[SCR] The Galactic News System (BBS 2.0) (V.105)

Commander Kat · Post by **Commander Kat** » Mon, 10. Jan 11, 15:52

HI all...

This is from the MBR mod page : Integration with XTC team's Galactic News System (optional, enabled by default).

Open the Galactic News System to see the latest news on all conflicts across the galaxy. The timeout period for articles can be set in the config menu (default is 15 mins - set to 0 or less to disable). All news is timestamped, so you know how fresh the info is.

this is awesome for seeing where the action is at, and hard to live without, however since i uninstalled MBR to use RRF the conflicts news seems to of stalled and nothing new is showing up... the old reports are there and the normal news articles show up and renew just fine,what i wanted to know is that is the conflicts news only active when using MBR ??? or can/should/is there a way to get it to work without having MBR installed ?????

thanks for your time.

Kat

Trickmov · Post by **Trickmov** » Mon, 10. Jan 11, 16:28

Well, I can't say anything about MBR - but I would assume, that MBR includes those articles and that they are no standalones... meaning, no MBR no dynamic articles... but better ask in the MBR-thread for that.

Commander Kat · Post by **Commander Kat** » Mon, 10. Jan 11, 16:41

ummm yeah... i suppect they are connected to the bases as they are the ones that report the intel on battles across the verse, i wonder if there is a way to port the files/scripts that make it work or to get mbr and rff to work together but turn off all mbr options but the intel reports.

ok i'l do some more digging.

thanks.

xuerebx · Post by **xuerebx** » Mon, 20. Jun 11, 15:57

Hey,

Should the script folder's contents override the contents of the script folder in the installation directory? If there is anything to be overridden..

I ask this because I put the contents of the script folder of the mod in the script folder in the TC directory, and the "t" folder in the TC directory.

However, I can't find any hotkey options in the controls menu in-game. I can't find any "newspaper" option to assign a hotkey to.

Thanks.

EDIT: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=292291

Well, I basically did as that thread directed I guess.

Trickmov · Post by **Trickmov** » Mon, 20. Jun 11, 23:12

Probably just an installation error - if there is setup.plugin.news in the scripts-folder, there should also be the hotkey in the game available.

xuerebx · Post by **xuerebx** » Mon, 20. Jun 11, 23:21

It is there in my folder. What's the hotkey's name in the controls, and in which section is it? (game, interface etc)

So I can pinpoint it. Thanks.

Trickmov · Post by **Trickmov** » Mon, 20. Jun 11, 23:25

"Connect to Galactic News Service" in Interface

xuerebx · Post by **xuerebx** » Mon, 20. Jun 11, 23:25

Ah I found it! Thank you.

Trickmov · Post by **Trickmov** » Fri, 23. Sep 11, 14:15

Update to version 1.05:

GNS v1.05

Change log:

v1.04:
- removed the beep when opening the menu - useful, when the GNS should be opened by another task instead of the hotkey

v1.05:
- fixed a critical bug, which could occur, when the player didn't open the GNS for a long time. More and more dynamic articles got added to a list, leading to a freeze and severe lagging, when the player didn't open it early enough. This never occured in the Vanilla-version, though - there are no such dynamic articles included.

joelR · Post by **joelR** » Fri, 23. Sep 11, 14:37

Trickmov wrote:Update to version 1.05:

GNS v1.05

Change log:

v1.04:
- removed the beep when opening the menu - useful, when the GNS should be opened by another task instead of the hotkey

v1.05:
- fixed a critical bug, which could occur, when the player didn't open the GNS for a long time. More and more dynamic articles got added to a list, leading to a freeze and severe lagging, when the player didn't open it early enough. This never occured in the Vanilla-version, though - there are no such dynamic articles included.

Thanks!

X-Reider · Post by **X-Reider** » Fri, 23. Sep 11, 15:04

Trickmov wrote:Update to version 1.05

For the vanilla or XTC?

X2-Eliah wrote:This update is for vanilla version / modder resource

Trickmov wrote:Yeah, XTC had this version already for a longer time (since XTC 1.2 iirc) - we just forgot to update the Vanilla version

Thank you very much!:D

X2-Eliah · Post by **X2-Eliah** » Fri, 23. Sep 11, 15:19

This update is for vanilla version / modder resource

Trickmov · Post by **Trickmov** » Fri, 23. Sep 11, 15:27

Yeah, XTC had this version already for a longer time (since XTC 1.2 iirc) - we just forgot to update the Vanilla version

Cascinova · Post by **Cascinova** » Sat, 22. Oct 11, 05:22

Lately in my game i get a message that Galatic news service currently unavailable, sorry for the inconvience.

Is something wrong?

Derax · Post by **Derax** » Tue, 29. Nov 11, 17:07

It's normal for an "Unknownsector" I guess

Rakeris · Post by **Rakeris** » Sat, 31. Dec 11, 22:09

When I first saw this I got all excited! But then I tried it and found out it doesn't include missions. What a bummer. =(
Such a pain to find missions in TC.

Silverblade The Enchanter

Will this work in AP?

dblade · Post by **dblade** » Mon, 30. Jan 12, 22:49

Unless I misunderstood, I need to find other mods that leverage this resource? If so are there any recommended ones?

TDKPS · Post by **TDKPS** » Mon, 30. Jan 12, 23:07

If I recall correctly, Pirate Guild, Yaki Armada, X-Tended Terran Conflict and XRM (the last two are complete overhauls) are some great mods that make use of this or at least something like it.

EDIT: Fixed something

-TDKPS

nankura · Post by **nankura** » Sat, 14. Apr 12, 12:39

is there a version for AP?