[Mod] Ashleys Factories L + XL + XXL V2.5 *Updated 09/11/2007*

anneking · Post by **anneking** » Sat, 23. Feb 08, 16:17

Couple of simple questions

Nividium mine: Why doesn’t it attach to the nividium roid in Rolks Fate? Its happy attaching to one of the ore roids in that sector but doesn’t acknowledge the presence of the nividium roid.

Alpha Kyon forge: Where did the resources list come from = energy, crystals, microchips ? Is this defined somewhere by Egosoft or just made up for the mod?

Jakesnake5 · Post by **Jakesnake5** » Sat, 23. Feb 08, 22:02

Those rocks are quest generated, and not listed in the Galaxy Map as being true gravidars.

Plus, I think Egosoft purposly flagged them as 'unminable' unless you blow them up.

zeddius · Post by **zeddius** » Mon, 25. Feb 08, 00:02

Please, could really use some help here. The argon ashley shipyard in akeelas beacon was destroyed by some khaak ship, and it doesnt look like it will respawn.

I tried uninstalling the script and reinstalling it again, but nothing happens. The shipyards in the other 4 sectors are still there (they never even got removed when i uninstalled the script), but the one in argon space, akeelas beacon, hasnt been readded....

Any tips or hits would greatly be appriciated.

Jakesnake5 · Post by **Jakesnake5** » Mon, 25. Feb 08, 01:01

'Uninstalling' the scripts does NOT mean the objects will be removed or recreated.

Go into Options, then Gameplay, and see if there's an Artificial Life setting for the Ashleys stations mod. If there is, turn it off, and wait a game hour for things to be shut down.

Then you can turn it back one and it should check for and restore stations.

zeddius · Post by **zeddius** » Mon, 25. Feb 08, 08:24

There are no options to turn the script/mod off in the settings, so guess that was a dead end... There has to be someway i can get the station back though....

zeddius · Post by **zeddius** » Mon, 25. Feb 08, 08:42

Hi, i am using the script/mod Ashleys Factories. And one of the shipyards, the argon one in Akeelas beacon, got destroyed be khaak ships. I have tried everything i can think of to get the station back, but without luck. This means i cant buy the XXL spacefuel factories....since the argon ashleys fab was the only one selling it. I have posted in the relevant thread, but nobody seems to check that very often..

Please, does anyone have any idea how i can get that station back?

zeddius · Post by **zeddius** » Mon, 25. Feb 08, 22:49

Please, somebody must help me

Apollo911 · Post by **Apollo911** » Mon, 25. Feb 08, 22:54

Use LVs cheats to spawn it back? Not sure if that will work.

zeddius · Post by **zeddius** » Tue, 26. Feb 08, 17:55

Tried some of the cheats, but they don have the ashleeys factories in them.....

Edit LV

Thread merged, If you read the first post in this thread ashley clearly states how to get in touch with him, As it's his mod he is the best person to answer.

Also new posts in addition to an existing post are prohibited in the rules but as I'm in a good mood today i'll let you live.

zeddius · Post by **zeddius** » Tue, 26. Feb 08, 20:23

thx LV, tried to post in the relevant thread first, but after a coupel of days with no answer i decided to make a new one. have sent Ashley a PM on the other forum, so hopefully he will reply there.

g33kst4r · Post by **g33kst4r** » Wed, 27. Feb 08, 05:49

@ Zeddius,
I had this happen to me also after several game days, the Xenon got to it in my case just before I was about to buy more XL Crystal Fabs, XL Cahoona, and XL Cattle [1 of each] for my weapons complexes.

- I ended up restoring from 4 savegames previous to latest - no great loss, just an evening - to just before the attack, and dropping an M2 with escorts into Akeela's Beacon - That took care of that!

It looks like the part of the challenge of XTM with Ashley's fabs is to provide additional security to various sectors - not just your own factories etc...

Also the pesky Xenon also took out Ianamus Zura's shipyard with two of my capped ships docked - but it has not respawned yet..??

Some general notes in sequence of X3 vanilla to X3 XTm with Ashley's fabs:

1. Initial vanilla game, after completing the vanilla plot I did Bala Gi...1st PHQ in Patriarch's Retreat.

2. Setup several complexes in Vanilla game - pre Ashley's mod ...talk about hard work!!

3. Used the X3 to X3 script to copy out vanilla savegame prior to XTM upgrade...good resources elsewhere on this site for this process!

4. Upgraded to XTM with ashley's fabs.

5. Ran X3X3 script again to read in savegame after doing a non plot start with a discovery and one trader. This added all factories [not as complexes] and my PHQ was supplied back to me in an additional Mammoth

6. Docked all Mercury UT's as they where being destroyed, purchased Terracorp Vulcans and used the pilot transfer process to place my UT's in the Vultures...only lost two in a dozen game days and gained $900 M credits regardless.

7. Relinked my factories into complexes..that Hyperion makes a great tug boat IMHO. Note that when adding to an extended hub you need to select the extended hub first otherwise the standard hub replaces it...

8. Added the enhanced version of the Trade Command Mark 3 software that allows sector locking so my UT's dont pillage or overstock my PHQ's...

