F-25 v2.0 question

Lord Seth

Okay, you know the plug-in F-25, version 2.0? I'm having a bit of trouble on it.

I'm on a mission where I'm supposed to escort some Miranu convoys to F-25, but no convoys appear. What's going on? I really want to continue on this plug-in, but can't unless I figure out what's wrong here.

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Dr. Trowel

I did that mission just a few days ago... I remember having the same problem, but I got past it. Now, of course, I can't remember how! I think it was either that I just went to F-25 and got the completion text for the mission even though I never saw the convoy, or else I found the convoy by landing on worlds between Mira and F-25 until I happened upon the right planet to pick up the convoy.

There are a couple other problematic missions near the beginning of this plug....
WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW!

There's a mission where I think you are expected to fight off some renegades who attack the fleet of non-combat ships bearing a chancellor from Mira. All you actually have to do to beat the mission, though, is take off from F-25 and then immediately land again.
This is just a complaint about difficulty: there's a mission that pits you against something like 8 Zidara and their 16 Zidagar fighters. This seems exceedingly tough for a mission this early in the string, especially if you use the 'pilot builder' plug and follow the read me advice (and therefore do not have access to outfits and ships granted by standard crescent or UE missions) and also obey the Miranu admonition to not explore the newly-discovered areas before completing this mission.

I'm having more fun since I decided to explore the new systems before defeating that nasty Zidagar fleet. There's some cool stuff in this plug!

Lord Seth

Thanks! I remember the part where you just have to take off and land...I played some of this plug-in before. Anyway, I'll try taking your advice...once I beat "Beyond the Crescent".

Grrr...where's that stupid key the doctor guy talked about? I really have no idea...

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kauthor

Ahhh look in the east. A few jumps away from Council Station northeast.

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Lord Seth

Well, I tried just going straight to F-25...didn't work. So I guess I'll have to try the stop-through-the-planets-to-find-the-convoy strategy :-(.

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General Cade Smart

F-25 2.1 fixes both they convoy mission not completing bug and the defeat Zidagar fleet bug. Too bad it never got uploaded to Add-ons, since it is only a beta. Bom b (UBB erases the word, so I had to put a space) decided to stop working on the beta since he got tired of beta testing. Or perhaps it got done, but not published? In a E-Mail to me SpacePirate says: "Actually, it seems did get it done. He has it on a computer at
home, he claims, but is currently able to reach it, as he's in college,
or something. " SpacePirate started working on a EVO to Nova converter, and he wants to have 1 plug for testing it. It was F-25 2.0, and in this thread: (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/webboard/Forum8/HTML/005042.htm")http://www.ambrosias...HTML/005042.htm(/url) he says that "Just FYI, the final version will indeed be an update of F-25 2.1, as it apparently contains many bug fixes from 2.0." So perhaps F-25 2.1 will be included in it.

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(This message has been edited by General Cade Smart (edited 04-13-2004).)

Dr. Trowel

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Originally posted by Lord Seth:
**Okay, you know the plug-in F-25, version 2.0? I'm having a bit of trouble on it.

I'm on a mission where I'm supposed to escort some Miranu convoys to F-25, but no convoys appear. What's going on? I really want to continue on this plug-in, but can't unless I figure out what's wrong here.

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I finally took a romp through F-25's files with NovaTools. If you are still looking for the answer to this, here it is: I'm pretty sure that you have to go to Mira (the Miranu capital) to meet the convoy.

Bomb

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**Originally posted by Dr. Trowel:

I finally took a romp through F-25's files with NovaTools. If you are still looking for the answer to this, here it is: I'm pretty sure that you have to go to Mira (the Miranu capital) to meet the convoy.

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**That sounds like something I'd do. I'm up at school right now and I lost all of my emulating stuff a while back, otherwise I'd give it a look. I'm heading home this weekend though, so if I remember I'll look into it. Chances are, what Cade said was right and the problem has been fixed for v.2.1, which of course doesn't really help you guys. Still, I'd like to at least know why it doesn't work, or if I did something weird like that with it and why.

ever curious about my own incompetence,

_bomb

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General Cade Smart

Bom b (darn UBB. Why wont you let me write his username and instead blank it?), do you need help getting your emulator to work again? Remember WarBeasts emulator tutorial, like CaptAceHardrive once suggested: (url="http://"http://www.geocities.com/game_master107/howtoemulateamac.html")http://www.geocities....ulateamac.html(/url). I can E-Mail you the latest beta, if you lost it from college.

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(This message has been edited by General Cade Smart (edited 04-19-2004).)

Bomb

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Originally posted by Dr. Trowel:
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WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW!

There's a mission where I think you are expected to fight off some renegades who attack the fleet of non-combat ships bearing a chancellor from Mira. All you actually have to do to beat the mission, though, is take off from F-25 and then immediately land again.

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**It was actually designed this way, because there were problems in earlier betas with not all of the ships warping in, so you'd have to, in a sense, take off, defeat the attackers, then land, have the Miranu chancellor take off and warp in again, and fight off the last one or two guys...:) So I removed the actual physical requirement.
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Originally posted by Dr. Trowel:
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This is just a complaint about difficulty: there's a mission that pits you against something like 8 Zidara and their 16 Zidagar fighters. This seems exceedingly tough for a mission this early in the string, especially if you use the 'pilot builder' plug and follow the read me advice (and therefore do not have access to outfits and ships granted by standard crescent or UE missions) and also obey the Miranu admonition to not explore the newly-discovered areas before completing this mission.

I'm having more fun since I decided to explore the new systems before defeating that nasty Zidagar fleet. There's some cool stuff in this plug!

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**We actually chopped that mission down to size very early on in the betas. Obviously, it isn't reflected in the old version, but I'm at home right now trying to make sense of the files, and hopefully will have a newer releasable version to show for it.

_bomb
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(This message has been edited by Bomb (edited 04-19-2004).)