The Galactic News System (BBS 2.0) (Public Beta 2)

[Aragon Speed]

The Galactic News System

Welcome to the Galactic News System. As many people miss the former BBS-System in X3: Terran Conflict, we have developed a new system, which allows news to be available to the player in a similar fashion to X3: Reunion.

Installation:
Excluding the PDF which is not needed, copy all files/folders in the archive into your Terran Conflict root folder. Start a new game or load a saved game.

For players:
To open a newspaper you will need to define a hot-key in the interface section of Terran Conflict’s control set-up options menu. After this has been done, you will just need to press that key for a newspaper to open. The system will open a newspaper that will be based on the owner of the sector you are in (If a newspaper is available). The picking of articles will be random within the selection of articles that are available to that race.

For scripters:
Because for mods it may be better to open the newspaper in another way (for example MD-scripters who want to add a newspaper-seller to a station, from where you could purchase it) You would only need to adjust the set-up script for this so that the hot-key part is deactivated. The activation of the show-script can be done from any place you would like. This has been deliberately done to make this system as flexible as possible.


Public BETA info:

This is a public beta test of our new news system. All articles from X3:Reunion have been ported over to Terran Conflict and placed as a static type of news in the same way it was static in X3R.

However there is also a set of additional scripts that allow modders to quickly and easily add dynamic news into the system as well.

Although we have classed this as a beta, it has already received extensive testing by our own beta testers and should be bug free, in fact this is at the RC stage as far as script maturity goes, but we would like the dynamic news side of things tested a bit more by modders out in the real world.

Please, try to use\break the dynamic news side of things for us, and please give feedback.

Anyone is welcome to try this beta, but we are really interested in feedback for the dynamic news scripts.

A more complete instruction set for scripters is in the included PDF.

Download: Galactic News Service Public Beta

This is a modders resource, so feel free to use it in your own mods, but we recommend you wait to include it in a mod until the GNS hits full release status, as there may be changes to the scripts depending on feedback.



Currently known problems:
Not all non-English txt files are fully translated. (There are a few buttons etc that are still in English, the main news is fully translated though. English and German should have complete translations.)

Change log:

Beta 1
-Initial public release.

Beta 2
- race-tagging for dynamic news didn´t work properly - fixed
- using a button in an article closed the newspaper - fixed
- news title now shown above the article, when opening it

[Logain Abler]

Great work

LA

[Aragon Speed]

Thx.

[X2-Eliah]

Though this does not have anything new, it already contains all the BBS messages from X3-R, so it, as it is, can be used as a complete BBS script already.

So, to those who miss the BBS fluff, this is what you want.

Missions aren't included.

[Trickmov]

Missions aren't included.

There are no missions included, but the script is able to handle missions. So if a script or mod wants to include own missions, this is possible.

[AjaxDude]

Sounds cool. I hope you add a lot more articles for this, it got very repetitive in X3:R

[enenra]

For maintenance purposes, the English X-Tended - Terran Conflict (XTC) topic as well as the Galaxy News Service (GNS) topic are being moved to two new threads which will serve as the official threads from now on. This topic will be closed. Note that it sadly isn't possible to move the posts over to the new topic, that is why they will stay in this topic.

The new topic for the X-Tended - Terran Conflict Mod can be found here:
X-Tended - Terran Conflict (XTC)

The new topic for the Galaxy News Service can be found here:
The Galactic News System (BBS 2.0)

[jlehtone]

*** Closed as requested by XTC team ***