[Retsof]

I learned to be carefull when using chained events.  I got my mission all FREDed, then decided to add an extra piece of dialogue depending on the actions of the player.  So I did this and sent it to my colleague, and they said that nothing happened when you accomplished your goal.  I couldn't figure out what was going wrong.  Turns out the event was still chained and only worked if you failed.  

[Akalabeth Angel]

It was discovered by someone trying to crash FRED, IIRC. You know that if you do not name a ship, FRED will just call it "<class of ship> 1" or something similar? Well, he tried renaming Ulysses 1 to Ulysses 2 before placing a new Ulysses, thinking that when FRED encountered a ship already called "Ulysses 2", it wouldn't know what to do with the ship being placed. FRED just called the new ship "URA Moron 1".

Essentially, FRED calls the user a moron for trying to trick it.

     That's awesome, I don't think it would actually crash though. I just tried it, and got URA Moron 1,2,3 then I renamed one of them URA Moron 4 but it just made URA Moron 1 . . . Oh well. I thought there might be something else exciting after that.

[NGTM-1R]

That sounds suspiciously like a bug to me. I can't think of any good reason why locked beams should unlock on death.

Perhaps, but it's been doing it since Retail, I think. Certainly since 3.3.

[karajorma]

That sounds suspiciously like a retail bug to me then. I never said the SCP introduced the bug.

I don't think it would introduce a big balancing issue if it was fixed so give how ugly the hack required to circumvent it is then it probably needs fixing.

[haloboy100]

*Typical FREDed mission*
"ZOMFGY!!!!! YOU KILLED ALPHA ONE!!!"
"FIRE ALL BEAMS!!!!!!@!@1111"
"Sir! But Fred said not to-"
"I DON'T CARE WHAT FRED SAID! I say FIIIIRE!!!"

[NGTM-1R]

Stupid waypoint tricks!

So I built this mission where I have two friendly wings engaged in "zone defense" escort duties, i.e. a ship comes in and they fly over and escort it until it leaves, then they wait around for another ship to show up they can escort. But I don't want these fools cluttering up my jumpnode and maybe ending up smeared across the front of a TC-TRI, so I give them waypoints where they go to when they're not escorting stuff.

Single waypoints.

I go into the mission to test it and stare, totally confused, utterly baffled, as they proceed to form a ball of colliding fighters. And then suddenly I realize the AI isn't smart enough to orbit a waypoint, it has to get to it, come hell or high water. I assigned whole wings a single waypoint.

"YOU BLOODY IDIOT!"

[Titan]

That sounds suspiciously like a bug to me. I can't think of any good reason why locked beams should unlock on death.

"Brothers, we drive a knife into the hearts of our enemies..."

Loooooooooo... ZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!BOOM!!!