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Title: Beams
Post by: fs2freak88 on January 30, 2003, 06:29:28 pm: Something wierd is happening...as usual lol. Anyway, for a mission i'm creating, i inserted a Moloch class corvette. Then i commanded it to fire its beams by that beam-free-all thingie. The beams wouldn't work. Then, I tried a Cain and a Lilith and it worked on both of them. hmmmm......any solution? The sexp command was the same for all the cruisers.
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Post by: Knight Templar on January 30, 2003, 06:39:37 pm: Well make sure you have beam free and not turret free.. as they are confused easily

Secondliy, you want to make sure the beams are within range of anything hostile.

3rd, make sure thye are within firing arcs (generally if you can see the turret, it can see you)

4th, make sure none of your ships are beam protected.

5th, make sure your ships are armed with beams in the first place.
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on January 30, 2003, 08:03:43 pm: And make sure it's not a MjolnirBeam. :nod:
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Post by: Fetty on January 30, 2003, 11:55:27 pm: i think they fire anyway
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Post by: Knight Templar on January 31, 2003, 12:00:52 am: only if its a straight line of sight.
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Post by: deep_eyes on January 31, 2003, 08:17:06 am: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
only if its a straight line of sight.

mjinorbeam#home is a1supar!
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Post by: ZylonBane on January 31, 2003, 10:27:05 am: Hmm, been meaning to add this to my sig for a while...
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Post by: Knight Templar on January 31, 2003, 11:05:52 am: Quote
Originally posted by deep_eyes

mjinorbeam#home is a1supar!

Yes, but I doubt he knows that if he's having this much trouble :doubt:

I was waitin' for ZB anyways.. :p
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Post by: diamondgeezer on January 31, 2003, 11:30:25 am: And you lot tell me I ask daft FRED questions...
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Post by: Knight Templar on January 31, 2003, 11:34:58 am: :p :wink:

He has you beat 5 times over
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on January 31, 2003, 12:27:29 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
And you lot tell me I ask daft FRED questions...
Nah, you just post weird errors.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on January 31, 2003, 01:13:20 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
And you lot tell me I ask daft FRED questions...

YES! You used the word "daft"! Hallelujah!
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Post by: beatspete on January 31, 2003, 04:31:30 pm: ...is Mr Moloch present when the beam free all event occurs? If a ship warps in in the middle of a mission, but the SEXP is just "beam free all" without an event or time conditional, then fred sets the ship to beam free all when it isnt in the game yet, and so has no effect.
Try
When
has arived
SCv Moloch
beam-free-all
SCv Moloch.

Thats caught me out a few times :rolleyes:
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 01, 2003, 01:20:20 am: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
YES! You used the word "daft"! Hallelujah!

Yea, verily - :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
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Post by: Knight Templar on February 01, 2003, 02:16:21 am: He's british..

It'd expect as much as i'd expect the woman who menstrates once every 28 days.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 01, 2003, 02:31:42 am: Again - :wtf:
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Post by: Knight Templar on February 01, 2003, 02:59:29 am: How's the weather ?
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Post by: Darkage on February 01, 2003, 04:37:45 am: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
How's the weather ?

It snows.
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Post by: Nico on February 01, 2003, 05:02:31 am: Quote
Originally posted by Darkage

It snows.

yeah :blah:
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 01, 2003, 05:44:00 am: Snowed here last night, but then rain washed it all away :(
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Post by: Darkage on February 01, 2003, 06:28:25 am: It is still snowing here, it has for a couple of hours non stop.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 01, 2003, 07:28:57 am: We haven't had any snow, as Brighouse (my home town) is in a valley. It seems that the entire North has had snow except us.
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Post by: Darkage on February 01, 2003, 07:40:55 am: Be happy, it's still damn snowing here. And i need to tkae a 20min bike ride because i can't find my OV-Year card.
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Post by: Knight Templar on February 01, 2003, 11:57:27 am: Partially cloudy, with hints of showers and sunshine!

:nervous:
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on February 01, 2003, 01:04:16 pm: I wish it would snow. I'm from the land of snow. But here in Vancouver it is like living in an alternate reality. There is no winter here: January seems more like March. The lack of snow is disturbing to me.
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Post by: CP5670 on February 01, 2003, 03:56:52 pm: There was much more snow this time around than last winter but the season has more or less ended; just some cold weather now. I don't really care too much seeing as I almost never go out, but I like any kind of weather that makes it darker than usual and thus allows me to play games in the daytime. :D

btw what does this have to do with the original topic? :wtf:
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on February 01, 2003, 06:12:45 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670

btw what does this have to do with the original topic? :wtf:
The topic is dead. You may mourn its passing. Drop a flower onto its silent tomb, if you will. But the rest of us move on, and talk about the weather...
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Post by: SKYNET-011 on February 01, 2003, 07:29:09 pm: I smell lockage... :nervous:
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 02, 2003, 04:38:07 am: Something sinister is going on when we, supposedly intelligent people, are reduced to talking about the weather.
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Post by: Fineus on February 02, 2003, 05:33:48 am: I can help with that :)