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Originally posted by Black Draco: How come I(and several others it seems) are unable to register at the moment? also if i write out a suggestion would someone be kind enough to post it? thanks a bunch
The reason you cannot register has been repeatedly stated:
Repeatedly stated by Andrew Welch: As you are likely aware, we have not had time to work out the eMail issues with UBB on our new server. This is on my list of things to do.
In the meantime, keep in mind:
-- You cannot register a new web board account. Most of our web boards allow people to post unregistered, however. We suggest that you pick a name, and use it consistently as unregistered for the time being -- when the registration is back up, you can then simply register that name and people in the community will recognize you.
-- If you have an existing web board account, do not change your eMail address. This will cause UBB to reset your password, and attempt to mail it to your new eMail address, which will fail, and you will then be locked out of your account.
Thanks for your patience, we're hoping to get this issue resolved soon.
As for your suggestion, what do you mean? Where would you need to post it that you cannot post now?
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Originally posted by Darkness: **Another question to add to the one above...
What do I need to do in order to include music? Is it possible to play an MP3 at a certain interval?
-Darkness**
None of the EV's support anything other than standard Macintosh sounds in the game, although and mp3 can be used for the intro music. Also, they do not have support for music anywhere other than in he intro sequence and (in a limited form) on planets. These pieces of music can be added the same way as any other sound would be added to EV/O/N, or an mp3 file can be used for the startup sound by replacing Nova Music with it.
(This message has been edited by Mazca (edited 04-10-2002).)
i'm sorry for making you repeat information that's already been stated. I just recently got EV Nova and so was out of the information loop.
The reason I didn't want to suggest a plugin idea here was because I thought this was just a simple question / answer topic, but if you don't mind then....
My suggestion was for a new type ship that would revolve around a new weapon. I have't thought of a name for it but it would involve a cutting edge along the front part of the ship. The weapon would be built into the ship much like the Polaris lasers. the ship would look very "sharp" i.e. like a sword, very similar to the manta or voinion ships. the method of attack for the weapon would be "ramming" (flying into the victim's ship) and literally driving the attacking ship through the defending ship. If the victim still had shields up, the damage would be minimal and the defender would be knocked away; if the victim had only armor left, however, it would deal a great deal of damage.
I suppose the weapon could be made into a plugin by treating it as a very short range beam. The weapon should chew up a lot of fuel, so to conserve power, one would have to activate the weapon right before impact. It would also be nice if the weapon gave a small afterburner effect. If it is possible to work mass and/or velocity factors into the weapon (i.e. the more mass and/or velocity, the greater the damage) that would be great too.
If anyone likes the idea enough to make a plugin, I would be willingly to write a story behind it. Any comments/thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Black Draco
I tried to modify the "b511" plug to show whether I have a few other bits set, I duplicated the mďsn resource and changed the ID to another unused spot and used NovaTools to change the bit it scans for, but though I know the bit is set, the mission doesn't appear at all, it only works for the original mission, or when I modify that particular one to scan for the bit I want. Am I missing something here?
Thanks for the information, guys. I really appreciate it.
I have another problem. I have gotten everything working so far, but for some reason I can't get the STR# to work. I followed the instructions in the EV:N Bible, yet it still doesn't work. Anyone have any tips on this?
-Darkness
Nevermind, I figured it out on my own through trial and error
Has anyone had troble downloading the following plug-ins?:
StrandVessels 1.0.1 UE Navy 1.0 MusicContents 1.0
For some reason it downloads me a generic application which gives me an negative error message. If you all experience the same thing, let me know so I can fix it. If anyone of you manages to download the latest plug-in known as StrandVessel, send the file to me, I think there is an error I might of overlooked and I need to inspect it to see if it has the mistakes I think it might have.
Originally posted by Black Draco: (snip)
No problems with posting anything, question or idea, to this topic. It's here purely to give a good place for those who were unfortunate enough to arrive after registration was disabled to post without hijacking other topics. Sorry if I made you feel vaguely intimidated
no bad karma between us mazca. Again thanks for the topic.
I have a fairly solid story idea behind the plugin idea i posted earlier so if anyones interested, reply or email at raevyn_5@hotmail.com. Thanks.
Darkness: I have a question...
I am trying to add a new planet to the current universe. What do I need to do in order to get all of the descriptions to match up? Such as trying to get the bar description to match with the correct planet. I managed to change some of the descriptions of places already there, but what about adding new ones?
