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Have you encountered 'dead' ships (see this tech support thread and also this one in the German tech support forum)? Then this script is for you



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Just copy both files into your script folder. Whenever you load a game the script searches for dead ships and starts a job on them. You will find a message in your log on the number of revived ships.

Edit: dead link revived - thx Merroc


Cheers Euclid

Great idea

But I would ask for a more accurate description on how you determine a ship is "dead", and what you make it do? Or do you just wipe the poor buggers out? Or am I just paranoid about my game

Each spawned NPC ship runs a script defined in jobs.txt. "Dead ship" no longer runs a script it is supposed to run forever. This script regognizes those halted ships and probably restarts the command that the ship is supposed to run.

I guess this is the same script, which the germans include in the X3plus script collection?

jlehtone wrote:I guess this is the same script, which the germans include in the X3plus script collection?

Similarly ... the result is the same.

jlehtone wrote:..........no longer runs a script it is supposed to run forever.

not completelly correct as most scripts are designed to shut down on almost any "dunno" ...

its the job-scripts that generally are supposed to run forever and some, mostly "follower" scripts, again shut down on specific conditions (those ships are generally revived by their job-leader when in specific conditions)



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In my experience, 'dead' ships, that have no command set for whatever reason, will be automatically 'revived' unless 'set race controlled logic' is set to FALSE for those ships.

Technical stuff aside, all I know is that the script revived several dozen "dead" ships in my game the first time I loaded after installing, and continues to do so every time I load subsequent games (generally one or two ships per session).

Mind if I ask what a dead ship is

From what i understand, it is a NPC ship without a command - IE, Not the un-polited ships you can 'steal', but just random ships that aren't doing anything.

Anyone know another source for this script? I'm getting a 404 error for the website.

I've got I copy of it. I'll pm you a link in a sec.

@euclid, I can host it on xai-corp.net if you want to find a new home for it.

moggy2 wrote:I've got I copy of it. I'll pm you a link in a sec.

@euclid, I can host it on xai-corp.net if you want to find a new home for it.

That would be cool, so I can get a copy of it too.

Wasn't this included in the Bonus Pack at some point, or did that never come about?

I tested it for the bonus pack, but it didn't make it in.

While it revived some of the dead ships, when I looked closely, there were a few ships that it was reviving each time In other words they weren't all revived.

What does do?

(That is in 'setup.freetrader.xml' included in X3plus. Apparently a oneshot restarter more geared to get X3plus version of freetrader running.)

probably "start Job" or whatever the command actually is. That's how this script works.

Lancefighter wrote:From what i understand, it is a NPC ship without a command - IE, Not the un-polited ships you can 'steal', but just random ships that aren't doing anything.

errmm... No.
There are hundreds of ships not running commands in game, mainly civilian ones but there are others, a dead ship should be one that doesn't have a "task 0", yet is owned by somebody, ie non-capturable.
Though I haven't looked at the script so I could be wrong.

@moggy, I don't have euclid's version, so can you say how much this X3plus (Lucike's) version differs? Ie, would it fail the same way?

is anyone else hosting this script?
the link is dead
this is really messing up my game
somebody please help

Sorry for the late feedback (just one PM and it would have been faster ) . I have revived the download link. Thanks Merroc


Cheers Euclid