Military Tracking Scan & Captured Ship Command Reset 1.0 27/4/12 AP

[LV]

Being off with a dislocated shoulder the boredom has been as painful as the injury, anyhow as i'm getting better slowly i can release this script 90% written with ONE hand

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Description

Military Tracking Scanner & Captured Ship Command Reset

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A ship with System Override Software Installed will have the ability to scan ships of class M2,1,7,8,6,TL to find their location and other forces in that sector via the Piracy Menu.

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I primarily wrote this to scan for TL ships that held stations to deploy for boarding purposes but adding the other ships was pretty simple and as my next script to be released is "Real Marine Training" it should mix into that

You can scan all ships with TL's or just for those that have a station on board.

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Scan Result (example Terran M2's)

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The scan will also show you what other ships of note are in the sector, obviously, the less the better chance of a successful [ external image ]


The command uses energy cells at a pretty high rate and is not instant, it can take up to 15 minutes to scan for all races TL that carry stations, A single race scan or scan for specific class is shorter.

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Once run you can return the scan not only through ingame menu but it was also write to the log in mydocs/egosft/ap bla bla

In addition to returning the info if you are scanning TL's with station, by clicking that TL in the menu it will deploy a camera drone to track the current location of the TL as some may be in hostile sector (god.deliver.station unfortunately does not set the TL's destination so i couldn't find where it was going so this was the trade off)


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Command Reset

We all know that capped ships have a mind of their own on occasions, especially the "AP War" ships - hopefully the clear ships command will sort this out (let me know)



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interface command used

<t id="647">Military Tracking Scanner</t>


Edit: Fixed google code download link. X2-Illuminatus

[TheZapper]

Nice one LV!

Since you made the gameplay leap to scan for TL's with stations (reasonable); how about also for Jump Beacons?

TZ

[gefer8]

Will it also scan for abandoned TL's and such?

[DrBullwinkle]

i can release this script 90% written with ONE hand

Which is just further proof that you can write great scripts even with one hand tied behind your back!

I have used your Long Range Scanner for this kind of piracy, but it can be a long and tedious process.

Having a scanner that scans specifically for station cargo is... brilliant!

[LV]

how about also for Jump Beacons?

TZ

There are no JB's in my fresh 2.0 game so it appears unless you have 1.1 rrf ships in there (even with the rollback probably) it won;t find them, this is assuming you mean in cargo not deployed

I'd have to put JB's back into RRF first and if i did that there would be more things i'd be doing to the ships that have them

I also have a more temptation to put a drill to my skull than go near rrf after the amount of work before release

Will it also scan for abandoned TL's and such?

No, live prey only, there's an abandoned ship scanner knocking about anyhow

[Aegyen]

Looks good, for a one handed old gimp..

Going to throw this in... I delayed at first, because you released it a couple days after my new return to the x universe, and I was already aware of the hotkey bug, and didn't want to have to restart again..

Love your work, as always.. don't quit..

[TheEarl]

I used it for some tests now.
At first it worked very well, it found a TL with a station.
But 2 min later the station was build and the drone destroyed.
I had some other scans at different times after this, all was ok.
But now it stats scanning, the after the approximated time, autopilot stops working and that was it. No text, no sound, no menu ...
What can this be ?

[DrBullwinkle]

it starts scanning, the after the approximated time, autopilot stops working and that was it. No text, no sound, no menu ...

The same thing happened to me every time I tried it. It never seemed to work correctly. No error message; no sign of anything wrong... it just does not appear to do anything.

But it is a cool idea.

[TheEarl]

I think, the first time I got no report was when I did not use it on playership.
Then I never got a report after this.
Maybe this helps.
But the idea is great and the scanning progress with radio hissing is nice

[TheEarl]

I managed to get it work again.

- deinstall the scripts
- load save game
- set global var 'lv.ss.scan' to null (only to be sure)
- save and quit game
- reinstall and reload
- all fine

Tested for playership and remote, both work well.

[DrBullwinkle]

I managed to get it work again.

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- set global var 'lv.ss.scan' to null

So what is the cause of the problem? It will almost certainly "break" again. Does the global variable not clear properly?

Perhaps a "return null" that should clear the global variable before exit?

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[TheEarl]

I did not check the variable, like I wrote: only to be sure.
Did you find a problem in the scripts somewhere ?