[Script] Kill All Ships (but mine)

JMCorp · Post by **JMCorp** » Fri, 12. Dec 08, 21:28

this script when run will kill all the ships in the universe.

everyones.

even the hidden ships.

*it will leave yours though, which i find handy*

you do have to know where to put it, you have to know how to enable the script editor, and how to run a script. but because i have seen more than one person ask for it, here it is!

this script also happens to be very handy when your system boggs down really bad and gets to like 2-3 fps for no apparrent reason... run this script and you'll be back in business... till the next time some random ship somewhere decides to soak up all your cpu with a runaway script.

killships.zip

run the script named a.jmc.kill.all.ships

*disclaimer* this script comes with no warranty implied or otherwise, use at your own risk. i will also most likely not change the script so dont ask.

Ikaruga · Post by **Ikaruga** » Fri, 12. Dec 08, 22:16

Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I needed

I'll try it as soon as I can.

Of course, new ships should be created soon after thanks to the jobs, right ?

Oh, by the way, will plot ships respawn too ? (Goner Ozias, Exterminator...)[/spoiler]

JMCorp · Post by **JMCorp** » Fri, 12. Dec 08, 22:28

i know the exterminator is still there so either he's invulnerable or he respawns. most plot devices are invuln tho.

Ikaruga · Post by **Ikaruga** » Mon, 15. Dec 08, 08:10

Hi, thanks for your script, I tried it and it worked perfectly.

It solved the problem I had (some ships "carrying" old code from another script, which was freezing my game)

However,

Spoiler

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I'm at the Goner Mission where I have to follow a piarte ship to its base :

when I ran your script, I got a message telling me "Oh no, you let it get away !"

And a few minutes after, I received another message saying "I found another ship, its name is "L0xxx@Mxxxx" , and instantly after another message sayiing "Oh no, you let it get away !"

So, I can't continue the mission. Neither can I abort it since it's a plot mission.

What can I do ?

Thanks in advance

slickdrac · Post by **slickdrac** » Wed, 17. Dec 08, 02:13

Can you do this with stations too?

CanadianBrit · Post by **CanadianBrit** » Wed, 17. Dec 08, 04:02

slickdrac wrote:Can you do this with stations too?

So you want no ships and no stations eh?

So you'll have a completely empty universe:

Nothing to kill
Nothing to trade with
Nothing to buy your products
Nothing to buy resources from
Nothing to kill to increase your fighting status
No workable plots
No where to renew your ships

So how about buying a new game! Cos clearly this one isn't for you!!

eladan · Post by **eladan** » Wed, 17. Dec 08, 04:12

Tone it down... I can see that there would be potential uses for something like that, although if you simply want to remove a hostile station or three you'd be best using the cheat scripts.

CanadianBrit wrote:So you'll have a completely empty universe

Initially, yes, but it wouldn't take all that long to come back to life. It would be considerably emptier than usual for longer than that though.

apricotslice · Post by **apricotslice** » Thu, 18. Dec 08, 02:02

Using this in the middle of running the plot would be a very bad idea.

The plot creates its own ships in places, and if you kill these, the plot scripts will still be running, but the ships wont be there. Its unlikely the ships would respawn either, since the scripts already running would assume they are still there.

Personally, I think a mechanism to identify and terminate running scripts that are causing problems would be a lot more useful.

slickdrac · Post by **slickdrac** » Thu, 18. Dec 08, 21:17

CanadianBrit wrote: So you want no ships and no stations eh?

So you'll have a completely empty universe:

Nothing to kill
Nothing to trade with
Nothing to buy your products
Nothing to buy resources from
Nothing to kill to increase your fighting status
No workable plots
No where to renew your ships

So how about buying a new game! Cos clearly this one isn't for you!!

Or, you know, I could just want to create my own custom battles and such and want as much free resources as possible. But go right ahead

Spitfire396 · Post by **Spitfire396** » Mon, 9. Feb 09, 16:18

will all ships in the entire x-universe been destroyd, or only the ships in one sector?

UnderLord · Post by **UnderLord** » Thu, 4. Jun 09, 01:57

JMCorp wrote:this script when run will kill all the ships in the universe.

everyones.

even the hidden ships.

*it will leave yours though, which i find handy*

Yes all ships and i'd assume the ships you bought too only the ship your currently in will be saved.

Gripen · Post by **Gripen** » Sat, 13. Mar 10, 22:31

Was trying to download this, but the filesize is 0byte?

Anyone care to reupload this, would be appreciated

mace24de · Post by **mace24de** » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 00:46

Gripen wrote:Was trying to download this, but the filesize is 0byte?

Anyone care to reupload this, would be appreciated

Here you go

http://depositfiles.com/files/zr3exrqz6

Gripen · Post by **Gripen** » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 09:28

Sweet! Thanks!

jimhsu77479 · Post by **jimhsu77479** » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 09:43

apricotslice wrote:Using this in the middle of running the plot would be a very bad idea.

The plot creates its own ships in places, and if you kill these, the plot scripts will still be running, but the ships wont be there. Its unlikely the ships would respawn either, since the scripts already running would assume they are still there.

Personally, I think a mechanism to identify and terminate running scripts that are causing problems would be a lot more useful.

This is sorely needed. Is there any sort of script profiler or performance monitor for the thousands of scripts that are running simultaneously?

Also, the script could be tuned by restricting destruction to 1 sector, 1 race, 1 ship type, etc... Maybe you could use the handy menu system to help. For example, I spent hours with the script editor destroying ships until I narrowed my performance hog down to particular TLs in particular systems deploying jump gates (script).

Gripen · Post by **Gripen** » Sun, 14. Mar 10, 10:14

Modified this alittle to now sterilise the universe of both ships and stations

Currently running scrips: 14

Before: Quazillions

Edit: Hm.. interesting, even after purging the universe my fps is still horrid.

No increase in performance at all.

Very strange since its perfectly fluid when starting a new game.

What could possibly kill my cpu when there are no ships or stations? >.<

Dirk-Jan · Post by **Dirk-Jan** » Wed, 26. May 10, 14:12

Very interresting.
I'm looking for a script that removes all ships in one (and only one) sector (Antigone Memorial, if you want to know).
Can you enhance the script in that way??

Besides: does the script also add (or better substract) from your reputation, or does the script remove rather than kill the ships??

Otterbear · Post by **Otterbear** » Thu, 5. Aug 10, 23:09

Just wondering,

After playing for a few hours and finally getting my ST's to UT's and beginning to make some money...my game is getting very laggy due to all of the extraneous ships the AI is producing.

Q. If I run this script...will all my traders/fleets and such be destroyed? (as seems the case).

Q. Does this script kill docked ships as well? ( I was hoping to dock my ST's / UT's to keep them alive).

Q. If this script does indeed kill ALL ships but the one the player is currently in...What's the point? (Your back to game start...only with a little more money but no traders or fleets or anything.) Your basically restarting the game every few hours.

dragonblue14 · Post by **dragonblue14** » Fri, 6. Aug 10, 01:13

The script kills all npc ships. It does not kill any of the ships owned by you.

Jaga_Telesin · Post by **Jaga_Telesin** » Fri, 6. Aug 10, 01:16

While it might be nice to do cleanup on ships with either no purpose, or which are running CPU-hogging processes, I have to wonder at what it does to the economy in the game, long-term. The jobs file creates ships in a *new* game almost immediately. I have no idea how quickly it re-consults the Jobs.txt file when the game has been running for a while and ships are magically deleted.

Might want to use it with caution - you'll have stations left without Docktraders, and a lot of station's product will get deleted along with the ships.

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