[SCRIPT] PIRACY! Package : Preview : 13-04-12

[The Cuban Nightmare]

Nice, I will be blasting samurai with field artillery pieces in Shogun 2 Total War while you finish that up. Funnily enough, samurai go down pretty easy, but they're so damn many of em. Where'd I put that gattling gun...

[DnBrn47]

Is this going to be compatible with Albion Prelude?

[mr.bear]

yeah I guess I'll have to make it AP compatible now. (but not on the first release)

it doesn't rely on anything inside the game universe whatsoever, so it'll just need the odd tweak to make it AP compatible. I'll have to obtain a copy for debugging...

EDIT: Just out of interest, how many of you out there are albion preluders?

[GameDrifter]

I more or less play it on new starts now. The stock Exchange a nice way to get a quick leg up on money just starting out. The totally pointless Terran/Argon looping war thing is annoying since there never is a winner it seems.. But the newer ships and stuff is cool. I do have 2 long term saved games I play in TC itself but I got time invested so not willing to just move on till I feel I gotten done what needs doing in those two games.

[DnBrn47]

[apricotslice]

Fully AP at the moment. I can go back to TC if need be though. But depending on your timing, most likely I'll run it in AP first.

[vtecem]

TC all the way ATM, so far AP hasn't drawn me in yet, despite trying...

Edit: BTW, do you have any ETA for releasing?

[ShadowGod56]

please make an ap compatible version this mod looks awesome and ap is more or less all i play


EDIT

also does this add any hot keys that you need to assign for it to function correctly?

[mr.bear]

@shadowgod: kidnapping civilians uses a hotkey, it's fairly impossible to use the feature without one.

@vtecem: yeah about 5 weeks.

[apricotslice]

[Iceciro]

As a scurvy pirate, I must also throw my hat in for X3AP - I left TC behind when AP came out.

Also, can you consider letting us raise rank with my best friends the Yaki, rather than the generic 'pirates'?

[mr.bear]

yeah i don't see why not. perhaps only serious pirate actions should increase your rank with the yaki?


AP Compatibility: This is awkward cos the only responses i got were all 'pro'-AP, and i've decided not to make it compatible until a later version, probably as long as 4-6 weeks later. I realise this wasn't the answer you were hoping for but I'd have to learn AP, modify the IDE then update the scripts -- and I don't even own AP yet!

I'm going to work on adding MD support to the IDE first cos I need a bit of a break from boring stuff. sorry guys, but I can't do everything at once.

[mr.bear]

[X2-Illuminatus]

X3TC scripts are loaded in X3AP without problems. And also X3AP scripts will work in X3TC as long as you don't use any AP specific commands. You don't have to change the script engine numbers, as you have to do it from X3R to X3TC. Problems will occur, if you reference anything that isn't present anymore in X3AP, for example the Split sectors "Family Zyarth", "Family Ryk" and "Njy's Deception".
In general, the chances that a script for X3TC also works in X3AP are good.

As for the file structure, all X3AP specific files are located within the "addon"-folder that is part of the X3TC main directory. The addon folder has its own "scripts" and "t" folder.

[apricotslice]

If its written for TC, its unlikely there will be problems with AP. It just needs repacking. And thats a couple of minute job at most.

Dont worry about it.

Code for TC.

When its out, someone here will port it to AP and confirm or not that it works fine there.