Litcube's Missile Boat Add-On (Turret:V0.92b / Supply:V0.93b)

[Litcube]

Litcube's Missile Boat Add-On (Turret:V0.92b / Supply:V0.93b)

Enables Missile Boats to do their thing

Download Missile Boat Turret Overwrite:


Download Military Suppliers Job Script:



What is this?

Videos from builder680:
BEFORE your !turret.missileattack and Lib.Cmd.Turret.Barrage
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AFTER your !turret.missileattack and Lib.Cmd.Turret.Barrage
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Missile Boat Turret Overwrite:

In the stock game, missile boats are close to useless. They fire missiles using the same frequency as other ships would (FLY's-> get missile fire probability). This changes that by running a turret script on a missile boat's missile turret. Note that the missiles are not hardcoded.


New rules as of V0.9
- A volley is defined as missile launches between respected missile ROF + ship's assigned Missile Fire Probability Delay.
- The Missile Fire Probability Delay is equal to 11.5 seconds - (ship's assigned Missile Fire Probability * 100).
- Missile Fire Probability is set in the ship's command console (delay examples: %5: 10 sec, 100%: 0.5 sec)
- By default, AI ship's have a 5% Missile Fire Probability.
- Turrets can fire at only one target per volley.
- To mitigate overkill and waste, not all pods are used in a volley, depending on target "hit points"
- Multiple turrets can attack a single target, if the expected damage output is appropriate per "hit points"

Missile selection:

- Highest damage missile that is 20% faster than the target's speed
- If target range is more than 90% of missile range, the missile is skipped for fire
- If no missile is found that meets speed requirements, pick fastest missile
- If no missile is found that meets range requirement, NO missile is returned (thus barrage will not fire)

Loops are all "waited", and scripts do not run OOS, performance is not an issue. Once installed, AI ships will use this script automatically. Player ships are not effected unless you run the "Attack Enemies" command on the missile turrets, at which point they will run this script.

[NOTE:] All the scripts included in this package include versioning checks, and will auto-update themselves in terms of running status if a newer version is supplanted.

Military Suppliers Job Script:

M7s and M8s don't resupply themselves properly, so I wrote a job script for it. Ships running this job will search for their own races missile boats that are low on missiles (<12). Once they find a ship, they'll jump to a military outpost to supply (supply is faked, but ship *is* loaded with actual missile wares), and then fly to the target ship within transporter range, and finally use the transporter to resupply.

The job is very heavily "waited", so much so, that if a missile boat is out of missiles, it could be five to ten minutes before the military supply ship picks up the operation. This is intentional to ensure good performance.

The Military Suppliers Job script will not automatically be implemented in your game. you will have to add a job to run this script. I've added 4 for each commonwealth race and 3 per ATF/Terran. I set them to TS ships, and named them Military Supply Transports.

Note that it is not necessary to implement the Military Suppliers Job for the Missile Boat Turret Overwrite script to function. However, you will notice AI missile boats frequently running out of ordinance if you don't.




Install

Missile Boat Turret Overwrite:

This will overwrite your !turret.missileattack.pck in your scripts directory. Back it up if you want the option to revert later.

Military Suppliers Job Script:

Copy !job.missilesupply.xml to scripts directory. Make a job that runs this script (if you're using vkerinav's xtra jobs, it's done for you). Note that a job's script field does not include "!job", so yours will look like this: "missilesupply".


Missile Boat Turret Overwrite Versions

0.92b:
- Compressed the !turret.missileattack.xml to a .pck for easier installation.

0.91b:
- Packing issue. Forgot a file. Very important.

0.9b:
- Near total rewrite

0.7b:
- Added two checks to ensure missile was present and enemy still existed before firing.

0.6b:
- Fixed packing issue. The old version didn't work with ATF/Terran ships, as I had hardcoded values. Proper version included now.

0.5b:
- Initial release


Military Suppliers Job Script Versions

0.93b:
- Bug where military suppliers were all running for the same ship to supply. This has been fixed. Only one military supplier will supply a single missile boat with missiles at one time.

0.92b:
- Job scripts fun fact! If you don't set a command on the ship, the job engine will re-run the script on the spawned ship ever time its spawn timer comes up. This doesn't cause a problem unless your spawn time is lower than the ship's initial wait, in which case it'll never do anything. Added a set command COMMAND_SUPPLY_WARE. Problem solved.

0.8b:
- Packing issue

0.7b:
- Sets the "it's ok guys, I got this one" flag on a target ship to null if an outpost can't be found, allowing others to take over if an outpost becomes available.

0.6b:
- Suppliers were loading too many energy cells, leaving little room for missiles. Has been fixed. No restart required, just replace files.

0.5b:
- Initial release

[Mizuchi]

Suddenly, Station Insurance Premiums sky-rocketed across the universe, while sales of large red buttons and "do not push" signs were met with huge demand.

Coincidence?!

Also:

[Litcube]

[Mizuchi]

"So," said Litcube, "I heard you like... explosions..."

Anyhow, again, thanks for this one.

[Roger L.S. Griffiths]

[Litcube]

[Sn4kemaster]

Wayhay.......... finally, this should make things a little more interesting out there in space!

I agree that the M7M and M8 should equipe themselves.

Can this be put into the EES (as well as a standalone script)

[mr.WHO]

How it fare with IR script (IR use some missile ships as blockade ships that fire barrages)?

[Mizuchi]

Only one way to find out.

[vkerinav]

What I mean to say is, I'll add this to SRM/Xtra Jobs shortly.

[Litcube]

[vkerinav]

[Litcube]

[builder680]

Lots of technical speak.

If all of this stuff has the end result of making M7M's shoot their missiles at *me,* not just the AI, I will be one happy son of a biscuit eater.

I *want* to be scared to death of the enemy, and to be forced to deal with major attrition, or even outright defeat, in battles with the AI.

Best of luck, and thank you for looking at this, Litcube.

[Litcube]

If the M7 sees you as an enemy, it will target you.