[AL PLUGIN] Yaki Armada: Nomadic Pirate Tribe | v1.08 | 11 Oct 06

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[AL Plugin] Yaki Armada: Nomadic Pirate Tribe 1.08
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French Topic - German Topic

[list]This AL Plugin will make the Yaki active in the game. It will spawn up to 5 Yaki owned Mobile Pirate Bases (TL) equiped with a jumpdrive and filled with Yaki M3, M4 and M5. Those TL have no weapons and are lightly shielded but they are very fast and can carry up to 15 Yaki fighters. Each TL will run a script that allows it to do various things as sending a squadron to attack a factory, a TS, a TL, or a defense ship. It can also flee (using its jumpdrive) or defend itself when attacked. The Yaki TL will also repair, rearm and refuel at any pirate base when needed, and a destroyed TL will respawn after a while.The plugin also allow you to communicate with Yaki ships and Mobile Base using the ECS library. Helping Yaki ships will give you money and a good reputation with those pirates. The player is also able to join the Yaki Armada by contacting Yaki Mobiles Bases via ECS.


Current Features:

• A communication system to chat with Yaki ships and mobile bases
  
• A guild system with multiple ranks, missions and rewards
  
• Challenging enemies.
  
• Jumpdrive enabled Yaki pirate ships
  
• Intelligent Yaki behaviours
  
• The Yaki mobile bases can repair hull damages at any pirate base
  
• The Yaki mobile bases can go under cover to fool the police and the military ships
  
• Random name for each mobile base.
  
• The Yaki will become more agressive against players that attack them than those who don't.
  
• The player is paid when one of his ships destroy a Yaki Mobile Base (250k credits)
  
• The player can also be paid by entering the guild and helping the Yakis.

Compatibility:

This plugin should run on any version of X³ Reunion, but as usual it's better to have the latest version. This plugin can be activated and desactivated easily in the Artificial Life Menu located in General tab of the option panel ([Esc]). It should be compatible with all other mods and plugins and no restart is needed.

Feature Requests and Bug report:

Project No Longer supported. Moved to X3TC

Downloads: (third party distribution not allowed)

• Download RAR archive

IMPORTANT:

This plugin includes a library called ECS: Extended Communication System to handle communications between the player and the ships and mobile bases from the Yaki. You must assign a key to the "ECS: comm. a ship/station" command in your shortcut setting menu to be able to talk with them.

Once the key is assigned, just press it when you've selected a Yaki ship that is less than 8km away. Check the HTML documentation for additional details.

Enjoy !

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Commands used : none

Textfile used : 8512, 8515 (ECS Library)

Supported languages : English, French, German (thanks to Mike.Galaxy), Russian (thanks to ru4pt).

Changelog

[Shada]

Great - seems to work nicely. Noticing Yaki bases and ships faffing around the universe.

In the next version (if you plan to make one) would it be possible to have a full Yaki presence added to Ocracoke's Storm? There's not a single ship or station in there in a non-plot game - which is a bit odd - so maybe a Yaki station, a few Yaki patrols, that kind of thing could be added?

[Serial Kicked]

Thanks

Yes, new versions will come out soon (tm)

[Mokonzi]

Does any of this script change any of the ships stats? I'm running Moxy's M7 mod and don't want anything to interfere.

Looks very good. I'm keen to play it if it integrates ok.

[Serial Kicked]

This is a plugin/script so it can't change anything on ship stats. And it's perfectly compatible with any other mod or plugin.

[Mokonzi]

Excellent, I might give it a try.

[Blinki1984]

I really like where this is going. Keep up the great work

[MetalDestroyer]

Could we see those yaki after installing them, in the main campaign ? If yes, where exactly ? and when ?

If no, how could we activate those BBS mission ? on specific station ?
And another question before I go to bed , What does they look like ? Some screens will be great.

[Serial Kicked]

Standard yaki ships are visible during some missions of the campain, and in a hidden sector south of paranid core sectors. My Yaki ships and TL are jumping across random sectors in order to raid targets and can be seen all the time.

Giving you a location where you are sure to find a mobile base is impossible. You can camp near pirate bases waiting for a mobile base to resupply.

Missions are not yet available. They will be activated through the BBS system on pirate bases and when you communicate with Yaki ships.

I'll add some screenshots soon

[MetalDestroyer]

Great I suppose their a way we could get a Yaki fighter freely ? (Yaki pirate offer us some shipment after giving a proof we can handle their mission or something like that)


PS : I've just seen you have made the same mods for french community. Damn it, If i saw it first ^^

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Yes, you'll be able to join the Yakis, and be able to buy/get Yaki ships without fighting against them in the next versions

[Electric_Kola]

Of course it does help if you remember to turn the damm plugin on when you install it...doh

[Kurios Kronou]

[Serial Kicked]

lol RMK

@Kurios Kronou : Really strange, such thing shouldn't happen. I'll give it a look and see with Cycrow if we can do something to fix this issue.

Cheers and thanks for the bug report.