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I am currently trying to make all the outfits in the game free, weigh nothing, and be available at all outfit places...the problem is that I can't get them to show up at every outfit place even with government sent to -1 (says it should be all governments)...I set availability to 100 yet nothing seems to work....the same thing is happening with my ships....3 of them pop up free but I can't buy them for some reason...its very frustrating...all I want is free outfits and ships that can hold 9999 turets/guns/cargo...please help!
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Welcome to the boards. What is the tech level set to? Tech level determines what planets they are available on. Techlevel 1 should be available everywhere.
RequireGovt only effects which govts use the Require bits (seperate from the availability bits). Does the Availability test string evaluate to true? By the way, the upper limit for cargo, turrets, and guns is about 32767, not 9999. -Az
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wow your quick response rocks....I didn't know tech lvl did that...I thought the higher the tech lvl on the ship, the better the outfits it could use!...I'll go fix that
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Originally posted by ubelong2matt: **wow your quick response rocks....I didn't know tech lvl did that...I thought the higher the tech lvl on the ship, the better the outfits it could use!...I'll go fix that:D
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Aaaaah! That would be the issue. Woah though. You gave me an idea for my concept tc! Older ships that cant interface to modern equipment! I could simulate that with contribute/require! And players attached to old model ships could upgrade thier systems to take newer upgrades!! cackles Anyway, the reason I'm so quick on the reply is closely related to the fact that i have no life
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I have another quick question for you....I tried to make myself a ship with my plug-in to do kind of what capt. hector did...like every few warps I wanted him to pop in and say some stupid line about how awesome I am....I tried to make a person and here is what I did: ID: 644 Name: Matt H. System: -1 Government: -1 AI Type: Warship Aggression: Close Cowardice: 10 Ship Type: 408 Credits: 50000000 Shield Mod: 16959 Hail Picture: 7800 Communication Quote: 45 <====these two confuse me Hail Quote: 43 <===========^ Linked Mission: -1 Active On: Grant Outfit Class: -1 Grant Count: 0 Grant Random: 0 Subtitle: (maker of this plug-in) Color: |BLUE| Type Count Ammo Weapon 1: 286 20 50 Weapon 2: 269 1 0 Weapon 3: 244 50 0 Weapon 4: 193 9999 0
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with the quote things I added 2 new quotes at the end of the STR#7100 and STR#7101 and typed in their line numbers....wasn't sure what to do.....any knowledge you could lend me as to what I'm doing wrong...even if you leave most of it a mystery (I figured all this out on my own)...perhaps I could get a nudge in the right direction if it would be too hard to explain?.......thanks again!
(This message has been edited by ubelong2matt (edited 12-26-2003).)
Hmmm. I havnt played with Pers's. All i can reccomend is checking out how they did this sort of thing for the pers's in the default scenario (there are a few infrequently encountered pers's that hail the player of thier own accord). Note that i dont belive you can make your pers as annoying as hector - hector is hardcoded to appear almost all the time when you are un-reged. (Atleast not without getting creative with missions) -Az
(This message has been edited by Azratax2 (edited 12-26-2003).)
Keep in mind that you'll need to start a new pilot for the new pers to show up. (I'm pretty sure this is the case). It also might be a good idea to edit a syst to have your pers show up 100% of the time to help testing.
