Wingman armor repair

Fossaman · Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:23 am

So, I've been fiddling with this, and I can't figure it out. How do I get my wingmen in game to repair their armor? I've got a 93% damaged volkov and have paraded him past a commonwealth fortress, small commonwealth colony, large commonwealth colony, commonwealth drydock, black market shipyard, and korolov station, and he hasn't stopped at any of them. The code for his ship indicates that he should be stopping for repairs, but he doesn't seem to want to.

So, what's the minimum threshold for armor repairing, and is there a maximum threshold as well? I mean, for the player armor can't be repaired after a certain point. Does this hold true for wingmen? Is there any way to repair them anyway?

Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:32 am

I thought there was a command? (thats the idea I got from reading the xml anyways)

Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:39 am

Right now, wingmen will not dock to repair unless they have 10% damage or more (i.e., they report 90% armor status or below).

There is no minimum, armor gets repaired somehow, but tech-level limits still apply. They can't repair armor at a station that can't repair their tech level.

Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:46 am

It would be neat if wingmen could figure out how to upgrade themselves... 8)
Perhaps ask the player for some money with which to upgrade?

Fossaman · Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:44 pm

A little confused by the terminology here; When you say 10% damage, do you mean ten percent of hitpoints removed, or remaining?

If it's ten percent hit points removed, then Volkov's repair code, at least, is not working properly. He uses Advanced Reactive, so any of those stations I mentioned should have been able to fix him up.

Bobby · Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:05 am

I think I know why they won't repair their armor.

The code that checks for a station that can fix it is located in the <onBehavior> event on the shipclass they inherit from.

the <onBehavior> event is set on a recurring timer (60 ticks) when the ship is created.

Recurring events do not continue to work after gating. I tested using a variant of the afterburner, it stopped working when i gated, and did not resume working when i returned as it used to. (this could also be what breaks the Kronosaurus mission as reported elsewhere on the forums)

when I called the dock and repair code directly (hooked it into afterburner variant mentioned above) Jenna did repair her armor, though strangely she drifted the entire time.

overlays however, do continue to work after gating.

Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:09 am

Yeah, I think you're right, Bobby--I was planning on fixing that for RC2 but it fell through the cracks... I'll get that for RC3. Thank you!

p.s.: I don't think this is the cause of the Kronosaurus bug because the Kronosaurus never leaves the system on which the timer was created. [I think that bug is due to the player leaving the system, which confuses the Kronosaurus.]