Server to Server Transfer of ship attributes

[uberlinuxguy]

Need to figure out a way to transfer ship attributes and items server to server when jumping through stargates. Thoughts/Ideas/Cranial Spasms welcome.

My thoughts:

• Transfer energy/damage
• transfer velocity
• transfer afterburner
• transfer laser upgrades
• transfer dumb missiles and mines
• transfer EMP upgrade level
• All else doesn't transfer
• only transfer to/from openparsec.com approved servers (possibly with a secret key) avoids spawning your own server, loading up on power ups and jumping to a new server. Jumps to/from other servers drop ALL ship powerups and you take a 75%(of total ship energy) energy/damage hit. Velocity drops to 0.
• Source and Destination server MUST have links to each other for the transfer to work. Otherwise, the penalties mentioned above apply.

[CrazySpence]

I dont see the point of the the energy/damage hit, technically because of the way starmap, connect and the net.jump functions work any user directly connecting to a server would be punished

[uberlinuxguy]

The punishment only happpens on a server to server transfer, not on an initial connection. And only if it's from a previously not "official" server. I suppose we could attempt a transfer of damage from a non-official server, but it could be an attempt at a hack if not done right.

[CrazySpence]

ok and server to servers only initiate on stargates? cause a player can at any time /connect somewherelse.com

[uberlinuxguy]

Yes, it would only initiate on a stargate jump

[AbortRetryFail]

Energy penalty makes sense, but why damage? Did somebody rig up their jump drive using zip ties and duck tape?

[uberlinuxguy]

I think in my end of day haze I was equating energy and damage. Dumb. Yes, just energy. Damage level should be passed along no modification.