I`m Needing New OXP`s to keep excited!!!

[Yah-Ta-Hey]

For Fun and Giggles try doing this:
inject into witchspace,,, hunt Thargoids with only a Mark III Cobbie armed with only front and rear military lasers, 4 hardhead missiles, standard injectors, extra energy bank and then add to the mix... a navy force who is blasting everything in sight while you are dodging Thargoid and Navy fire while putting in your own licks against the enemy. Then stick around and try to gather up dead robotic fighters while the navy is busy trying to destroy as many as possible.
This is what Tatanka II and I do on a regular basis now.... happy hunting.

[CommRLock78]

You could try some mission.
I just finished The Assassins Guild. It was quite challenging.
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/The_As ... _Guild_OXP

<nods> Great OXP.

Personally, I'm also a huge fan of Random Hits - that's given me more hours of Oolite fun than anything
<sees that you have that already though>

[Cpt]

I have a list of a few OXPs here: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/User:Cpt

Although I would suggest these might make things more interesting: Deep Space Pirates, Factions, Furball, Galactic Navy, Military Fiasco, Pirate Coves, Thargoid Carrier, Thargoid Wars, Total Patrol and Vector.

HTH

[Cody]

For Fun and Giggles try doing this:

<chortles> Or try this: disable the laser fire button/key, install the [wiki]Railgun_OXP[/wiki] (assign it to the laser fire button/key, if you wish), then go out there and try some real, old-fashioned, dog-fighting. You only get 100 slugs per magazine, which costs money, and every shot eats a little energy! Extremely 'exciting', is that!

[Yah-Ta-Hey]

I just keep my laser in the red and get the same effect.... tell ya what.. You and Rolling Thunder join me and I will fly wing for ya.

[Cody]

I just keep my laser in the red and get the same effect

Yeah, but you gotta remove that temptation - no lasers at all (fore, aft or side) - even when the slugs run-out! It's harsh!

tell ya what.. You and Rolling Thunder join me and I will fly wing for ya.

Anytime, my sky-brother! I couldn't wish for a better wingman!

[Rese249er]

tell ya what.. You and Rolling Thunder join me and I will fly wing for ya.

Anytime, my sky-brother! I couldn't wish for a better wingman!

Want a cruiser in that squadron? Consider this me volunteering.

[Cody]

tell ya what.. You and Rolling Thunder join me and I will fly wing for ya.

Anytime, my sky-brother! I couldn't wish for a better wingman!

Want a cruiser in that squadron? Consider this me volunteering.

Without any lasers - only a forward-firing railgun? You'd have to be in a Cobra III - go out there and try it first!

[Rese249er]

Actually, Railguns don't seem to work with my cruiser; dunno why. Every time I fire, the slug hits my cruiser.

[Cody]

Actually, Railguns don't seem to work with my cruiser; dunno why. Every time I fire, the slug hits my cruiser.

<chuckles> Friendly fire, indeed! It's a problem that's happened before, I think. <pages Commander McLane>

[Commander McLane]

Actually, Railguns don't seem to work with my cruiser; dunno why. Every time I fire, the slug hits my cruiser.

<chuckles> Friendly fire, indeed! It's a problem that's happened before, I think. <pages Commander McLane>

Oh! My pager just beeped! (The amazing wonders of the Oolite BB: I don't even have a pager. )

Anyway, Rese249er: it's sort of a pain in the neck to spawn the railgun projectile in the right place: right in front of your ship; not too close to be inside the hull; but not too far away to destroy the illusion of being fired from your ship. I tried to come up with a formula that more or less works for most ships. But it fails for ships that are much longer than they are wide and high. In Oolite 1.77 scripts will be able to know the exact length of a ship, which will make things much easier.

In the meantime: open the file "railgun-firing.js" in the Scripts-folder (any text editor will do, but not Notepad) of railgun.oxp and find line 80:

Code: Select all

        this.projectile.position = player.ship.position.add(player.ship.heading.multiply((player.ship.collisionRadius * 0.925) + 15 + 5 + (player.ship.speed / 50)));

Increase the "15" to a higher value (for instance "20"). Save the file and restart Oolite with "SHIFT" pressed.

If the projectile still explodes immediately, raise the value again. Repeat until you're satisfied.

[Rese249er]

Thanks. Out of curiosity, perhaps the projectile could be spawned just forward of the laser mount?

[Cody]

Out of curiosity, perhaps the projectile could be spawned just forward of the laser mount?

Set it how you'd like it, as McLane says - spawn it way out in front, if you want.
There is a knack to using it, though - with practice (and if you're good enough), you can hit a moving target at over 12km.

[Rese249er]

Odd; line 80 doesn't have what you posted... Time to update, I suppose.

[Commander McLane]

Odd; line 80 doesn't have what you posted... Time to update, I suppose.

No, you're right. That was from my working copy, not the latest release version. It's actually the latest positioning tweak that I never released. So, first try the line just as I posted it. It should simply replace what you have in line 80 (should also begin with this.projectile.position). Maybe it does already the trick.

Out of curiosity, perhaps the projectile could be spawned just forward of the laser mount?

Well, yes, that's how you can envision it. Unfortunately, there is no way for the script to know where your laser mount is. That's why the projectile is spawned just forward of the centre of your ship. In most cases this is reasonably close to your laser mount.