[Crybertrance]

Hey guys, just wanted to know how to change the speed of a capital ship in-game and how to add a jump-node...

To clarify, I have a mission in fred2 where, Alpha 1 has to escort two Triton class freighters with the help of a leviathan class cruiser, after warping in, the two freighters procede to their waypoint at a constant 30 m/s but the leviathan moves at just 10 m/s and hence stars falling behind...

I want to increase the speed of the cruiser or decrease the speed of the two freighters to balance their speed...
I edited the tbl and increased the max speed of the cruiser, but still no joy! I even tried the cap-waypoint-speed (or was it cap-speed-waypoint?) sexp but to no effect...

PS: I have all the capital ships emerge from subspace.

Now, to the second point., Whenever I try to place a Jump node, there is just the green text "jump Node" (no green sphere, etc) It even dissaperes when I save my mission...Please help!!

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[General Battuta]

cap-waypoint-speed on the freighters, you can only decrease speed with it

[Crybertrance]

cap-waypoint-speed on the freighters, you can only decrease speed with it

No luck, the freighter still move at 25 m/s
My sexp config is like this:

when
  -true
  ->cap-waypoint-speed
    <GTFr Calypso>
    <10>

[General Battuta]

You said the ships warp in. Your SEXP is firing when the mission starts (true). Ergo you're capping their speed before they even arrive in the mission, so nothing happens.

Change the trigger to has-arrived-delay 0.

[Rodo]

Is it also necessary for this sexp to have a waypoint PATH defined, and not just a single waypoint?. (just curiosity)

[mjn.mixael]

There is a bug with jumpnodes currently. You'll need to use a Nightly pre 7852 OR make the jump node in a text editor and then open the mission in FRED. DO NOT try to rename the jumpnode though. The bug also affects jumpnode naming and opening the naming dialog will lock you in an exescapable loop...

(These bugs have been reported on Mantis.)

[Crybertrance]

You said the ships warp in. Your SEXP is firing when the mission starts (true). Ergo you're capping their speed before they even arrive in the mission, so nothing happens.

Change the trigger to has-arrived-delay 0.

Thanks a bunch!

Is it also necessary for this sexp to have a waypoint PATH defined, and not just a single waypoint?. (just curiosity)

Nono, I have a good three waypoints, one for each ship!

There is a bug with jumpnodes currently. You'll need to use a Nightly pre 7852 OR make the jump node in a text editor and then open the mission in FRED. DO NOT try to rename the jumpnode though. The bug also affects jumpnode naming and opening the naming dialog will lock you in an exescapable loop...

(These bugs have been reported on Mantis.)

Thanks I guess I will have to try another build! Also, I am *not* locked in a loop when I rename the Node...using 7857 Nightly build

Also, guys, I need help on how to add things to the directives list, I have cancer wing to attack the convoy, how do I add this to the directives list
Also I need a directive to "Protect the Convoy" which fails if either ship is destroyed, Thnaks 

[General Battuta]

For the directive

event should be

has-departed-delay FREIGHTER 1 FREIGHTER 2

Directive Text: Protect Convoy

It will fail if either ship is destroyed.

[Crybertrance]

Thanks and for cancer wing?

[General Battuta]

Are you asking for a directive to 'destroy cancer wing', or a way to tell cancer to attack the convoy?

[Crybertrance]

Are you asking for a directive to 'destroy cancer wing', or a way to tell cancer to attack the convoy?

I'm asking for a way to display the directive "Destroy Cancer"

[X3N0-Life-Form]

I'm asking for a way to display the directive "Destroy Cancer"

Create an event with the trigger SEXP is-destroyed cancer
and write "Destroy Cancer" in the directive text textbox at the bottom of the event window

[Crybertrance]

I'm asking for a way to display the directive "Destroy Cancer"

Create an event with the trigger SEXP is-destroyed cancer
and write "Destroy Cancer" in the directive text textbox at the bottom of the event window

Thanks man! 
Also is there a way to stop all the ships on the convoy? I have a wing of enemy fighter disable a freighter and want to stop all the ships when the freighter is disabled..
I tried the set-immobile sexp, but the speed (10 m/s) still shows in the target box (it doesnt turn to 0), are there any other ways to resolve this?

[Black Wolf]

You can make them stop with the AI system - set-immobile is higher order - it plays with the physics of the engine, which is way overkill for this situation. The sexp you want here is probably "clear-goals" - that'll stop the ships, but you'll need to apply it to each ship, either individually or with a when-argument sexp.

[Crybertrance]

You can make them stop with the AI system - set-immobile is higher order - it plays with the physics of the engine, which is way overkill for this situation. The sexp you want here is probably "clear-goals" - that'll stop the ships, but you'll need to apply it to each ship, either individually or with a when-argument sexp.

But then I will also have to tell the the ships to move to the waypoint again via sexp? (after the disabled freighter is repaired)

[Black Wolf]

Yep, quite logically using the "add-goal" sexp.

I have to ask - did you do the Volition walkthrough that comes with FRED before you attempted this mission? It's a really, really useful way of learning the basics of FREDding, and it's generally reccomended for every new FREDder.

[Crybertrance]

Yep, quite logically using the "add-goal" sexp.

I have to ask - did you do the Volition walkthrough that comes with FRED before you attempted this mission? It's a really, really useful way of learning the basics of FREDding, and it's generally reccomended for every new FREDder.

Thanks, I have gone through the help docs, but I have not gone through the walkthrough in detail  , guess Ill go through it now...
Thanks again!

[Crybertrance]

I was wondering is there is a way to make a subsystem invulnerable. I wanted to make the engine subsystem invulnerable of my elysium  'cause the hostiles keep disabling in while firing... Thanks!

[TopAce]

ship-subsystem-guardian-treshold

[Crybertrance]

Thanks!