Oolite Bulletins

Allonnissos wrote:

Curiouser and Curiouser.........

1. No planet has any ships for sale - None at all - been to TL 15 down to TL 1 - no-one has a single ship for sale - not even a bog-standard Adder!

2. My Cash is now going backwards! - The need to perform Maintenance is now occurring after just 20 flights (average over last 60 flights). 54 of the flights were 1.7LY or less! - Given the small Cargo allowance for the caddy I had "earned" an average of 16,420 CR each time the Maintenance (which costs 17,000) "fell due".

Allonnissos wrote:

Luckily i have over 600,000 Cr - so the losses will take a LONG while before I go bankrupt. I am just puzzled - what actually triggers the need for the maintenance?

Alex wrote:

Hi again,
...
Was wondering, do I have to go looking to buy a new ship?
Would have thought it would have updated on reload as it is standard gear on the ship??

Edit..
Ah.. Just noticed, is it not standard equipment and has to be bought??

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:

No mission variable(s) used. It uses a list of repairable kit, and timers and percentage checks to do the fixing.

this.startUp = this.reset = function()
	{
	if(player.ship.hasEquipment("EQ_DCN_DAMAGED"))
		{
		this.damageControlTimer.stop(); delete this.damageControlTimer;
		this.damageNodeTimer.start()
		this.damageNodeTimer = new Timer(this, this.restoreNode, 0, 60)	
		}
	}

Commander McLane wrote:

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:

No mission variable(s) used. It uses a list of repairable kit, and timers and percentage checks to do the fixing.

Then the critical question is (and this is what I wanted to say in my post): All timers are cleared and deleted when you quit Oolite. Is the one responsible for repairing the DCN itself automatically restarted by the script when you re-open your save-game later?

If not, then the DCN will never be repaired.

EDIT: Yes, that's exactly what I see in the script. damageNodeTimer is started when the DCN gets damaged, and will repair it after some time. However, if you quit your current game and reload it again later, the DCN is already damaged while you're loading the game, therefore damageNodeTimer is not started again, and therefore no repairs are done every again from that point onwards. So it's a bug in the script.

The fix is simple: just add the following code to the script:

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this.startUp = this.reset = function()
	{
	if(player.ship.hasEquipment("EQ_DCN_DAMAGED"))
		{
		this.damageControlTimer.stop(); delete this.damageControlTimer;
		this.damageNodeTimer.start()
		this.damageNodeTimer = new Timer(this, this.restoreNode, 0, 60)	
		}
	}

This checks whether you loaded a commander with a broken DCN. If yes, the self-healing starts.

The alternative would be (and that's why I asked for a mission_variable) to set a mission_variable to true while the DCN is still out of work. Then you would have to check for this mission_variable on every restart of the game, and only delete it after the repair is finished. But of course you can just as well check for the presence of the broken DCN right away, like in my code.