[.13-1.1.81] Aircraft (1.8.6)

[Thomasnotused]

Well, seeing as how I have nothing better to do, I may as well work on this. I'm open to suggestions, so get to it peeps!

In the meantime, I've released 1.0.4, which does a lot of balancing work and finally adjusts those pesky headlights! (I had to restart the game 126 times to get it where it is now).

[MiniMe943]

Well, seeing as how I have nothing better to do, I may as well work on this. I'm open to suggestions, so get to it peeps!

In the meantime, I've released 1.0.4, which does a lot of balancing work and finally adjusts those pesky headlights! (I had to restart the game 126 times to get it where it is now).

Good to know someone's working on this. I've been holding off on download it, but I think now would be a good time to give it a try.

[The_Destroyer]

Great work on the mod, It's a shame the old author didn't at least post once saying "I'm not dead, still working on it"

[kiba]

Again, I was messaged, but then you deleted the message before I had a chance to read it.
I posted in my original mod topic that I was working on this mod a full 5 days before you posted with the new content that I planed on releasing. GG for mod jacking.

I checked out your profile a few weeks before this unofficial update was realeased (I was tempted to update it myself) and i noticed you had not been online in many months.
From SuicidalKids perspective, I think he was doing the community a good favour by updating the mod, I know a lot of people are exited for the new planes and things (For which the graphics by YuokiTani were available for many months)

In your position i would consider myself lucky that Suicidal update your mod, instead of remaking it to get around your restrictive licence. It would be trivial to write a new mod (named "Jet Planes" or something) and then completely leave you without credit.

Also i checked through your mod topic, and there was no post from you since august, over 4 months ago.

I don't believe it isnt fair to call this 'Mod jacking' , and i do believe if he didn't update it, there would be no update. I think you should instead be thanking him for takin it upon himself to update and improve your mod.

I don't know. SucideKid is still doing it without the original author's permission and against the term of the license.

Otherwise, what's the point of a copyright license if people don't actually abide by it?

Don't get me wrong, the license is a bad choice, allowing nobody in the community the power to modify or update it when the original author lost interest, which for all intent and purpose. true.

[Adil]

I don't know. SucideKid is still doing it without the original author's permission and against the term of the license.

Otherwise, what's the point of a copyright license if people don't actually abide by it?

Yay Someone brought lisencing flamewar back

Excuse me, which part of the mod is the original and unique work of the previous author?
You cant copyright "London is the capital of the Great Britain."
I could start typing by memory and half an hour of dataparsing errors later would produce something extremely alike to this. Because it is standard prototype definition (even more, it was copied completely from base mod and then modified slightly (base is CC 3.0 I believe)). The idea of the plane as entity with empty collision mask is as old as the great ancient Freer's Modding Guide to Factorio_0.4.0 or something.
The graphics are done by Youkitani. And believe he didn't bestow the exclusive rights on those to anyone.

I do believe that licenses should matter when something indicative of invested effort is concerned. (Lua scripts for example are almost completelly unique for each mod)

But when something like this is considered, we all can just pretend SuicideKid just rebuilt the mod. OR he could actually copy a tank prototype himself and do it's fields modifications again.

Wheew, this was gnawing on me for some time, but seeing how the flames have been doused already I couldn't bring it up. Now I can get this out of me, thanks.

[z28proximo]

Amazing! Thank you so much for keeping this up to date!

Using planes against the aliens, so satisfying.

[bNarFProfCrazy]

I created a German (de) translation for this mod.
It would be nice if you could include it in your download, so everyone can use it.

If you need more translations or translation updates just ping/pm me.

https://github.com/Stifling-Bossness/Aircraft/pull/2

I hope I picked the right git repo.

PS: Thanks for this alien killer mod.

[Thomasnotused]

I created a German (de) translation for this mod.
It would be nice if you could include it in your download, so everyone can use it.

If you need more translations or translation updates just ping/pm me.

https://github.com/Stifling-Bossness/Aircraft/pull/2

I hope I picked the right git repo.

