Script & Mod Requests

[nik_nv]

I don't understand how (and through what scripts?) the game reacts on that useless offer "surrender". I never saw a big ship surrendered even it was surrounded by another capships, and it has 1% hull. Why not to surrender?

Can somebody make a mod where capships will surrender under certain conditions like the hull is low and the enemy has an overwhelming fleet within 10km and etc. Thanks.

[Warnoise]

Can anyone make a mod that improves the Drostan behaviour?

In CWIR the drostan got better, but its lucklaster. When it attacks surface elements, it doesnt use missiles. But when it attacks the ship (no surface elements) it acts correctly (using missiles from max range and keep distnce).

Can anyone make a mod that fixes drostan behaviour to make it use missiles and always keep distance even when attackign surface elements?

Thanks!

[w.evans]

When it attacks surface elements, it doesnt use missiles. But when it attacks the ship (no surface elements) it acts correctly (using missiles from max range and keep distance).

not very familiar with the fighter combat script, but just gave it a quick read and, against big targets, small ships with missiles or torpedoes (such as the Drostan) already should fire at first opportunity then stop firing and veer off after firing a volley.

Target selection is a bit fuzzy. If it begins the script targeting a surface element (rarely, if ever, if i remember correctly), it keeps shooting at the surface element. Otherwise, there's a skill check to fire at some surface element that's within view, the surface element's parent (usually the big ship if it's fighting a ship, i would guess a station module if fighting a station), or the big target (the big ship or station). Looks like, ironically, it could fail to fire if the skill check passes and the surface element is not in view. So bad pilots in Drostans might fire torps more often, but are more likely to hit something other than what they're aiming at.

[Jimby]

Would love to see a simple mod that brings up the Shields of the Fulkremon to the equal value of the Awran. Also, having the sector music play while on board your capital ship would be nice as well.

Cheers.

[eikichi14]

Oh estimed modder, I have a dream, a dream that one day I could build immense stations complex in one zone

Well by that, it's mod that add the possibility to create highway and/or jump beacon would be great.
I like to have all station from a complex in one sector and as near as possible because they all depend of the other but zone offer 2 build spots in general in know zone and empty zone can be pretty far away.
Highway aren't lost technologie unlike the gate if I remenber correctly from previous X game.

An other approche would be to double the build spot of each zone so that we can pack more station in one zone and build bigger complex.

[nik_nv]

Is there any mod or way to dynamically change the ware production effects?
Manager/engineer and etc effects can't be stable ok, they are people and should sleep, sometimes they go get drunk in the bar or even take too much space weed, so sometimes the production effects from them should be even negative..

[Varyah]

I'd like to get rid of the clutter on the radar/event monitor. I prefer the radar, most notifications, like picked up loot, trade profits, out of ammo notification, reputation gained and similar not really important information makes the radar practically unusable because most of the time something else is displayed.

I tried to patch most of the <show_notification ...> actions out of md/Notifications.xml but so far only the out of ammo notification has been removed. My code:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<diff>
<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='OutOfAmmo']/actions/show_notification"/>

<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='DropCollected']/actions/do_if/show_notification"/>
<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='DropCollected']/actions/do_elseif/show_notification"/>
<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='DropCollected']/actions/do_else/do_if[@value='$important?']/show_notification"/>
<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='DropCollected']/actions/do_else/do_else/show_notification"/>

<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='RemoteTransportWareNotifications']/actions/do_else/show_notification"/>

<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='DroneReturnedToPlayer']/actions/show_notification"/>

<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='PlayerOpensCrate']/actions/do_if/show_notification"/>

<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='BaseRelationChanged']/actions/do_if/show_notification"/>
<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='BaseRelationChanged']/actions/do_else/show_notification"/>

<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='PlayerMoneyTransfer']/actions/do_if/show_notification"/>
<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='PlayerMoneyTransfer']/actions/do_else/show_notification"/>

<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='AutopilotTargetSet']/actions/show_notification"/>
</diff>

I'm rather new to the modding, but could it be that the event monitor notifications are handled in some lua script? Or did I just mess up? Any pointers, ideas to help achieve the desired result?

