[Mod] No Trash BBS 2.02

Klyith · Post by **Klyith** » Wed, 20. Dec 06, 00:20

Download here
An update of the No Trash BBS mod for version 2.02. Original mod by Ryuujin.

This mod removes all the static "news" items from the BBS engine. You will only see missions, lotteries, other interactive offers, and real news about economic events or station creation & destruction. The mod can be used on a saved game -- just go to a new sector and the stations will generate their BBS. It is also good as a "false patch" as well for use with other mods.

(I'm back in X3 after a long absence, and plan to get back into the scripting thing. If anyone out there still uses my SAS or RSwE scripts, expect updates soon! I have some ideas for new stuff as well. Version 2 is rockin my world, really put new life in the game!)

Vanel · Post by **Vanel** » Wed, 20. Dec 06, 00:56

Will the bbs still show locations of engine tunings with this as they are not interactive IIRC? Thanks

Post by **Cycrow** » Wed, 20. Dec 06, 01:09

most likly it just removes the static new, the engine tunings are static news, as the destination can change.

all of those kinds of things, as well as the god econemy bbs news are seperate

Klyith · Post by **Klyith** » Wed, 20. Dec 06, 04:14

This mod only removes generic news stories already in x3. New BBS stuff added by scripts or mods will be unaffected. In fact, they will probably show up a lot more often if they don't have independent probability checks.

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I just looked at overtune specifically, and it uses custom text pages for BBS entries, in other words have nothing to do with the generic news texts. All of cycrow's scripts seem to be the same, and since he made the original prototype for the BBS system I bet most other scripts do the same.

fud · Post by **fud** » Wed, 20. Dec 06, 04:38

The news articles are just that, news. They have no affect on any other messages/missions, as those are all their own entries.

There's 9 lines that remove the news: 2032-2040.

Klyith · Post by **Klyith** » Wed, 20. Dec 06, 04:52

fud wrote:The news articles are just that, news. They have no affect on any other messages/missions, as those are all their own entries.

I think the best way to describe them is "flavor text".

There's 9 lines that remove the news: 2032-2040.

Yup, I didn't do anything original here. But I looked around and didn't see a prepackaged mod already done for non-modders. I was the one who made the 1.4 version when the original author disappeared and had been hosting it, so I figured I would do the update if anyone still wanted it.

fud · Post by **fud** » Wed, 20. Dec 06, 13:57

Glad you did. I couldn't be arsed.

I was just trying to intrigue more people to learn to mod things themselves, but I understand not everybody is willing to do so.

Kaze · Post by **Kaze** » Wed, 20. Dec 06, 14:03

Thanks for posting this =) Quite a useful mod methinks, one of my favs.
I woulda ppsted it myself but I didnt know how to extract the edited file into a dat/cat of its own.

DjHol · Post by **DjHol** » Sun, 13. May 07, 18:37

feedbacks? any bugs? etc?

EDIT:
im quiet new to installing mods... so... how do you install this?
what is "false patch"?

where's the 440001.xml file? all i see are 2 files with the sama name "No_Trash_BBS_20" (one's a security catalog, the other is a dat file), plus the readme.

EDIT 2:
is this how it is?

Lancefighter wrote:a - find x3 directory.
b - find mod you want to make into a false patch
c - find the biggest numbered combination of cat/dat files in the x3 directory (main directory)
d - rename both the cat/dat files into one number higher than the highest that is currently there.
e - move the mod (now a pair of 10's, or 11's, or some number) into the main x3 directory.
f - load game
g - ???
h - PROFITS!

arcana75 · Post by **arcana75** » Thu, 17. May 07, 14:34

http://arcana75.googlepages.com/NoTrashBBS_v2.02.spk

SPK link.

DedTheros · Post by **DedTheros** » Fri, 8. Jun 07, 12:04

Downloaded it, but for some reason it's unable to install.

Flybye · Post by **Flybye** » Fri, 8. Jun 07, 15:43

Aww.....some of the trash BBS is actually funny

alpinelegend · Post by **alpinelegend** » Sat, 22. Sep 07, 10:18

What is this SPK thing.

I have downloaded it but dont know what to do...?

LV · Post by LV » Sat, 22. Sep 07, 11:06

spk is the file format for cycrow plugin manager
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=121351

alpinelegend · Post by **alpinelegend** » Mon, 24. Sep 07, 09:46

Thanks!

Lex0871 · Post by **Lex0871** » Sat, 17. Nov 07, 11:27

will it work with xtm.7a ?

Lancefighter · Post by **Lancefighter** » Sat, 17. Nov 07, 17:17

Lex0871 wrote:will it work with xtm.7a ?

I dont know of the top of my head, however, if you use doubleshadow's mod manager, and check what files are used in xtm and the no trash bbs mod, you can see...

Worst case, you will have to use the text editor to manually compare the two files - finding what is new in xtm, and what is gone in no-trash-bbs, and manually remove what no-trash-bbs removed.

xavierd · Post by **xavierd** » Sun, 30. Dec 07, 01:54

Lex0871 wrote:will it work with xtm.7a ?

yup. added this to my essential mods list

x3 2.5+bonus, xtm 0.7.3, ashley's 2.5, unitrader hud, no-trash-bbs, cycrow's full package

Madeiner · Post by **Madeiner** » Wed, 23. Jan 08, 01:10

Link is dead

Any chance anyone can upload it somewhere?

Tenlar Scarflame · Post by **Tenlar Scarflame** » Thu, 7. Feb 08, 17:41

I second that notion, can anyone pin this up somewhere for download?