New Radar Display

[CmdrMargan]

Hi,

Could someone explain the new radar display / sensor display, please?

It is now blobby, with different sized and coloured blobs that seem to expand and contract slightly, very rapidly. What does it all mean - is the world coming to an end?

Also I have noticed that there are no sensors to upgrade ships with.

Great fun.

Margan.

[pheonixstorm]

The sensors are there to buy. I have a few runs that I couldn't buy sensors before as well, but thats just the games random upgrades generation.

As for how the sensors now act.. check out the elite radar thread in either features or dev focus. Can't remember which, sorry.

[breese]

Could someone explain the new radar display / sensor display, please?

It is now blobby, with different sized and coloured blobs that seem to expand and contract slightly, very rapidly. What does it all mean - is the world coming to an end?

You are describing the Ktek Tracker sensor. You should not get that by default, but only if you buy it.

The track sizes are used to indicate big vs small objects. The wobbling is the Ktek Tracker's reaction to ECM -- other radar brands are based on different technology and therefore react differently to ECM. The colouring is based on your vegastrike.config file (I just fixed a bug to make it work again.)

The old radars should continue to work as they always have, albeit with a few minute changes to keep things consistent. I have also added a version with threat-assessment for the StarScanner and Hawkeye lines.

Also I have noticed that there are no sensors to upgrade ships with.

Then how did you get your Ktek Tracker?

Some shops do not always sell sensors, just as they do not always sell other kinds of upgrade, but this is also how it worked before I submitted the new radars.

[CmdrMargan]

Then how did you get your Ktek Tracker?

Well, what I think happened is:

I was still within Atlantis' gravity inluence on my way to Serenity when the telephone rang. I looked at the screen and realised I had a little while before I needed to navigate into Serenity so I answered the 'phone.
When I got back to the game I saw I was about 37 light minutes beyond Serenity and realised immediately that my Llama must have bounced off Serenity. I checked for damage and found the only damage was to my Alpha 1 sensor which was down at 50%.
I decided rather than repair it I would buy a repair droid to see what happened. I bought a repair droid 1.

Before the collision the radar dots were all white and the centre of the radar was a green cross. After the collision it looked very similar but with very few dots. By the time I got back to Atlantis the radar's white dots were green dots and the Alpha 1 was at 100%. I then ended the game and restarted it later-on in the day.

I restarted Vegastrike.exe and loaded up the game I had been running earlier, stocked-up with booze for the return to Serenity, launced and immediately noticed that the radar centre was now more of a circle and the dots were blobs.
The sensor is still an Alpha 1!

Does that help?

By the way it is SVN 13001.

Thanks,

CmdrMargan

[breese]

Before the collision the radar dots were all white and the centre of the radar was a green cross. After the collision it looked very similar but with very few dots. By the time I got back to Atlantis the radar's white dots were green dots and the Alpha 1 was at 100%. I then ended the game and restarted it later-on in the day.

I restarted Vegastrike.exe and loaded up the game I had been running earlier, stocked-up with booze for the return to Serenity, launced and immediately noticed that the radar centre was now more of a circle and the dots were blobs.

This is definitely not supposed to happen. It looks like the repair system actually upgrades your sensor.

If you have not bought a new ship yet, can you post the following file: ~/.vegastrike/serialized_xml/XYZ/Llama.begin.csv (replace XYZ with the name of your saved game.)

[CmdrMargan]

Hi All,

Thanks for the feedback.

All cured with Revision 13109.

Commander Margan

[energyman76b]

damn - upgrade by bot would be such a nice feature. Just like schlock mercenary's fabbers...

[travists]

I think a 'bot upgrading things has been discussed, and (I could easily be wrong) even has a mention in the wiki about the high end ones being so smart that they invent stuff.

[klauss]

I remember the discussion about manufacturing bots... but not the upgrading bots.

[loki1950]

Motie engineers anyone from "Mote in God'd Eye" hand one your iphone2 get a 6 back and it would probably be optimized for low energy use as well.

Enjoy the Choice