Test server is now running with all new super fancy collision code. mag cannons should be hitting at any range, torps should always hit, and torps should hit an attached base when shooting straight on. Everythign should work exactly as you would think. Please try it out and let me know if it's OK in every situation. I would like to patch this up tot he real server soon.

unless you dodge them of course

Think you can fix Anni Cannon now, so its not 5x worse than an Adonis Mag?

agreed

Im finding it extremely hard to make a base without metals or anything in the ai bases. If I could get metals I could create base mags and test them out.

there goes the neighborhood

do you know that comment has racial connotations? (which is what it was origionally said for)

And the code seems to be working great. My drones at least hit now (haven't checked bases)

~bach

only one thing, that i noticed... when i tired it out in test, it seemed to ahve increaced the range of the first type of torp up to 500-700...not that i mind, actually makes it sort of usable, but still, kinda strange.

I did not know, sorry

There were changes to "combat freighter" resist... IE pax astros... what were those changes?

thank you atlum

(Never thought I'd say that)

As for collision code.

Are you going to make drops ethreal again, because a few TT+ shots would kill a commod drop from many ai. Issues may arise when commods from DC and other particular ubers that typically killed with TTs are destroyed.

AI pulse weapons also are hitting when they should not. I have noticed when I fly under/behind a missed shot, it will suddenly have hit me. It may have to do with the damage tracing it's line of action. This is more or less makeing some pulse have a almost laser like area of effect.

Debris can only be shot when you specifically target it.

As for being hit by "missed" shots, the authority on what hits or misses is the server. Sometimes it can look like it misses on your end because the client has much rougher collision code now than the server, but the server tells your client, "no it actually hit."

That is seriously weak, lol, understandable, but weak. As a SD in a DS it is iportant to be able to weave shots, and if what you're seeing is what you're dodging it is really hard. Do you have any idea how to ake the client more effectivly reflect what the server sees, because skills that are design to dodge should be able to do so.

how about just make the player's comp have final authority in situations like that? so even if the server sees it, if the client updates saying that the player wasn't hit, he doesn't get hit. in situations of PvP, whichever one seen that is closer to what the server sees is the one that is accepted.

it seems to me that that would work