I have the same issue as Luxx. I used the Afterburner MK2 on my Raptor, and now my Raptor goes up to 412 by default, and way higher with the Afterburner turned on. I tried to reproduce the problem with my Colossus, but my maximum speed went back to normal when I turned the Afterburner off.Cycrow wrote:the difference between auto and manual activation, is that when you activate it, the ship does an attack run on a fake target infront of the ship, the attack run lasts for 1ms. what this does is causes the auto pilot to set the maximum speed and start accelerating, onces its finished, you should be able to control the speed as you want. But as you can prolly guess, 1ms is not alot of time
best thing to do would be to keep testing to c if it happens again.
i am however working on a few fixes, so they might sort out the problem, althou the fixes arn't directly related to the speed
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Problem with Bonus Pack 3.1.04 - Afterburner Bug
This was posted once before when 3.1.04 (if I remember rightly) and I think it was a problem with the argon titan and Afterburner MK2.
Well I've just recently tonight found the same problem with the MK1 Afterburner on my Split Mamba Raider.
For some reason my normal ship speed is 600 and with the afterburner its 1000. Instead of 200 and 600 respectively.
Even changing ships or saving and reloading doesn't affect the afterburner stats on this ship. Has anyone seen this before, I have a savegame also. Kindest regards
Zoozer
Well I've just recently tonight found the same problem with the MK1 Afterburner on my Split Mamba Raider.
For some reason my normal ship speed is 600 and with the afterburner its 1000. Instead of 200 and 600 respectively.
Even changing ships or saving and reloading doesn't affect the afterburner stats on this ship. Has anyone seen this before, I have a savegame also. Kindest regards
Zoozer
Well I am having the same problem but I have figured out what (in game) is causing it and have a work-around until Cycrow can figure out what to do about it. For some reason when turning off your afterburner sometimes the script thinks its already off when you try to turn it off and so it turns it back on. If you press the hotkey again then it turns the afterburner on twice thus giving you an insane speed. I find this bug takes place far more often if you dont give the plugin any time after turning it on before trying to turn it off again. I replicated this bug on my Terran Ageir (speed 136) and after mashing the button many times got that baby up to like 1200m/s. It still turned like a brick so it was just hilarious to cross the entire sector in like 10 seconds and then take another 10 just to turn the baby around. Anyway for the time being I just reload my latest save if the bug occurs so my stock speed isnt changed. If you dont have a recent save I believe you can dock at any equipment dock and you will see a huge negative number under engine tunings. You can buy engine tunings to bring your ship speed back to default. I can't say for sure if this bug would exist if the bonus plugin was installed on a vanilla X3 install without having the prior afterburner stand-alone plugin but I do know even after uninstalling the previous version and making sure my ships had ejected their Afterburners and then buying them new there was still the hotkeys in my control panel for the stand-alone and bonusplugin version of this script. Cyrcow's hotkey remover thats somewhere in this thread removed the duplicate Auot Afterburner hotkey but not the manual-afterburner. Doesnt seem to matter though which hotkey I use they all work but they all have the same bug in my game. This isnt a flame though Cyrcow as I am happy at the moment and dont mind if it takes you ages to figure out how to fix it. The script is still a great addition to my game.
i emailed it awhile ago, to both ur address and scripts@egosoft.com did you not get it ?
Many thanks for this, that worked, kindest regardsKortako wrote:That's happened to me before on some random occasions. The speed seems to get "stuck" every once in a blue moon, and it'll add the ship speed tunings permanently. If you really want to fix it and go back to your old speed, go to an equipment dock and "sell" your engine tunings back to the dock.
Zoozer
nope. strange, I'm not supposed to have spam filters active. (already been through that pain once of spam filters filtering out emails that mention the word script )Cycrow wrote:i emailed it awhile ago, to both ur address and scripts@egosoft.com did you not get it ?
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Another Afterburner Bug
It appears that if you hold down the boost extension button and then repeatedly turn the afterburner off and on, you can significantly increase the speed of your ship.
