[SCRIPT] Phanon Corporation for X3AP+XRM 1.20

[Teleth]

Phanon Corp 1.21 modified for use with X3AP + XRM 1.20
This modification is not supported by Litcube, if you have any questions PM me, or ask in the thread please.
The original Phanon Corporation thread is located here if you wish to know more about it.
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I wasn't happy with how Phanon was performing in XRM, so I spent 3 or 4 days getting them up to scratch, ended up fixing a few things and adding the new ships to their shop lists.

I didn't quite understand what was necessary for compatibility with NPC bailing so I didn't make any progress there. I did however fix the Weapon Dealer issue between Phanon and XRM. Hopefully I didn't miss anything.

Download (XRM 1.20 Version)
http://www.mediafire.com/?89bessfp0orcp1l (Version 1.2)

Old version for XRM 1.19
http://www.mediafire.com/?62zvd3ya5fz7ke6 (Version 1.1)

Installation
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Install PhanonCorp 1.21a
Extract PhanonCorp XRM folders with their contents to /addons/ and overwrite.
Changes will take place by either re-enabling Phanon Corp through AL options, or upon a new generation.

Features
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The financial report for Phanon Corp now displays hour-based trade rank.
In the event the trade rank is bankrupt, Phanon Corp is not successfully trading.
It either lacks transport ships, can't find anywhere to trade, or is conflicting with another mod.

Phanon Corp may now buy and use most XRM vessels.
Exclude the new scripts/al.LitQB.PhanCorp.MakeShip.xml if you do not want Phanon to use new ships.

Phanon spawn locations updated for use with XRM's map, it has the choice of 13 different locations.

Issues corrected
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Corrected starting capital multiplier upon new generations, giving Phanon Corp a much faster starter growth for successive generations.

Balance
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Phanon Corp now receives cheaper transport ships and fighter craft to promote earlier growth.
Phanon Corp initial investment increased from 15 million credits to 40 million credits. This is usually enough to purchase 4 or 5 transport ships and some jumpdrives.
Salary multiplier doubled to offset higher XRM costs.
New generations of Phanon Corps spawn 3 to 4 hours after the last was defeated, rather than 18 hours later.
Phanon favors M6 sentinel configurations that are more effective for the AI.
Adjusted force ratios, for slightly less fighters and slightly more corvettes.
Added M6 and M7 craft to early Phanon forces.
Phanon Corp TL-class ships are fully re-imbursed if killed by Pirates/Xenon/Kha'ak/Yaki, this prevents Phanon being locked down in early game due to piracy etc.

Notes
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Phanon's credit worth will occasionally go negative when it purchases jumpdrives or wares, if Phanon's trade rank is not bankrupt, then it is still expanding normally.

Hopefully these changes will enable a more prosperous Phanon in XRM. Enjoy!

[BlackRain]

I tried reinstalling it but now I don't see any AL menu for phanon corp now. Is it conflicting with MARS for some reason>>

[Teleth]

[paulwheeler]

Moving the Weapons Dealer XL to race 2 will cause it not to be stocked with weapons without a script rewrite.

[Jack08]

[paulwheeler]

@ Teleth - if you need help finding which XRM scripts need altering let me know - my scripts are not fully annotated and there are quite a few to hunt through. I think there are two that will need altering for the Weapons Dealer XL to work as Race 2.

The only issues will be that if you include the changed XRM scripts in this pack you'll have to keep an eye on the said scripts in case I update them in a patch - its not likely but you never know. Also, you'll need to make users aware that they if they recopy all the XRM scripts when I release an update it will overwrite the edited ones from this pack.

To be honest, the only reason I used Race 1 for the Weapon Dealer in the first place was that when I implimented the WDs during the SRM development there was a planned feature in IR v1 (I'm pretty sure it was IR - it was a long, long time ago though and at my age, memory is not what it was) which was going to use Race 2. I decided to keep away from Race 2 in order to keep the SRM compatible with IR. This feature was never implemented in IR so there is no reason I guess why I don't just swap the ownership to Race 2 in the main XRM which would solve all the problems. Unless there are any other scripts which utilise Race 2?

I'll look at including the change in the 1.20 patch.

[Jack08]

[paulwheeler]

[BlackRain]

I got it to work.

[Teleth]

[joelR]

Hey Teleth,

Thanks for putting this together.

One small suggestion though. Add something like [SCRIPT] or something to the beginning of the thread title. Otherwise it just looks like a random thread or something. This will make finding it easier in the future.

[jack775544]

How does this plugin find what ships it should use? Does it just pick a random ship or is there a hard coded list?
Also can you add this to The script and mod libary.

Good Luck You'll need it

[paulwheeler]

[Teleth]

[jack775544]

Wouldn't a nicer way to find ships be to get an array of all purchasable ships in the galaxy and then to just select a random ship out of that array. Much easier to mantain then a hard coded list (ie. every time Paul adds a new ship you don't have to modify the script to support it.)
And if you don't put something in the libary it will be lost about 2-3 weeks after it was created.