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I'm not sure what SEXPs to use to control the following situation:

On the field, there are friendly capital ships and friendly fighters. Enemy fighters jump in, and I use C-3-9 to order them to "Engage enemy" (this does NOT include capital ships, at least I dont think so). (O are SEXPs that are chained)

Turrets Locked
.when
...has-arrived-delay
.....0
.....Enemy ship
..turret-lock-all
....GTD Ship

... (some message stuff here) ...

O Msg exchange 3
......send-message
........GTD Ship

O Attacked 1
.....fire-beam
........GTD Ship
........turret01
........GTD Ship

O Turrets freed
......when
........has-arrived-delay
..........18
..........Enemy ship
........turret-free-all
..........GTD Ship

So the problem is: When the order is given to fighers/bombs to "engage enemy", that will include the cruiser when it warps in. As you all know, because of the bug, I cant order even a single ship to "ignore target" (since for some reason they ALL ignore it). Its the same problem using expressions; they all ignore it. So is there an expression or some way so that when it warps in, ONLY the fighters ignore it?

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I'm not sure what SEXPs to use to control the following situation:

On the field, there are friendly capital ships and friendly fighters. Enemy fighters jump in, and I use C-3-9 to order them to "Engage enemy" (this does NOT include capital ships, at least I dont think so). (O are SEXPs that are chained)

Turrets Locked
.when
...has-arrived-delay
.....0
.....Enemy ship
..turret-lock-all
....GTD Ship

... (some message stuff here) ...

O Msg exchange 3
......send-message
........GTD Ship

O Attacked 1
.....fire-beam
........GTD Ship
........turret01
........GTD Ship

O Turrets freed
......when
........has-arrived-delay
..........18
..........Enemy ship
........turret-free-all
..........GTD Ship

So the problem is: When the order is given to fighers/bombs to "engage enemy", that will include the cruiser when it warps in. As you all know, because of the bug, I cant order even a single ship to "ignore target" (since for some reason they ALL ignore it). Its the same problem using expressions; they all ignore it. So is there an expression or some way so that when it warps in, ONLY the fighters ignore it?

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Last edited by ns33 on 01-23-2003 at 10:35 PM

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Well...you could "protect" the ship so that the fighters and bombers ignore it. Infact, all standard weapons will ignore the ship but beams have their own protect command so they would still attack.

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Well...you could "protect" the ship so that the fighters and bombers ignore it. Infact, all standard weapons will ignore the ship but beams have their own protect command so they would still attack.

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Use ai-chase-any-except. This is implemented in many of the fs2_open versions later than 3.4 that are floating around. The ship will chase any ship except the ones listed in the sexp.

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Thanks!

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You're welcome. One warning - if the ship receives a new order, he won't ignore his list anymore - because he's no longer doing ai-chase-any-except.

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You're welcome. One warning - if the ship receives a new order, he won't ignore his list anymore - because he's no longer doing ai-chase-any-except.

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