[REQ: BUG FIX] guns activate on ship => that ship stops boosting

[swatti]

Sometimes when ships arrive to sector boosting and are under orders to attack something they won't stop boosting and fly sideways, backwards, etc looking dumb...

I was wondering if it was possible to link the guns going red into stop boosting.
Having the command repeat might cause ships to drop boosting while flying by enemies but I consider that VERY small issue compared to ships boosting all over the place.
Also, setting a ship to defend instead of attacking would let ships boost by enemies unless they attack and cause retaliation, in which case "sure, let's get it on"

So, question is, can activating guns be linked into stop boosting?

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

This sounds like it could be quite dangerous/odd-looking for trading ships trying to boost to other zones if there are hostiles around. Was that something that you had taken into consideration?

[swatti]

I was taking it in considoration actually... From the two, id rather take "trade ships dropping off boost" then "my ships flying sideways all over the place"

I did ficure out a failsafe'ish. Trade ships should be on "defencive" and attack ONLY to retaliate. In this case they would drop boost only if attacked... Kinda fits when you think it. They now just run off getting full shields while boosting off... What can a legimate genociding madman do against that? ^^

Jeah, may end up being bit harder to then it sounds but "can it be done" ? Or is there another good solution to stop ships boosting in combat.

[bm01]

So, question is, can activating guns be linked into stop boosting?

Yes.

But it's not directly related to turrets, which are controlled by the Defense Officer and are completely independent from how the ship moves. For example, a ship with a "hold position" command can shoot back but will not move at all (which is kind of silly but whatever). Also, unless I'm missing something, this "bug" doesn't happen for traders or miner unless you explicitly ask them to attack while they're boosting.

The "stop boosting" should be done as soon as a fight maneuver is initiated. Currently when "fight.attack.object" starts and previous scripts are aborted and the boost doesn't stop, that is the core of the problem.

The most elegant way of dealing with that would be to put a stop boost command in the "on_abort" node of "move.generic". Or in any script that can initiate a boost.

I suppose that would work.

[swatti]

As my scripting knowledge and understanding is nearly zero im just throwing out ideas, most likely, very bad ones.

In simplicity: What does it need to fix this issue? How hard is it? Could somone here do it?