FighterBay Beta Release

[Zalausai]

The Cerberus has 10 fighters. Unless you are implying that a high number of fighters are deployed within a single instant.

[Twi]

That can't be right, my Novian Scientia launches 6-9 fighters at a time

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Huuuh. I dunno, then. Maybe it's just me. Or maybe it's the sprites I'm using. Or maybe any number of things.

It's almost certainly not my hardware, though. This laptop is probably the most powerful computer I have ever had.
EDIT: Zal (?) is right. Although I swear I said that. :L It can still happen occasionally if you're throwing lots of fighters around in general, but the easiest way to reproduce it is just to select 6+ fighter bays that haven't targeted anything and have them target something all at once.

[Necrontyr1998]

Oh wait, Individual fighterBAYS not fighters?

[Twi]

Oh wait, Individual fighterBAYS not fighters?

Yeah, sorry for the mix-up. Tons of fighters can get kinda laggy, but they don't crash the game.

[Necrontyr1998]

I dunno then. Although i'm sure one of Anna ships has had 6 on it before.

[Kirigaya Kazuto]

Hey, I was watching my fleet VS fleet battle, when all of a sudden, this error shows up:


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ERROR in
action number 1
of Alarm Event for alarm 0
for object ctr_EShip:

In script shipEAI:
Error in code at line 594:
if l_weapon[v].l_maxeng = 0 then

at position 29: Unknown variable l_maxeng




What does it mean? Please help, and thanks!

-Kirigaya

PS: Sorry If I'm being a necro.

[Zalausai]

It seems to be a weapon error of some kind. Probably dsling with maximum energy, try deleting modules that deal damage or beam weapons and try it again.

Also, the necro rule is ignored as long as it's not more than three months old now. The mods are lenient with the activity being lower, just don't go back too far.

[Kirigaya Kazuto]

Thanks a lot!

[Ristyo]

Sorry if this was such a noob question, but what is the difference between the fighter bay and the stock ship deployer module?

[Doogie12]

Fighterbay is more like a Demeter Drone launcher, but with an actual fighter whose sprite you can change that flies out, fires it's volley, and returns to the module to reload. The deployer actually deploys another ship file you have made, which can be used for rudimentary fighter bays but ultimately is inferior.

[Ristyo]

why fighters won't come out?

[Destiny's Player]

You need to manually select the Fighter bay module, and select an enemy ship with it.

[Ristyo]

oh, thanks

[Doogie12]

If it's an enemy or ally it will do it on it's own. Only if the ship is directly controlled by you does it need to be manual.

[366storm]

Haven't encountered this bug before, any idea what happened?

More info: happens whenever my ship fires a weapon. Is not game breaking.

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 1
of Alarm Event for alarm 0
for object SmartZelus:

In script shipEAI:
Error in code at line 598:
if l_weapon[v].l_range2 > sqr(l_weapon[v].x - l_target.x) + sqr(l_weapon[v].y - l_target.y) then

at position 77: Unknown variable x



EDIT: Apparently the fighter bay build doesn't like it when you mirror weapons.