Amen Bricks megaships - cudgel class battleship bug

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Hi,

all the time I did wonder why those battleships did not do anything in battle but fly around.

Now I found the reason: They got multiple weapons positions, but no weapons type entries!

Since I did try to contact that author because of some other oxp months ago and never got a reply, I guess he's not around anymore.

Is there anyone who fixes such things?

I also got a report about a wrong weapons position entry for SOME oxp - but Oolite did not log which file/oxp did cause the problem. It only said that it was used as a dictionary. Any ideas on how to track that down?

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[ClymAngus]

To my mind, (and this is not decrying the considerable effort on the part of the author). but that OXP needs some maniac TLC. I was never a fan of the ships and with designs getting more complex, it's textures could do with a fresh perspective and the models could do with some vertex subdivision.

Don't get me wrong. I like the idea. But that idea could be built on.

[Lestradae]

I'm going to fix the missing weapon type thing for OSE WiP at least.

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I'm going to fix the missing weapon type thing for OSE WiP at least.

If you do...maybe also have a look at the escort info? It's 16 for that ship, which explains why I always ran into very similar looking clouds of pirates with that oxp in and RS/OSE disabled. I guess it's used as a fixed number and should better be a random number (if possible).

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<key>escorts</key>
<integer>16</integer>

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[Lestradae]

Consider it done.

The random amount of escorts, though, I think is not possible - as far as I know, the only thing that can be specified is the maximum amount of escorts, the game then chooses how many are "needed" in relation to the safety/danger of the system, or so it was explained to me.

Cheers

L