[Scripting] Vanilla signals

[Joubarbe]

Hi,

!init.ship.globalscriptmap.std:

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global script map: set: key=[SIGNAL_ATTACKED], class=[Ship], race=$race, script=`!ship.signal.attacked`, prio=100

This signal is supposed to be triggered about everytime a ship receives a hit. But it's not. A simple "display subtitle" would confirm that: a few shots only trigger it. Now, if I replace the above by the following:

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global secondary signal map: remove signal=[SIGNAL_ATTACKED] race=$race class=[Ship] name='!ship.signal.attacked'
global secondary signal map: add signal=[SIGNAL_ATTACKED] race=$race class=[Ship] script='!ship.signal.attacked' prio=100 name='!ship.signal.attacked'

The amount of event triggered is a lot higher, giving me the impression that the first command is not working as intended.
What I did, among other things, is to force all carriers to eject their fighters and interrupt their current task to attack the carrier's target when he's under attack. And the second set of commands gives much better result than the first one.

However, I recently encountered several freezes I cannot explain. It may be totally unrelated, but maybe someone here knows about signals and if there's something to avoid, like what I've just explained here?

[Cycrow]

SIGNAL_ATTACKED is actually when the ship is attacked not when its hit.
there are a number of conditions to determine if a hit is actually an attack, including number of hits, or if the ship is an enemy, etc

Once triggered, it wont trigger again for a certain amount of time. This was mainly done like this for performance reasons, and not designed to just detect hits.

SIGNAL_DAMAGE is the same, as its connected to SIGNAL_ATTACKED, but triggers only when theres hull damage as well