dreadnought/docs/Pilot.md

Pilot

The signature feature of Dreadnought's piloting capabilities is its autopilot system, which allows the user to create a custom path for the aethership to follow. No longer are you required to place shockwaves East and Northeast of the Vortex; you can put them anywhere, and the autopilot will be able to handle it!

Commands

• pauto <on|off> - Toggles the autopilot on and off
• pcall <on|off> - Toggles siphon callout on or off. If enabled, the pilot will call out to siphon when sailing over a vortex.
• ppath <dir1> <dir2> <dir3> - Creates the path that the autopilot will follow when hunting.

Pathing

While it can be a bit confusing to think about at first, the autopilot's pathing command is fairly easy to understand. Say you have your shockwaves arranged in the following fashion:

      [*]
    /  |
[O] - [*]

where the 'O' is the vortex and the *'s are the shockwaves. Each tile has its own position number: the vortex is ALWAYS Position 1, followed by the first shockwave being Position 2 (in this case, the northeast shockwave), and Position 3 is the east shockwave. When summoning aetherbeasts, you want to travel northeast to Position 2, then south to Position 3. Thus, type the following command: ppath ne s w. The pathing system will automatically figure out how to travel back-and-forth between Positions 2 and 3, with the final direction entered being how to get back to Position 1 from Position 3.

Movement

Steering is as simple as entering n, ne, etc, just as you normally do when walking. Gliding is that same directional command, just repeated. So to glide north you would enter nn, northeast would be nene, etc.

If you ever manually steer the ship, autopilot will automatically be disabled. This is helpful should you ever need to escape from an enemy ship or aetherbeat.

Clarity

pc to call out for a Clarity, pce to call out for an Emergency Clarity.

What's the difference? Functionally, nothing. A clarity's a clarity! But how it's placed in the Empath's queue is an entirely different story. An Emergency Clarity should only be for that: an emergency. If you're stuck and have to get away, etc. Otherwise, a regular clarity will do just fine!

Calling Targets

Sometimes you want to call out to your Combateers that there's a rogue aetherbeast flying around that needs to die. Easy! ptar <target>, and you'll announce on the ship's aether to target whichever beast you called out for.

Other Commands

All of the relevant commands can be found within the Aliases section of the scripting interface. There are too many to list here, so you'll have to figure the rest of them out for yourself!