23-Feb-2019 Ship movement questions

Table of Contents

• Testing Trk21
  • Should ship be 'blocked' by a star base?
  • Minimum warp factor should be 0.125, not 0.25
  • Short Range Sensors are never disabled

Testing Trk21

Lots of testing today, several issues uncovered.

Should ship be 'blocked' by a star base?

Trying to travel through a star base is shown as an impact. Stopping next to a base is docking. But the ship is always docked after an impact. This is possibly confusing.

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  . E . . . . . B
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  STARDATE:  2414        CONDITION: GREEN
  QUADRANT: 2 - 7           SECTOR: 2 - 7
    ENERGY:   877  PHOTON TORPEDOS: 10
  KLINGONS:    21
 
Command: c
  Course (1-8.99999): 1
  Warp Factor (0-12): 1
  Ship blocked by base at sector [7, 8] == 8 - 7
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  . . . . . . E B
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  STARDATE:  2415        CONDITION: DOCKED
  QUADRANT: 2 - 7           SECTOR: 7 - 7
    ENERGY:  3000  PHOTON TORPEDOS: 10
  KLINGONS:    21

Logged as query issue #5.

Minimum warp factor should be 0.125, not 0.25

1. Maximum warp factor is reduced to 0.2 when the engines are damaged. But ShipVector rejects any WarpFactor < 0.25. As the ship is only repaired during course moves this prevents the ship from ever moving again.
2. A warp factor of 0.25 moves the ship by 2 sectors (horizontally or vertically, less for diagonals.) To cross one sector a warp factor of 0.125 is required. i,e, it's currently not possible to make these short moves.

Command: s
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  . . . . E . . *
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  STARDATE:  3116        CONDITION: DOCKED
  QUADRANT: 4 - 5           SECTOR: 5 - 3
    ENERGY:  3000  PHOTON TORPEDOS: 10
  KLINGONS:    17
 
Command: c
  Course (1-8.99999): 7
  Warp Factor (0-12): .2
 
Command: s
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  . . . . E . . *
  . . . . . B . .
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  STARDATE:  3116        CONDITION: DOCKED
  QUADRANT: 4 - 5           SECTOR: 5 - 3
    ENERGY:  3000  PHOTON TORPEDOS: 10
  KLINGONS:    17
 
Command:

Logged as issue #6.

Short Range Sensors are never disabled

When short range sensors are damaged they still responds to an 'S' command, and still display output following course moves.

Command: c
  Course (1-8.99999): 1
  Warp Factor (0-12): .5
  *** Space Storm, device.S.R..SENSORS damaged ***
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  . . . . . . . E
  . B . . . . . *
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  STARDATE:  2812        CONDITION: YELLOW
  QUADRANT: 7 - 2           SECTOR: 8 - 1
    ENERGY:  2064  PHOTON TORPEDOS: 10
  KLINGONS:    33
 
Command: c
  Course (1-8.99999): 5
  Warp Factor (0-12): .75
  Repair systems are working on damage to device.S.R..SENSORS, state improved to -3
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  . E . . . . . .
  . B . . . . . *
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  STARDATE:  2813        CONDITION: DOCKED
  QUADRANT: 7 - 2           SECTOR: 2 - 1

Logged as issue #7.

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