Oolite Bulletins

Thargoid wrote:

I meant exactly what you did. If you duplicate EQ_CT_MINE to EQ_CT_V2_MINE then the custom icon from the original would be lost (V2 would use the default mine icon instead). But by doing what you've done you'll restore it again.

Also to clarify, I didn't use the external store and requires empty pylon settings, as _MINE automagically sets those to be true (although there's no harm in setting them explicitly anyway).

Your change from _MINE to _MINE_V2 essentially stops the equipment being a mine, and so the other settings don't get made and it becomes "normal" equipment. The mass-swap of _MINE_V2 to _V2_MINE should fix that.

I'll also just remind the OXP license - I'm perfectly happy for personal hacks and learning (indeed I'd encourage it), but not for general release or distribution please.

Great to learn all of that. As I said on my initial request, I KNEW my issue should be due to some smallish-but-importantish property. How could I guess that a 'lowly' item suffix would have such magical powers...

As to the license & release & distribution stuff, rest assured that this is for personal use only. It was meant for fun only, and anyways there's not much of creative content inside - and also it's somewhat poorly cobbled together (i.e., the availability of scooped Thargons is duplicated between CT and CTV2, the friendly-fire fix is unreliable and so forth).

But now that you've raised the issue - in the unlikely event that someone REQUESTs this from me, would it be OK to share it on an individual basis ?

Cheers

sdrubble wrote:

[ . . . ] my issue should be due to some smallish-but-importantish property. How could I guess that a 'lowly' item suffix would have such magical powers...

Magical powers indeed.

I've done the 'EQ_*_MINE' replacement, and not any single other change...

CT V2 now goes correctly into its own pylon, and launch-rescoop-reprogram-refill are all performing flawlessly.

All of this alongside the 'official' CT in another pylon, so that I can quickly release a storm of 14 Thargons at unsuspecting foes... call that a one-man's-Navy for sure.

Thx a lot for all the fish... uh, erm, all the help.

Cheers

sdrubble wrote:

After playing a bit with the Field Missile and greatly enjoying this neat piece of equipment, I had to do a bit of searching around to find out where the heck, after all, did this little toy come from...

As it turned out, it's part of the Armoury OXP. You might wish to edit the Wiki and the Readme file to include a description for the FM, which seems to be missing from both.

Or was it really meant to be a hidden and surprise bonus ?

WHS.

I just had one of those Field Missiles fired at me, but I cannot find a description on the wiki.

From the readme:

Bombs and Mines:

After the discussions concerning the trunk energy bomb (and it's impending removal), I thought it may be worth playing around with a few new bombs which could be used as replacements. All are pylon mounted due to the current limitations on keyboard triggering of OXP equipment, and all can also be carried by NPCs (currently with low probability and Uni bomb set not to be an instant-killer for the player ship).

Given the current ability to activate equipment via keyboard, have you considered changing the bombs & mines so they are carried internally, instead of occupying a pylon?

Ok.. thanks!

Is this a bug?

I've recently added the Armoury OXP and when using the hardened mini (rack) missiles I've noticed my kill rate go up occasionally after the target has fled out of range. I never receive any notice about a bounty when this happens. When a lock is lost a missile should just wander off or self destruct in this case, no? So what's happening here?

Is the missile continuing to chase down the target and just not notifying me when it makes a kill?
Am I getting kill credit for a rack that has jettisoned?

with testing it appears to just out of range kills that don't get reported for some reason, thanks for looking at it

I still get bounty/kill credit,just no onscreen notice to that effect.

I have noticed a fun side-effect of having kicker missiles onboard (bearing in mind I'm a bounty hunter and therefore have no restraint with weapons spending): knocking innocent anacondas out of the way! Since the missile does no damage, I thought I'd give it a try. It has to be one of the funniest things seeing an anaconda going at injector speed (not very fast, but faster than normal), terrified that you're a pirate and helplessly sending out an SOS