[MD] The Traveling Mechanic - v0.2 - updated 03.12.2008

western · Post by **western** » Mon, 5. Jan 09, 08:27

Don't know whats happened here but overtuned my Carrack and its now capable of 696kph. the odd thing is that whichever saved game I use its speed is now the same!

Any way of reducing/removing the upgrade and starting again!

Thx.

mostlikely · Post by **mostlikely** » Mon, 5. Jan 09, 09:55

western wrote:Don't know whats happened here but overtuned my Carrack and its now capable of 696kph. the odd thing is that whichever saved game I use its speed is now the same!

Any way of reducing/removing the upgrade and starting again!

Thx.

Use the 'remove upgrades' function from the X3TC Cheat Package?

western · Post by **western** » Mon, 5. Jan 09, 20:02

Phew - Thanx, will be more careful next time!

Wainaa · Post by **Wainaa** » Wed, 7. Jan 09, 14:35

Well, I found the ship once and bought some upgrades. Now i found it again, but there is no ! and when i comm the onboard engineer, I dont have the option to upgrade my ship. Last time around I upgraded a M6, now I'm in a M2. Does that make a difference? Also, should it start working normally if I uninstall the script, run the game, save&reload, quit and install it again?

Teladidrone · Post by **Teladidrone** » Wed, 7. Jan 09, 16:51

Wainaa wrote:Well, I found the ship once and bought some upgrades. Now i found it again, but there is no ! and when i comm the onboard engineer, I dont have the option to upgrade my ship. Last time around I upgraded a M6, now I'm in a M2. Does that make a difference? Also, should it start working normally if I uninstall the script, run the game, save&reload, quit and install it again?

That's weird; maybe the conversation got stuck - I'll need to do some checking.

Unfortunately uninstalling/reinstalling MD scripts usually does not have the effect of resetting everything; certainly this will not fix the mechanic - only way to do that right now is to destroy the whole ship and let it respawn.

//Edit:
Ok, lets try something here.
In my script I added a "catch all" condition that should automatically reset the mechanic and the ship to make sure everything is working as designed.
This cue will only fire every 30 minutes if the player is NOT in the same sector as the ship.
Leave the ship alone and go OOS for at least 1 in-game hour (you can assign a scout to follow it so you may find it later again) and check back later if that fixed the mechanic conversation.

Wainaa · Post by **Wainaa** » Fri, 9. Jan 09, 12:25

What ever you did, didnt have the effect you wanted. the mechanic didnt reset, no matter how long i waited. And it stayed in the same sector the whole time. in the end, i got it to work by taking a xenon patrol mission in that sector and letting the xenons kill it. The respawned mechanic worked normally

Teladidrone · Post by **Teladidrone** » Fri, 9. Jan 09, 19:54

Well, that's not good. I mean for me - I'm glad that you could fix it without too much trouble though.

But this means that the script may end up in some deadlock state which I was not able to reproduce or experience myself... yet. Dammit.

mcsquared · Post by **mcsquared** » Sat, 17. Jan 09, 19:50

Just tried your script. I "tuned" my Vidar, Tiger, and Osaka. I really like this script becuase the tunings did not over do it. Other cheats turn your ships into ridiculously fast guided missiles. These tunings are just about perfect!

SoggyGoat · Post by **SoggyGoat** » Mon, 30. Mar 09, 13:58

Hi Teladidrone,

I have a problem if I'm "out of universe", i.e. in a Khaak sector, or in the

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unfocussed jumpdrive sector

then when the Navy Tender docks, the cues to find the next destination fire. The find station appears to fail since there are no boron dockyards within 75 jumps of where I am (since where I am has no gates). The result is that the destination is unchanged and the dock command is issued to where the Tender is already docked. The cue resets and spins in a loop. If I have debug on, I get an infinite number of "dest reached" and "new dest" messages. If I have debug off, the game freezes.

Since I'm currently trying to wipe out the Khaak, this is a bit of a problem, so I've had to rename the MD xml for now. I tried adding a couple of timing clauses to those cues but it didn't help much. Maybe I need to delay the reset of the cue like you do with check3_1.

Otherwise, a cool addition to the game, thanks.
S.G.

