Oolite Bulletins

Is that the one where a Thargoid marries a Treeoid for the unusual mating tradition?
Errh...Yeah. Nevermind.

Now there's a real challenge for a fictioneer... write a Thargoid soap opera!

El Viejo wrote:

Confused... you will be, after this week's episode of 'Thargoid Soap'.

Thargeena is egg-bound, but who are the Fathers?...Find out next week on 'The Thargoids'.

Back to the missiles... 'target nearest incoming missile' should do just that, not ident it.

El Viejo wrote:

Target nearest incoming missile

El Viejo wrote:

I don’t use any ‘game-changing’ OXPs…

Huh? Isn't targetting the nearest incoming missile a function from a game-changing OXP as well?

Confused...

Commander McLane wrote:

Isn't targetting the nearest incoming missile a function from a game-changing OXP as well?

Nope... vanilla Oolite, but I think it's a joystick only option.

El Viejo wrote:

Nope... vanilla Oolite, but I think it's a joystick only option.

Shift-T on the keyboard does the trick for me.

maik wrote:

Shift-T on the keyboard does the trick for me.

Thanks maik, I didn't know that. I don't think that's in the Oolite RS.

I'm quite certain I read it somewhere, but I can't find the source anymore.

maik wrote:

Shift-T on the keyboard does the trick for me.

Now the million credit question is, does it lock a missile onto the hostile warhead, or just the ID?

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:

maik wrote:

Shift-T on the keyboard does the trick for me.

Now the million credit question is, does it lock a missile onto the hostile warhead, or just the ID?

Huh? I think this very thread started with the complaint that it doesn't lock a missile?!?

Confused (again).

Commander McLane wrote:

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:

maik wrote:

Shift-T on the keyboard does the trick for me.

Now the million credit question is, does it lock a missile onto the hostile warhead, or just the ID?

Huh? I think this very thread started with the complaint that it doesn't lock a missile?!?

You sure it wasn't about TV dramas for bored Thargoid hive-wives?
Errh...Yeah. Nevermind.

Anyway, I'm guessing that shift-T does the same thing as the joystick option does, ergo no locking a missile onto a missile.
For a ship with flakgun turrets, that's no big deal; the turrets simply go into point-defense mode. For ships without flakguns, like a Cobbie, and no countermeasures beyond ECM and/or injectors, yup, big deal.

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:

maik wrote:

Shift-T on the keyboard does the trick for me.

Now the million credit question is, does it lock a missile onto the hostile warhead, or just the ID?

Shift-T is the equivalent of doing a "r" on the missile and not a "t". So, it sets the ID as target, but does not set it as target for the active missile slot.

It would be easy to change but back when I noticed this behaviour, I was affright I could break other stuff when I changed it, so I left it as it was. Probably a bad choice.

Eric Walch wrote:

It would be easy to change

Thanks again Eric… if it is easy to change, and doesn’t break anything… great! As someone who pilots a Cobra III, with only shields and injectors to help thwart a hardhead, it would be a boon. As you said earlier, sorting through the target memory in the midst of a close-quarters firefight is not ideal.

This feature was added in the game specifically for getting the turrets on a player ship to behave the same as their counterparts on NPCs. It is not intended to be used for targeting a missile with another missile.