giveaway!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:53 am

Oh, no. I’m never fugitive.

Murgh · Post by **Murgh** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:02 am

ah you guys want this for your selves.

and here I was thinking of the poor traders..

that's probably up a difficulty-notch, implementing a player distress button

but police wouldn't be bamboozled after a quick comparison of the legal status value number?

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:33 am

Since the police now act on any offender-on-clean laser action they notice, this should be less of a problem to the fair traders among you.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:46 am

aegidian wrote:
this should be less of a problem to the fair traders among you.

Now who is going to own up to that?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:17 pm

But what about clean-on-clean action? :-)

Post by **winston** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:34 pm

Well, in the case of clean on clean, the player is obviously guilty!

Murgh · Post by **Murgh** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:58 pm

true. otherwise there can be no such event.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:14 pm

Yeah, but it makes no sense for the police to assume this.

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:04 pm

It would also make more sence if police
first give warning,
then fine,
then attack.
(when clean and being a public nuisance)

Darconian policing method does not really look at who shot first...just who was seen shooting first.
Or who complained the most/first.

Ah yeah: I want to yell for assistance too.
You could in FE2, but no one ever came to help.

just stupid pirates spawned in uninhabited systems.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:24 pm

One thing I really, really hate is when a fugitive starts pleading for mercy, and you shoot them. I mean, whydo I become an offender then? Merely crying for help shouldn't change that...

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:29 pm

Having a licence to bountyhunt will solve that sort of problems...purchase from your local Guildhouse.

Cmdr. Luke · Post by **Cmdr. Luke** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:12 am

Sometimes you can be attacked by a clean ship if you attack one of their fugitive/offender freinds. Also, their status remains clean, even if you are also clean.