[SCRIPT] Improved Races: Chaos Edition v1.09 (25th June)

[Jack08]

This is really starting to bug me because it SHOULDN'T be happening...

Mizuchi, Your running ir in a way that ir isnt running at all - hence your not getting the issues.. the problem is within plugn.ir.ship.choose

in order to check if the ship is combat worthy, the ship must be spawned - it is spawned in null, 0,0,0 belonging to enemy race, then deleted not long after

this deletion, the ship is set to rebuild off, but is causing the god engine to go nuts

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    if not size of array $x
      * remove element from array $type at index $temp
      * continue
      $Dirty = [TRUE] 
      $existing.ship = create ship: type=$eval owner={Enemy Race} addto=null x=0 y=0 z=0
      $existing.ship->disable ship rebuild
      $existing.ship->set StartAction enabled to [FALSE]
      $existing.ship->set race logic control enabled to [FALSE]
    end
...
...
...
    if $Dirty 
      $existing.ship->destruct: show no explosion=[TRUE]
    end

I ran my game in seta 10 for 30 mins, and didnt see any of it happening

[LV]

something to consider jack

when i've had this type of issue disable ship rebuild didn't seen to be 100% useful, i therefore bound into a sig.killed link script for all spawned ships code that turned them to unknown race, removed homebase and race controlled logic FALSE and dis ship rebuild before they got destroyed

seemed to help

[Jack08]

something to consider jack

when i've had this type of issue disable ship rebuild didn't seen to be 100% useful, i therefore bound into a sig.killed link script for all spawned ships code that turned them to unknown race, removed homebase and race controlled logic FALSE and dis ship rebuild before they got destroyed

seemed to help

Interesting, thanks for the advice ill try it out now

[Jack08]

• Version 1.06
• Implemented LV's Suggestion (Refrence)

Im going to run the game in seta 10 for an hour, will report back with results

EDIT:
Osiris.. Were you using Enhanced Rewards?

[Jack08]

• Version 1.07
• Fixed a glitch that would cause the Enhanced Rewards system to nullify the homebase of ANY ship that died, therefor confusing the jobs & god engines into respawning that ship with no jobs information (basically, an exponentially growing number of ships directly proportional to the number that died)

X3's Engine is EVIL!

[joelR]

• Version 1.07
• Fixed a glitch that would cause the Enhanced Rewards system to nullify the homebase of ANY ship that died, therefor confusing the jobs & god engines into respawning that ship with no jobs information (basically, an exponentially growing number of ships directly proportional to the number that died)

X3's Engine is EVIL!

Well Jack08, this certainly has lived up to its name "chaos edition"!

[Chestburster2]

Will this also wipe out these additional ships? Or do we have to kill them one by one by one..?^^

[Jack08]

Will this also wipe out these additional ships? Or do we have to kill them one by one by one..?^^

You can use Cycrows cheat package to wipe out all the ships in a target sector: use option "Destroy Sector Menu"

unfortunately because the additional ships have no local variables, its not easy to tell them apart from other ships in the game

[HotSake]

They're all homebased to a Corp HQ, right? Could whip up a script to destroy all ships homebased to an HQ.

[Jack08]

They're all homebased to a Corp HQ, right? Could whip up a script to destroy all ships homebased to an HQ.

Your right... Also check for the local variable of faction - that way you only destroy the ghost ships

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[THIS]->set local variable: name='faction' value='1'
(from !config.faction.terracorp)

'faction' is always non-null on corporation ships

[HotSake]

They're all homebased to a Corp HQ, right? Could whip up a script to destroy all ships homebased to an HQ.

Your right... Also check for the local variable of faction - that way you only destroy the ghost ships

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[THIS]->set local variable: name='faction' value='1'
(from !config.faction.terracorp)

'faction' is always non-null on corporation ships

So this script should kill all Corp ships:

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$racesArray = array alloc: size=12
$racesArray[0] = {Argon}
$racesArray[1] = {Boron}
$racesArray[2] = {Split}
$racesArray[3] = {Paranid}
$racesArray[4] = {Teladi}
$racesArray[5] = {Xenon}
$racesArray[6] = {Kha'ak 7}
$racesArray[7] = {Pirates}
$racesArray[8] = {Goner}
$racesArray[9] = {ATF 17}
$racesArray[10] = {Terran}
$racesArray[11] = {Yaki}
 
$j = size of array $racesArray
while $j 
  dec $j =
  $race = $racesArray[$j]
  $shipsArray = get ship array: of race $race class/type={Ship 2004}
  $i = size of array $shipsArray
  while $i 
    dec $i =
    $ship = $shipsArray[$i]
    if not $ship->is invincible
      if $ship->get local variable: name='faction'
        $ship->destruct: show no explosion=[TRUE]
      end
    end
  end
end
return null

edit: download removed, I misunderstood what Jack was saying.

[Mizuchi]

As an aside, this made me happy:

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This is exactly what I hoped would happen when we added the Pirate TL to SRM (and pretty much the reason why I asked Paul if I could).

[Osiris454]

• Version 1.06
• Implemented LV's Suggestion (Refrence)

Im going to run the game in seta 10 for an hour, will report back with results

EDIT:
Osiris.. Were you using Enhanced Rewards?

Yeah, I was.

[Jack08]

@HotSake

Yes, that will kill all corp ships, but not that is the exact opposite of what you want

You want to kill ships that have NO faction variable that have a home base of a corporation HQ

the ghost ships do not have a faction variable, but have a homebase of a corporation hq

[HotSake]

Oh, ok. I totally misread you.

[Osiris454]

I am pleased to report that the massive ship spam has stopped.
All the spawned ships were destroyed and no more were built to take their place.

[HotSake]

This is so frustrating! I altered the script to grab ships homebased to the corp HQs, who did not have the Faction variable set, but the damn script won't save. It says it's saving in-game, but when I open it externally it's exactly the same.

[Osiris454]

Every time I enter a pirate sector that is being invaded by another race, 3 Pirate Peregrine's enter from each gate, fire their missiles at anything and everything and disappear. Not 'jump out', disappear. They are usually 'IS' for about 10 seconds. It's incredibly annoying. Especially when I'm trying to salvage some ships. I lost a Hyperion to these guys.

EDIT: On a lighter note, I saw something that made me chuckle a little bit. In the engine's infinite wisdom, it somehow picked an "Small Orbital Weapons Platform" to be a part of an assault team, and I have the pic to prove it.

[LV]

"Small Orbital Weapons Platform" to be a part of an assault team, and I have the pic to prove it.

that would be the code needing a check for get current max speed for a spawned m1, if it's 0 it's an owp

[Jack08]

"Small Orbital Weapons Platform" to be a part of an assault team, and I have the pic to prove it.

that would be the code needing a check for get current max speed for a spawned m1, if it's 0 it's an owp

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  else if not $eval->get max speed
    remove element from array $type at index $temp

Odd because, its already there...

and its been working fine for ages, Osiris your OwP cant move by any chance can it?