Oolite Bulletins

Diziet Sma wrote:

"If you have official dealings with the Navy" would sound better as "If you have official business with the Navy".

Cody wrote:

Never got to see the plasma cannon - Thunder Child's escorts are ruthless and damn efficient!
However, once I'd been warned-off initially, they didn't attack me until I actually opened fire on the cruiser.

Cody wrote:

I'm inclined to think that a Navy station wouldn't have a buoy - Navy pilots, and any civilians who have dealings with the Navy, shouldn't need one.

Pleb wrote:

As for that log error, I get that too...not sure why it's trying to launch ships out of a buoy?!?! The code for the buoy is:

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	"himsn_station_buoy" = 
	{
		"beacon" = "N";
		"beacon_label" = "Imperial Navy Station";
		"like_ship" = "buoy";
		"name" = "Imperial Navy Navigation Buoy";
		"roles" = "himsn_station_buoy";
		"script" = "himsn_buoy.js";
	};

So there's no reason for it to be trying to launch ships from it...

Pleb wrote:

Well I'm going to remove it in the next test release, but I figured out that if you set has_npc_traffic to no then this fixes this problem, which I've already done in the OXZ that's available to download.

Pleb wrote:

However yes I should probably get them to engage if the player hangs around for too long, otherwise it's an empty threat...

spara wrote:

My guess would be the role "himsn_station_buoy", that has the word "station" in it, thus Oolite probably sees it as a station.

is_carrier = 0;

Pleb wrote:

However yes I should probably get them to engage if the player hangs around for too long, otherwise it's an empty threat...

cim wrote:

Correct. A particularly annoying piece of backward-compatibility code, that one.

Pleb wrote:

I have already managed to use Diziet Sma's example and get the cruiser and it's fleet to attack the player if it doesn't leave its vicinity within 15 seconds of being warned the second time

Pleb wrote:

But even if it could send the NPC a warning, getting the NPC to heed the advice is a different question...

Diziet Sma wrote:

Speaking personally, it seems a little strange to me that the cruiser would get involved in such a minor task, one more suited to its' escorts.

cim wrote:

It's the ships 27.5km away using the fact that the cruiser is still a large target at that distance...

cim wrote:

A couple of possibilities:
- send the NPC's ship script (and plist AI, if it has one) the quirium cascade event. That should get them running, but might give odd comms messages as a result.
- if the ship is a carrier, giving it "restricted" allegiance will get NPCs to stay well clear: outside scanner range, most of the time. If it's not a carrier, a small dock just big enough for shuttles could be added

this.ship.target.target = this.ship;
this.ship.target.performFlee();

Cody wrote:

The cruiser is too large anyway, in my opinion - it needs to be smaller.

Diziet Sma wrote:

Speaking personally, it seems a little strange to me that the cruiser would get involved in such a minor task, one more suited to its' escorts.. you don't generally use a sledgehammer to swat a fly. I'd only expect the cruiser to engage the player if it turns out that the escorts have bitten off more than they can chew.. (or maybe launch some backup, if it has carrier capabilities

Pleb wrote:

... as previously stated I have no modelling experience whatsoever, so I myself won't be able to create a cruiser or carrier.

Pleb wrote:

To get the NPC's to move away, would the following work?

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this.ship.target.target = this.ship;
this.ship.target.performFlee();