firing on your own fighters?

Phoenix-D · #1 December 28th, 2003, 02:47 AM

Maybe not. They -should- be the same race as the player, but its possible a bug made them some other race.

Fyron · #2 December 28th, 2003, 03:59 AM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Unless you were fighting Terrans, that shouldn't have done it..the fighters are created as the same race as the player.

No they are not. They are created as the actual race they are...

Phoenix-D · #3 December 28th, 2003, 04:29 AM

Fyron, buy and launch a Fazrah fighter. Does it immidiately try to kill you? No? Then it can't be launched as the race it is.

And direct from effects.txt:

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Is Unit
This component will become a unit when launched. The Space Object XFile Name field indicates the class name of the fighter in the Main_Enemies.txt file. The fighter when launched will be the same level as the parent ship, and will be of the same race (for enemy determination).

[ December 28, 2003, 02:31: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

bearclaw · #4 December 28th, 2003, 01:55 PM

I've had fighters launch and work just fine, then retreve them due to damage. Lanch them again and they get shot at by my PDC. The same fighter.

Phoenix-D · #5 December 28th, 2003, 08:02 PM

I'm betting its a problem with the collision detection then..a fighter might accidently bump your ship not enough to kill it but enough to trigger your PDC.

Sivran · #6 December 28th, 2003, 10:51 PM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
I'm betting its a problem with the collision detection then..a fighter might accidently bump your ship not enough to kill it but enough to trigger your PDC.

Yeah, that definitely sounds plausible. My PDCs fire on my own fighters when they hit me (damn drunk pilots..) but when I'm careful to avoid ramming my fighters, my PDCs don't start firing on them. The collisiongrid "cheat" helps (for me at least) to avoid ramming.

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Originally posted by bearclaw: yeah, I've come across my fighters not wanting to dock again. What I found was that if you've given the command to return all fighters, then you can fly over the fighter and pick it up like cargo boxes

Haven't had much luck with that

Once they catch up to me, if I so much as turn around they get rammed instead of scooped up.

Fyron · #7 December 29th, 2003, 12:41 AM

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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Fyron, buy and launch a Fazrah fighter. Does it immidiately try to kill you? No? Then it can't be launched as the race it is.

I have seen that happen, actually... they are created as a member of their race, but they have special rules they are supposed to follow, so they do not think you are an enemy, and your ship does not think that they are an enemy. These rules don't always work though. This is why your PDC sometimes fire on fighters you have launched, and why sometimes your fighters turn on you if you pick up illegal cargo.