[Black Wolf]

I remember one of the coders who had been doing their own modifications to the FS code actually implemented this for their own gaming, but I don't know if it was ever actually copied over into the SCPs exe... I've been trying to use it, and while it doesn't crash the game, my Blastboats are behaving the same as always... so did it ever get properly merged into the main FSO Code?

[diamondgeezer]

Er... you talking about a flag which makes a warship present its gun-heavy side towards the target?

[Black Wolf]

As I understand it, it tells FS that ships with this flag should approach ships and fight as much as possible head on, as this is where there firepower is concentrated, as opposed to circling around attempting to broadside.

[diamondgeezer]

Er... but does not, say, an Orion have most of its beams on its sides? You know GTVA philosophy, put beams all over it so it can engage multiple targets and never ever learn from the fact that the Shivans always obliterate our ships because they concentrate their beams forwards...

[Black Wolf]

I did not say that the ship I am using it on was constructed by the GTVA

[Flaser]

hmmm....souds like stuff _avgr did a while back?

He also implemented a lot of other cool stuff that made the AI ships a lot better - or a nifty thing called auto-ETS.

Where did his stuff disappear?

[Nico]

I like the broadside stuff. Too bad the FS2 ships don't look made for that at all

[Sticks]

Yes, that was an _argv addition to the code. I'm not sure where he dissapeared to, but the reason none of his stuff made it in is that he committed it all at the same time, which broke untold amounts of other code, so we had to roll it back before his commits. I think this may have put him off a bit, for which I apologize, because we haven't heard from him since.

[Flipside]

Hmmmmm.. That's a pity, this would be incredibly useful, broadsides are well and good, but it would be useful to have the flexibility, especially for certain situations

[Woolie Wool]

That's one reason why I liked Inferno's Tereus. I can deliver massive broadsides with its side beams, but its biggest beam is in the front, so it can do almost as much damage to ships in front as it can to ships to the sides.

[Flipside]

Well, I took the Liberty of Emailing _Argv....from his reply....

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Yeah, I've been pretty busy lately. Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth...

Go ahead and roll back my changes. I need to go over my changes and graft them
into a fresh working copy anyways. That way, I can carefully #ifdef changes,
change them to not break stuff, etc.


_argv[-1].
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I think I worded the letter badly, since he seemed to think we hadn't rolled his changes back yet, but at least he's alive and well

[Nuke]

this is not a bad idea, i need it too!