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Thank you.iforgotmysocks wrote:Oh... i didn't even know that compability issues on other platforms exist. xD Thought it's all the same.I'll have to look into it.
Oh wow, makes me think of the one i made for X3 reunion back in the days!!, thank you for this modiforgotmysocks wrote:You need to install SideBarExtender by Philipp Offensand for the menu options to work.
Link Nexus: http://www.nexusmods.com/xrebirth/mods/416/?
(Some pretty stuff to look at)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/y1i9md23old7abs/8jj3RRY21j
Explore and Salvage
Important! If you want to update a save that runs an older version of EaS you have to perform following steps!
Before removing the old version open the config file (Extensions\ExploreAndSalvage\md\ES_Config.xml)
and set the value "global.$ES_InitUpdate" to exact="true" and save the file before closing.
Load your save now so the old mod content is going to be removed. Save your game!
Now just add the latest version and keep playing.
New in v1.0:
- Fixed Enemy Capship turrets not firing in some situations
- Fixed Salvagers not working if Exploration was disabled
- Enemies are more aggressive now
New in v0.09:
- Another issue causing the disappearance of ships spawned by EaS after boarding fixed
- Updated enemy spawn libraries and overhauled enemy spawns
- Improved cleanup on mod-removal, now all EaS wrecks get removed, even those who's cleanup routines were disrupted (happens rarely)
- Fixed an issue that caused weapon modifications to disappear
New in v0.08:
- Debrisfields no longer despawn while the player is close to them (happend before if the player was crossing over zone boarders frequently)
- Adjusted loottables a little more
- Fixed an oversight hiding in the weapon removal script when removing the mod. (Back then mk2 was topnotch and to avoid problems the mod simply removed all weapons and added a set of mk2 weapons, now the player gets to keep his weapons)
New in v0.07:
- Salvagable NPC wrecks!
- Exploration (Spawning of wrecks and enemies) is modular now and can be disabled in the config file
- Drone loot is logged via logbook entries if enabled in the ingame menu
- Fixed loottables (the new items ruined the old loottabels - sorry about that
- All loottables are now configurable in the config file
- Boarded ships won't be removed by cleanup routines anymore
- Improved cleanup
- General code adjustments (last version was released over 2 years ago)
New in v0.06:
- Different enemies now, not just your daily xenon ;x
- Slightly improved enemy ai (i didnt have much time, this is just a quick solution until i can focus on that)
- Removed salvage items and created a loottable which contains items that actually make sense.
New in v0.05:
- Added menuoption to en/disable drone autolaunch
- Added menuoption to en/disable drone ware selection (legal/illegal)
- Nerfed collectingspeed of drones
- Fixed the drone animation (they actually only pull out their arms if they are working now)
- Fixed a bug which caused errors in legal ware collections
- Fixed the drone's name
- Requires SideBarExtender now (if you don't want to use the SideBarExtender,
you can also set the drone launch and ware type options in the config file.
New in v0.04:
- Update to the update/deinstallroutine, 0.02 can be updated without issues if done as described
(Sorry if you installed 0.03 already, hopefully you still have a save with 0.02, otherwise your
weaponlayout will be messed up if you had salvagers installed. If you didn't have salvagers, you are fine.)
Salvage Drones:
Pics: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i7141o7jh8sz ... 5tdAa?dl=0
Salvage Drones can be bought at your friendly neighbourhood Equipment Vendor. They are't entirely cheap, but they are worth it.
I created them as inventory items, so they wouldn't stop the player from taking combat drones.
They work completly on their own, and don't need any playerattention. (Except protection)
The player can activate/deactivate autolaunch and collection of illegal wares under "Crew" in the Main menu.
If the playership finds wrecks in range (default 20km), up to (default 20) drones are launched which start salvaging the wrecks in range.
If the player moves too far away (default >30km), they will take it as a recall and return, unload their cargo and dock.
A drone will also return to the player if its cargo is full (200 items), but will continue salvaging after dropping of the salvageloot.
If a player enters a highway, drones will "jump to the playership and dock automaticly".
Drones can also leave illegal wares behind. (This will prevent being killed by stations while afk salvaging ^^)
The config file can be found here: (Extensions\ExploreAndSalvage\md\ES_Config.xml)
Known Bugs:
- Sometimes site spawns end up being "ghost sites", the player will pass through spawned content, and can't attack it. Enemies aren't able to harm anybody either. Drones can salvage wrecks as usual. This only happens rarly and i'm working on it. Simply leave the site aside until it despawns.
Planned:
- More realistic salvage animation
This mod brings exploration, hunting down spezial items, practicly a reason to leave the spacecities and highways once in a while.
Discovering long forgotten shipgraveyards, finding missing relicts...
Archived:
- Salvageable NPC Wrecks
- Spawning random groups/clusters of debris/wrecks with the chance for enemies to hide in and loot to find. (currently spawning/despawning by entering/leaving a zone)
- Creating large remaining fields of spacetrash which might hide enemies and treasures... or probably just trash. (Just 1 each sector in albion yet)
- Salvagers which can be bought or found to salvage wrecks.
In work:
- Collecting information about the game performace while running the mod
- Collecting some ideas how to bring more depht in the whole process of exploring
- Creating more remaining trashfields and shipgraveyards
- Creating local events which might leed to more wrecks (some on paper, some for real)
- Writing logbooktexts which tell a fitting story about some larger trashfields or ship graveyards
- Better enemyvariations and control
Planned:
- More variations of debris and stuff like stations etc.
- Creating missions forcing the player to go out there
- Salvage ships and drones which can salvage large amounts and collect goods used in the economy. (This will take time!)
- Dynamical and depletable space trash fields forming where battles take place
If you guys like the project, stick around, drop off some ideas and enjoy a much needed game experiance, soon.
Install:
Download the mod, extract the data and copy it into your Extentions Directory.
Update/Uninstall:
Before removing the old version open the config file (Extensions\ExploreAndSalvage\md\ES_Config.xml)
and set the value "global.$ES_InitUpdate" to exact="true" and save the file before closing.
Load your save now so the old mod content is going to be removed. Save your game!
Now just add the latest version and keep playing.
Not very high. Adapting itself wouldn't be a problem, simply deactivating the exploration part should fix the biggest problem. Salvagers and salvage drones should still work (after a little update) to salavage npc ship wrecks, but sadly the game engine has been changed in a way that basicly killed my approach of spawning ship wreck fields duo to insane performance issues that i wasn't able to track down at all.Romz wrote:Hello! What are the chances that this mod will be adapted to patch 4.30?
Exploration Software does something entirely different. ^^ The exploration part in this mod used to be able to spawn lots of wreckage fields with loot for the player to find, enemies to fight and lots of wrecks to salvage. It was rather the bigger part of the mod.Romz wrote:For exploration we have Exploration Software. So here let it be only Salvaging
Gotcha.