[Openme-developers] Ship "sorting" for Base busting and Combat

[Angelo S. <ang...@oo...>]

Hi,

I think there should be a way for sorting ships in current sector.

A) busters might want to determine who is first in the line of fire
B) sector combat with one on one fire creates a disadvantage for the one
on top of the list of ships in current sector.

If the ships are sorted in reverse order of last move date(this is
allready recorded in the ship record) the ship entering sector latest is
on top.

This should be the first in a bust, IMHO. So reverse entering order is
bust order for ships.

The same order should apply to current sector listing, as this has the
effect that a ship on which is fired might be dropping in the current
sector list when furhter ships enter.

Suppose we have a fleet battle, 10 of each kind. The guy on top of the
list might be attacked by 3 or more enemies, next combat round he is
still on top of the list: BAD!! All see him imediatly and fire again on
him. Better: if more ships enter those get to the top. The attacker has
to "look" for his victim to fire again.

If no one enters in the meantime .... bad for the victim.

As far as I know only a ORDER BY 'movetime' (DECREASING?) needs to be
added to the sQL statement for cs display.

Well, probably in a later version of the game only ship name and
alliance name is displayed in CS and not the pilot. The new combat code
will cause a lot of ALL FIRE ON CARNAUGH kills, or all fire on AOS ...
depending which side you are on :-)

aos

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