Oolite Bulletins

a small request that, I hope will make sense, and be a bagatelle to implement:

in the AI, when using broadcastDistressMessage, the distressed ship will signal for help from authorities (within range), make ripples around the radar icon, and send a distress comms message from the entries in descriptions.plist..

what I would wish for is a slightly more discrete option that only triggers the first two (a basic signal-based SOS), allowing for a customized descriptions.plist distress call -that could be more relevant to the particular entity, so that an "comms-invisible" broadcastDistressSignal could work both as a more repeated reminder to absent-minded or late-arriving police, and in tandem with a custom descriptions.plist entry without flooding the comms panel.

eh. is this understandable?

It is.

I’d quite like the ability to send out a distress signal. Especially when police walk in on a battle, allowing you to try to bamboozle them into thinking it’s the other guy who’s a pirate, just for comedy value. ;-)

Yes, but your undoubted Fugitive status would be a dead giveaway!

Oh, no. I’m never fugitive.

ah you guys want this for your selves.
and here I was thinking of the poor traders..

that's probably up a difficulty-notch, implementing a player distress button

but police wouldn't be bamboozled after a quick comparison of the legal status value number?

Since the police now act on any offender-on-clean laser action they notice, this should be less of a problem to the fair traders among you.

aegidian wrote:

this should be less of a problem to the fair traders among you.

Now who is going to own up to that?

But what about clean-on-clean action? :-)

Well, in the case of clean on clean, the player is obviously guilty!

true. otherwise there can be no such event.

Yeah, but it makes no sense for the police to assume this.

It would also make more sence if police
first give warning,
then fine,
then attack.
(when clean and being a public nuisance)

Darconian policing method does not really look at who shot first...just who was seen shooting first.
Or who complained the most/first.

Ah yeah: I want to yell for assistance too.
You could in FE2, but no one ever came to help. just stupid pirates spawned in uninhabited systems.

One thing I really, really hate is when a fugitive starts pleading for mercy, and you shoot them. I mean, whydo I become an offender then? Merely crying for help shouldn't change that...

Having a licence to bountyhunt will solve that sort of problems...purchase from your local Guildhouse.

Sometimes you can be attacked by a clean ship if you attack one of their fugitive/offender freinds. Also, their status remains clean, even if you are also clean.