Target Autolock OXP

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:27 am

another_commander wrote:
This has been almost forever in the game, and is mentioned in the wiki and the new Reference Sheet:
+ -:Cycle to next / previous target.

Yep, 'cept to hit the + key I need to to go Shift =, so I remapped mine to =- instead of +-.

Post by **another_commander** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:30 am

Micha wrote:
Isn't that for the Target Memory? And if so, you have to have previously locked onto a target to put it into the TM..

Well, yes. The targets you're going through when pressing '-' or whatever is next to 0 on one's keyboard are all targets you've locked on previously. That is target memory and is what Screet described, or did I misunderstand?

Post by **Micha** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:36 am

I was replying to Diziet's comment regarding the way it worked in Status Quo

Screet · Post by **Screet** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:02 pm

Thargoid wrote:
It's an add-on software upgrade to the scanner targeting enhancement equipment, and is designed to automatically lock onto any vessel attacking your ship if you don't already have a target lock on something.

Hmmm. I just disabled my MASC for some other tests and had interesting results:

1) the auto-lock goes for missiles!
2) the auto-lock apparantly only targets ships which did fire at me, while ships that are simply marked "red" on the scanner can fly throughout the full scanner range without being auto-locked?!?

The thing with the missiles was strange - I had the impression that I lost my target lock on the ship without that being destroyed. Might have been confused in the heat of the battle...however, if it works that way, it could be fun, as that does allow to try to shoot down missiles and also enables turrets to defend my ships against incoming missiles

Screet

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:06 pm

The missile lock may also be the missile analyser, that also locks automatically onto incoming missiles (at least non-basic ones). And the autolock checks if you have a target lock already, and only does anything if the target is null.

And yes, it only autolocks onto ships that have attacked you, not ships that are hostile to you (red) - as it states in the equipment description and readme

. It's designed that way, so as not to make things over-react or too easy. It would be fairly possible to do it that way, but it's deliberately designed not to.

Also it is possible to have "clean" ships that are red (at least initially), so there would be a distinct possibility of legal status problems if written that way.

Screet · Post by **Screet** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:12 pm

Thargoid wrote:
Also it is possible to have "clean" ships that are red (at least initially), so there would be a distinct possibility of legal status problems if written that way.

Ahh, then it might be the analyzer which changed the lock. And yes, i did get into legal trouble, as I launched my reprogrammed thargon pack upon the many red blips - I bet those don't check for clean ships which did not yet fire at me?

Screet, still trying to change the AMS so that it only fires when chaff is used up and searching for a way to make the chaff auto-deploy like AMS

Capt. Slog · Post by **Capt. Slog** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:46 am

Is their a way to switch autolock off so I can manually select my target?

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:31 am

Capt. Slog wrote:
Is their a way to switch autolock off so I can manually select my target?

This would be a nice addition.. sometimes in a RandomHits mission I'm trying to get a lock on my mark and the constant shooting from the henchmen makes it pretty near impossible.

Capt. Slog · Post by **Capt. Slog** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:53 pm

Diziet Sma wrote:
Capt. Slog wrote:
Is their a way to switch autolock off so I can manually select my target?
This would be a nice addition.. sometimes in a RandomHits mission I'm trying to get a lock on my mark and the constant shooting from the henchmen makes it pretty near impossible.

That's my position. I usually avoid the henchpersons, they're not financially worthwhile.

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:14 pm

Capt. Slog wrote:
Diziet Sma wrote:
Capt. Slog wrote:
Is their a way to switch autolock off so I can manually select my target?
This would be a nice addition.. sometimes in a RandomHits mission I'm trying to get a lock on my mark and the constant shooting from the henchmen makes it pretty near impossible.
That's my position. I usually avoid the henchpersons, they're not financially worthwhile.

Not to mention that their intent is to distract you while the baddie gets away..

(re henchpersons, hadn't you noticed that terms with a male-gender bias are only unacceptable when the word has a positive meaning? Words with negative connotations, such as 'manslaughter' don't get so much as a squeak of protest from the so-called 'politically correct'. Which is why I felt safe using a negatively connoted word like henchmen even though some of them are females

)

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:52 pm

Not as such, as it's not possible to assign keys to OXPs.

But what you could do is leave the autolock target set whilst you aim at your desired target and get them suitably positioned in your sights, then press "u" and then "t" in succession to unlock your target and then lock onto your manually desired one immediately.

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:00 pm

That more or less describes my current technique.. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.. timing is everything.. and sometimes they are just shooting so fast that it may take a dozen attempts.

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:03 pm

Thargoid wrote:
Not as such, as it's not possible to assign keys to OXPs.

@ the developer gods.. are there any plans to change this, maybe after the MNSR? (and yes, I realise what a mess it will be as the oxp devs all fight over the available handful of keys.)

Capt. Slog · Post by **Capt. Slog** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:21 pm

Diziet Sma wrote:
Thargoid wrote:
Not as such, as it's not possible to assign keys to OXPs.
@ the developer gods.. are there any plans to change this, maybe after the MNSR? (and yes, I realise what a mess it will be as the oxp devs all fight over the available handful of keys.)

What about this comment?
The startUp handler is called after all OXPs have been loaded. It can be used to do one-off initialisation such as registering to listen for certain keystrokes etc.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:31 pm

Capt. Slog wrote:
What about this comment?
The startUp handler is called after all OXPs have been loaded. It can be used to do one-off initialisation such as registering to listen for certain keystrokes etc.

The initial JavaScript interface supported registering for keystrokes. Almost nothing of that interface remains, except the existence of the startUp handler.

I’m not comfortable with supporting OXP keystroke registration until there’s an in-game key assignment editor, and that won’t happen before MNSR.

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