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Offline Scorrpio

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Them Ratmen are FAST!!!
« on: March 08, 2017, 04:43:20 am »
My Hyperwave decoder in Asia has just picked up a very small ship, flying 'Ratmen' flag, mission 'Plunder', and moving at a speed like 51452693.  Did not think to take a screenshot, clicked 'center, time 5sec', and it just blinked and was gone...

Anyone seen anything like it?

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Re: Them Ratmen are FAST!!!
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2017, 05:06:09 am »
It's a communications signal (you'll be able to see it with hyperwave decoder), so the speed is supposed to represent it going at the speed of light - electromagnetic waves and all that.  The reason it's classified a shipping is because there's no other way to represent it in the game engine.

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Re: Them Ratmen are FAST!!!
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2017, 07:52:12 am »
Well, I don't think I ever saw a signal in regular openXcom.    Is such signal useful?  I.e.  flying to mentioned region and patrolling might reveal a mission?  Or this is a pogrom precursor of sorts?

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Re: Them Ratmen are FAST!!!
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2017, 08:14:14 am »
Comm Waves are merely a prop to spawn missions in a certain manner that would not normally be allowed by the engine. No point in patrolling the region. The associated mission will pop up on it own.

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Re: Them Ratmen are FAST!!!
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2017, 02:21:21 pm »
Sounds good, thanks!