Love this script! I have a small problem however. It activates ALL my connected ships, even if they're powered off. What am I doing wrong?

Just tried and it work very well. Thank you!

@Calibrated no idea, it is 6-7 years old now, could you test it, please?

Working?

Anyone know if this works on like PAM miners aswell? or is it purely for something being piloted?
PAM stops working if there is no one on the server

Thanks, It's a great little script, hope I can use it again :-)

@Richard Asgard thank you for the info. I will test it.

The script is broken since last game update, hope you can update the script to work with the new game version. I use it all the time.

Speaking of gravity drive. Here's a simple script for making a gravity drive WASD drivable:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1134945036

This is a really smart thing. Especially considering when i regularly fly my ships in excess of 2000 m/s if im not far enough to warrent using a jump drive.

@Xanthyn thank you very much!

Heya, since I can't comment directly on your profile, just wanted to let you know that I made an upload in which you are credited for your work on this script:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=936622135
Thanks for making it!

@Extevious-V you're welcome!

A great addition to my fleet :) Thanks for your effort!

Finally, add this to the top somewhere:

string tosclTag = "[TOSCL]";

Add [TOSCL] to your timer block for triggering on loss of control.

Yes, I know it's not very pretty, nor is it optomized. I don't claim to be a coder. I just try to patch bits of code together and pray it works..

in bool ShipIsControlled() :
replace if ((shipControllers as IMyShipController).IsUnderControl) with:
if ((shipControllers as IMyShipController).IsUnderControl)
{
List<IMyTerminalBlock> tosclTimer = new List<IMyTerminalBlock>();
GridTerminalSystem.GetBlocksOfType<IMyTimerBlock>(tosclTimer);
for (int j = 0; j < tosclTimer.Count; j++)
{
if ((tosclTimer[j].CustomName.Contains(tosclTag)))

(tosclTimer[j] as IMyTerminalBlock).GetActionWithName("Stop").Apply(tosclTimer[j] as IMyTerminalBlock);
}
return true;
}

In the correct indentation for us humans to read :)

Ok, I think I've got a working Frankenstein of the code... for whomever is interested...

Replace the void TriggerOnShipControlLost() with:
void TriggerOnShipControlLost()
{
List<IMyTimerBlock> tosclTimer = new List<IMyTimerBlock>();
GridTerminalSystem.GetBlocksOfType<IMyTimerBlock>(tosclTimer);
for (int i = 0; i < tosclTimer.Count; i++)
{
if ((tosclTimer .CustomName.Contains(tosclTag)))
{
if (!(tosclTimer as IMyTimerBlock).IsCountingDown)
{
(tosclTimer as IMyTerminalBlock).GetActionWithName("Start").Apply(tosclTimer as IMyTerminalBlock);
}
}
}
}

@Flatfoot; I don't remember how to check if the timer is already counting down, unfortunately. If the timer gets restarted at full time, I'd suggest using an intermediary timer that starts another timer and then turns itself off. I will look into the timer problem though, but a little later.

@Dr. Novikov; I'm trying to add in a delay to the TOSCL timer that engages a remote autopilot.. problem is; it keeps re-starting the timer back at full time.. what is the code to check if a timer block .IsCountingDown?

well not the stop just like another script

@Andy, I am not quite sure what the emergency stop script has to do with spawning ships :)

basicly an easy ish way of making ships for dopes

idea maybe an easy ship spawner block that you interact with and can make ships (even downloaded ones) spawn

It is available, in order to see the code you need to subscribe and load it into your programmable block. Then you can unsubscribe.

Thanks for informing me of my script's shortcomings. I wish your code was available so I could see what you're doing. I've made my script publicly unavailable since there seems to be no need for it any longer.

I believe you can.

So can I change ingame this so that it will disable inertia dampaners? So in atmosphere plane battles they will fall instead of keep flying? :)

Alright thanks

atriedee, it is already optional, you need to comment out the DisableGyroscopeOverrides(); by adding two slashes before it:

// DisableGyroscopeOverrides();

Would be nice if some of the defaults could be optional. For example I dont awlays want to have gyros overrides turned off, or not always I want dampeners on... PLEASE! :D

Cargo flights with something like a hydrogen rocket on suborbital trajectories using speed mods (hopping from one place on a planet to another on a ballistic course, free-falling with dampers off at something like 500 m/s between initial burn and braking) should be far, far safer with this script, especially if I can figure out why the auto-hover script is throwing exceptions and get that one working too, for automatic braking at the destination (or mid-flight if pilot has, erm, the kind of problem that results in a quick trip to a medical station). Luckily the result of this script's activation means the triggered timer can reliably "toggle" my gyro overrides to the on position, so if I can figure out what's causing the error in the other script, I should be able to pair them up quite nicely!

The built-in Inertia dampeners don't support gravity drives, and I doubt Keen will ever support them.

Gravity drive management would require a far more complex script.

what would be nice is to use the remote controll to set the course and use the gravity drive to get the momentum then when it hits the set maximum speed it turns off the drive till you hit a set distance then it turns back on the remote controll

what if it is cheeper to use a gravity drive to thrust foward espicaly since the space balls dont use power

Will probably introduce a delay that will allow pilots to get back into the cockpit or turn the system off before it starts doing its magic.

By user request, updated the script. Now you can place a timer, name it "TriggerOnShipControlLost", and use this timer to set your own actions that need to be performed when ship control is lost. For example:

- Turn on a beacon or an antenna and increase their radii to maximum.
- Toggle some blocks on/off for power saving, so the lost ship stays working and broadcasting longer.
- Turn on an auto-pilot for flying your ship to a predefined GPS location.
- Turn off gravity drives but leave other gravity generators working (comment out the DisableGravityDrives();).