Oolite Bulletins

Shipbuilder wrote:

Reading the Shipdata.plist information on the Wiki there is a accutacy ship key for NPC vessels. The available range is -5 to 10.

Does anyone know what value is used as the default if this key is not used ?

In 1.76 or earlier, when used with NPC ships it slightly enlarges the chance of shooting at greater distances, and makes a small improvement to their aim. Value with NPC ships is between -5 and 10 though all values between -5 and +1 will be increased to +1. When not defined, NPCs will be assigned a random value in the range +1 to +10.

Shipbuilder wrote:

Regarding the death actions query I'll have a look at using a scripting method.

Shipbuilder wrote:

A quick teaser for one of a variety of textured GalTech Escort Fighters due to be released as an oxp soon. This one is the bounty hunter variant.

Shipbuilder wrote:

A quick teaser for one of a variety of textured GalTech Escort Fighters due to be released as an oxp soon. This one is the bounty hunter variant.

cim wrote:

Death actions:
As Smivs says, it's much better to use a ship script for this.

this.shipDied = function()
{
	{
		this.ship.commsMessage("Hold fire I surrender");
	}	    
};

Shipbuilder wrote:

How do I define a list of messages from which Oolite will randomly select one message only and send to the player upon a NPC ship's destruction.

this.shipSpawned = function()
{
	this.deathMessage = ["Hold fire I surrender", "Help!", "whatever you come up with", "and so on"];
}

this.shipDied = function()
{
	var choice = Math.floor(Math.random() * this.deathMessage.length);	    
	this.ship.commsMessage(this.deathMessage[choice]);
}