When a display module is docked (via rails) to a parent entity it is able to pull the power information of the parent, but not the shielding information. First noticed this bug on 0.19431 (Release) but it could have been earlier.
Description
Description
Details
Details
- Task Type
- Bug
Testing Results
- Affected Gamemode(s)
- Single and Multi
- Reproducible
- Yes
- Last tested (version)
- 0.19465 (Dev)
- Category
- Control Block System: Systems
- First occurrence (version)
- 0.19431 (Release)
Hardware/Software/System
- OS-Specific
- No
- Hardware-Specific
- No
- Video Card Vendor
- AMD/ATI
- Video Card Model
- 6970
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Clientconfig (settings.cfg)
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Comment Actions
-Feedback-
Are you talking about the display module only? The build mode info panel doesn't do that either. It's also pretty much useless to show you that if only 50% of each entity's shield applies on the docked entity. Reason why I always thought it was intended.
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In this case I am referring to the display module only. In build mode its more practical to pull the shields directly from the docked entity and not add / show the ratio of them to the parent. Otherwise things can get very confusing. Not pulling the shield statistics on a display module, however, completely eliminates the possibility of having a moving display module and receiving accurate ship shield information from one.
This, to me, implies that the block is not fully compatible with the rail system which strikes me as unintentional.
Ideally you would be able to configure it to receive shield information from docked entities only, show the 50% ratio, or show the parent's shielding independently.
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-Rejected-
Forgot to move this task...I asked around and not everyone agrees with this, it's not a bug either. Perhaps leave a suggestion somewhere and let the council discuss it.