[AL Plugin] Achievement Guild - Release: Beta (16 Jan 2010)

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 16. Jan 10, 19:42

Achievement Guild - Beta Version

This is an Artificial Life Plugin for X3 Terran Conflict, which adds a system into the game providing rewards.
These rewards are given once reaching certain milestones and running the special command. Turn this AL Plugin on in the Al Plugin menu.
Then, set up a hotkey in the Controls menu, one which will allow you to access the menu, one for a direct reward check.
This will ask for you to select a sector, then spawn any rewards, and send you a message.

Some of the rewards added by this plugin are not available in a 'vannila' game, and can only be accessed through use of scripting or plugins like this.
Most are not in the game for a reason, and therefore not all of them will function correctly. I have added them so that it is possible to get unique ships.
An example of this is the Valhalla.

Click here to download:
http://x3terranconflict.filefront.com/file/;109153

Notes:

This plugin uses 9450 as a T file and page id.
This scirpt may make things 'too easy' due to rewards, and will be balanced in the future.
For installation details please see the readme in the download file.

If you have any queries, requests or suggestions, please post them here. Except suggestions for achievements, PM me those! So nobody else can know!

Report any bugs here.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 16. Jan 10, 19:43

Changelog

Beta release (16 Jan 2010)
40 achievements

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 16. Jan 10, 19:43

Permissions, thanks and miscellanious

Permissions

Please feel free to use any of this in any way. Not sure why you'd want to. But pass on some credit to me.

Also, pass on credit to LV, he made the template. And Cycrow, who told me how to do most of it!

Thanks

Credit is also due to:
Master of the Blade
Lord Dakier
Rednoahl
Mark A Condren

And anyone else who helped or provided suggestions, wheter they were added or not.

If you want to see your name here, please PM me with achievement suggestions.

Miscellanious

There is a riddle to be found in the menu of the plugin. If you solve it it will lead you to a list of all the achievements, how to unlock them and what the rewards are! So if you don't want a spoiler... don't try!

TSM · Post by **TSM** » Sat, 16. Jan 10, 23:01

New Download

Achievement_Guild

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[url=http://x3terranconflict.filefront.com/file/;109153]Achievement_Guild[/url]

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 16. Jan 10, 23:05

Thanks!

Download it people!

Master of the Blade · Post by **Master of the Blade** » Sat, 16. Jan 10, 23:34

Hmm. Is it safe to rename the .xml file? It's clashing with (I'm guessing) one of Amurph0's shipyard scripts. Or possibly an X2 ship mod I'm running. (not really a complaint, but if I can't rename the 't' file, then I can't test the plugin.)

I should have checked first. But to fix it, I'm pretty sure I can just change the name of the .xml, hence the question.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sat, 16. Jan 10, 23:40

There should be no conflicts.

No, you can't just change it! It has to read from that name!

Master of the Blade · Post by **Master of the Blade** » Sat, 16. Jan 10, 23:49

Thought as much. I'll give it another go. It may be my fault. (highly, incredibly likely)

EDIT: Yup, 'twas me being stupid- I accidentally unpacked the .zip into my backup save file. The game didn't like it very much.

Now working, on first impressions it seems to be OK. I got a torrent of rewards once I ran the check though. Maybe a few too many, but who am I to judge- I did install it into a 10 day long game... Some of the rewards I have no idea how I got them. Maybe some descriptive text is needed when you claim the achievement. (Some of them are fairly self-explanatory, but others are a touch obscure.) I've already got some pretty awesome, non-standard ships from the guild which are very difficult to get in vanilla (a P, for example) without doing anything particularly special. Maybe make the Xenon stuff (bigger than fighters anyway) far harder to get.

I literally only opened TC to check if the plugin was working, so I haven't tried the hotkeys, but at least thirteen of the achievements are working just fine. Good work Emperor Jon!

(And Cycrow and LV for teaching him how to do it.)

P.S: I like the loadscreen you put in!

amtct · Post by **amtct** » Sat, 16. Jan 10, 23:58

Is this Games for Windows live Terran Conflict version

GaianKnight · Post by **GaianKnight** » Sun, 17. Jan 10, 06:44

Didn't know there was that version. My box doesn't say that, to be sure.

And add moi to the beta testing list, since

I just DLed it just now. Will report back on any happenings, on an Apricot Merge Mod game, with a few other mods included, that might have problems with this, if any at all.Hopefully not having too many ships and such pop in place in the same area, won't cause sudden lag issues. At least, this is the issue that comes to mind, where I can have that lag issue, with too much stuff in a sector.

