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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001955 | FSSCP | --------- | public | 2009-07-07 17:04 | 2009-07-08 03:45 |
| Reporter | KeldorKatarn | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Platform | IBM PC | OS | MS Windows | OS Version | Vista SP1 |
| Product Version | 3.6.11 | ||||
| Summary | 0001955: Huge ships are not scannable despite setting "scannable" flag in FRED | ||||
| Description | As I already wrote in the forums, this makes no sense whatsoever: I question the entire fact that huge ships cannot be scanned. That's a very stupid hardcoded limitation. If I set "scannable" in FRED for that ship, then it should be scannable. Period. Getting rid of that limitation won't affect retail behavior at all, since in retail missions no huge ship has that flag set, since it is set to false by default. It should be possible for a FREDer to make any ship scannable, no matter what it is. Hardcoding a limit is a very bad decision and I vote for getting rid of that, especially in the light of the AI behavior of not attacking ships that are getting disarmed, which might not be wanted in certain circumstances by mods, forcing them to declare the ship "huge", in turn making it unscannable. Subsystem scanning is not a solution for this, since that is a different type of scanning. Making a total scan impossible simply has no reason whatsoever. It just limits mission design. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Have you tried checking toggle subsystem scanning. It's a flag and enables subsystem scanning for some ships but makes the entire ship scannable for other types. Some info on it available here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,62586.msg1236862.html#msg1236862 |
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Closed for infinite justice. First of all, this is NOT A BUG, and second of all, there's already an option available as FUBAR said. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2009-07-07 17:04 | KeldorKatarn | New Issue | |
| 2009-07-07 18:09 | FUBAR-BDHR | Note Added: 0011059 | |
| 2009-07-08 03:45 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0011060 | |
| 2009-07-08 03:45 | Goober5000 | Status | new => closed |
| 2009-07-08 03:45 | Goober5000 | Resolution | open => no change required |