9. Only done the first couple of XTM bullettin missions, as having too much fun elsewhere!! - was also offered and completed the Bala Gi missions a second time

- much harder time with pirates! with 2nd PHQ in Sacred Relic

10. I dont want to add any spoilers....but those pirates in certain locations are feral!

I have resisted the urge to add anything un-neccessary, the only other mod or script I am considering is the Anarkis Carrier Commands etc...

Thanks to the XTM crew for a great mod, likewise many thanks to Ashley for her great mod that makes the factory complexe business a lot less tedious. Also thanks to the rest of the mod space for their assistance.

zeddius · Post by **zeddius** » Wed, 27. Feb 08, 22:30

Ashley is not responding to PMs on the forum he said he frquented...but i refuse to belive that there is no way the "script" cant be tricked into respawning the stations somehow....or there has to exist a script that will allow me to create one of his stations....

This is a game breaker for me...so i really hope someone is able to help me.

RECAP : Argon Ashley shipyard in akeelas beacon got destroyed....

DIGSIN · Post by **DIGSIN** » Thu, 28. Feb 08, 00:20

@zeddius Ashley is a bit busy with real life at the moment, this will be why you havent had a reply to your PM at AD.

There is a script included with Ashleys mod

ashleys.factories.setup

Have you tried manually running this script?

It should check through the universe to see what stations are present, then it should destroy those stations and respawn them, so make sure you are not docked at any if you run it.

It may take upto an hour to run through the respawn.

Let us know if this works for you

Dave lister 2 · Post by **Dave lister 2** » Thu, 28. Feb 08, 00:34

DIGSIN wrote:@zeddius Ashley is a bit busy with real life at the moment, this will be why you havent had a reply to your PM at AD.

There is a script included with Ashleys mod

ashleys.factories.setup

Have you tried manually running this script?

It should check through the universe to see what stations are present, then it should destroy those stations and respawn them, so make sure you are not docked at any if you run it.

It may take upto an hour to run through the respawn.

Let us know if this works for you

I think there is another script command that might work. I think it's called ashleys.force.reset or some such thing

zeddius · Post by **zeddius** » Thu, 28. Feb 08, 09:43

Just figured it out in case anyone is havi this same problem. Open the script editor, there is a separate ashley script there that lets you respawn the different race shipyards. Just run the script with null as input parameter.

rman88 · Post by **rman88** » Fri, 21. Mar 08, 22:11

hey is there any way to run this without having to start a new game. all my save when i tired to run them. they say it is corrupted. wile if i go to my old vannlia. it works without a problem. and i tired seeing if someone else had this problem. but take me to long just quicker to ask. would love to get this fixed. need to make my booze complex.

also now it keeps crashing. i have no idea why it is doing it.

Gazz · Post by **Gazz** » Wed, 26. Mar 08, 19:41

I have a wishlist item for this mod. =)

The XL factories are cool and remove a lot of the tedium in X3 but I see another possibility to help complex builders by increasing the abysmal FPS in complex sectors.

I would like an XLc factory (or XXLc - whatever is largest for the factory type).
This would be identical to the XL version except... no model, no docking clamps and collision detection = off.
All "complex" factories could use this dummy model.

Obviously the only way for this factory to function is as part of a complex. But well... that's the point after all. =P

The factory model would probably have to consist of 1-2 nodes as a bare minimum but that would be a huge FPS advantage over fully rendered factories.

With collision detection off all factories could be deployed in the exact same spot using Snap To positioning so no factory would require more than 2 tubes to connect to the next.
This would be the max possible reduction in sector objects and completely eliminate spaghetti tubing.

I also thought about making this an external mod. It requires modding TFactories.txt (1 dummy entry for each factory size) and 1 blank dummy model to be used by all ghost factories.
The rest is just a script to copy wares and stock levels of existing factories into the apropriate ghost version.

This way opens up another possibility for the script to crunch large numbers of identical factories into XXXXXXXL versions or whatever, reducing the factory count immensely. All that takes are a few extra dummy entries in TFactories with increasing production multipliers.
Factory size is just a number...

I tried some things to reduce factory numbers before but this looks like the first time I could make it work without breaking the rigid hardcoded factory and complex interfaces.
Reduced factory count with fully functional stock level and production progress bars. What a concept! =P

Emre Yigit · Post by **Emre Yigit** » Sat, 17. May 08, 20:23

Is there one that is compatible with vanilla 2.5?

Thanks in advance.

xeon_1 · Post by **xeon_1** » Sat, 17. May 08, 20:43

Are you sure you have the latest version i play 2.5+XTM+XXL without problems.
You need to make sure you select the correct start up profile in the modmanger in the startup splash screen

Emre Yigit · Post by **Emre Yigit** » Sat, 17. May 08, 22:02

Hmm.

I try to open up the file using cycrow's plugin manager, and get a warning that this is compatible only with 2.0.0.2 and Bala Gi. If I carry on regardless and try to run the game, it doesn't work.

Do you know whether this is the correct thread to get the mod?:

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=124562 ?

EDIT: Note I said vanilla 2.5. I am not running XTM.

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