Oolite Bulletins

Cody wrote:

I happened to be close to Xeusreor, so I jumped over there for a look round. The Navy station was in the GalCop aegis, very close to the main station, and did not challenge me as I approached. The log threw five of these, btw:

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01:39:53.348 [script.javaScript.exception.unexpectedType]: ***** JavaScript exception (himsn_station_defender_ai.js 0.2): TypeError: this.homeBase is null

Edit to add: the Navy station is now challenging me on approach.

cim wrote:

Yes, though only until the next AI reevaluation for a JS AI. If you're just trying to keep them at 7km distance, then it'll probably be enough, though. However, if the ship has escorts, the escorts at the next reevaluation will pick up that the mothership is in a fleeing state with a ship targeted, and may well attack to cover its escape...

Setting a destination and getting them to fly there at top speed is probably more reliable, though still might not work in certain cases.

Plist AIs are trickier - it'll certainly get them to run, but there's no guarantee that anything in the plist AI will then respond correctly to the AI events once safe distance is reached, so they might just end up dead in space afterwards until something "expected" like an attack interrupts them.

Pleb wrote:

It would also make more sense for the cruiser to have shuttles, as otherwise how would people get to and fro?

Smivs wrote:

When Warland and Holf Shipyards developed the Victoria class cruiser it had to go through a series of OoroNCAP crash tests and one of these involved a simulated docking with a full-scale model of a Coriolis station.

It didn't fit too well

Smivs wrote:

I think it has three. There is a 'dock' aft (like the Behemoths) and it does seem to have two side docks as well, although the 'holes' are smaller than the aft dock and they are hexagonal.
The model is by Storm, and as far as I know there are no dock models for it yet. Storm sent me the main model a long time ago while this project was still in its early days, mainly so I could start looking at texturing options, but it's likely he hadn't done anything about the docks other than incorporate the 'holes' in the main model. Perhaps we need to contact him?

Pleb wrote:

I'm not sure what's causing that reticle so big though?!

cim wrote:

... the Constrictor in many of the shipsets (including those shipped with Oolite) has an Ω symbol on it.

	"himsn_station_defender" = 
	{
		"ai_type" = "himsn_station_defender_ai.js";
		"escorts" = "2";
		"escort_role" = "himsn_escort";
		"escort-ship" = "himsn_escort";
		"like_ship" = "himsn_asp";
		"roles" = "himsn_station_defender";
		"script" = "himsn_ship.js";
	};
	
	"himsn_light_patrol_leader" = 
	{
		"ai_type" = "himsn_patrol_leader_ai.js";
		"escorts" = "4";
		"escort_role" = "himsn_escort";
		"escort-ship" = "himsn_escort";
		"like_ship" = "himsn_asp";
		"roles" = "himsn_light_patrol_leader";
		"script" = "himsn_ship.js";
	};

cim wrote:

Regarding the logo, the Constrictor in many of the shipsets (including those shipped with Oolite) has an Ω symbol on it. What that might represent and why it's on the paintwork... something that may or may not be answered in this OXP, I suppose.

Pleb wrote:

I suppose the Ω symbol could be the HIMSN intelligence symbol? Looks secretive enough, and I'm currently using the Constrictors as recon vessels that are hardly ever seen...

Pleb wrote:

I just had a thought, maybe the Constrictors should only appear after doing the Constrictor stock mission? Otherwise might get confusing...