I tried it out on 2 ships, an elephant and a dragon, it worked both times. oth ships seemed to top out at 7714, I couldnt get them to go any faster. I experienced a CTD when I tried the first time with the Dragon, however on the restart it worked fine.
I'm not sure if this is related in anyway or not but my HDD crashed and burned. It doesnt seem to be spinning up. The HDD is about 8 years old, so this is probably nothing more than an odd coincidence.
Since I don't currently have a machine to run X3 on, I am unable to proceed further with this bug investigation. I figured if I could replicated the bug in a number of different ships, it might give Egosoft a little more information on where they need to start their investigation. Also I cant seem to easily find a 'bug reporting' link, so maybe posting it here will get it some attention.
System Specs:
2.4g Intel chip
P4p800-e Asus Mobo
512 Kingston Ram
Nvidia 6800
Running a fresh install of Winsows XP Home w/SP2
Drivers probably arent up to date TBH, but I dont think a driver would cause an Elephant to go faster than the speed of light
I'm not sure when I'll get to another computer to post again, but if there is an error reporting link and I've missed it, I hope one of our fine moderators will move this to the appropriate place.
I tried it out on 2 ships, an elephant and a dragon, it worked both times. oth ships seemed to top out at 7714, I couldnt get them to go any faster. I experienced a CTD when I tried the first time with the Dragon, however on the restart it worked fine.
I'm not sure if this is related in anyway or not but my HDD crashed and burned. It doesnt seem to be spinning up. The HDD is about 8 years old, so this is probably nothing more than an odd coincidence.
Since I don't currently have a machine to run X3 on, I am unable to proceed further with this bug investigation. I figured if I could replicated the bug in a number of different ships, it might give Egosoft a little more information on where they need to start their investigation. Also I cant seem to easily find a 'bug reporting' link, so maybe posting it here will get it some attention.
System Specs:
2.4g Intel chip
P4p800-e Asus Mobo
512 Kingston Ram
Nvidia 6800
Running a fresh install of Winsows XP Home w/SP2
Drivers probably arent up to date TBH, but I dont think a driver would cause an Elephant to go faster than the speed of light
I'm not sure when I'll get to another computer to post again, but if there is an error reporting link and I've missed it, I hope one of our fine moderators will move this to the appropriate place.
I managed to get my computer to boot up, so I've got a bit more info that may or may not be important.
I'm using Bonus Pack 3.1.04, patched to the latest version of X3. I have the following scripts installed:
BBS Extras and Xenon Migration by Cycrow
Cargo Delivery Service by Klaatu
Tractor Beam Factory Recreator by Xylaan
LV's Cheats by LV
While it sounds like y'all are well on the way to fixing this, I figured it wouldnt hurt to provide the little bit of info I have. If it helps, great, if its extraneous ... then I want the last 10 min of my life back.
I'm using Bonus Pack 3.1.04, patched to the latest version of X3. I have the following scripts installed:
BBS Extras and Xenon Migration by Cycrow
Cargo Delivery Service by Klaatu
Tractor Beam Factory Recreator by Xylaan
LV's Cheats by LV
While it sounds like y'all are well on the way to fixing this, I figured it wouldnt hurt to provide the little bit of info I have. If it helps, great, if its extraneous ... then I want the last 10 min of my life back.
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A nice work Cycrow!
A question though:
why is there no visual effect when the afterburner is activated?
I mean, you could see the engine flame shorten/grow when decelerating, accelerating, but the afterburner looks like max speed. It should have some effect, maybe something like the flame effect when you're hit by a missile - positioned after the engine... can it be done?
Just a tought - btw: excellent job!
A question though:
why is there no visual effect when the afterburner is activated?
I mean, you could see the engine flame shorten/grow when decelerating, accelerating, but the afterburner looks like max speed. It should have some effect, maybe something like the flame effect when you're hit by a missile - positioned after the engine... can it be done?
Just a tought - btw: excellent job!