[Kinman]

Hi. I want to do something after the player has rearmed.
I set a support ship manual and used the is-undocked-delay with the supportship and the player, but it didn't work.


I tried to swap Support 1 and Alpha and with different delays, but nothing happens. The support ship is docking, rearming and undocking but the event didn't fire...

Is there anything like has-rearmed-delay or do you have any other idea?

Thank you, Kinman

[Angelus]

What are ya trying to do?

[Kinman]

Hmm... I really don't want to talk about this yet... It should be a little surprise in my campaign and there's no other way to do this. I must know when the supportship either docks or undocks.
I'm testing it with send-message.

[Colonol Dekker]

What about using a . . . . .

"once secondary count -Alpha 1 - <50%
AND
once secondary count -Alpha 1-  >99%

delay - 1

Then - send message / self destruct / supernova start (for example )

[karajorma]

Test it with something that can't fail. Like Self-destruct Alpha 1 There are several reasons why a message could fail to be sent.

If you actually put a support ship in the mission rather than allowing the player to call it in themselves that should have worked though.

[Colonol Dekker]

But my theory is sound right?

* Colonol Dekker awaits the green light from Karajorma.

[CP5670]

Use when-argument with Support 1 specified manually and has-docked-delay. You can use it like this to do things with ships that aren't in the mission file itself.

[Kinman]

I've tried everything i could imagine and nothing worked.... I took me three days.
I wanted to change the secondary loadout with a support ship. The loadout-change works perfectly but i don't get an event when the supportship docks/undocks.

It was only a minor "goodie" but I canceled it.

Greetings Kinman

[Galemp]

hmm.

You could hack it with a distance SEXP.

[Black Wolf]

But my theory is sound right?

* Colonol Dekker awaits the green light from Karajorma.

I don't think so. That event would fire as soon as your secondaries dipped below 50%, since FS would recognizer the >99% as soon as the mission started. You might be able to do it with and-in-sequence, if and-in-sequence wasn't so **** (though this sounds like something it's pretty much designed for). Plus you'd need to make sure the secondaries dipped below fifty percent - the sexp wouldn't fire if you rearmed at fifty one percent, for example.

It might work with

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and-in-sequence
 - <
 - -secondary-ammo-pct
 - - - Alpha 1
 - - - 4
 - -99%
 - >
 - -secondary-ammo-pct
 - - - Alpha 1
 - - - 4
 - -99%

[karajorma]

There's nothing wrong with and-in-sequence. It's just that people misuse it and then think it's broken.

[Black Wolf]

I know that on a conscious level. But I've got a deeply ingrained dislike of it and I'm not going to give that up over something as trivial as "the facts".

[karajorma]

Can't say I blame you. I'm a little wary of it myself. It's very easy to trap yourself into doing something very stupid with it.

[Titan]

Or in my case, crashing the game. 

[karajorma]

Huh?