But anywho...

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sun, 17. Jan 10, 08:59

That was some nice sleep. Now, time to get busy!

(Some of them are fairly self-explanatory, but others are a touch obscure.)

That's the reason. If I make it obvious how you got them, some people will start a new game and instantly try to complete one which gets them loads of stuff!

P.S: I like the loadscreen you put in!

Unfortunately the loading screens in TC have the top and bottom sliced a bit. So in the actual loading screen it misses out 'For the moments like this' or whatever.

Already fixed.

Maybe make the Xenon stuff (bigger than fighters anyway) far harder to get.

WARNING EPIC SPOILER. (I left the first bit so you know what it's about)
The P is the

Spoiler

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only Xenon reward (except the fighters), and to get it you have to discover all Xenon sectors. This is no mean feat even in a Kestrel, because at least one of the sectors is hidden far far away, and 2 more are/through a core. A P is a novelty, and useless reward, you're not going to use it, you're going RE it! So it's useless until completing the HUB

Hopefully not having too many ships and such pop in place in the same area, won't cause sudden lag issues. At least, this is the issue that comes to mind, where I can have that lag issue, with too much stuff in a sector.

This may cause a few issues when it creates ships, a few seconds of lag, but it doesn't rewards you with endless amounts of big ships.

EDIT:
Remember People!
This is only a Beta, things are unfair, things will be changed, and if you want it changed, please tell me.
Balancing Everything To Awesomeness
BETA

Oh, and I'll add more colourful text in later. I'll put all the info in the T files.

And please people, don't rip it apart just to see what the rewards are!

Gripen · Post by **Gripen** » Sun, 17. Jan 10, 10:55

Keep up the good work

amtct · Post by **amtct** » Sun, 17. Jan 10, 13:46

EmperorJon wrote:That was some nice sleep.

Gripen wrote:Keep up the good work

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Sun, 17. Jan 10, 18:39

Unfortuneately no work today really. I've been to the coast and back. For no particularly understandable reason!

Fun.

Anyway, I have some time now, so play a bit, do some work I have to, then have some more nice sleep!

GaianKnight · Post by **GaianKnight** » Mon, 18. Jan 10, 01:18

Got the beta to work last night, and got quite a few of the rewards. The only thing I can't quite figure out, is the spoiler hint, and what it was pointing to. Not sure if it was meant for an in game item, or an external website. I get the idea, just a bit vague feeling, on 'where' to direct my meager brain to look towards.

Still, this is fine work so far. (Still trying to figure out what to do with an Arrow. Heh.) Can't wait to see what the final product looks like. (Since I note the development thread as well here.)

I'll leave it here for now, not much else to add at the present. Tada.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Mon, 18. Jan 10, 18:15

No bugs? Ta!

Oh, and as for the hint, I'll change it in future.

Here's a little bit of a pointer:

Spoiler

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Yes, you were partly right. It refers to the location of a spiders home. Which would be the site of a web. Or a erm... web-site?

One particular one.

Master of the Blade · Post by **Master of the Blade** » Mon, 18. Jan 10, 20:25

I can vouch for the lack of bugs- there doesn't seem to be a single problem with it. Nice. May want to have a look at some typos which I can't remember offhand but are definitely there. Not that it matters much, but I'm picky.

I'm pretty sure there're a couple of achievements in there which are hard to get quickly(ones involving game time spring to mind) in a controlled X-environment, so I can't really test the bigger ones. I think I have the third one for playing ten days. All up to there work, but I can't check any of the others unless I play a lot more, which is impractical- I already play TC more than I should.

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Mon, 18. Jan 10, 20:30

Only one more for game time at 30days and works on my computer.

Had to load my pre 1.4 save to check though, 32 game days IIRC. Ahh, just reached the point where I was getting 100M for building missions.

Then they patched it.

Idea · Post by **Idea** » Wed, 11. Aug 10, 11:46

The link on x3terranconflict.filefront.com for this script doesn't work

EmperorJon · Post by **EmperorJon** » Wed, 11. Aug 10, 12:44

Well it is rather old...

If you want it I can send it to you via email. FF's been on the blink with old files.

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[AL Plugin] Achievement Guild - Release: Beta (16 Jan 2010)

[AL Plugin] Achievement Guild - Release: Beta (16 Jan 2010)