Double misjump?

[Cmdr James]

Im not sure what the correct (expected) behviour is. If I force a misjump, I get the usual thargoid attack thing. If I jump from there and force another misjump, then I get things like salvage gangs in interstellar space. And generally a huge lot more ships than during the first misjump.

Is this an OXP problem, or is something else going on?

Also after the second misjump, I dont seem to have enough fuel to get home, whereas normally after the first I do.

[Svengali]

Also after the second misjump, I dont seem to have enough fuel to get home, whereas normally after the first I do.

Isn't there always a chance of losing fuel? I've had this a few times on the 1 misjump.

[JensAyton]

Well, the current trunk seems to avoid the problem since forcing a misjump isn’t working at all. Whee.

[another_commander]

That's funny, I tried it just now with current trunk and I had no problems forcing a misjump. Full pitch up on countdown zero worked as always.

[JensAyton]

Hmm, works now. Double and triple misjumps lead me to normal interstallar space.

I did notice that system attributes like government and economy retain the values from the last visited system when in interstellar space. It seems to me that they should have special values (-1 for numerical values, "N/A" for description strings). Thoughts?

[another_commander]

Disable the F7 screen immediately after a misjump, until a system is specifically targeted?

[Commander McLane]

Usually your current target system (the one you wanted to jump to, when the misjump occured) should stay the target system even after several consecutive misjumps. So it should be the one displayed on the F7-screen.

If it currently does not remain the target system, that is the bug.

[JensAyton]

Disable the F7 screen immediately after a misjump, until a system is specifically targeted?

Actually, it was the script variables I was thinking of. (It may have been the target system’s values rather than the last visited.)

[another_commander]

Oh, script variables, I see. Yes, in this case I think it makes sense to have special values for system attributes when in interstellar space.

[JensAyton]

OK.

In connection with this change, I’m making a few calculations (fine chance, fine level, scooped player rewards) treat interstellar space as Feudal. I’m assuming any station in interstellar space will be military and not interested in especially high rewards or civilian-type police work.

Edit: the following system properties will be changed in interstellar space in 1.72:

• description: “N/A”
• economy: -1
• economyDescription: “N/A”
• government: -1
• governmentDescription: “N/A”
• inhabitants: 0
• population: 0
• productivity: 0
• techLevel: -1

These values will also be provided by the internal method currentSystemData as applicable. name will continue to be “Interstellar space”, but will be localizable. Yay.