Oolite Bulletins

Dear all

A side-effect of Thargoid's newly fixed neocaduceous seems to be that the ship now longer de-cloaks when firing. This makes the game less playable (and it is why in the past I have not flown e.g. supercobras with cloaking devices). For one becomes near invincible.

So: how about allowing ships to shoot at you, but inaccurately, when (cloaked) you shoot at them?

There is already at least one ship, I think, that can track cloaked ships (the Leviathan?). But my suggestion is that, additionally, we have some sort of 'something's shooting at me, though I can't see it - so I'll shoot back!' function. And perhaps we could make the full (or full-er?) detection more common, too.

Some of my previous suggestions may have been unrealistic. But this one?

the decloaking when firing can fixed in shipdata, the cloak_passive setting has to be set to TRUE.

Thanks. But: is the file in question the one in the neocad.oxp's 'config' folder? For the value in the file in that folder seems already to be set to 'true' - and I cannot find a 'cloak_passive' key anywhere else . .

If you're referring to the latest "neoCaduceus 141210.zip" version that Thargoid has posted, then in its shipdata.plist there are two cloak_passive keys.

The first is on lines 11/12 for the Caddy Alpha and is set to "true".

The second one for the Caddy Omega is on lines 345/346 and for some reason is set to "false".

I hadn't noticed this, as I haven't acquired a cloaking device yet - I've still got a whole galaxy to play through before I get there!

Right - I got it to work (for my Omega model). The problem was that I hadn't properly held done shift when restarting the game. Thanks everyone for your help. Still, I remain wedded to my suggestion. .