[SCR] CODEA Weapon System [13th May 2010 X³:TC 3.1.14]

[Saetan]

There are several improvments to the AI. In higher ranks they get advantages in steering and speed. They change their frontlasers to best fit the target. They also try to avoid enemy fire. When attacking capital ships they try to stay distant of the target, but to stay within fire range. If hit too much they try to escape back to the carrier. If their ship gets destroyed, they try to eject ...

so yes, there is a "person" behind the wheel.


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CODEA Weapon System
(Carrier Orbit Defense of Enemy Attack)
(Version 3.beta.25 - September 20th 2009)

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-> CODEA Weapon System (Version 3.beta.25)
-> Necessary "Libraries" (required !)

Required: X³ Terran Conflict Version 2.1 (not compatible with X³ Reunion) !!


20.09.2009 (Version 3.beta.25)

• Bug Fix: Docked ships of the Commodore didn't have a branch identification.
• Accompanying carriers added (pay attention to pilot ranks!).
• Fighters don't shoot missiles immediately after launch anymore. So they won't hit their carrier anymore.
• The cargo salvager doesn't salvage cargo after salvaging personnel. They fly back to the carrier first to rescue the personell.
• Missile Frigates fire a mix of different missiles to confuse enemy missile defence.
• If a pilot uses his ejector seat, he makes sure that his board personnel will leave his ship too.
• Ore and microchips can now be shared to the carriers ships in the Equipment menu.
• New in the Codex of Fighter: Cargo Salvager can salvage personnel only.
• New in the Codex of Battle Group: Homeport for accompanying carriers.
• New in the Codex of Tender: If possible, tender dock at the carrier.
• New Hotkey: Menu for all CODEA carriers.
• Several small Improvements.

[KaZTek]

sorry to ask, but I'm somewhat confused in trying to use MEFOS personnel for CODEA. Since there isnt a MEFOS english thread, I'll just ask here.

1. How do you hire MEFOS technicians/engineers?
2. Where do you hire them?
3. how do I use them in relation to CODEA and avoid the turret part of MEFOS to avoid a conflict with MARS.

[Saetan]

1. How do you hire MEFOS technicians/engineers?
2. Where do you hire them?

If you install MEFOS Weapon System there will be Military Personnel Transports ... some of them are marked with blue text, others with red text. They fly through the universe and dock at random (Argon) Equipmentdocks, Military Outposts and even Company HQ's I think.

Blue means, there is personnel delivered to the target station. Red is an empty transport.

You have to dock at the target station of a blue transporter before it docks itself. As soon as it docks while you are docked, you will be asked if you want to hire personnel and a menu where you can choose will pop up automatically.

If you have the ranks of a fighter chief and federation guardian you will also see a flight plan of every military personnel transporter inside the MEFOS console, so you don't have to search them.

If you don't want to hire the personnel by yourself, you can set a Lieutnant into a TP (as pilot, not just in the cargo bay) and send him to an above mentioned station. If a transporter docks at his station, he will hire every personnel of his own race he can get.

3. how do I use them in relation to CODEA and avoid the turret part of MEFOS to avoid a conflict with MARS.

MEFOS and MARS are developed for compliance. If you don't want to use MEFOS because you use MARS just don't set the MEFOS turret commands of your ships and hire no personnel for them.
MEFOS only cares about turrents on which the MEFOS commands are running.

[KaZTek]

thank you

[Grizzlor]

I don't think you even need to buy the MEFOS software for your CODEA ships, all you need is to have the scripts installed.

[apricotslice]

Just a note to anyone thinking of using Codea......

Command Slots
COMMAND_TYPE_CUSTOM_25 (725)
COMMAND_TYPE_CUSTOM_26 (726)
COMMAND_TYPE_CUSTOM_27 (727)
COMMAND_TYPE_CUSTOM_28 (728)

These command slots conflict with Complex Cleaner, Cbeam and Abeam, and as such, anyone using Complex Cleaner Mod, Apricot Mapping Service Mod and Apricot Merge Mod, or the CBeam/Abeam/DBeam pack, will be unable to use Codea without potential command conflict.

[jlehtone]

... and to avoid that, one has to edit the language file of CODEA to make it use different command slots. (german thread)

[Saetan]

Lucike is aware of potential conflicts with command slots ... that's why he made them easily changeable, as you can see in jlehtones posting.

Lucike has been asked to change the slots already some times. He didn't do it yet. I guess it's because everyone can change them by himself, conflicts can happen anytime with any slot and he has already quite a lot of work with his scripts and mods.

Anyway, I'll translate the manual for changing the command slots within the next time. Also I will tell Lucike about the problems which Hangman111 discovered after editig his language file, maybe he knows a solution for that.

Regards
Saetan

[apricotslice]

Of the people I know using my mod or merge mod, most are not capable of doing anything themselves.

