Extra fuel

Murgh · Post by **Murgh** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:42 pm

Cmdr. Luke wrote:
On the subject of extra fuel: Are there any plans to make the fuel silo from the Woma Fuel Transport scoopable?

oh no. those silos are huge!

A_H sadly got very busy before he could finish his nicely packaged fuelpods that would be ideal for that sort of thing..

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Thu May 04, 2006 6:03 pm

Indeed sadly they are not yet functional as intended.

The plan was to refuel one LY only from a single fuel-can, unfortunately the kindly supplied awardFuel method does nothing of the kind

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Therefore the pods currently awardEquipment: EQ_FUEL, which is way too much!
And thus the introduced chance of scooping a malfunctioning pod, which has a faulty valve or non-standard fitting, causing a fuelleak. It still tops off your tanks though, so be quick about that jump!

(Murgh thought letting cans Q-detonate, though pretty, was a bit too much of a bad thing. So thank Murgh, for that small favour.

)

Security Chief Tuvok · Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:30 pm

i managed to scoop this fuel silo, though nothing happened... it disappeared from radar like it should when u scoop something, but not on list, nothing...
fuel ammount was the same...

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:09 pm

What version of Oolite are you using?

Could be that Giles has changed some things since I wrote this, causing the cans to malfunction...
I programmed the cans on an old version of win-oolite, awardFuel did not function then.
And Giles has been doing some things with cargo functionality.

aegidian · Post by **aegidian** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:29 pm

mmm. awardFuel: should be working.

I'll have a look at it... later.

LittleBear · Post by **LittleBear** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:34 pm

Works on 1.65b3 (PC).

Fuel just jumps to full, but I think it also puts up "Fuel Canister Scooped".

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:16 pm

That is ok, it is supposed to work like that.

Don't panic Giles!
I'm sure it works.
It's just that I'm running an older version.

I'll put up a version of fuelpods using awardFuel somewhere next week.
For those that ARE using a current version.

I'll have to scrounge the forums for an uptodate version of Win-oolite...

soon.
edit: done, installed
hmm,
I scooped a green one => no fuel, but did get a positive message,
scooped a red one => death.
I prbly collided with it, its supposed to give a full, if leaky, tank.

I'm looking at it now.

Security Chief Tuvok · Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:12 pm

i scooped both red & green, always get full fuel, and message...
tried scooping silo on b1 and b3, same thing hapened, collected, no fuel, no message, it just vanishesh from radar...

Arexack_Heretic · Post by **Arexack_Heretic** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:56 pm

I see what happended here...the pods in the fuelpod-teaser had their deathactions neutered, my original pods were deadlier.
What are those silos you are refering to?

Anyhow.
A new teaser is up, with fixed fuelpod functionality,
customised cargo, custom pod-models and a small surprise.
All should appear occasionally with varying frequency.

The chances of finding a fuelpod are small, so keep shooting up those cargo-hogging freighters!

(I hope the 'suprise' won't lead to crashes, as I did not playtest it for all concievable conditions.)