Cooperation might be in order to tackle some epic hits - If the mark was, let us say, a Black Monk VIP hidden inside a Monastery, surrounded by a minefield and a couple dozens BM Gunships expecting for trouble, and with a bounty in the 5 digits order...
But I get your point - you'd rather keep things as they are and confine epic level missions to epic level OXPs.
Precisely - I'd rather see that as being an OXP in it's own right (perhaps initially finding out about it, then having to track down in which Monastery he's hiding, recruit a relevant taskforce, etc), rather than being a random 'normal' situation which could crop up every couple of missions.
'Epic' level tasks should be exceedingly rare and quite unique, IMHO, rather than being part of randomly generated 'mundane' quests.
I have been trying for ages to get a good enough screen shot of this issue. It happens from time to time with the revenge attacks. They seem to be doubled. As you can see there are two groups of the same party!
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But I did some quick readaround and I'm guessing that, since a Cloaking Device is needed from the start, I'd need to finish the core mission which awards it beforehand.
But I suppose that one gets to keep the tractor beam upon mission completion... and I'd probably have to play the mission itself before finding out whatever interesting ways it could be used for (besides dragging mines around of course )
I have been trying for ages to get a good enough screen shot of this issue. It happens from time to time with the revenge attacks. They seem to be doubled. As you can see there are two groups of the same party!
So! getting back to topic. Any idea as to the cause of this problem?
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So! getting back to topic. Any idea as to the cause of this problem?
When reading the code, the revenge ships are added somewhere on route after you got the warning by the police. When you didn't had an encounter after 8 or 9 jumps after the warning, the code starts adding them at the witchpoint instead. In one occasion it could happen that both one is added on-route and one at the witchpoint. I have no idea if this was intentionally or a bug, but I see no real problem in it, that you occasionally get two opponents for revenge.
I have no idea if this was intentionally or a bug, but I see no real problem in it, that you occasionally get two opponents for revenge.
Personally I quite like it when it happens. But having two ships claiming to be the same person is a bit off. I would consider this as a bug. But a fun one.
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Personally I quite like it when it happens. But having two ships claiming to be the same person is a bit off. I would consider this as a bug. But a fun one.
i was looking for a bug that called the addition twice, but overlooked the most obvious: The number of revenge ships is also dependent on the variable "missionVariables.random_hits_criminal_hate_score". When above 50 there is a change of adding a second ship and above 100 there could even be 3 added. The names are chosen randomly. So Identical names indicates a problem with the random name generation in Oolite itself.
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Personally I quite like it when it happens. But having two ships claiming to be the same person is a bit off. I would consider this as a bug. But a fun one.
i was looking for a but that called the addition twice, but overlooked the most obvious: The number of revenge ships is also dependent on the variable "missionVariables.random_hits_criminal_hate_score". When above 50 there is a change of adding a second ship and above 100 there could even be 3 added. The names are chosen randomly. So Identical names indicates a problem with the random name generation in Oolite itself.
Is it not possible to get 2 same random selections in a row? Perhaps in this case a small snippet of code that compares the second to make sure it is not the same as the first and make another random pick, and so on, would solve this bug. Does that make any sense?
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Is it not possible to get 2 same random selections in a row? Perhaps in this case a small snippet of code that compares the second to make sure it is not the same as the first and make another random pick, and so on, would solve this bug. Does that make any sense?
No it is not possible that way. It is the ship script that on 'shipSpawned' selects a random name. If there are also ship scripts that somehow manage to reset the seed on 'shipSpawned', you get identical names. For some of the launching ships in RH I created a number of random names and than used the Js random function to make a selection from it. But that is a lot of stupid overhead, and I think that problem is solved now in Oolite itself.
To guarantee different names, you must create all the random names in one go. That would require a rewrite of the code and not select the name in the individual shipScripts, but in the worldScript. That way you can name all ships in a single 'for' loop. But I doubt if I like to do all those changes.
Just tried out BGS A1.4 (very nice) and on starting Oolite it gives a message to check the log. Sure enough there is the following error message in the log:
Just tried out BGS A1.4 (very nice) and on starting Oolite it gives a message to check the log. Sure enough there is the following error message in the log:
So it explicit uses the model "rh_icengine.dat" and not "icengine.dat" that is mentioned in your log. I can't even find a reference to "icengine.dat" in my version and according to your log, you do use the latest version.
Erm... I'm a bit ashamed to ask, but ... 
which OXP awards you with 
