Unfinished[Script] Jump Singularity

[Matterom]

Although unfinished i wanted to know How you(the community) think this Script should work.
Also Using this post to coalesce the idea

Concept: Modify Vanilla Jump Command to "Pull" Surrounding ships into the Jump "Event" Propelling both the ship with the jump drive and smaller ships without the jump drive to target Gate.

Details:
Ships of class M6 and up will cause a jump ripple that will pull others into the jump regardless of faction affiliation

The size of the ripple will be determined by the size of said ship

M6 sized ships jump Smaller Vessels within a radius of 500m
M7s can jump Ts, fighters and M6s with a radius of 2km
M2s and M1s jump Everything an M7 can but within a radius of 3km

What this is useful for, don't know but it felt like it should be done.

Also: Should i cause ships that jump near each other take damage?
Eg: Small ships get pulled into the jump and larger ships get pulled but are to big, thus take damage,(At most shield damage or just a set amount so as the possibility of using it as a weapon?)

Anyway still finishing the proof of concept script so tell me if you have any ideas

[LV]

[Matterom]

Thanks Lv hopefuly this will put me on the right track

What i Think i am trying to do is to:

First detect any ship sized M6 or Larger that is about to jump

Determine where that ship is going

Determine the amount, and class of ships within a varying distance from the jumping ship

If ship size <M6(Jship Size) Then Jump Ship to Target sector

If ship size =M6(Jship Size) Ship is jumped but drops off in a random sector between target point(Yes, No?)

If Ship size >M6(Jship size) Ship is unaffected


Allied Jumps Should ideally pull the player ship along

Any other helpful advice?

Edit: All i see is (RetVar/if) Is Player Warping in fly commands, is that it?

[X2-Illuminatus]

[Matterom]

Ok so i had trouble getting the jump scripts to show up

Anyway [THIS] Defines the ship using the jump command correct?


If [this] is of class: Bigship
$Nearest = find ship: sector=$sector class or type=Littleship ship
race=$anull flags=[find.multiple] refobj=[This] maxdist=10000 maxnum=100
refpos=[This]
$Nearest put into enviroment $target

this is a mess but what exactly am i doing wrong

[X2-Illuminatus]

[Cycrow]

also refpos is a position array, u'll confuse the command by sending in an object instead of an array. You only need either refobj, or refpos, you generally dont need both

[Matterom]

When i set variables in arrays do i always have to pre-define them in some form or fashion earlier in the script, and are there pre-defined variables that the script editor already knows, like sector or ship for instance, and going over multiple jump scripts i assume that i need to apply an argument for the variable Nearest?

trying to understand the very well written handbook and the very extensive database of commands only to think, hrm back to page 1

also for refpos i can set value to null and be good right?

[Gazz]

When using put into environment, you have to pay close attention to all scripts running on the ship.
Some scripts (especially task 0 scripts!) do not expect to have their ship change sectors at odd times. It's is expected that they are the ones to do the sector changing.
It may not be likely but worst case this can get you a crash.

[Matterom]

So i should have a 2 part script that shuts off the script it is running prior to a jump?