NEW : Bank of the Black Monks OXP

[Fatleaf]

well spotted! they don't fit i'll see about scaling them down

How about not scaling down all the Gunships as they look great with their current size, but you could have a defender Gunship that IS scaled down.

So how come it hasn't occurred to anyone here that maybe the docking bay should be enlarged instead?

It just has

[Commander McLane]

So how come it hasn't occurred to anyone here that maybe the docking bay should be enlarged instead?

I guess because that would be a lot more work: You'd have to carve out a lot of each Monastery, and completely re-design the docking bay. Just imagine all the monk cells and office space that would be lost in the process!

[Tricky]

Build a bigger monastery!

[Smivs]

Build a bigger monastery!

Would that make it a monsterstery?

[Griff]

I just installed the monks. When a defence ship launches, it jumps after a few hundred meters in 'behaviour_avoid_collision'.

This problem can be avoided by making the dock a bit deeper. I now changed in the dat file the 4 numbers -250 into -450. The dock still looks okay than.

On launch a ship first travels 2 dock lengths outside the station before the ai becomes active. By making the dock longer it takes a bit longer before the ai starts active working on the attack and the ship is outside the trigger range of getting into a 'behaviour_avoid_collision'.
I haven't tested a value of -350. Might also work.

Edit: I was wondering why this was no problem with normal stations. Now I think i know why; it are the 4 spikes that are pointing downwards. When launching 2x a dock length of 250 meters, the ship is still too close to the spikes when normal AI starts.

Thanks Eric, i've re-uploaded the oxp as v1.43 with your recommended changes to the dock, the defense ships now do get angry a lot quicker

[Tricky]

After getting my head chewed off earlier today about releases...

@BuggyBy: link is v1.43

[DGill]

seem to be missing minesweeperAI.plist which is referenced at line 664 of the shipdata.plist

13:50:32.577 [ai.load.failed.unknownAI]: Can't switch AI for <ShipEntity 0x1c7e8160>{"Mine Sweeper Satellite"} to "minesweeperAI.plist" - could not load file.
13:55:44.029 [script.load.world.listAll]: Loaded 38 world scripts:

[Griff]

oo, Good catch. I think this is the same AI as in random hits.oxp, i've made a copy of that AI, renamed it black monk specific and upated the oxp to v1.44, it looks like it's been missing from the oxp for ages

[Gimi]

oo, Good catch. I think this is the same AI as in random hits.oxp, i've made a copy of that AI, renamed it black monk specific and upated the oxp to v1.44, it looks like it's been missing from the oxp for ages

Yep, for quite a while. It was discussed earlier in this thread as well, here.

[DGill]

Thanks

[JazHaz]

oo, Good catch. I think this is the same AI as in random hits.oxp, i've made a copy of that AI, renamed it black monk specific and upated the oxp to v1.44, it looks like it's been missing from the oxp for ages

I have added a link to the Black Monks OXP to the Related OXPs by Other Authors section of the [wiki]Griff Industries[/wiki] wiki page.

[Switeck]

Minor typo in equipment.plist:
<string>A device designed by the Assassins Guild for the Bank of the Black Monks. The unit transmits singles though sub-space allowing ships with the appropriate receivers to infallibly track the marked ship.</string>

It should probably be "transmits signals" rather than "transmits singles".

[Griff]

Thanks for spotting that Switek, i've changed that and updated the oxp (now version 1.45)

[Commander McLane]

Thanks for spotting that Switek, i've changed that and updated the oxp (now version 1.45)

And while you're at it, the word after "singles/signals" should probably be "through", not "though".

[Griff]

wow, didn't spot that! Updated and re-uploaded (now v1.46)