hello! any chance of this mod including the kind of global default retreat thresholds for cr / ppt that automatic orders had available through the settings json file? i know i'll forget a ton of ships if i have to slap on hullmods to each one individually, and then i'll be wondering why they aren't automatically retreating
Its possible, but its not efficient.
Automatic orders had it in its mod because it was not actually using hullmods properly. A hull mod automatically runs a small chunk of code every tick and u just put the correct code there and it happens automatically in a properly structured way that it taken care of inside the main game loop.
What Automatic Orders was doing was every tick it was getting a list of every ship that exists and filtering that list to get a list of applicable ships and then dividing that list by the hulmods and ....... its a very slow and convoluted way. Think of it like going into a supermarket with a shopping list and instead of walking down each isle once and adding the items to the cart as u pass them, u look at item 1 on the list and walk down every isle until u find the item and then return to the front of the store, looking at the next item on the list and walking down every isle until u find it ... over and over until u got every item on the list.
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It would be better to have a setting in the json file that lets u select a default set of of hullmods that get added to every ship when u enter the refit screen. I have asked a few times if anybody is interested in that. and most ppl have said no.
Was about to ask the same thing, and find it weird most people react negatively to it, especially when it's optional, not sure in what situations you would want a almost dead and almost broken down ship to stay.
On another note, any plans for something like automated carrier strike orders? I have been feeling lately that carriers seem to be all over the place with targeting, which ends up having them not actually getting close to overloading even small ships because of inconsistent strikes, I have no modding expertise so wondering if that could even be reasonably possible.
Also thank you for your work, Automatic Orders was a must have for me, you saved me a lot of trouble.