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I'm reviving this thread just because I've got a question for people.

Anyone know a way of making your autopilot more aggressive? My other ships are fine, but I've noticed my ship will back off under the vaguest of threats. I was mid pursuit and turned on autopilot. My Onslaught with zero flux, full armour, and full hull decided it'd then start burning away from a half-dead eradicator. It wasn't even going for another ship because that was the last one, it just seemed to see the eradicator and brick itself.

The relevant Automated Commands are 0 OP.  I find that Aggressive is a good default for everything other than missile boats and carriers (i.e., Aggressive is what Steady should have been).

Is your chapter/regiment/etc.. turning heretic by using all the tainted equipment actually a feature?

More like "research the wrong Chaos items, then convert to Chaos to enable using them".

So far i have only been stockpilling heretic items for researches (for the +score from the research mostly as i am unsure it is leading anywhere in a tech tree)  and especially for selling (the idea of SM chapters condemning anyone having some chaos taint to death while selling tons of chaos weaponry and equipment is hilarious).

Ah...true, you don't need that approved graviton gun whose blueprints are incomprehensible until you have fathomed the Chaos graviton gun.

Quote from: zaimoni on February 17, 2022, 03:26:41 am

Quote from: Lidku on February 16, 2022, 02:25:41 pm

The Backrooms is a place that exists in the space between different Realities. ....

....I.e....think "color" (a total conversion mod for C:DDA/C:BN) is much easier than properly replicating.

Color? There's a TC mod going on named that, or are you just referring to the various TC mods that do exist?

No, I'm not that connected in the scene -- just estimating complexity of changes required.

Don't want to speculate too much as my fork is nine full years behind both C:BN and C:DDA -- I'm thinking that allocating one Backrooms level per one-to-three in-game levels is "sort of workable" (i.e., we can rig no-clipping to correspond to change in z-level), and the JSON-enabled variants C:BN and C:DDA should at least be mostly capable of this right now.  So you can have a total conversion handling a few levels of the Backrooms easily; a moderate number of adjustments C++-side are needed to get *all* of the Backrooms levels in using this hack.  [E.g., small spatial extent levels with wrap-around, like Brock's bookstore, would need explicit support.]

However, to "do this right" you really want explicit exits -- that is, the "grappling hook" exit interpolator isn't up to linking up indefinite levels of Backrooms with tiny house-scale levels.  This is also a key blocker for portals.  That's where C:Whales (and thus C:Z) is horribly lacking.  Spot-checking C:BN ... ( https://github.com/cataclysmbnteam/Cataclysm-BN/blob/upload/src/game.cpp#L10806 ) ... still have the "grappling hook" exit interpolator.

Speaking of highways I don't really remember them being more that just one random segment that randomly showed up from time to time, I wonder if they'll ever actually make proper highways.

Highway layout works much better in C:Whales (and thus my fork C:Z); it's something I plan to conserve when an overmap re-tuning actually gets scheduled.  (Which is tenably ETA years; I've been grinding over 2 years calendar time at infrastructure for long-range pathfinding.)

C:Z 0.2.8 release cut late (today, January 4 2022).

There are two realism changes that theoretically make C:Z easier:

• It is no longer possible to lethally overdose on nicotine, by smoking.
• The dosage scheme for SSRI anti-depressants, e.g. Prozac, is closer to correct.  To keep
  the effects up 24/7 after the first two loading doses (the second loading dose still must be within 6 hours, like before),
  once every 12 hours is sufficient.

We're about two weeks into the C:Z 0.2.8 release window.  I'm expecting this to be on the "slow end" (December rather than November 2021) as I'm in the middle of an invasive re-implementation of the item handlers.

A very notable crash fix has landed: https://github.com/zaimoni/Cataclysm/issues/152 .  Low light level global positioning locations without players, had been game-ending.

[EDIT] There seems to be a problem on all current unstables where the game will glitch in character creations and list negative traits in positive, as well as vice versa. There are also mutations. Selecting these traits will crash the game.

Confirmed; looks like I should have regression-tested that when introducing the automatic screen sizing.  Will catch at next public push.  EDIT Landed.

As for how NPCs are doing...my assistant addressed a number of such crashers, and I have had a few change sets temporarily blocked by inducing crashes near game open.  They are doing better, but I don't expect a complete improvement until they're fully cut over to Rogue Survivor-style action objects (this cutover was parked about 2/3rds complete as the remaining 1/3rd needs a very invasive re-implementation, not a migration).  The state pattern-matcher is very limiting.