Station Turret AI?

[AngryDome]

Greetings!

I've been looking through the game's files and playing around with numbers etc to get an idea of which does what, but I'm not 100% sure I'm on the right track for what I'm trying to achieve.

In essence, I want station turrets (both player controlled and NPC controlled) to have their turrets set to automatically attack all nearby enemies, and include all ship classes (xs -> xl) in their targetting.

Would anyone be able to point me towards the right files to edit in order to achieve this, if it is possible?

Cheers!

[j.harshaw]

fight.attack.object.station has the target acquisition and selection logic for station turrets.

[AngryDome]

fight.attack.object.station has the target acquisition and selection logic for station turrets.

I'd found that much out myself, although I do thank you for confirming for me.

I don't quite know what to change though. I've had a fiddle here and there and made it in to an extension that the game picks up, but I am yet to notice anything working differently.

[j.harshaw]

to have their turrets set to automatically attack all nearby enemies

<set_value name="$weapons_all" exact="this.ship.turrets.operational.list" />
<do_all exact="$weapons_all.count" counter="$i">
<set_weapon_mode weapon="$weapons_all.{$i}" weaponmode="weaponmode.attackenemies"/>
</do_all>
<remove_value name="$weapons_all" />

they are already mostly set to attackenemies. just missile turrets are set to defend to conserve ammo and mitigate stations shooting everything with overwhelming force.

and include all ship classes (xs -> xl) in their targetting.

look for:

<find_gravidar_contact groupname="$enemies"

there should be two instances.

remove

class="[class.ship_l,class.ship_xl]"

from

<match maybeattackedby="this.station" class="[class.ship_l,class.ship_xl]" comment="only select l/xl objects" />

in that node.

please be aware that including XS ships means that the station is very likely to hit itself when trying to shoot criminal mass traffic ships.

[AngryDome]

See that's what I thought! I made similar changes, but it seemed like it didn't do anything. I'll make those exact changes and have a squiz. Thanks!

[swatti]

Despite multiple patches and several re-starts, with mods and without my station turrets will NOT fire at enemies UNTILL fired at.