Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread: C# Edition

[nuclearslurpee]

I think nuclearslurpee missed that this question was about hangars and fighters?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought hangars stop the maintenance clock and reset the deployment time of carried ships, so you need neither maintenance modules nor recreation modules.

Oh sure I guess this is my day job now huh? 

Commercial hangars will not maintain whatever you put in them, but AFAIK if you have maintenance modules at the same site/fleet or on the same ship you can maintain with those. Maintenance facilities however would not work.

Similarly, a recreation module is necessary for reducing deployment clock if a populated colony is not available to do the job.

Only military hangars preclude the need for other facilities entirely.

[Erik L]

Oh sure I guess this is my day job now huh? 

Yes. Yes it is. Your salary is hereby doubled.

[Destragon]

I think nuclearslurpee missed that this question was about hangars and fighters?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought hangars stop the maintenance clock and reset the deployment time of carried ships, so you need neither maintenance modules nor recreation modules.

Oh sure I guess this is my day job now huh? 

Commercial hangars will not maintain whatever you put in them, but AFAIK if you have maintenance modules at the same site/fleet or on the same ship you can maintain with those. Maintenance facilities however would not work.

Similarly, a recreation module is necessary for reducing deployment clock if a populated colony is not available to do the job.

Only military hangars preclude the need for other facilities entirely.

I just tested it and we were both half right. Having a fighter landed on a commercial hangar DOES reset its deployment time, but it won't stop its maintenance clock, (so it will eventually blow up from maintenance failures unless the ship/fleet also has maintenance modules). Having the carrier orbit a population with maintenance facilities does also work by the way.

[nuclearslurpee]

I just tested it and we were both half right. Having a fighter landed on a commercial hangar DOES reset its deployment time, but it won't stop its maintenance clock, (so it will eventually blow up from maintenance failures unless the ship/fleet also has maintenance modules). Having the carrier orbit a population with maintenance facilities does also work by the way.

I swear I read a post 2-3 weeks ago saying exactly the opposite. 

[Kinnas]

This is bound to be me missing something stupidly basic, but I just can't see the problem here.  .  .   I'm geosurveying the Solar system.   I had most of it surveyed, but was waiting for higher tech to do the outer edges.   So, when I got the tech, I upgraded my survey ships and.  .  .   tried to send them out.   But they refuse to move with the message 'unable to carry out primary standing order: Survey nearest body'. 

The standing orders (which worked fine for the inner Solar system) I've tried are:
Primary: 'Survey next five system bodies', and 'Survey nearest body'
Secondary: none
Primary Condition: 'Fuel less than 50%' 'Refuel at colony (All)'
Secondary Condition: 'Deployment exceeded' 'Refuel, resupply, and overhaul at colony'

The ship in question:

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SV-01 Naraithsol 001  (Naraithsol Mk3 class Survey Vessel)      4,426 tons       83 Crew       481 BP       TCS 89    TH 240    EM 0
2711 km/s      Armour 1-24       Shields 0-0       HTK 27      Sensors 0/0/0/2      DCR 6      PPV 0
Maint Life 7.59 Years     MSP 407    AFR 26%    IFR 0.4%    1YR 12    5YR 186    Max Repair 100 MSP
Commander    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 60 months    Morale Check Required   

Nuclear Gas-Core Engine  EP240.00 (1)    Power 240.0    Fuel Use 9.76%    Signature 240.00    Explosion 6%
Fuel Capacity 1,000,000 Litres    Range 416.7 billion km (1778 days at full power)

Active Search Sensor AS3-R1 (1)     GPS 10     Range 4m km    MCR 359k km    Resolution 1
Active Search Sensor AS18-R100 (1)     GPS 1000     Range 18.5m km    Resolution 100
Geological Survey Sensors (2)   2 Survey Points Per Hour

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a Survey Ship for auto-assignment purposes

Please, feel free to point out my idiocy.   I will even thank you for doing so. 
Edit: The closest unsurveyed object is a comet at a distance of 26 billion kms, by the way.

[Black]

Edit: The closest unsurveyed object is a comet at a distance of 26 billion kms, by the way.

There is distance limit for standing orders - 10 billion km:

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg106824#msg106824

[Kinnas]

Thank you! I was going nuts! Well. . . .  nuts-er, anyway.

I still had to read through that twice, missed it the first time.

[mike2R]

I just tested it and we were both half right. Having a fighter landed on a commercial hangar DOES reset its deployment time, but it won't stop its maintenance clock, (so it will eventually blow up from maintenance failures unless the ship/fleet also has maintenance modules). Having the carrier orbit a population with maintenance facilities does also work by the way.

I swear I read a post 2-3 weeks ago saying exactly the opposite. 

The trick I've heard (though never tried) is to make a maintenance box.  A no-engine ship that is just (military) hangers and engineering spaces.  Put this inside the commercial hanger, and put the fighters inside it.  The whole matryoshka will last until the maintenance box's clock causes it to break - I think it will draw MSP from the commercial hanger parent too.

[captainwolfer]

Is there a way to automatically assign officers to flag bridges?

[ranger044]

Is there a way to automatically assign officers to flag bridges?

Selecting automated assignments in the officers tab should do this. If you're still having empty positions, you need to make sure that there's no gaps in your command hierarchies and/or build more academies

[captainwolfer]

Is there a way to automatically assign officers to flag bridges?

Selecting automated assignments in the officers tab should do this. If you're still having empty positions, you need to make sure that there's no gaps in your command hierarchies and/or build more academies

It didn't seem to be doing it. I had spare officers of the correct rank avaliable, but it didn't automatically assign any when i used the button that un-assigns then reassigns all the naval officers. Might have missed something, I suppose. I can check again later, and ultimately it isn't a huge issue

[nuclearslurpee]

Is there a way to automatically assign officers to flag bridges?

Selecting automated assignments in the officers tab should do this. If you're still having empty positions, you need to make sure that there's no gaps in your command hierarchies and/or build more academies

It didn't seem to be doing it. I had spare officers of the correct rank avaliable, but it didn't automatically assign any when i used the button that un-assigns then reassigns all the naval officers. Might have missed something, I suppose. I can check again later, and ultimately it isn't a huge issue

It may not be automatic, but be aware that flag bridges only provide that officer's Reaction bonus, so if your available officers have no Reaction bonus it may not assign them anyways.

[ranger044]

Also in addition to nuclearslurpees comment, IIRC, even if you have multiple flag bridges on multiple ships only one of them matters. Only the officer "flagged" as the flag officer provides any bonuses. All other ships in the fleet just have the flag officer act as the ship commander, which has applies no extra bonuses and "wastes" an officer. Theoretically it can be a redundancy safeguard if your fleet commander...ahem...goes kablooie

[Ultimoos]

I'd like to experiment a little with weapon ranges to create a different combat flow.  Can parameters like weapon range be easily edited or that would require decompiling everything?

[nuclearslurpee]

I'd like to experiment a little with weapon ranges to create a different combat flow.  Can parameters like weapon range be easily edited or that would require decompiling everything?

In the DB: Table FCT_ShipDesignComponents, column RangeModifier can let you modify the range of an individual component. Otherwise you'd have to mess around with the tech values (and this won't work for every weapon, e.g., plasma carronades have no separate range techs).