[REQ] Mod against sensible friendly fire

[Raumkraut93]

Hey,

I'd like to know whether there is a mod against friendly fire and stations turning red after just a few shots. I really like space fights in stations but I am constantly hitting them because not every shot hits the target, so I always have to lure them away to empty space so I don't hit anything.

I believe the intention of Egosoft for creating these huge stations was so that we had some kind of level design for dogfights. But it's pointless the way it is right now.

Any suggestions?

[UniTrader]

no idea if a Mod already exists, but you can find the related values deining the thresholds in libraries/defaults.xml (search file for <attack> )

[Raumkraut93]

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<dataset class="station">
    <properties>
      <capture allow="true" />
      <hull max="20000000" invulnerable="true" threshold="0.05" />
      <!--effects>
        <surface ref="surface_sparks" />
      </effects-->
      <relation>
        <attack>
          <tolerance threshold="-1.0" change="-0.25" decay="0.25" delay="5" />
          <boost absolute="-1.0" decay="0.02" delay="540" />
          <faction scan="-0.0032" hack="-0.0032" />
        </attack>

So I guess this is where it's at. I'm not sure about the numbers though, which do I have to change and to what number? I'm guessing threshold which is at -1.0 right now but what does that mean? [/code]

[UniTrader]

tolerance threshold is the max tolerance value which may be reached before a station turns hostile temporarily
tolerance change is the value which is added to the tolerance value each second you hit a station (the change will be the same if its 1 hit per second or 1000 hits per second)
tolerance delay is the time it takes after the last hit before the tolerance decays
tolerance decay is the tolerance value added per second after the delay until its back to 0

note that when you reach the threshold value you are given a warning and if you hit for more than 1 second after that the temporary relation boost is applied.

[pref]

Think the code that handles this is in Notifications.xml:

IllegalActivity.$firstattacktolerance is the time delay you get the warning after the first shot, and
IllegalActivity.$timeout is the value after which counters reset and the next attack will be counted as a new one.

This code part is triggered when player attacks something, so for first shot the time is saved, consecutive shots are ignored within $firstattacktolerance (3sec default), next shot after 3secs will trigger warning, and if you have already been warned you get the rep loss from the police entity on the nearest station.

you get here in execution from cue PlayerAttacks, and this logic is in AttackResponse.