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Topic: arilou teleport, then die (Read 7589 times)
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psydev
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I was playing Arilou vs. Chenjesu and went to teleport and then when i re-appeared, I exploded. I had full crew and there was no fire coming from the chenjesu. I appeared right next to a DOGI, so maybe I died because I was touching it on re-appearance? This has happened twice.
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Alvarin
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I did not know about DOGI , but you do die if you apear on a planet or asteroid . This happens randomly 1/16 of the time . Some sort of a balansing thing for limiting the Arilou .
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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Much less often than 1/16, but it is intentional.
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Shiver
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Much less often than 1/16, but it is intentional.
Someone post what the exact odds of that happening are. Really, I would love to know.
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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At a guess, I don't think it's hard-coded in. It'd just be the fraction of area that's within one arilou-radius of an asteroid or the planet. As you can see, that's a very small amount; but it would be calculable without even resorting to the source code.
Or there could be hard-coded in 'time to die, cow molester' line. That would simplify things.
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Shiver
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As you can see, that's a very small amount; but it would be calculable without even resorting to the source code.
Wouldn't we would need an exact scale model of the arena to know how likely it is for the Arilou to telefrag itself?
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Valaggar Redux
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(pixels assume a resolution of 320x240; don't get me wrong, changing the resolution doesn't change the probabilities, merely the number of pixels per planet and the number of world units per pixel)
(I am fairly positive that zooms refer to the zoom after the teleport, not before; this means that which one of the probabilities below is valid for a certain situation is in fact dependent on how far the enemy ship is from the planet)
Arena height: 7680 world units
Arena width: 8192 world units
Arena area: 62914560 square world units
MAX ZOOMED IN
4037 planet pixels
16 square world units/pixel
64592 square world units for planet
Probability of telefrag: 0.00102666
MED ZOOM
1008 planet pixels
64 square world units/pixel
64512 square world units for planet
Probability of telefrag: 0.00102539
MAX ZOOMED OUT
275 planet pixels
256 square world units/pixel
70400 square world units for planet
Probability of telefrag: 0.00111898
The probabilities aren't 100% precise because:
- Teleporting will always end up placing the Skiff on an x-coordinate divisible by 4 and a y-coord also divisible by 4 (never on x: 23 and y: 25, for example).
- It might be that ending up with a large enough section of the ship on top of the planet (without the Skiff -- its center, that is -- actually being positioned on a coordinate occupied by the planet) can result in telefragging too.
- I cut out the last digits.
Still, the values are pretty close to the actual numbers.
(You could simply say that the probability is approximately 1/950)
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Shiver
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(You could simply say that the probability is approximately 1/950)
1 in 950 is way too high.
It might be that ending up with a large enough section of the ship on top of the planet (without the Skiff -- its center, that is -- actually being positioned on a coordinate occupied by the planet) can result in telefragging too
That has to be the case. The skiff dies if any part of itself is stuck inside an object. If I recall correctly, the second ship in the arena counts the same as an asteroid.
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Valaggar Redux
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The skiff dies if any part of itself is stuck inside an object. If I recall correctly, the second ship in the arena counts the same as an asteroid.
If that is the case, then not only would that significantly increase the probability, but it would probably also go against meep-eep's claim that telefrag isn't hard-coded -- I doubt that any collision-able object that gets stuck within another object is destroyed, given that only the Skiff is supposed to be able to do it, and as such it'd be a bug if somebody else did it (and if you want to work around a bug instead of fixing it, you should do it in such a way that the bug doesn't have any observable consequences -- destroying the transgressing object isn't a good idea).
1 in 950 is way too high.
Is telefragging that rare? Do you really have to teleport, say, 2000 times to get telefragged once? I can't quite fathom where I could be wrong, but who knows...
(And by the way, I'm Jubal-lun-Sul, not Iun-Sul)
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If that is the case, then not only would that significantly increase the probability, but it would probably also go against meep-eep's claim that telefrag isn't hard-coded -- I doubt that any collision-able object that gets stuck within another object is destroyed, given that only the Skiff is supposed to be able to do it, and as such it'd be a bug if somebody else did it (and if you want to work around a bug instead of fixing it, you should do it in such a way that the bug doesn't have any observable consequences -- destroying the transgressing object isn't a good idea).
I don't follow you. All Meep-Eep said was that there isn't a fixed percent chance of death in the Arilou teleport code. Have you really never witnessed an Arilou telefragging itself on an asteroid? You haven't played enough melee if that's new to you.
Is telefragging that rare? Do you really have to teleport, say, 2000 times to get telefragged once? I can't quite fathom where I could be wrong, but who knows...
No, I was unclear. The probability of a telefrag is somewhere between 1/100 and 1/500 from my estimation. Anything outside of that range seems wrong. You did not take into account asteroid or enemy ship pixels so of course those probabilities are off.
(And by the way, I'm Jubal-lun-Sul, not Iun-Sul)
Very funny.
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If that is the case, then not only would that significantly increase the probability, but it would probably also go against meep-eep's claim that telefrag isn't hard-coded -- I doubt that any collision-able object that gets stuck within another object is destroyed, given that only the Skiff is supposed to be able to do it, and as such it'd be a bug if somebody else did it (and if you want to work around a bug instead of fixing it, you should do it in such a way that the bug doesn't have any observable consequences -- destroying the transgressing object isn't a good idea). I don't follow you. All Meep-Eep said was that there isn't a fixed percent chance of death in the Arilou teleport code. Have you really never witnessed an Arilou telefragging itself on an asteroid? You haven't played enough melee if that's new to you.
I thought he meant that there's no part of the code that says that whenever a Skiff teleports on something else, it gets destroyed -- that, in truth, when the Skiff teleports within the planet, it gets destroyed because of repeated collisions with the planet.  I must confess that I am quite surprised that ending up within an asteroid has the same effect (question to meep-eep: is it a bug or not, and what part of the code handles it?). And yes, it seems that I haven't played too much Melee.
Oh, and sorry for the jumping to conclusions and the bad wording.
Very funny.
What's so funny?
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« Last Edit: September 29, 2008, 08:15:20 pm by Jubal-lun-Sul »
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Shiver
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If an object appears on top of another object, it is destroyed. There are some exceptions, but a ship appearing on a planet, asteroids, or enemy ship isn't among them. I haven't checked whether warping in counts, but a Pkunk resurrection seems to be safe.
I've never seen any ship warp in to its death so it's safe to assume that's impossible. There must be something in the code that prevents a ship from spawning on top of an asteroid, planet or enemy ship. Pkunk reincarnation likely uses the same rules as a regular warp-in.
Incidentally, I am so glad the Arilou Skiff has this defect attached to its teleportation ability. Thank you Toys For Bob. I have no doubt Arilou would be a banned ship if that were not the case. What would stop players from chain teleporting hundreds of times to achieve perfect positioning? People still do that now of course, but at least it works against the Arilou as much as it helps them.
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