PS: Thanks for this alien killer mod.

Nice, I'll update it soon with the locale.

[AutoMcD]

dropbox link isn't working in OP

[bNarFProfCrazy]

Well it works for me.
Maybe too many people tried to download your mod, so you got temporary banned.
I recommend git's release feature. (Create a release and append the mod there).
That way you don't waste/use your disk space.

[Lightning_Bird]

Looks cool

[Airat9000]

autor good mod!


author
I liked your modding
a cargo plane can not do logistics like robots? * ie that he had landed at a point as well, I flew to point B, pick up cargo from the airport and drove to the base?

рус
автор
мне понравился твой моддинг
а нельзя карго самолет сделать логистическим как роботов?* тоесть что бы он приземлялся в точке а, летал в точку б, забирал из аэропорта груз и вез на базу?

[Thomasnotused]

autor good mod!


author
I liked your modding
a cargo plane can not do logistics like robots? * ie that he had landed at a point as well, I flew to point B, pick up cargo from the airport and drove to the base?

I'm not sure how I could set up the cargo plane to do that, maybe just a big re-skinned logistics bot? Hmm, then it wouldn't have the capacity, now would it...

[bNarFProfCrazy]

I also thought about suggesting something like that.

Here are my thoughts about it.
You use an airport for vertical launchers (aka a paved circle roughly the size of you cargo plain).
You give this airports a names. Then you can configure routes for autopiloting. (I don't know how complex it is to make an airplain fly a straight route).

The rest can be done using inserters. However I would wait for 0.13 so that you can use the advanced circuit conditions. (The airport emits the contents of the plain to the network)
That way you can control the load of your plain much better.

If you want it more realistically then you have to use a "long" starting way and some more complex logic for flying circles and waiting loops.

If you are interested in this idea/concept (1 or 2) I could outline it a little bit more and try to search the codebase for useful methods.

EDIT: It would be nice if you could speed up the cargo plain a little bit and/or upgrade the capacity (at least via research or some expensive upgrade modules). Because currently its almost easier/faster to drive with a tank to the target.

[Thomasnotused]

EDIT: It would be nice if you could speed up the cargo plain a little bit and/or upgrade the capacity (at least via research or some expensive upgrade modules). Because currently its almost easier/faster to drive with a tank to the target.

Oh, I thought the cargo plane was good, but I'll see about buffing it a bit.

[bNarFProfCrazy]

EDIT: It would be nice if you could speed up the cargo plain a little bit and/or upgrade the capacity (at least via research or some expensive upgrade modules). Because currently its almost easier/faster to drive with a tank to the target.

Oh, I thought the cargo plane was good, but I'll see about buffing it a bit.

Maybe its just a result of my favorite map choice (few water and far away resources).
(To expand my base I have to carry a few k laser towers and 3 times as much concrete walls + kTONS of concrete each time.
Heavy polution -> strong enemy -> strong defense -> extremely expensive building
I really like the air plaines because I won't get blocked by my structures, but if I have to fly 1k tiles in distance its just faster to use the jetplane and travel twice.)

EDIT: The main issue is the big (default) player inventory that can carry the same amount as the plain and a train's cargo wagon.

[Thomasnotused]

1.0.6 released
-Updated for 13.0

I haven't done any crazy extensive testing, so hit me up if it bugs out on you.

[IgorLutiy]

Russian locale, if anybody need

ru.rar

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[Sunnova]

Anyone having corrupted game files while using planes? If I don't use the plane, just stay out of it, I can play for hours, if I start flying around, the game corrupts and I have to reload from a different save.

[Thomasnotused]

Anyone having corrupted game files while using planes? If I don't use the plane, just stay out of it, I can play for hours, if I start flying around, the game corrupts and I have to reload from a different save.

Do you mean the Jet? That one goes so fast, that the game can't generate terrain in time. If you wait a while, the game should catch up.

Also, a slower computer may have issues similar to the jet with the others, but I'm not sure. I don't have a craptop to test it on anymore