[MOD] Player HQ Hack

[chrisb2244]

Was wondering if by using the Station Repackager script here will in effect recreate the HQ and so allow it to be modified? I had no success but could just be that I edited my .xml file wrong, or failed to save it back into the .cat file properly. Will keep trying now but wondered if anyone knew?

Sorry if this is a stupid question and I should just install the cheat package [/url]

[chrisb2244]

Have discovered that it may have been me badly editing/saving the cat03 file where the hq.xml file is stored.
Seems that now, if i extract the file, edit using notepad or something, and then readd to cat03 replacing the original file, it reads at least (currently tested) credit cost for production and storage size/capacity.
Now just to look at the million available files and experiment until I get all the values I want sorted
Incidentally, why is it that changes are made even though the PHQ is already in existence? (I'm docked at it on the save I'm loading without problems)

Sorry now for the double post but thought I'd highlight what seems to be a possible way to edit existing hqs without destruction and scripting left, right and centre

[vayu76]

having trouble installing this when i go to extract it to my scripts folder it says "no files to extract" help please.

[lordmuck]

Can any1 edit this mod and upload some place to:

Build times decreased (nothing too cheatish but reasonable not DAYS to make a ship)

but keeping materials as default ?

[lordsoulstrike]

@ lordmuck

About a year ago I tinkered around with that thought and it can be found here:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=248943&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

11th post in I explain how to modify the PHQ via it's xml file. It's quite easy actually.

[D31m0s]

could you script that also for x3R users (like me =)?

[TFO Bloodlust]

Has anyone gotten this to work with Albion Prelude 2.0? I tried to make my own with little sucess. Any tips would be welcome. BTW: The file has new entries in it with new values and im not sure how it all comes togeather. I did attempt to duplicate the "factor Values" and "Primary values" but did not work right. Please any help would be appreciated.

[khadgarion]

I modified my own hq.xml file and it does work with production times in AP.

I was a little pissed off at how the Aamon Prototype took 10 times the amount of time to produce. The #deca.cefa I have takes 40 minutes to produce, and the Aamon takes 4 hours and 50 minutes!!!

I edited the production time to 25% of the normal time, and the numbers changes accordingly. My only issue is I need to find out where the individual times / resources required are stored, because the amount of resources required to produce the Aamon Prototype is ridiculous... roughly 10 times the amount of other M3's.

Yes, I understand it's a "special" prototype, but damn! That ship would weigh so much it couldn't move with all those materials. I could understand 2x the resources, or even 3x.... But 10? Really?

I'll post again if I can find the location of the individual ship costs.

Khad

[DrBullwinkle]

[khadgarion]

Thanks for the links, I will check them out.

As for checking my math... All I did was a quick mental calculation, and ballparked it. Your calculations would be correct using a floating point number; Calculating minutes and seconds is different, because 1 minute does not equal 100 seconds.

4:50 = 4 x 60 + 50 = 290
0:50 = 50 = 50
290 / 50 = 5.8x (not 7.25x)

Neither one of us were correct, and my ballparking is even worse than I thought

As for ship resources, I will probably only modify the player HQ xml file, as trying to edit the TShips file would not allow me to use another mod that changed the file already.

[DrBullwinkle]

LOL

Man, neither of us can do this right!

It's 4:50 / 40 , which does equal 7.25.

Apparently I typed a 5 instead of a 4.

Oh, well.... yeah, that's the problem with changing ship values. And, as we (probably) demonstrated, you don't need to change the relval for the Aamon anyway -- it is about "right" as it is.

[TheCoolSideofthePillow]

Would using this or editing my own HQ.xml require starting a new game?

I edited all the time factors to be the same as the recycle time, but nothing has changed in my current game. I am not sure if it's not working because I did something wrong, or if it requires a new game be started.

[DrBullwinkle]

It does not require a new game start, but it might require a new PHQ.

Tip: In order to create a PHQ that works, you must create the station inside the cargo hold of a TL, then deploy the PHQ from the TL.

[RoverTX]

While it wouldn't require a new game, it would require a new PHQ. You could script in a new PHQ, move all the products and then script in all the related Blueprints, and then blow up your old one.

Edit: And the Dr Beat me too it, and JINX. You owe me a coke.

[TheCoolSideofthePillow]