Comments on: Who’s jamming my COM?

By: the signal jammer

the signal jammer — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:28:56 +0000

OK thank you that helps quite a bit actually.

By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:04:28 +0000

Dude. Sine wave.

By: Farbs

Farbs — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:46:57 +0000

I have a few ideas for this, but am not sure which I’ll end up implementing. The way it works now though you _definitely_ notice.

By: RandomCommander

RandomCommander — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:33:51 +0000

Well, if COM blocking is out of the question, could you at least bring a visual reminder that you are being blocked, so that you can quickly deal with the Jammer before selling scrap or refreshing OXY without the stress of not being able to telnet the station? Or is it better without the visual reminder?

By: Farbs

Farbs — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:16:48 +0000

COM blocking is… well I guess it isn’t really COM blocking. It doesn’t block the little messages other ships ping out into space that appear on the bottom left of the screen. I suppose it could, but that would largely be cosmetic. The purpose of this signal jamming is to stop you from telnetting to a particular station. If you can’t log in to a station then you can’t access its facilities, so if you want to read a nav map, sell some scrap, buy new parts or just breathe some refreshed air you’re going to have to deal with the jerk jamming your signal.

By: RobertK

RobertK — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:20:26 +0000

Oops, I see that it does – cool!

Will the COM blocking ship upscale/downscale depending on level? (2×2 alpha, 6×6 kilo etc)

By: RobertK

RobertK — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:03:03 +0000

Does the dish track the ship or is that just a coincidence?

By: RandomCommander

RandomCommander — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:17:49 +0000

Maybe you can have a module that can have a chance to De-Jam messages every time there is COM chatter and you are in the area where a jamming source occurs. You should also make a jamming gradient in your command prompt thingy if there is a jamming ship nearby, but less frequent than the COM jam grad.

I also have a bad feeling that oversized command modules may mean it can equip station modules like in Capt. Successor, except it spawns WITH the ship like a normal AI ship instead of just grabbing it out in the open like your ship does.

By: Chris K

Chris K — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:08:22 +0000

Perhaps if there are multiple sources there could be occasional comm chatter between them. That could help keep the player from getting too lost.

By: Vaconcovat

Vaconcovat — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:45:42 +0000

That’s a good idea, some sort of visual static that increases as you get closer to the jammer/s.

What will be really confusing is playing hot/cold with two or more sources :\