Oolite Bulletins

Switeck wrote:

But to remove existing ships via OXP scripts, I don't know of a good way to do it without causing weird visual artifacts.

this.shipWillExitWitchspace = function ()
{
    system.shipsWithRole("thargoid").forEach(function (e)
    {
        e.remove(true); // Remove without sending shipDied event.
    });
}

Ahruman wrote:

Switeck wrote:

But to remove existing ships via OXP scripts, I don't know of a good way to do it without causing weird visual artifacts.

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this.shipWillExitWitchspace = function ()
{
    system.shipsWithRole("thargoid").forEach(function (e)
    {
        e.remove(true); // Remove without sending shipDied event.
    });
}

Commander McLane wrote:

However, the other half is that a lot of OXP-Thargoids may only be added at shipExitedWitchspace, so you can only remove them via a timer after that event.

This is an experiment to even out the odds of witchspace-skirmishes, to present a little more challenge in WS when the Behemoth.OXP. For every behemoth in witchspace two thargoids appear.

Commander McLane wrote:

However, the other half is that a lot of OXP-Thargoids may only be added at shipExitedWitchspace, so you can only remove them via a timer after that event. Which means that the player may see them popping out of witchspace and vanishing into nothing.

Ahruman wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

However, the other half is that a lot of OXP-Thargoids may only be added at shipExitedWitchspace, so you can only remove them via a timer after that event. Which means that the player may see them popping out of witchspace and vanishing into nothing.

If the “problem” is that there are too many thargoids in interstellar space, don’t use OXPs that add more thargoids to interstellar space and then actively initiate misjumps. I mean, really. The notion of “solving” the “problem” that other OXPs customize the game makes no sense.

Commander McLane wrote:

If we assume a player who knows what he's doing and doesn't install contradicting OXPs. You know the type, it's the guy who always scrutinizes the readMe before installing anything, and takes notes of the most important content.

Ahruman wrote:

I’m not suggesting people are sensible, just that creating counter-OXPs to fight the intended behaviour of OXPs isn’t going to help anyone.

Kaks wrote:

I only fly a Cobra3, with none of that fancy smancy self repair stuff or any of them new-fangled turret things that seem to make oolife so much easier for some!

Kaks wrote:

Even if we had 1000 Thargoids showing up at once, that might only mean there are a total of just 1000 Thargoids in the whole 8 galaxies.

El Viejo wrote:

Kaks wrote:

I only fly a Cobra3, with none of that fancy smancy self repair stuff or any of them new-fangled turret things that seem to make oolife so much easier for some!

Which leads me to wonder how many of us only fly a standard Cobra Mk III... I've gone from Harmless to Elite, and never changed ships once... I love my Cobra!

Commander McLane wrote:

However, the other half is that a lot of OXP-Thargoids may only be added at shipExitedWitchspace, so you can only remove them via a timer after that event. Which means that the player may see them popping out of witchspace and vanishing into nothing.

Eric Walch wrote:

Some thargoids are even added later than that. e.g. thargon_threat because it must first wait until it know show many police are added in witchspace.

But I don't really see the problem with so many thargoids in interstellar space. Plain Oolite does not add that many, so it are the users that install the oxps that add the thargoids.