It would be better if Lucike could fix this himself.

When the superbox is done, its important that all the major scripts be compatible, or we are going to get a lot of people complaining about commands not working. The superbox will make it a great deal easier to install mods and scripts, so a lot more people will do so than now, I would expect.

Arnt the command slots hardcoded in scripts ? Or has he figured out a way around that ?

If its just a text file change, then I'd suggest you do the change yourself Saetan, and change the download, then get the sticky thread amended.

[KaZTek]

Just a note to anyone thinking of using Codea......

Command Slots
COMMAND_TYPE_CUSTOM_25 (725)
COMMAND_TYPE_CUSTOM_26 (726)
COMMAND_TYPE_CUSTOM_27 (727)
COMMAND_TYPE_CUSTOM_28 (728)

These command slots conflict with Complex Cleaner, Cbeam and Abeam, and as such, anyone using Complex Cleaner Mod, Apricot Mapping Service Mod and Apricot Merge Mod, or the CBeam/Abeam/DBeam pack, will be unable to use Codea without potential command conflict.

Already taken cared of in my T file. Havent tested it yet however. Not much time to get a test-game to carrier/capital play to do so.

[apricotslice]

er....for testing, just script it all in

[KaZTek]

er....for testing, just script it all in

I've had funky behavior with scripted ships. Some of them are being possessed over by the GOD engine. Its happened so much even in a vanilla game (with Cycrow's cheat pack) that I've resorted to honest play for testing purposes.

Yes, I'm crazy. I play to test my game.

Other than the tfile command slot change, I dont know what else could be conflicting. As I've said, havent had time to properly test them.

dont you just hate RL 1.0b getting in the way? >_<

[Saetan]

I did now the translation of the manual for command slot changing. I added it to "Part 3" of this manual, see the first page.

If the description is not clear enough, tell me. The handling of the change itself should also be possible for a beginner.

Because of the encountered problems (by Hangman111) I already sent Lucike a message. If anyone else has problems with the change of command slots, tell me.

@appricotslice
I won't change the command slots for alternate download. I'm doing the translation, while command slots are base functionallity. Don't know if this is a good solution, if there are multiple versions ... bug-hunting and so on.

If you like to do that, as you wrote in a personal message, please talk about it with Lucike himself. It's his script, not mine.

[apricotslice]

I've tried once to contact Lucike and never got a response.

[KaZTek]

EDIT:
Lucike's replied to my message. According to him, Saetan is supposedly to post on a solution.

[Saetan]

Lucike and I are talking about a possible solution.

For my point, I see the problem in the "location based" reservations of slots. Next there will be french, russian or italian users which have conflicts with even new slots maybe. A international based list would be better but then again, slots are limited ...

Maybe we change the slots overall, maybe we change them for the english localization only, maybe we let do that by yourself like in the manual I translated today. We will see.

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Lucike changed the costum command slots. They will be updated in the next version of CODEA. For you which want/need to use them already, you can download them: 8014.zip ... just unpack the files inside the archive into your language directory ( ../t/.. ) of your X³:TC installation.

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Hangman111:

I changed a couple of them by editing the 8014-L044 file as suggested and using the 729 and 730 slots, and that solved the problem of strange missions appearing in the R-display (list of ships and commands). However, I now get messages from unknown that are blank when I ask to see the cute overviews of personnel costs. Neither do I get messages when ships are lost.

Do you use any mod/script which colors shipnames or something similar? Like that one from UniTrader?
Lucike think such a mod/script could cause your problem.

The problem would be caused by wrong color-/format-strings (X³:TC has two differend kinds of) in the messages.

[Hangman111]

Hi!

Thanks for looking into the problems I reported. I only use the following scripts/mods: Gazz compact cleaner, Apricotslice claim ship, Cycrow's plugin installer, Cycrow's improved boarding, Gazz' MARS, and Lucike's excellent CODEA, MODEA and Prospektor scripts, and I also have used Apricotslice's Easy Hub director script.

I still get strange ship commands in the R-list of ship commands (for the moment my two M6's say their command is "Beam up astronaut"), and just a blank message from "Unknown" when I try to see the "personnel costs" in the CODEA menu.

Hangman

[Saetan]

Mhmm ... I don't know, but maybe it is because of a wrong edited, and so still conflicting language file? Try again with the new downloadable language file by Lucike himself. See the posting above.

[jlehtone]

@Saetan: Nice to see updates translated. But how about adding a link to the "CODEA Entwicklungsthema (de)"?

[Hangman111]

I had already overwritten my edited L044 (it didn't solve the problem) with the beta ..25 files: Using the new files in your link above did not change anything.

(I use Steam - and Steam seems to say that the version is 2.0, not 2.1 as the present version of CODEA seems to require. I don't know if this is just Steam's odd naming convension or a real problem, and whether it affects the problems I have described)