Edit: Code fixed.

[UniTrader]

i think your sel paths refer to more than one node, which results in them not being applied because its abigious what you want to change. a debuglog from game startup would be helpful.

[pref]

Check in log for any errors - if you havent done so add the launch option
-logfile rebirth.log
It shold create a log file right next to the save games' folder which will show any errors that might have occured while executing your patch.

You can also add
-debug all
it sets verbosity level highest iirc.

Also there is a typo @
<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='DropCollected']/actions/do_else/do_else/do_if[@value='$important?']show_notification"/>
a '/' is missing before show_notification.

You can also shorten the sel paths by starting with // like
"//cue[@name='DropCollected']/actions/ ..."

xquery can be a good tool too to change all nodes in a similar way across xml files. You could generate removes for each occurrance of show_notification and you'd have to just remove the ones you want to keep.

You have much more files to modify for this imo, both MD and AIScripts.
Unpack the md and aiscript folders from rebirth cat files, and do a text search on them - you will find lots of files which use this command.

[Varyah]

Also there is a typo @
<remove sel="/mdscript[@name='Notifications']/cues/cue[@name='DropCollected']/actions/do_else/do_else/do_if[@value='$important?']show_notification"/>
a '/' is missing before show_notification.

Thanks for the tips. There was also one /do_else too much in that line.

Otherwise it now seems to work almost as intended and the log shows only the usual "Ignoring root node 'diff' [...]". After removing the three show_notification nodes from aiscript/trade.performplayertraderun.xml everything except certain money transfers (reward for killing enemies near NPC station, and other most likely trade related I couldn't identify and chase down in the xml files).

[SirDeathwalker]

if at first you don't succeed, /do else instead?

[CptAWatts]

I was thinking about the economy and was wondering if there could be mod that acted like an economic adviser. It could scan the economy to find where there is a gap in production and suggest system-sectors where you could build a station that would fill the gap in production for a certain ware. Maybe you would have to pay a certain amount based on how much research you wanted, System level or Universe level.

Not sure if there already is a mod out there for this. Thanks.

[Warnoise]

Hi all, is there a mod, or a possibility to modify the game to nullify exploding ships damage?

Since the AI is too stupid to escape from exploding ships, it is too frustrating watching your ships dying to one dead Xenon K explosion.

[iforgotmysocks]

Hi all, is there a mod, or a possibility to modify the game to nullify exploding ships damage?

Since the AI is too stupid to escape from exploding ships, it is too frustrating watching your ships dying to one dead Xenon K explosion.

Done quickly, but needs to change a value in every ship macro, which means newly added ships via other mods need to be changed by urself. It's simple though, so shouldn't be an issue.

noexplosiondmg

[Warnoise]

Hi all, is there a mod, or a possibility to modify the game to nullify exploding ships damage?

Since the AI is too stupid to escape from exploding ships, it is too frustrating watching your ships dying to one dead Xenon K explosion.

Done quickly, but needs to change a value in every ship macro, which means newly added ships via other mods need to be changed by urself. It's simple though, so shouldn't be an issue.

noexplosiondmg

Wow thanks man i really appreciate it!

[alexalsp]

Hello. Who knows commands for defense officer?

Attack all enemies?

[vadiolive]

1 - Mass X/XL ships request
2 - increase Shield/HP from S/M ships in 20x and add enginner on it

[X3TC-Spieler]

Hi, does anybody know how i can change the animation of turrets, or where i can find it? When i import the body to 3DS Max, i can see no animation. I only see something in the xml file of the turret, which says in what part of the animation the turret is active, or inactive.

[UniTrader]

Animations are not implemented (yet) in the importer/eporter from arc_, so currently no chance except you want to look into this in detail and want to expand said program or write your own..

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Hello. Who knows commands for defense officer?

Attack all enemies?

Hi there,

The 2 Defense Officer settings are on the wiki combat page.

The related combat orders for issuing ot Pilots and Captains are on the wiki key bindings page under "COMM: OWNED SHIP COMMANDS", "BROADCAST TO MULTIPLE SHIPS" and "NEW ORDER MENU".