#side Shielded Missile
#color fbe
#author Warren

Started and finished 18072003

A simple side to answer a simple question: do shielded missiles work? My answer: not really.

To test, put an enemy near the lower-left corner at (20,20), and seed one of these a ways away.

#type Shielded Missile
#color f77
#hardware
armor 80
radio receive
engine 0.1
energy 500 500
shield 0.65
processor 5
bomb 1700
#code

#vector target-position 

20 20 target-position! ;a real side would get this by radio, or use sensors or something

do
target-position seek-location
max-shield shield!
target-position position dist 10 < Begin-dropping-shields& ifg
forever

Begin-dropping-shields:
do
0 shield!
target-position seek-location
shield-fraction 0.99 > if die sync then
forever
#end