New Ship Event?

[Beebop]

In the Advanced Properties box, Add Event, Type: for ships there is a new option, "OnMoored".

I don't remember seeing this mentioned in a DD or update release.

Anyone know what it does and how to use it?

[jollyjack]

Maybe has to do with that irritating ship heaving over near a shore?

[IckyATLAS]

Excellent news. It is many years that I asked that we have the possibility to moore the ships.

The reason is that when the sea state is bad the ships do not stay in place and move hitting the piers and going through them.

Mooring a ship to a pier or just like being anchored will avoid having the ships going around. 

Ideally when moored with an anchor the ships should rotate around the mooring point and orient themselves in the direction of the wind.

If moored on a pier then they should just stay along the pier. They can move if there are waves up and down but stay on place.

 

So now the question is how to moore the ships. I did not find how to do this, or any parameter. Maybe this will come with the next updates or with BoN.

Cross fingers.

[IckyATLAS]

57 minutes ago, IckyATLAS said:

Excellent news. It is many years that I asked that we have the possibility to moore the ships.

The reason is that when the sea state is bad the ships do not stay in place and move hitting the piers and going through them.

Mooring a ship to a pier or just like being anchored will avoid having the ships going around. 

Ideally when moored with an anchor the ships should rotate around the mooring point and orient themselves in the direction of the wind.

If moored on a pier then they should just stay along the pier. They can move if there are waves up and down but stay on place.

 

So now the question is how to moore the ships. I did not find how to do this, or any parameter. Maybe this will come with the next updates or with BoN.

Cross fingers.

 

This new event made me try some tests. I set up some various ships in the Novorossiysk harbor, with Sea State 6 and winds howling at 100 km/hr.

Some ships were at the pier and others in the sea outside the harbor.

 

First ships move up and down with the waves but stay put. It seems that the problem with ships wandering around has been corrected. I will have to review some of my missions, because I tended to put the ships far from the pier to avoid them going through the pier which was unrealistic. But by being far from the pier it was also unrealistic as the gap between the ship and the pier was large. So I will be able to correct this. 

To be fair what is unrealistic is that the sea waves in the harbor are same as far in the sea which is just what should not be. The wind however blows the same everywhere.

 

Second the wind for now has no effect on ships, they will keep their position whatever the wind direction.

 

Third I tested the OnMoored event and it does not trigger for stationary ships be it in the sea or nearby a pier. So this functionality is not ready yet, but gives us a glimpse that upcoming updates will improve ships behavior and that is already a very good omen ? 

 

 

 

 

[jollyjack]

seems you need a linked entity it's moored to?