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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:53 pm
by Wurmish
Could just be your luck, or maybe Heretic was tweaked in subtle ways.

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:32 pm
by george moromisato
Wurmish wrote:Could just be your luck, or maybe Heretic was tweaked in subtle ways.
It might not be entirely luck. I've found that with the AI improvements in RC2, stations get killed much faster. If necessary, I might lengthen the time between attacks even more (or decrease the number of sentinels)

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:36 pm
by george moromisato
Wolfy wrote:--update on non-firing freighters--
I finally got an Antares II that had functional weapons (it was on a mission to gate out)... but all the others just didn;t seem to fire
One "improvement" in RC1 and RC2 is that most ships only attack enemies if they've been fired upon first (actually, if the enemy has fired a weapon in a certain period of time).

Next time you do a Korolov mission and the freighter is not firing, wait until the pirates start shooting and see if the freighter fires back.

I might tweak this to make freighters fire on enemies that have targeted them.

[p.s.: The aggressor="true" flag in AISettings overrides the above behavior.]

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:39 pm
by Fossaman
Wait...so my refugee convoys aren't going to take potshots at ares sentries anymore? Awesome.

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:19 pm
by Darth Saber
Greetings George; now that I have been advised of where to obtain thy two RC versions, I shall with joy enjoin in their testing. George, shall the mods which we have created in the past for version .98d and .99c work within this new framework or no? :twisted:

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:22 pm
by george moromisato
Darth Saber wrote:George, shall the mods which we have created in the past for version .98d and .99c work within this new framework or no? :twisted:
It is my intent that mods that work in .99 also work in 1.0--but if they don't, file a bug and let me know.

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:38 pm
by Viperion
After another playthrough, I would say that Heretic is even harder in RC2 than RC1 and I can't keep enough stations alive to be able to finish the game using the station missions. I even tried going directly to the Iocrym Outposts and killing them before doing anything else, and still lost too many stations. I think the attack intervals need to be lengthened if you do intend to give the player a chance at completion via station missions.

The Hyper Viper

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:14 pm
by Aury
that is interesting, but i think that if a ship has a weapon, it should fire it in the event that it does not need to change its motion to do so. this way, ships can still act defensively while continuing on their way. i think it would be rather odd not to at least attampt using your omnidirectional weapons if there was an oportunity to use it when there is nothing lost in doing so. to have the ship get sidetracked to the point it deviates from its mission.

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:59 am
by Aury
george moromisato wrote:
One "improvement" in RC1 and RC2 is that most ships only attack enemies if they've been fired upon first (actually, if the enemy has fired a weapon in a certain period of time).

Next time you do a Korolov mission and the freighter is not firing, wait until the pirates start shooting and see if the freighter fires back.

I might tweak this to make freighters fire on enemies that have targeted them.

[p.s.: The aggressor="true" flag in AISettings overrides the above behavior.]
I got it only to work on one more ship, an EI1700... And I've escorted about 10-15 ships... I sorta cheated via godmod and got an antares V I wasn't escorting to shoot the pirates by assigning it as an escort to the ship I was escorting, mostly just to see if it would actually work.

@ fossaman - what does taking potshots at ares sentries going to do? wouldn't the ares sentries have attacked anyways?

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:13 am
by george moromisato
Wolfy wrote:I got it only to work on one more ship, an EI1700... And I've escorted about 10-15 ships... I sorta cheated via godmod and got an antares V I wasn't escorting to shoot the pirates by assigning it as an escort to the ship I was escorting, mostly just to see if it would actually work.
If the pirates are firing and the freighter is not firing, then that's a bug, and you should send me the save file. Otherwise, it's working as designed (though we can argue about the design).

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:25 am
by Aury
george moromisato wrote:
Wolfy wrote:I got it only to work on one more ship, an EI1700... And I've escorted about 10-15 ships... I sorta cheated via godmod and got an antares V I wasn't escorting to shoot the pirates by assigning it as an escort to the ship I was escorting, mostly just to see if it would actually work.
If the pirates are firing and the freighter is not firing, then that's a bug, and you should send me the save file. Otherwise, it's working as designed (though we can argue about the design).
Ok, yeah, the pirates are firing, and the freighter isn't.
I'll start a new game and find a korolov to test this with.

http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence/trac/ticket/119 <--- I added the savefile here along with the version of godmod and its dependencies I'm currently using.

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:09 am
by Betelgeuse
random question in damage events do you have access to the shot object that caused that event? (so you can get data from when it was shot and not current data)

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:34 pm
by schilcote
Did you fix the collimator stacking bug? I was going to make a mod with a special sort of laser and kinetic enhancing device that is less effective but it stacks...

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:25 pm
by george moromisato
schilcote wrote:Did you fix the collimator stacking bug? I was going to make a mod with a special sort of laser and kinetic enhancing device that is less effective but it stacks...
Yes, it's fixed. If you want your device to stack, then leave the enhancementType= attribute blank. That should cause it to stack with anything.

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:06 pm
by Aury
Do CSC's drop armor anymore? since it seems like they don't anymore.