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Pirate Drone - Basic

This script will give a ship basic pirate drone behavior. It's similar to the vanilla pirate drone script, but with a few minor differences.



When the drone spawns, it will set its current location as its 'origin'. If a player comes within 10km of the origin point, the drone will begin chasing the player. If the player exits the 10km radius, the drone will return to the origin point.

Please note that this script will only function properly when the grid is owned by a hostile NPC player / faction.



Your ship will need the following blocks:
- Remote Control
- Programmable Block
- Timer Block

1. Load this script into the Programmable Block and compile/save.

2. On the Remote Control block, "Collision Avoidance" should be turned "ON" and "Flight Mode" should be set to "One Way"

3. Set the timer block to Run the Programmable Block with default argument and "Start" the same timer block (so it loops). Set the timer block delay to 1 second.



This script will calculate the origin differently than the vanilla drone script. When the drone spawns, it will check to see if an origin was already been set (which often happens when a player is testing drone designs). If an origin is detected, it will compare the distance of its current location with the stored origin. If the distance is greater than 15km (which in most cases it should be), then the drone will set its current location as the new origin.

The drone should only travel 10km from whatever it's origin is, so there's very little chance that it will venture out further than 15km from origin, triggering a new origin for itself.