Generate SRV "low fuel" events in addition to the status.json one, and generate them more frequently

[slippycheeze]

What happens now

EDDI triggers ShipLowFuelEvent when the flag in status.json for low fuel flips.

• The event only fires when fuel drops below (or to? not that it matters) 25 percent.
• It never fires again until fuel is (a) raised above 25 percent, and (b) drops below 25 percent again.
• It only fires if the player is in a ship, not the SRV.

What I'd like to happen

I'd like to have a script respond to SRV fuel level changes. Especially, I'd like to respond when fuel dropped below 5 percent (not 25), in order to refuel when nearly empty with minimal waste of synthesis materials.

Then I can have the script check vehicle = "SRV" and status.fuel_percent, and yell at me when fuel is getting close to empty ... so I'm no longer surprised by it. :)

How it can happen

Personally, I'd trigger it by emitting VehicleStatusUpdate, or VehicleFuelUpdate, with a speech responder script associated. Firing that when the percentage fuel level changed (up or down) by at least one percent (well, >= 0.99 percent, since these decimals) would allow the cottle script to generate an appropriate response to any/all the actions.

That said, anything which let me capture the fuel level being low in a script would be fine.

For example, the existing ShipLowFuelEvent runs the speech responder Low fuel event – which script internally checks if we are in a ship or not. So, firing that for the SRV would be a start, since I could extend the script to add the new condition.

I would also be satisfied with a more coarse-grained tool: if you fired ShipLowFuelEvent when the status.json fuel_low flag was set, and also every time it crossed a five percent threshold, that'd work too. (eg: fire at <= 25%, <= 20%, <= 15%, ...) -- that'd reduce the frequency of events, without removing utility entirely. (might consider single digit percent changes below 5 percent, too, since yelling at me more when at 3 percent than 23 percent is reasonable.)

EDDI Version

v.4.0.2-b5