[MOD/WIP] Combat enhancement scripts - "Better turrets" overhaul

[Elfy]

My experience with boarding with this mod is strange. First time I tried it and it went perfectly. My Taranis flew circles around enemy, taking out first all turrets, then carefully (without big guns) dismantled its hull to 5% (not 50%) and then stopped completely. Now it's the same situation but my ships keep firing big guns until boarded ship goes kaboom.

I turned on logging and the log does have several lines like this

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[General] 105358.38 *** aicontext<fight.attack.object.capital,0x6d9c>: 105358.375Taranis. target is being boarded by frendlies and hull is below 50 percent. Stopping fire. Ship which is boarded: PMC Warden Destroyer Taranis, boardee name: Albion Skunk, relation to boarder: 1

The attack goes on however. And attacking ships don't seem to care where they hit either. One DO is the same as before (5/5/5), another is 4/4/4. Any idea why?

[fonz71]

hi , i have a little problem . friendly and mine Capital don't stop fight on boarding ship

hi beaver. thank you for your work on this MOD, the description is great but i too am having this problem. friendly caps ships and my ships dont stop firing even while in defensive mode. sometimes they do, but if enemy ship hits them they fire til target destroyed. little buggers dont even want to follow orders to withdraw from battle or sometimes, they 'withdraw' directly on top of enemy ship and ask for new orders... lol and grrr!

another issue for me is the big gun script. not sure about the suckules, but the balor is still firing at fighters and i wish it wouldnt. this is the main reason i was interested in your MOD.

i am running w.evens' MIZCT without base MOD and only supplements 1-which only seems to change projectiles not behavior, 3-for the jump fuel, and 8- for repairs. do you know if #1 may be the problem? is there any other MODS yours is not compatible with? only other combat MOD i run is the carrier one.

thanks in advance for any advice or fixes for this, i hope i can get it working. as i said the description is awesome. just not working for me.

[beaver1981]

@fonz71

Hi,

I just fixed some bugs. Should work now as intended.
Would appreciate some feedback

[jonesskill]

I'm trying to turn this MOD on, but when i restart the game he is OFF

I've already tryied to clear all the anothers mods and just install this on but don't work.

:/

[jonesskill]

Basically, this is the problem:
http://imgur.com/YOiKtA7

[DeadMor0z]

Looks like there is somethig wrong in this part of code (fight.attack.object.capital.xml:266):

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            <!--Prioritize $target if exists-->
            <do_if value="$validbigguntarget.count">
              <shoot_at object="this.ship" target="$target" slot="tag.secondary_slot" tolerance="360.0deg" locktarget="true" weapontype="combat" />
            </do_if>
            <do_else>
              <!-- $target null, find target of opportunity for turrets if any -->
              <shoot_at object="this.ship" target="$validbigguntarget.{1}" slot="tag.secondary_slot" tolerance="360.0deg" locktarget="true" weapontype="combat" />
            </do_else>

target="$validbigguntarget.{1}" in shoot_at tag always will be nil, as it is in do_else tag, i.e. $validbigguntarget.count = 0

[beaver1981]

@DeadMor0z:

...did you see anything strange ingame or did you just look at the debug-log?

If you got a solution for that feel free to post it and I will implement that asap. Right now I don´t really have time to look into this...

[Trokhon]

How may I uninstall this?
save game are not loading any more if I try

I would like to test newest CWIR without CES

[beaver1981]

@Trokhon

As it says in the description:

***********************************************************************************************************
Use at your own risk!
Potentially not savegame-safe!
***********************************************************************************************************

You could try to edit your savegame or edit the content.xml and set save="true" to save="false" and then uninstall the mod after saving your game again -> but I simply don´t know what will happen!!!

I think the best way to test CWIR would be to start a new game...

CES is not compatible with CWIR since CWIR comes with it´s own combat script.

[Warnoise]

Do you have any plans to improve Drostan behavior?

[beaver1981]

@Warnoise

I think small ship combat works just fine as it is.

Personally I don´t use Drostans, I use assault drones (included in this mod) to bombard things.

So I don´t have plans or interests in changing small ship combat scripts.

[Warnoise]

@Warnoise

I think small ship combat works just fine as it is.

Personally I don´t use Drostans, I use assault drones (included in this mod) to bombard things.

So I don´t have plans or interests in changing small ship combat scripts.

So i guess Drostan script is linked to all small fighter scripts, is my understanding right?

thank you very much for your response.

[beaver1981]

@Warnoise

Yeah, there is one script about targeting/firing for L/XL ships and two for S/M ships... ...or from another view one for defense-officers and two for pilots.

fight.attack.object.capital -> L/XL vs. Drone/XS/S/M/L/XL/station
-> modified by this mod

fight.attack.object.fighter -> S/M vs. Drone/XS/S/M,
fight.attack.object.fighter.bigtarget S/M vs. L/XL/Station,
-> I´m definitly the wrong person to talk to if you do have questions about them

Drostan is an S-size ship (pilot).

So your understanding is right.

[jocan2003]

Im using the new frontier mod and i necer saw my arawn mk2 or sny other ship for that matter targetting surface element. They all have 5 star from captain to engineer.

[bitvoid]

Im using the new frontier mod and i necer saw my arawn mk2 or sny other ship for that matter targetting surface element. They all have 5 star from captain to engineer.

I'm also using the New Frontier mod with CES and my ships target surface elements just fine. However, since New Frontier is based upon CWIR I deleted both "fight.attack.object.capital.xml" and "fight.attack.object.drone.leader.xml" from the "nf_base" extension like it is recommended on the Steam mod page for CES for when using it with CWIR. If you didn't do this, maybe give it a try.

I'm actually quite happy about my ships combat behavior when using the movement scripts from NF together with the fight scripts from CES.

[jocan2003]

thank you for the nfbase pointer ill try that

[jocan2003]

Well doesnt work... i must have somthing else moding these files...