shipTakingDamage

[Commander McLane]

The Wiki claims that the shipTakingDamage handler for the player ship only fires after shields are down. This appears not to be the case. I have it firing with my shields full as well.

So, is it a bug, or is the Wiki just wrong or outdated? (I'd prefer the latter, because it makes sense to catch all cases when something is hitting your ship.)

[cim]

So, is it a bug, or is the Wiki just wrong or outdated?

The Wiki is wrong - and now changed, which was the bit which was forgotten the last few times this question came up...

[Eric Walch]

It was indeed always firing. I always handled it in my test script as:

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this.shipTakingDamage = function (amount, whom, type)
{
    if (amount> 0) log(this.name, "Player is sustaining " + amount + " units of " + type + " from: " + (whom?whom.name:"unknown"));
}

So checking if damage was > 0. In the other cases the shields absorbed the hit.

[Commander McLane]

Thanks for the answers (and the correction in the Wiki).