cargo mission and docking on SPEC moving vessels

[kraehe]

Moin Guru's,

while trying to play this game, I encounter lots of cargo missions going to some Mule or other SPEC moving vessel.

My first try was to follow the patch "Can I stop vessels from being mission targets?" in this forum, but the patch itself did not solve my problem. Still lots of cargo missions go to SPEC moving vessels. I read cargo_mission.py, go_somewhere_significant.py and unit.py and finaly unit_util_generic.cpp to figure out what happens. But all my tries did not solve it, even if I think I found a totaly different bug.

Then I played the game a bit more and realised, that all stations had been gone in one system. And the only Klk'k presence left there are capital ships. So even if I found a way to disable SPEC moving ships being valid cargo destinations, some cargo missions would fail.

So the question is: docking to a spec moving vessel is impossible yet. Would it be possible to ask a vessel to stop moving to dock there. Of course only if the vessel is not in combat currently and only if the one who asks has a valid mission there.

ciao,Kraehe

[Atomos]

Tach,

So the question is: docking to a spec moving vessel is impossible yet. Would it be possible to ask a vessel to stop moving to dock there. Of course only if the vessel is not in combat currently and only if the one who asks has a valid mission there.

According to the Wiki:

I can't dock to this #!!**! capital ship because it's in SPEC!

A: We're really sorry about this one. In 0.5.0 beta1, there's no way around this. We've since added a feature whereby friendly/neutral ships will drop out of SPEC for a brief while (~20 seconds) if you hail them with a docking request. You may hail them again to reset the timer if this is too short a time to reach them.

I've tried this myself and it worked.

[kraehe]

Moin Atomos,

I've tried this myself and it worked.

*hm* do you know where this 20 seconds is coded ... I might increase this to some better value.

The next docking problem, even if standing is the Mule ... I tried to dock there, but crashed into the shield, before reaching the docking square. I'm now on SVN trunk ... lets see, if the Mule improved.

ciao,Kephra

[Atomos]

Moin moin,

*hm* do you know where this 20 seconds is coded ... I might increase this to some better value.

I've searched for "20" in the source code and found the following promising code in .../cmd/unit_generic.cpp:

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bool Unit::RequestClearance (Unit * dockingunit)
{
#if 0
	static float clearencetime=(XMLSupport::parse_float (vs_config->getVariable ("general","dockingtime","20")));
	EnqueueAIFirst (new ExecuteFor (new Orders::MatchVelocity (Vector(0,0,0),
		Vector(0,0,0),
		true,
		false,
		true),clearencetime));
#endif
	if (std::find (image->clearedunits.begin(),image->clearedunits.end(),dockingunit)==image->clearedunits.end())
		image->clearedunits.push_back (dockingunit);
	return true;
} 

But, as you see, this is commented out in my version - - so it's perhaps the wrong function.

Tom

[kraehe]

Moin Tom,

But, as you see, this is commented out in my version - - so it's perhaps the wrong function.

the code was moved to src/cmd/ai/firekeyboard.cpp ... and the right place to patch the time would be in vegastrike.config ... lets test, if this works as supposed.

ciao,Kraehe

[kraehe]

Moin Gurus,

thanks to the tips here, I was able to hail spec moving vessels, to stop them, so I could dock there. But an other cargo mission problem 'bugs' me. Several missions end in a system, but the Mule or other capship is not there, neither on N nor on T. I dont know what happend to them. They either jumped out, or got killed, while I traveled to a star system or its a bug in SVN cargo mission itself. Often other ships of same flight group are in system. So I wonder, if its possible to expand cargo missions, to reroute the cargo mission to a new ship of same faction, if the destination is no longer available.

ciao,Kraehe