Trident Down - award homing beacon

[Zanasj]

Hi.
I'm playing Trident Down on Oolite 1.72 on WinXP. One mission text said that I'd be given a homing beacon. It didn't show up on my ship's equipment list, so I assumed it would be automatically launched near the enemy fleet. Nope. Any logs that might have shed light into this were lost during a couple of days of play.

I then edited my savegame, and adjusted the missile roles, removing one of my four ECM-hardened missiles, and replacing it with the beacon. It worked!

I launched the beacon mine. Whoops - it was at this point I noticed that I had forgotten to install Saleza Aeronautics, so the mission did not continue properly. No wonder the enemy fleet consisted of basically one big ship...

[Ramirez]

Sounds like you've fixed things OK. The problem's caused by the fact that if you already have a full set of mines or missiles, awarding another won't replace the existing ones. Unfortunately the script function that removes equipment doesn't work on pylon-mounted weapons, so there's no way of making space automatically.

[Thargoid]

You could always award EQ_MISSILE_REMOVAL.

It would make a space, although have the unfortunate side-effect of emptying all the other pylons as well.