Random Contacts

Oh, only wanted them to "chatter" to player, not to each other -- that would be nice but too much work. Hmm, ID... for the player that would be the mothership right? That's how quests seem to trigger - if you fly to the target area with a fighter nothing happens.

Little things like traders greeting you, pirates telling you to stay out of their way, mercenaries bragging how much they made in the last job, the MSF warning you not to idle around busy flight lanes. If cannot detect relationship (friendly/neutral/etc) is ok, simply stick to using neutral greetings.

[Goblin Wizard]

Originally Posted by Trucidation

Little things like traders greeting you, pirates telling you to stay out of their way, mercenaries bragging how much they made in the last job, the MSF warning you not to idle around busy flight lanes. If cannot detect relationship (friendly/neutral/etc) is ok, simply stick to using neutral greetings.

You can detect relationship by GetTeamRelation() function.
If you only want other ships say something to you (mothership) it's easy. You attach trigger to certain flight which activates when near mothership.
My explanation was about situation when you want to attach trigger to mothership which activates when near other ship. This is much harder.

[Nanaki]

You can detect relationship by GetTeamRelation() function.
If you only want other ships say something to you (mothership) it's easy. You attach trigger to certain flight which activates when near mothership.

In fact this is already in-game and used with the Trader random contacts.

Originally Posted by Nanaki

In fact this is already in-game and used with the Trader random contacts.

Yes, exactly. I just want other ships to say something when the mothership comes within range. Can this text be chosen randomly from a list? I haven't really looked at this part of scripts.