LiveAus · Post by **LiveAus** » Wed, 1. Apr 09, 12:47

I've installed this script about 3 weeks ago and have not found the ship in any Boron sector. Is there a script to allow me to search for it?

SoggyGoat · Post by **SoggyGoat** » Thu, 2. Apr 09, 11:23

@LiveAus: It travels between Boron shipyards, so can be found anywhere inbetween.

Stingads_Gsöchts · Post by **Stingads_Gsöchts** » Mon, 6. Apr 09, 17:16

EDIT: Problem solved. It worked when I manually installed the data without the scriptinstaller.

Teladidrone wrote:Just one short notice in your log: "The Traveling Mechanic version X installed."
If you have got that all is well and the ship will start to move around... somewhere.

I installed the script via Scriptinstaller. Ingame however, I don't get a confirmation that the mod has been installed. I'm not even getting a ReadText error

(I'm using the German version) What am I doing wrong?

P.S.: I also tried to add a German Text file to the spk packet, but with no result.

Stingads_Gsöchts · Post by **Stingads_Gsöchts** » Sun, 19. Apr 09, 22:50

New Problem....

I managed to install the script and it worked fine in the beginning. I guess the ship was destroyed, because all of a sudden it appeared in the southern Boron sectors. When the ship respawned it was named "=TextIdNotFound= and the mechanic had the same problem. So I decided to remove the files from the t and Director folders and later reinstalled the script. After doing so a new ship spawned (the Textidnotfound one was still there. So far so good:

now here is the problem. The ship has a lightpulp-symbol as it should have, so has the boozy mechanic, but when I talk to him I just get the standard Options: where's the nearest shipyard yadda, yaddah...

What can I do ? When I first installed the script everything was fine?!

Tanooshman · Post by **Tanooshman** » Wed, 29. Apr 09, 19:17

About three weeks into X3TC - first X experience. Just want to share a few notes for others like me, who lack the background to understand some of whats posted on these forums.

First - and foremost. For the sake of you and your family DO NOT attempt searching for the ship before the package is successfully installed. Really.

Second - the name of the ship IS NOT "Mechanic". I strongly recommend reading the initial post and clicking on the links before spending 2 days searching.

Third - the Mechanic is BIG. It maneuvers through space and changes course to avoid collision. If you collide with it - YOU LOSE. Period. Altogether.

A NICELY done piece of work.

mikthescot · Post by **mikthescot** » Wed, 13. May 09, 15:22

can it be put into a RAR file insted of spk

crimson522 · Post by **crimson522** » Thu, 18. Jun 09, 10:52

this script is awesome. can i make a suggestion? try adding more upgrades with different prices. like increasing max laser energy and adding extra shield space

Keurallis · Post by **Keurallis** » Sat, 20. Jun 09, 09:48

Nice script,i like it

I spent a whole day searching for the damn ship,even tried downloading that teladi information service script to see if i could find it with that,and as i'm sitting there in ministry of finance trying to work the thing,i see your big submarine looking thing float right across my screen.

And i dunno if it was intentional,but if you eject from your ship and comm the dude,you can overtune your space suit

But he still says he's teleporting over... Is there room for 2 in that thing?

crimson522 · Post by **crimson522** » Mon, 22. Jun 09, 15:09

what happens when the mechanic gets destroyed? does he respawn in the same location or does he spawn in a random spot in the universe and how long does it take for him to respawn?

qwizzie · Post by **qwizzie** » Fri, 13. Nov 09, 10:20

X3 TC 2.5

i have managed to board the mechanic, it turns
into the mobile repairshop. then first got a msg
from the engineer who you call to tune things over
then later a lot of spam msg's from ''actor name mechanics''
or something like that .. is it suppose to spam you with msg's?
otherwise maybe a bug (i got rid of it by removing the script).

question : if you re-engineer it at yr PHQ does it keep the
120.000 freight cap? and maybe it will activate its orginal possibilities
as a mobile repair shop? (the goner aran had to be re-engineered too .. to be fully unlocked, maybe this is the same?)

thnks in advance,

qwizzie

ogamerdg · Post by **ogamerdg** » Mon, 16. Nov 09, 02:14

so u can overtune your ships as much as you want for a price?

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[MD] The Traveling Mechanic - v0.2 - updated 03.12.2008

Found the Mechanic - it works - THANK YOU! - a few notes from a X3 initiate