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Originally posted by ubelong2matt: **I have another quick question for you....I tried to make myself a ship with my plug-in to do kind of what capt. hector did...like every few warps I wanted him to pop in and say some stupid line about how awesome I am....I tried to make a person and here is what I did: ID: 644 Name: Matt H. System: -1 Government: -1 AI Type: Warship Aggression: Close Cowardice: 10 Ship Type: 408 Credits: 50000000 Shield Mod: 16959 Hail Picture: 7800 Communication Quote: 45 <====these two confuse me Hail Quote: 43 <===========^ Linked Mission: -1 Active On: Grant Outfit Class: -1 Grant Count: 0 Grant Random: 0 Subtitle: (maker of this plug-in) Color: |BLUE| Type Count Ammo Weapon 1: 286 20 50 Weapon 2: 269 1 0 Weapon 3: 244 50 0 Weapon 4: 193 9999 0
with the quote things I added 2 new quotes at the end of the STR#7100 and STR#7101 and typed in their line numbers....wasn't sure what to do.....any knowledge you could lend me as to what I'm doing wrong...even if you leave most of it a mystery (I figured all this out on my own)...perhaps I could get a nudge in the right direction if it would be too hard to explain?.......thanks again!**
The Hail Quotes are what the player sees on the bottom of the screen, like Hector's "I love the smell of plasma in the morning..." and others (though Hector's have their own STR# resource in the actual Engine). The Comm Quote is the quote that is said when they are hailed.
The numbers you type in the përs field start at zero, not one. So, if you have quote #24 in the STR# resource, you'd type 23. #1 in the STR# would be 0. This is explained in the Bible.
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Slouch is right, unless you replace some unimportant pers in-game. The nova engine deavtivates any pers' that doent exist at the time of pilot creation, and those pers' can never be reactivated, even if you add plugs that put them in. Seant was making an app to let one fix this, but he has gone poof and nobody's seen him round here lately
Um, Did you set your pers to have 9999 of some type of weapon? i dont think you want to do that (unless thats the ammo field, in which case that's fine). Having that many of a weapon is bound to cause strange behavior. -Az
Yep, Az is right. You may find yourself with neative of that weapon, and God knows what the hell will happen then...
lol....the 9999 is accually a shield regen....I wanted him to be unstopable!....well I'll dink around with it some more...I have made several more players since I added my person and that stuff about the STR# totally confused me....I don't have a mac so I can't see the bible (now I'll feel dumb is there's a windows comatable one that I just didn't find)....thanks for the suggestions!
Originally posted by ubelong2matt: lol....the 9999 is accually a shield regen....I wanted him to be unstopable!....well I'll dink around with it some more...I have made several more players since I added my person and that stuff about the STR# totally confused me....I don't have a mac so I can't see the bible (now I'll feel dumb is there's a windows comatable one that I just didn't find)....thanks for the suggestions!
Dude, it comes with Nova. It's in your "Documentation" folder.
Originally posted by ubelong2matt: **lol....the 9999 is accually a shield regen....I wanted him to be unstopable!....well I'll dink around with it some more...I have made several more players since I added my person and that stuff about the STR# totally confused me....I don't have a mac so I can't see the bible (now I'll feel dumb is there's a windows comatable one that I just didn't find)....thanks for the suggestions!
Errr? that field wants the ids of weap resources not outf resources. You cant put outfs on pers's. You can put them on ships, but regen outfits dont work on any ship other than the player. Even if you could, you would overflow and end up with negative shield regen, unless it wound up overflowing again back into positive. (if shield regen would be more than 32767, it will turn into a negative number)
The problem with 9999 of a weapon on the otherhand is not that 9999 of them would overflow, but that a tap on the space bar would exceed max shots on screen and mess up the sprite engine.
Oh, and the mac versions of the bible or any text guides are perfectly readable on a pc if you use a program like textpad that can read mac text files ( (url="http://"http://www.textpad.com")www.textpad.com(/url) ), but you do have a copy of the bible in the documentation folder in easilly readable format. -Az
Oops, wrong topic, forget it, never mind.
(This message has been edited by Zacha Pedro (edited 12-27-2003).)
Just for the record, if you want the highest of something, it's 32767 (which is half of 65536, counting the zero). Or is that just EV and EVO? Did Nova get rid of that roof value?
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Originally posted by Diordna2: **Just for the record, if you want the highest of something, it's 32767 (which is half of 65536, counting the zero). Or is that just EV and EVO? Did Nova get rid of that roof value?
No. And this roof value is due to how the computer store numbers, it's not Nova.
Anyway, even 30,000 is way enough for nearly anything (thinking about Polycon), isn't it ?
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