Oolite Bulletins

Would it be possible to make an AI function that just bugs a ship out if it's under attack, without actually making it go anywhere?

I want to write an AI that just makes a ship disappear but it won't wormhole itself. Also, the only AI commands I can see make it search for a destination before it witchspaces, and that's not what I want either. I just want it to flash out of existence

If you stand in the way of an Orbital Shuttle it pops out of existance. Maybe that's a good starting point?

Mmm. It's 'landing' on a planet, as far as I can tell, which requires it to be within a certain distance of the planet. This is going to be a deep-space thing.

Draco_Caeles wrote:

Mmm. It's 'landing' on a planet, as far as I can tell, which requires it to be within a certain distance of the planet. This is going to be a deep-space thing.

Try it. Stand in front of an orbital shuttle shortly after it leaves the station. Pop. I'm not sure if Aegidian has fixed it in the latest version. But whatever code it's using might come in handy.

Hah!

It works, yes... but it would be nice for there to be a witchspace jump flash

So you *don't* want it to miraculously disappear, but hyper-space out?

I want it to hyper out, but without actually appearing anywhere at the other end.

AFAICT all the hyperspace commands require the ship to jump to somewhere. I just want it to jump...

Ah.

So one can't follow it throught the wormhole? Hmmmm....

Not sure that's possible to do w/o Giles' intervention of changeing some game-code...

Yeah, that's what I meant.

I know it would need a code change, but I wondered if it might be worth it.