[MOD] Reaction Force

[ShiBDiB]

I have taken over this project again. All credit to ICE for their awesome work fleshing it out.

Confirmed compatible with 7.5+ (Works fine with 7.6 beta)
Savegame friendly (adding and removal)

https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/453
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... 2069655173

REPORT BUGS HERE - https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations ... 3?tab=bugs

UNSTABLE NIGHTLY VERSIONS - https://github.com/shibdib/X4Mods/

Description

This mod adds a new default behavior "Reaction Force". This command will allow you to assign ships to respond to other vessels within a certain range that need support.

Features



- Set a ship as "Reaction Force" and it will respond to your ships and stations within it's range that come under attack.
- When nothing is in need of help, the reaction force will either patrol the system set as its home/protect the station set as its home/or dock and wait.

Change Log
See the nexus files tab for changes.

[sco1981]

This has very limited testing right now so please report bugs here!

Plans

Add carrier support as a home base

Hey,
i like the idea. Do you have a plan to increase the limits, so that ships with this behavoir can fly from 1-2 sectors away to eleminate the threat?

[MiFoludek]

yes yes yes!!!

waiting for more advanced settings like setting responce force: you dont need 10 destoyers to kill one Xenon M

[drhay53]

What are the units of the radius, KM? I have a sector with a bunch of stations and I want this fleet to protect them all, but SCA ships keep blowing up modules on my stations while this fleet is off patrolling 300 km away.

[scrab21]

thank you so much for this, we definitely needed this when you begin to have your base and everything, there was a mod like this in X3 and it was damn awesome, awesome work.

[MutantDwarf]

What are the units of the radius, KM? I have a sector with a bunch of stations and I want this fleet to protect them all, but SCA ships keep blowing up modules on my stations while this fleet is off patrolling 300 km away.

Pretty sure the units there are in sectors/gates, not kilometers. 9 kilometers wouldn't be a very large maximum response range.

[drhay53]

What are the units of the radius, KM? I have a sector with a bunch of stations and I want this fleet to protect them all, but SCA ships keep blowing up modules on my stations while this fleet is off patrolling 300 km away.

Pretty sure the units there are in sectors/gates, not kilometers. 9 kilometers wouldn't be a very large maximum response range.

Yeah I had a level 5 pilot when I was testing, so the number was 45. Just big enough to wonder if it was KM or not.

[ShiBDiB]

Yup it's gates (he caught me on discord already )

New version of this should be out today, allowing a bit more fine tuning when it comes to how much damage a ship or station has to take before it responds along with some bug fixes (no more undocking and docking over and over)

[wanderer]

What are the units of the radius, KM? I have a sector with a bunch of stations and I want this fleet to protect them all, but SCA ships keep blowing up modules on my stations while this fleet is off patrolling 300 km away.

...and some more specs about the working if possible please:
1) how does it 'count' an enemy, menas does it compares to the global setting if a race is an enemy?
2) if 1. not yes but it looks for an enemy object, then, what happens when you have only a ship as enemy from normaly a friendly race?
In this case an engagement will lead to a relation drop if you kill it.
3) what will hapen if its a fleet?
4) where will it resume the patroulling? In the engagement sector, or will it fly back to the 'start' (where you setup the command) sector?
5) Multipe response ships/fleets - will they all come around if an enemy approches? Or will there a 'sharing' functions - means eg. ship 1 and 2 of 5 response ships will go engage the enemy, while the others will still patroulling/waiting.
6) Is there a thread class calculation, means if an enemy carrier comes around, and a M ship will try to engage it? Which will definitly lead to the M ship loose...

The idea of the script has it. As someone mention it here, there's an (very) old x3 script called rapid response fleet around (or was), that did exactly the same nearly a decade ago...

[ShiBDiB]

What are the units of the radius, KM? I have a sector with a bunch of stations and I want this fleet to protect them all, but SCA ships keep blowing up modules on my stations while this fleet is off patrolling 300 km away.

...and some more specs about the working if possible please:
1) how does it 'count' an enemy, menas does it compares to the global setting if a race is an enemy?
2) if 1. not yes but it looks for an enemy object, then, what happens when you have only a ship as enemy from normaly a friendly race?
In this case an engagement will lead to a relation drop if you kill it.
3) what will hapen if its a fleet?
4) where will it resume the patroulling? In the engagement sector, or will it fly back to the 'start' (where you setup the command) sector?
5) Multipe response ships/fleets - will they all come around if an enemy approches? Or will there a 'sharing' functions - means eg. ship 1 and 2 of 5 response ships will go engage the enemy, while the others will still patroulling/waiting.
6) Is there a thread class calculation, means if an enemy carrier comes around, and a M ship will try to engage it? Which will definitly lead to the M ship loose...

The idea of the script has it. As someone mention it here, there's an (very) old x3 script called rapid response fleet around (or was), that did exactly the same nearly a decade ago...

1. It only responds if a ship or station is actively under attack. Once it arrives on scene it will protect whatever was attacked.
2. See 1
3. Right now fleets work fine. The lead ship should have the reaction force order and the rest will behave as subordinates in a fleet would normally behave. (Subordinates sometimes wont dock, trying to figure out why)
4. It will return to its home.
5. Any response force in range will respond. (There's a chance that poorly skilled pilots will *miss* the help request and will not respond) You can use the new hp sliders in the version I'm about to release to set one force to respond much more quickly and the other to only come if things look dire.
6. There's currently no checks in place for this. I'll look to add something for this in the next version.

[ShiBDiB]

1.1 is out, fixes the docking/undocking bug and adds sliders to fine tune when specific response forces will respond

[Max Bain]

This mod sounds great

Does the reaction force react to your own property only, or if NPC ships/stations are under attack also?

[Deonix]

Hi!
I think i have a QoL improvement you can do to the mod. The % values to when the ships should respond to a panic call should be on ~75% or ~50% instead of 1% so that the players only have to activate the order and do nothing more. This will also help with the players that think that the order does nothing because their ships only react when the ships in distress die.

[ShiBDiB]

This mod sounds great

Does the reaction force react to your own property only, or if NPC ships/stations are under attack also?

Own property, responding to npc's will come soon

[Mesthione]

Thanks for the work! This is giving me anarkis defense network vibes from X3.

[Phiolin]

Remembering this from X3 as well. Will try it out today, good job!

[ShiBDiB]

1.2 Just went out
Add debug lines
Make response less finicky
More tweaks to get things to dock correctly (WIP)

I'm headed to bed, will be working on this more tomorrow (rainy weather incoming )

[ShiBDiB]

1.4 is out that fixes a lot of issues.

Clear out any orders above the default Reaction Force after updating to make sure there's no issues

[ShiBDiB]

The current release finally is getting a decent amount of playtesting from me.. and I can comfortable say it's working as intended



Current plans
- Tweak subordinates to make them smarter (the stock escort code is awful)
- Clean up response (Add more checks to not respond to hopeless things/stop responding if ships move out of range/etc...)
- Tweak the patrol command to be slightly less braindead
- Further look into carriers and fighter response

[nauttdog]

Are there any known conflicts, such as with VRO? I've set numerous squads to act as Reaction Force, and haven't had any of them respond to ships in distress.