First OXP (Crybaby)

[Dr.Tripsa]

it is only activated by the presence of a pirate (entity.hasRole("pirate")) within 1/5 Km.

Not true as this tests if a "pirate" role is among the possible roles for that ship, that may be added as a trader at the moment. You probably need: (entity.primaryRole == "pirate")

YIKES! thanks for catching this!

[Diziet Sma]

(by contrast the scanner display is what .. 10Km radius? )

25Km radius, in 1:1 mode.

The reason for the test release is so people can give feedback on pricing/availability after playing with it a bit

I suspected as much.. I was really just making a joke..

[Cholmondely]

This UPDATE needs a pause to become:

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UPDATE = (broadcastDistressMessage, "pauseAI: 8"); 

Without pause, it is broadcasted 4 times every second. That is a bit overuse of cpu time. Specially because identical messages are suppressed and not visible at all.

One problem will be that the beacon needs a primary aggressor that is already targeting the beacon in attack mode. If not present, broadcastDistressMessage will do nothing.

EDIT: This behaviour is different that written in the wiki were it is suggested that you can set a primary target that will become the "aggressor". I looked it up, and the wiki was correct up to Oolite 1.74. In 1.76 there already needed to be an explicit primary aggressor. Probably to prevent buggy behaviour where a viper went after an unwanted primary target. (Going to edit the wiki now....)

Is this still true? This "method" is mentioned on 4 relevant wiki pages which seem to say nothing apart from this one: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolit ... essMessage