CSC vs Worldship

[RPC]

So, playing around with my copy of Trans 1.05, I saw one of the tickets on Trac (http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence/trac/ticket/489) allowed the CSC to launch a fleet of Britannias to defend themselves. I tried to invoke it in the start screen vs a Worldship, but the Britannias didn't show up. Is it only an in-game thing?

[Aury]

Probably; a number of scripts & events are intentionally disabled in the start menu, probably to prevent bugs & crashes. Spawned ships behave oddly in the start menu, but I ahvn't figured out how to disable it in the start menu yet.

[RPC]

Hmm... I can't seem to be able to trigger that event. I saw a Phobos vs CSC America and only saw two Britannias (one was offscreen).

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Needless to say, America still lost.

[Aury]

They are spawned only when the enemy attacking has an immunity to the standard CSC particle weapons

[RPC]

It says in the CSCbase that if something is lv 9 or up, then it will spawn Britannias. So that means Phobos is less than lvl 9?
I haven't found the code about weapons immunity yet.

; If any of the attackers are level 9 or higher, then we need
; help. Deploy some Britannias.

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(eq behavior 'moving)
							Nil

						(block (attackerList highValueEnemies)
							(switch
							
								; If we don't have anyone attacking us, then there is
								; nothing to do.
								(not (setq attackerList (sysFindObject gSource "sAEPX")))
									Nil
									
								; If any of the attackers are level 9 or higher, then we need
								; help. Deploy some Britannias.
								(setq highValueEnemies (filter attackerList theObj (geq (objGetLevel theObj) 9)))
									(block (theTarget )
										(setq theTarget (random highValueEnemies))
										(objSetObjRefData gSource "targetObj" theTarget)
										(objRegisterForEvents gSource theTarget)

										(for i 1 6
											(block (theShip)
												(setq theShip (cscSquadronDeployShip gSource &scBritannia;))
												(if theShip
													(block Nil
														(shpOrder theShip 'attack theTarget)
														(shpOrder theShip 'attackNearestEnemy)
														(shpOrder theShip 'gate gSource)
														)
													)
												)
											)

										(objSetData gSource "behavior" 'defendingCritical)
										)
								)
							)

[Aury]

ooh ok, that's a bug, unless the phobos already killed 4 of the brittanias.

[RPC]

ooh ok, that's a bug, unless the phobos already killed 4 of the brittanias.

Woah. That was one mean Phobos then (I think they already died, I came in when CSC America was 58% damaged).

[Aury]

With the powers of godmod, I shall test this to confirm your bug.

EDIT -- nope, seems to be working just fine!

[george moromisato]

So, playing around with my copy of Trans 1.05, I saw one of the tickets on Trac (http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence/trac/ticket/489) allowed the CSC to launch a fleet of Britannias to defend themselves. I tried to invoke it in the start screen vs a Worldship, but the Britannias didn't show up. Is it only an in-game thing?

Yes, this only works in-game. There is currently a "bug" in which recurring events don't work in the intro screen. This is because, for safety reasons, the engine disables recurring events if there is no player ship in the system. I want to fix this bug, but I need to make sure that no script will fail because of it.

[Aury]

Sounds risky, especially if modded ships start showing up, as their code may not be compatible.

[george moromisato]

Sounds risky, especially if modded ships start showing up, as their code may not be compatible.

Agreed. I think for that and other reasons we want an attribute that prevents a ship class from showing up in the intro. And we probably also need a function (or something) that tells you whether you are running in the intro screen. [Maybe some attribute of the system.]

[Aury]

Does the intro screen have a node? (Or could it be assigned one?)
or attributes?
Then you could do something like

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(if (neq (sysHasAttribute "+introScren") true)
     ;;run the code
     (Block Nil
          {{foo}}
     )
     ;;dont run the code
     (block Nil)
)

[george moromisato]

Does the intro screen have a node? (Or could it be assigned one?)
or attributes?
Then you could do something like

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(if (neq (sysHasAttribute "+introScren") true)
     ;;run the code
     (Block Nil
          {{foo}}
     )
     ;;dont run the code
     (block Nil)
)

I like that suggestion at lot.

It would be pretty easy (I think) to add a system attribute to the intro screen. Could you add a ticket for it? Thank you!

[Aury]

oops, I just realized that there is no function "sysHasAttribute"
for the "HasAttribute" functions, we have evn, itm, and obj, but no sys.
That would have to be added as well.

[Aury]

http://wiki.neurohack.com/transcendence/trac/ticket/629 <-- ticket

Also, should I make a sepparate one for sysHasAttribute? Since according to katami/xelrus, the function does not exist as mentioned above.