Oolite Bulletins

I should PM you my custom skin for my neolite PCC...

Is there any chance you can ammend the script so that people don't turn up and make you an outlaw automagically for defending yourself against Kaks??? It's a pain in the neck to be attacked by him, and then be declared an outlaw for killing an outlaw...

On behalf of my alter ego, apologies to all commanders!
Thing is, I do play a clean-ish game and as such I'm normally not an offender...
Maybe my twin is more trigger-happy than me, and attacks indiscriminately, but I thought he'd only want to attack 'unclean' ships, same as me...

Kaks wrote:

On behalf of my alter ego, apologies to all commanders!
Thing is, I do play a clean-ish game and as such I'm normally not an offender...
Maybe my twin is more trigger-happy than me, and attacks indiscriminately, but I thought he'd only want to attack 'unclean' ships, same as me...

Sorry to say he'll pretty much go after anyone, after checking for the cops naturally.

Oh dear, there goes the neighbourhood!

Bad Kaks! <thwup> Baaad Kaks!

Funny, I get along with him just fine. Met him multiple times without even a polite shooting.
On the other hand, Commander McLane snaps cargo pods right under my nose

Corny wrote:

Funny, I get along with him just fine. Met him multiple times without even a polite shooting.
On the other hand, Commander McLane snaps cargo pods right under my nose

I think he has a fairly low probability to target clean ships, but hang around him long enough when nothing else is on scanner and he'll soon get bored.

Loxley wrote:

he'll soon get bored.

Fair do's, that does sound vaguely familiar!

yeah, it *IS* very familiar, especially on board the Montezuma's Revenge-2... Along with the worries that once he does get bored, he'll be both a pain in the neck to.. urm... inhume... and also someone will show up later and outlaw me for doing it...

One thing that could be done inside the oxp is to make Kaks (& others) an offender - from within the script - at the time he decides to attack a clean ship.

As far as I can see, it's a feature of the OXP, where if you take out a named member of the forums, no matter what the circumstances (including our dear fugitive rated furry feline), then someone will show up, and slap you round the face with an offender tag. Not helpful when you just launched from a military station surrounded by frigates...

Kaks (as some other personalities, for instance my own) is a privateer, which means that he will occasionally attack harmless traders.

However, the probability that he will do so is fairly low. You can reduce it further by opening the shipdata.plist inside Personalities.oxp, finding the entry for personalities-kaks, go to the script_info directory within that entry, and change the value of attackProbability. It is already only 0.15, but you can reduce it further.

It works like this: about every ten seconds the ship scans for other ships in the vicinity and evaluates what to do. With a probability of 15% it will attack one of the other ships within its scanner radius, if there are any. With the other 85% it will just continue its journey.

But of course the next scan and evaluation happens ten seconds later. So if you fly alongside him for long enough, eventually he will attack. By reducing the probability further, you can extend the average period until he attacks.

But of course the next scan and evaluation happens ten seconds later. So if you fly alongside him for long enough, eventually he will attack. By reducing the probability further, you can extend the average period until he attacks.

Doesn't this only become true if you fly along for an infinite amount of time? (and if random numbers on a PC were indeed truly random)

http://xkcd.com/669/

DaddyHoggy wrote:

But of course the next scan and evaluation happens ten seconds later. So if you fly alongside him for long enough, eventually he will attack. By reducing the probability further, you can extend the average period until he attacks.

Doesn't this only become true if you fly along for an infinite amount of time? (and if random numbers on a PC were indeed truly random)

And even then, it would only be almost certain.