[Raptor]

Lots of stuff has been happening recently, and I have been away for a long time so:

A): what is the latest build? I currently have fs_open_r.exe

B): has the various turret ideas been implemented? such as recoil (optional), non-fire-though-own-ships-hull code(you know the bit I mean), fire from all firepoints at once (primaries only)?

And a suggestion:
Item flags.

Currently, we have, for ships, 'fighter', 'bomber', 'cruiser', 'transport', 'cargo', 'corvette', 'capital', 'supercap', 'freighter', 'gas miner', 'drydock', and 'sentrygun'

and weapons can get 'huge'

What I suggest is:

Ships (and missiles) can be given one of these flags:

Warhead - Large missile, but not a torpedo ie Trebuchet
Bomb - Very large torpedo ie Cyclops, Helios
Sentrygun
Fighter
Bomber
Transport
Cargo
Cruiser
Freighter
Gas miner - same as above, just effects expolsion
Corvette
Frigate - may not be needed?
Capital/Destroyer - standard Destroyer vessel
SuperCap/SuperDest - Stuff like the Hades and Lucifer
Juggernaut - Coloussus and Sathanas

And weapons can have a range set within those parameters.

eg.

1: 'Cruiser+' would mean the weapon (under AI control) would fire on anything bigger than or equal to a craft with the Cruiser' flag (just like the curret 'Huge' flag)

2: SuperCap-' shoots anything smaller than a SuperCap flaged ship/weapon

And if combined:

3: 'Bomb+ Transport-' anything between a Trebuchet and a Elysium would be shot at (not inclusive)

This would mean that anti-fighter weapons don't shoot at Juggernauts, while the larger stuff will shoot at ship they are more likely to shoot at.

just an idea from a player......

[kasperl]

those do sound intersting, though rather hard to implement, but i am no coder.

it would grately enhance AI effectiveness.

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Raptor
A): what is the latest build? I currently have fs_open_r.exe

Search is A-1 SUPAR.  It's stickied at the top of the page, for crying out loud.

When people care so little about the SCP that they're willing to act this flippant about it, it makes us very unwilling to indulge their requests.

[Raptor]

Originally posted by Goober5000


Search is A-1 SUPAR.  It's stickied at the top of the page, for crying out loud.

When people care so little about the SCP that they're willing to act this flippant about it, it makes us very unwilling to indulge their requests.

Oh, forgot about that, no need to bite my head off!

And I do care, it's just late in the day, I'm tired, and I tend not to trust 'Search' Programs.

Besides, I wanted to post my idea, so I thought 'why not kill to birds with one stone?'

[Goober5000]

Sorry for lashing out.  It's just that this has been happening a lot lately.  People (lots of them, not just you) come into the SCP forum and post a thread asking for this or that, without doing a search or indeed looking at anything else.

This is why we need a SCP internal.  People abuse the openness of the public forum.

[Solatar]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Sorry for lashing out.  It's just that this has been happening a lot lately.  People (lots of them, not just you) come into the SCP forum and post a thread asking for this or that, without doing a search or indeed looking at anything else.

This is why we need a SCP internal.  People abuse the openness of the public forum.

No internal, us people that don't abuse the public forum still want to see what's going on. If it wasn't for the constant updates, I'd never follow the project.

[Raptor]

Originally posted by Goober5000
Sorry for lashing out.  It's just that this has been happening a lot lately.  People (lots of them, not just you) come into the SCP forum and post a thread asking for this or that, without doing a search or indeed looking at anything else.

This is why we need a SCP internal.  People abuse the openness of the public forum.

Thats understandable.  I'd get  cranky myself.  It's just that I've been away for a couple of months and I was wondering if there had been a new update.

Anyway, what about the idea? so we've had a 'It's cool, but could be hard to implerment' responce.  Any others?

And as for the turrets, has anyone looked at the code about this?  I'll get around to digging out links for the threads relating to this at some point.....

It's kind of disconcerting to see plasma turrets firing though a section of their own ship