I know this is some bumping, but I thought I should post it here rather than in Taylor's thread in the "Releases" sub-forum. The thought came up while I was trying to expand my suggestion of sexp controls to restrict or open up a cap-ships' turrets' ability to shoot at asteroids. I was working up an example of how the sexps would be useful, but ended up doing something a bit broader, so I aborted my example and came here. Right now, we don't have a sexp to tell the turrets of a ship to ignore a target, however there exists a bug which indicates that this should be possible. I noticed even in retail, that if you give the "ignore my target" command, cap-ships will follow your command too, prompting the occasional extra cap-ship kill for me. If this could be coded into a series of sexps, this is what I'd like to see:
ai-turret-ignore
Tells all turrets on the specified ship to ignore a target ship, wing, or even asteroids (this would mean ALL asteroids), or a number of these within the same instance of the sexp. Use to toggle off the effect without requiring clear-goals, though this will do the trick as well.
Use:
When
-true
-add-goal
--GTD Bastion
--ai-turret-ignore
---HoLC Ramses
or
when
-true
-add-goal
--GTD Bastion
--ai-turret-ignore
---
to disable.
Also, of similar use is ai-turret-ignore-all-but to focus on specific wings, ships or on asteroids.
What is the feasability of this?
