[RELEASE] PrimableLaser OXP OMG!

[Okti]

Here is the readme.

PrimableLaser by Okti

Introduction:

Based on new technology gained from a captured alien ship, our scientists have developed this secondary forward laser. It is not always reliable, but can be very effective at mid to long range once a commander has learned how to use it correctly. Treat it well and it’ll serve you well! The Primable Laser will only be available to commanders of Deadly rating and above, and currently has two upgrades which will be available to commanders who deserve it… and who have enough credits to buy it.

Available at 14 TL or higher systems. Also you must calibrate it to your ship when purchased.

Known Problems:

This weapon must not be used on the mission ships for the last hit to kill.

Installation:

Unzip the file, and then move the folder "PrimableLaser.oxp" to the AddOns directory of your Oolite installation. Then start the game up and the equipment should be added.


Credits:

Smivs: for inventing the laser array for the Annihilator, and also the Wonder Worm.

El Viejo: for balancing an uber weapon to a playable one, correcting the texts, and testing.

Fatleaf: for testing and making comments about how to improve it.

Commander McLane: for nicking and adopting his code.


Copyright:

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

Downloadable from Here.

[CommonSenseOTB]

Very nice.

[maik]

Added it to the [wiki]OXP List[/wiki]

[Okti]

Added it to the [wiki]OXP List[/wiki]

Thanks Maik, also to give more information about this weapon is necessary I think.

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That is the laser mentioned in that post

[Zireael]

How does it work?

[Diziet Sma]

How does it work?

You could always download it and study the code..

[Zireael]

No, I mean, what key do I press to fire the other laser?

[Norby]

No, I mean, what key do I press to fire the other laser?

It is a primable equipment, so press "n" key to activate it after you selected "Primable Military Laser" with Shift+N after you bought it after you achieved 512 kills (or commented out this condition in equipment.plist file which is cheating but you can do it "for testing purposes" ).

[V12]

I'm testing this piece of equipment level II and observed 2 odd things :
- if I hit with primable laser locked target but don't kill him, my killcount is incremented
- primable laser don't turn off cloak

Now, I'm making money for Level III

EDIT :
Level III acquired ! Awesome firepower ! It is deadly weapon as plasma accelerator from Status Quo and Mutabilis...

[Falcon777]

OOOOOOH! SHINY!!! lol.

Out of curiosity, how much testing have you done with this oxp?

[V12]

With Level II I destroyed around 20 ships, with Level III 50 ships. Then I returned to old savegame.

[Zireael]

I'm testing this piece of equipment level II and observed 2 odd things :
- if I hit with primable laser locked target but don't kill him, my killcount is incremented
- primable laser don't turn off cloak

I've looked at the code but don't understand why this would happen.

Anyway, I think I'm gonna make a companion OXP to this one (since it seems to work better than Multiple Forward Lasers by CSOB) and give core NPC ships two lasers.

And oh yeah, add beam and pulse lasers to this thing, since they are all military lasers

BTW is there any way to enforce a cooldown on the primable laser?

[Cholmondely]

Wiki page now up: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Primable_Laser