[Goober5000]

Just like species_defs.tbl, so now you can play with who shoots whom. This, by the way, is the cause of all those bugs that suddenly showed up around January 9th.  I think I've gotten them all ironed out, so have at it.

Here's the Wiki entry.  Many thanks to Wanderer for filling in the sections I was too lazy to add myself.

[FireCrack]

Goob is on a FEATURE ATTACK!

Awesome job, i can see this one being usefull for campaigns.

[SadisticSid]

Hooray, finally we can have 'friendly' ships blowing seven shades of **** out of each other.

EDIT: I think you should add two more flags though - targetable by enemy key, and targetable by friendly key. Just in case you want to make neutrals or unknowns not show up as enemies, say, if you wanted to make a civilian IFF.

[Goober5000]

EDIT: I think you should add two more flags though - targetable by enemy key, and targetable by friendly key. Just in case you want to make neutrals or unknowns not show up as enemies, say, if you wanted to make a civilian IFF.

Key as in keyboard?  I'm not sure what you mean here.

[SadisticSid]

Yes, by the H key and F key, respectively.

[karajorma]

Makes sense.

Suppose you make a force who are have a green iff. You want them to attack friendlies halfway through the mission but you want them to be targetable with the F key right at the start so you can't tell them apart from actual friendlies.

Can you do that with the current code or will F always target only ships with the same IFF as you?

[Goober5000]

The way it probably should be (I'm not exactly sure how it is now) is that F targets ships on your own team and H targets ships you attack.

Another possibility is to have F targets ships you don't attack and H target ships you do attack.  But this opens up messy possibilities with Unknown and Neutral, etc.

[Cobra]

Civil war anybody?

[Taristin]

Ah! This could do what I always wanted to do! Make traitors become allies of the hostiles!

[FireCrack]

^ gonna make custom debreifings for that?

SCREEE!!!!
Though your previous attack destroyed two of the sathanas's beam cannons you in the end managed to disarm the colossus leading to it's destruction, for this i bestow upon you the order of shiva, a rare honour to those of your species.
SCCCRREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

[SadisticSid]

Makes sense.

Suppose you make a force who are have a green iff. You want them to attack friendlies halfway through the mission but you want them to be targetable with the F key right at the start so you can't tell them apart from actual friendlies.

Can you do that with the current code or will F always target only ships with the same IFF as you?

Yeah, this is exactly what I was thinking. But then presumably one would have the problem of being able to order his wingmen to attack the 'fake friendly' IFF ships, unless Goob's code makes provision for that.

[Wanderer]

Wouldnt that be a just a bit illogical? Like if player turns into a traitor his IFF status is swapped immediately. Wouldnt command map in similar way just about any attacking ship as hostile and assign new IFF to it on the instant they are recognized as such

[karajorma]

What if you're on a mission like Lion's Den where there is no contact with Command? What if you wanted a few seconds of confusion before the IFF changes?

[Goober5000]

Yeah, this is exactly what I was thinking. But then presumably one would have the problem of being able to order his wingmen to attack the 'fake friendly' IFF ships, unless Goob's code makes provision for that.

You can only give orders to ships on your own team.  And I think you can only order them to attack teams specified as such in the table.