firing on your own fighters?

Phoenix-D · #1 December 27th, 2003, 07:07 PM

Unless you were fighting Terrans, that shouldn't have done it..the fighters are created as the same race as the player.

bearclaw · #2 December 28th, 2003, 02:03 AM

alright... that's not it then.

Back to square one!

Phoenix-D · #3 December 28th, 2003, 02:47 AM

Maybe not. They -should- be the same race as the player, but its possible a bug made them some other race.

Fyron · #4 December 28th, 2003, 03:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Unless you were fighting Terrans, that shouldn't have done it..the fighters are created as the same race as the player.

No they are not. They are created as the actual race they are...

Phoenix-D · #5 December 28th, 2003, 04:29 AM

Fyron, buy and launch a Fazrah fighter. Does it immidiately try to kill you? No? Then it can't be launched as the race it is.

And direct from effects.txt:

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Is Unit
This component will become a unit when launched. The Space Object XFile Name field indicates the class name of the fighter in the Main_Enemies.txt file. The fighter when launched will be the same level as the parent ship, and will be of the same race (for enemy determination).

[ December 28, 2003, 02:31: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

bearclaw · #6 December 28th, 2003, 01:55 PM

I've had fighters launch and work just fine, then retreve them due to damage. Lanch them again and they get shot at by my PDC. The same fighter.

Phoenix-D · #7 December 28th, 2003, 08:02 PM

I'm betting its a problem with the collision detection then..a fighter might accidently bump your ship not enough to kill it but enough to trigger your PDC.