Index Number is spobID-128 Planet Description: (Shown when landing): Index Number Bar Description: Index Number + 10000
Good luck with Nova development,
Anatole.
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Meaker VI: Couldn't you add some if or or statment at the end of the required area that said "do such and thus a mission -or- go to this planet" I'm not too confident with the statements yet, otherwise I'd put that here.
No, -BUT- You could give them a mission, which activates a cron. That cron gives the player a second, invisible mission, with the other mission criteria you want as it's goal. This way, you could have it do something along the lines of, "Go to Ashkilez. If the player destroys the Chilezian warship, "Murderous Spirit" along the way, give him an extra pat on the back (The closing dialog), and an extra gift. (The second mission's PayVal.).
Mr Lothario: True, but I'm fairly certain that even the SpecialTech fields don't override ncb protection for outfits. e.g. if you have not done the proper Polaris mission, you won't be able to buy a Polaris cloaking organ, even if a system does have that outfit in its SpecialTech fields. Duplicating the outfits and removing the ncb protection from the duplicates is probably the only way to make all outfits available.
Oh, I see what you mean now. You'd have to duplicate and modify all the outfits, yes. You can't 'override' ncb's for a reason ^_~
Can anyone tell me what's up with F2S? I think half the link on this website that relates to a link in the F2S has turned to crap because I cannot get access to it. I think most of the graphic gallery is linked to it as well. I hope they get it up online as soon as possible because I also want to check out the links to other plug-in websites, and some of those are linked to F2S I think.
f2s stopped providing free service, and so any pages that aren't paid for now were decontinued.
F2S shut their free service down, and the EV developer's community has a whole cadre of people who can't seem to be bothered to find a new host. Email the site/image owners and complain
ok, i have the nova bible, and nova tools, and was trying ot make the planetary fleets smaller. i tried to come to the regular board before the complain and beg someone to do it for me, before i got the courage to paste the 'thingies' into my resedit pref file. It just seemed weird, I had temporarily forgotten you can delete prefs and generate new ones. first i tried it before i had looked at the nova bible, and there was no noticable difference, cause I was just stupid. the ships still seemed endless, BTW, i test the fleets with invincible ships, and the battles would go on for over an hour before I would give up. hence there was no fun even if i was legit playing, which i was doing at first which led me on this quest. back then it was strafe, retreat, recharge, repeat. Once I looked at the nova bible a saw how I couldn't just put a number in, and entered 20 ships in one wave the way I'm supposed to, or I thought so. Once I tried this, the game slowed considerably, and it seemed like there were more ships than 20. maybe there was, maybe not. so i then tried to make it come in waves of 5, it was the same, so now i am stuck. Can i get some calculator to get the correct number, and do i use the waves feild in nova tools, cause since the nova bible didn't mention it, i left it unchecked and just entered the full number in the def number feild. I have thrice gone through every spob and changed everything around, and it is excruciating, so please tell me how to get: 20 ships in four 5 ship waves. or a calculator, although i doubt that exists.
oh i forgot the unregistered users were unable to post when i had intended to shamelessly beg so i never actually did. And because of that, I can now try to make my own plugs! lucky me!
F2S shutdown their free service permenantly? That's too bad, oh well, I'm glad I had apple host my EVO sites, so far I only use it to display EVO ships I created and more will be added sometime in the future. In the meanwhile you can check out my gallery of ships, even though it's just 2 images. (url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/coraxus/PhotoAlbum1.html")http://homepage.mac....hotoAlbum1.html(/url)
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Even though I didn't want to resort to this, and I haven't really waited for responces, I am now going to rather forcefully beg for help on my plug: EVN Arena.
For some reason, the ships won't appear on my planet, and I tried making the appear probability 100% for the outfits; that worked(sorta) but not compleatly, so I need more changes. I also don't want to make descriptions for all the missions unless it will link them to my missions for me, which it won't. I need somebody which will do that, and I also need to calabrate my missions pay. I don't want it too easy, but if I make everything low pay, it takes forever to get out of the shuttle. ( another problem, you still start in a shuttle. I made it once so you could start with the viper, but it looked like a shuttle.) Somebody help me or suggest something, or I'll start getting angry, and when I get angry, I post all sorts of strage things. (mainly adds from the EV Main site)
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same here please respond