Gotta go to space.

Weapon Settings Warning, New Mods

Hey all, I'm at it again adding new things and finding out stuff the hard way.

I recently discovered that there might be a problem with projected ships not setting all blocks as owned by you when you build it. So when you build a new ship via projection when you are all done and cut it loose make sure you check the entire block list and make certain that you own every little bit of it. It's important...

In what is certainly totally unrelated news I want to ask that everyone with armed ships and stations to ensure that every single turret is configured for Target Neutrals = Off. Otherwise when a ship is being built or happens to fly by that has even a single block that is owned by no one your weapons will light it up and destroy it. Yeah. :(

In recent days we've seen the addition of a compact jump drive block for large and small grids that is only 1x1x1 but limited in power and range. Still, it provides options for smaller vessels that could use a jump drive. Also we have added a guided missile mod for small and large ships, detailed below.

Large Block Ships
These ships must use either a fixed direction target painter or designator turret if they're too slow or bulky to bring a fixed painter to bear in order to 'lock on' to another ship for missile guidance.
Large ships have two launchers available, Cruise Missiles and Torpedoes.
Cruise Missiles are your bread and butter general all-rounder missile and do comparable damage to a regular unguided vanilla rocket only with a relentless seeker head attached and a comparatively low rate of fire. They're pretty good at hitting damn near everything.
Torpedoes are far larger and and are only suitable for large and/or slow moving targets since thier speed and manuverability is far lower than cruise. They pack a hell of a punch and can rip into a larger ships hull with ease as well as nearly vaporize most small block ships if they can manage to catch them.

Small Block Ships
Two launchers are available for small ships, one missile and one countermeasure launcher (not useful since we aren't pvping). The model for the small ship to ship missile launcher was never finished by the original authority of this mod before it was abandoned and picked up by a guy that is only maintaining it so it's not pretty, but it does work. The front of the launcher is the 'longer' end opposite of the indentd part. These are simple fire and forget and will home in on whatever is in front of your crosshairs when fired. Simple! And about that...

These missiles DO NOT follow any sort of Friend/Foe rules and you can lock and fire them at friendly ships. Be mindful of what you are doing when you use them and avoid friendly fire.

Whew. That's a lot of words but that about covers it. o7