[Scourge of Ages]

I've been informed that this is a code thing so... If it's possible, this would be a great thing for large battles and multiplayer games where multiple fighters will need to be rearmed simultaneously.
Could a flag be added in Species_defs.tbl to define on a per-species basis the max support ships, to avoid potentially breaking retail and/or other campaigns?

See: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=71592.msg1415336#msg1415336

[General Battuta]

The discussion that informed you was an offshoot of some work we've been doing to look at this on IRC. I'd like to request that this please, please be a mission or AI profiles flag.

[Scourge of Ages]

Understood, sir! Didn't know it was already open, so thought I'd just put this out there formally.

Looking forward to whatever you all figure out.

[General Battuta]

It was a great move to make this a formal request, actually, as I was terribly negligent in not doing so. Forum threads are good things.

[TopAce]

I'd prefer to have this as a mission flag, set in the Mission Specs editor. You may not want to constantly have three support ships around for some missions that'd be too easy with that kind of reparation capability.

[General Battuta]

Yeah I concur.

[karajorma]

I'd have to look at it again but as an option for the set support ship SEXP seems like the most logical place to me.

[General Battuta]

I'd have to look at it again but as an option for the set support ship SEXP seems like the most logical place to me.

That'd be great. That's what I actually thought its final argument did at first.

[Iss Mneur]

I'd have to look at it again but as an option for the set support ship SEXP seems like the most logical place to me.

That'd be great. That's what I actually thought its final argument did at first.

Well, I was bored and I thought I would take a stab at this.  Karajorma, I hope you hadn't put to much work into this.

Added control of having more than one support ship per team to set-support-ship as an optional 7th arg.  Doc for set-support-ship updated to reflect new functionality and clarified to make the difference between the 6th arg and the 7th arg apparent.  Download the FSO and FRED binaries and .pdbs from:http://www.box.net/shared/566ekybavm

Diff to come after I take a second look my fix.

[General Battuta]

I'd have to look at it again but as an option for the set support ship SEXP seems like the most logical place to me.

That'd be great. That's what I actually thought its final argument did at first.

Well, I was bored and I thought I would take a stab at this.  Karajorma, I hope you hadn't put to much work into this.

Added control of having more than one support ship per team to set-support-ship as an optional 7th arg.  Doc for set-support-ship updated to reflect new functionality and clarified to make the difference between the 6th arg and the 7th arg apparent.  Download the FSO and FRED binaries and .pdbs from:http://www.box.net/shared/566ekybavm

Diff to come after I take a second look my fix.

You are a god.

[karajorma]

I'm still a little worried about what effects that might have if used in multiplayer.

[Iss Mneur]

You are a god.

I assume that means that it works?  I suppose that is why I didn't get more VA script from you today either, right?

I'm still a little worried about what effects that might have if used in multiplayer.

Well, I am not changing anything that deals with multiplayer, or the implementation of support ships, just the way that the support ship code regulates the counts.  That is, the way that a support ship is requested has not changed.  That being said, I have posted the patch for the newest build on internal for code review, before it gets committed to trunk.


Okay, new build for you three people that downloaded the last one.  Same as last time, FRED and FSO with their .pdbs can be downloaded from: http://www.box.net/shared/3vm0ql3boo.  I have played a few missions of retail and the support ship seems to be working fine.

The changes are mostly mostly code style changes, but there is a possibility that I did break something.

[General Battuta]

You are a god.

I assume that means that it works?  I suppose that is why I didn't get more VA script from you today either, right?

Are you sure you didn't get more? Kassim and a good chunk of Laporte are done.

[Iss Mneur]

Committed in revision 6482.  Feature is activated by a seventh parameter to set-support-ship.  See the sexp help for more information.

[General Battuta]

Committed in revision 6482.  Feature is activated by a seventh parameter to set-support-ship.  See the sexp help for more information.

wooooooooo

[chief1983]

And OS X and Windows nightlies are up that have it