Just docked with a derelict ship and could trade with it?!?

[Screet]

Hi,

I've just encountered a derelict juggernaut in the S area...so I thought I'd play it safe and use the slow docking computer. It worked!

When I was docked, I was able to refuel, even equip my ship and trade goods with that derelict?!?

Just wish that I could have gone to the bridge and fly that thing away

Screet

[Lestradae]

Hi Screet,

final OSE will create such derelicts at the death of a vessel. ATM, this only happens with a handful of already detailed ships, amongst them the Juggernauts.

This will make it possible to salvage many of future OSE's ships via Eric's Dredgers 2.2 salvage missiles. But only smaller ships, Eric has limited the salvageability to the volume of the ship model if I understood him correctly.

The code looks like this:

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 <key>death_actions</key>
                <array>
                   <string>commsMessage: [bweed-falcon-plea]</string>
                   <string>spawn: juggernaut-dredgerhulk 1</string>
                </array>
        </dict>

<key>juggernaut-dredgerhulk</key>
<dict>

<key>like_ship</key>
<string>juggernaut-template</string>

<key>ai_type</key>
<string>nullAI.plist</string>

<key>cargo_type</key>
<string>CARGO_NOT_CARGO</string>

<key>escorts</key>
<integer>0</integer>

<key>is_hulk</key>
<string>1.0</string>

<key>roles</key>
<string>dredgerDerelict</string>

<key>scanClass</key>
<string>CLASS_CARGO</string>

<key>name</key>
<string>Juggernaut (derelict)</string>

</dict>

Interesting that it is still possible to dock

Perhaps I should bar that somehow, it cannot happen with a lot of ships, does it make sense that one can still dock?

[Screet]

This will make it possible to salvage many of future OSE's ships via Eric's Dredgers 2.2 salvage missiles. But only smaller ships, Eric has limited the salvageability to the volume of the ship model if I understood him correctly.

Yes, even some neolite versions of the trade ships are already too big

Perhaps I should bar that somehow, it cannot happen with a lot of ships, does it make sense that one can still dock?

IIRC there's the mission with the trumble missiles for a derelict behemoth...but I really found that a strange thing. If it's possible to dock on an abondoned ship, how can they service mine and trade with it? Furthermore, why should I not be able to take over that ship?

Anyway, automated docking should not work in my eyes...something must be damaged and the systems offline...

Screet

[Micha]

Perhaps able to dock, but not trade or anything. Possibly a mission screen which details some goodies you found aboard. Shouldn't be able to take it over though since it's either too damaged or requires a substantial crew to bring all systems online/

[Screet]

Perhaps able to dock, but not trade or anything. Possibly a mission screen which details some goodies you found aboard. Shouldn't be able to take it over though since it's either too damaged or requires a substantial crew to bring all systems online/

The funny bit is that after docking I still saw the docking bay. The reason was (as usual in that case) that some OXP did try to show a mission screen and failed to do that

Screet