Fugitive battleship?

Nijik · Post by **Nijik** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 8:51 am

Hi,
Not sure this is a bug but on a number of occasions I've come across a 'Fugitive Battleship' (I think, big rectangular jobbie that flies sideways!) accompanied by a large flotilla of about 15+ offender ships flying slowly in a nice V formation. First time I investigated I was able to pretty much pick off the escort ships with barely a murmur from them or their wingmen, then picked off the Battleship at range. Subsequently I've taken out the Battleship first prompting the wingment to turn on me which was a bit more interesting.
Are these intentional encounters and responses (OXP driven) or some sort of quirk?
I did try a search and this was the closest I could find to the above but still quite different, I think.

Running Windows XP Media Centre v5.1 sp3, Oolite 1.73.4 with the following OXP's:
Amen Bricks Megaships; Anarchies 2.3; Behemoth 2.5.4; BehemothSpacewar 1.2.1; BountyScanner 1.061; Cargo_wrecks_teaser 1.5.3; Cataclysm; cobra3njx; Commies; DeepSpacePirates 1.2.3; Dictators 1.3; Dredgers 2.2.6; Executive Spaceways 2.2; Freaky Thargoids 3.1; Fuel Tank 2.2; Gates 1.00; Generation Ships 1.1; Globestation 2.0; gwxstations; halsis; impcourier; Llama; Marett_vol1; Missile Rack 1.02; murgh_xships 1.0.1; newships; nuvipers; orbits; PAGroove_Stations 1.2.1; Pirate coves 1.2.1; RandomHits 1.3.6; Rock Hermit Locater 1.3; Saleza 2.1; Thargorn Threat 1.3.1; Transports 2.51; Trident Down 1.4; UPS-courier 1.6.1; Vector 1.3; x-ships.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:21 am

The ship comes from Amen Bricks Megaships.oxp, and is kind of buggy, because it has no weapons, and without its escorts is a sitting duck.

In that OXP there is also a police variant and a military variant, both with the same flaws.

Post by **Eric Walch** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:21 am

Nijik wrote:
Hi,
Not sure this is a bug but on a number of occasions I've come across a 'Fugitive Battleship' (I think, big rectangular jobbie that flies sideways!) accompanied by a large flottila of about 15+ offender ships flying slowly in a nice V formation.

The ship you encountered is from Amen_Bricks_Megaships.oxp That one has 16 escorts defined. I just downloaded it, but have not installed it. First, but unrelated to your report, it has a faulty shipdata.plist. It won't run on a mac and could give strange things on window machines. Two keys of the first ship are badly defined. (missile_role is missing and max_cargo has no value)

To the escorts not reacting, that is an Oolite bug. Introduced in 1.73 and already fixed for 1.74. With 1.73, escorts of pirate-ships do not react to group-attack commands when their mother is part of a group. Escorts of traders do react correctly. This battleship you are seeing is added as a pirate.

Nijik · Post by **Nijik** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:32 am

Cheers for the replies, might drop this one for now then until 1.74 is available.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:34 am

The full error report for the OXP can be found here:

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=57566#57566

Unfortunately Amen Brick only re-surfaced once again after releasing this OXP. I seem to remember that he kind of promised to fix it, but nothing has happened since.

@ Nijik: If you're interested, I can send you my local version of the shipdata.plist, which fixes all bugs, and gives my interpretation of the probably intended stats of the ships.

Nijik · Post by **Nijik** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:03 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
The full error report for the OXP can be found here:

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=57566#57566

Unfortunately Amen Brick only re-surfaced once again after releasing this OXP. I seem to remember that he kind of promised to fix it, but nothing has happened since.

@ Nijik: If you're interested, I can send you my local version of the shipdata.plist, which fixes all bugs, and gives my interpretation of the probably intended stats of the ships.

Cheers Commander, I have pm'd you accordingly.

Edmund · Post by **Edmund** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:59 pm

Hi, I'd be interestd in a copy of your rejigged ship shipdata.plist too. Reply or PM me if that's OK. Ta, Edmund

Edmund · Post by **Edmund** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:01 pm

Incidentally I'm now Dangerous in Oolite but can't see how to change it on my profile. Oh well.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:07 pm

Edmund wrote:
Incidentally I'm now Dangerous in Oolite but can't see how to change it on my profile. Oh well.

Hi Edmund

Your profile rank changes according to how many posts you make.
Long way to go.

Regards

Edmund · Post by **Edmund** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:37 pm

Ah, I see. I needn't ask how many you need to progress because it's all here: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Elite_Rating right?

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:42 pm

Wrong. 256 posts gets you Elite status on the forum.

Edmund · Post by **Edmund** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:57 pm

That's a cheap Elite

!

wildstar · Post by **wildstar** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:43 pm

umm i tried to get this oxp and get error msg:

Requested file not found

We are sorry, but due to abuse or through deletion by it's owner, this file was removed

EDIT = I FOUND IT!!

this is my first post or reply rather in this forum. i am new here. have managed to install every oxp i can get my hands on. it would seem the possibilities r enless with this game.[/u]

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:17 pm

Welcome to the forums Wildstar - and yes - the possibilities are indeed, seemingly endless!

used to play elite on c=64 now playing Oolite on ubuntu

Yeh, me too! (with Elite+ and Frontier on the Amiga, and Elite in MS-DOS on the PC, and then Frontier on the PC and then Elite:TNK and then finally, right here in this Ooniverse - playing Oolite under Ubuntu and XP and Vista and moving my saved game around on a memory stick!)

Nijik · Post by **Nijik** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:12 pm

Edmund wrote:
Hi, I'd be interestd in a copy of your rejigged ship shipdata.plist too. Reply or PM me if that's OK. Ta, Edmund

Welcome aboard Edmund, nice to see a fellow Acorn Electron Elite veteran, reckon we're few and far between, I remember often setting the tape load running and popping back downstairs for my dinner!

Did the Commander get back to you on this?

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