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Afro Luigi wrote:I love the premise of this mod but I have been unable to install it, due to not being able to get the Plug in Manager thing to work. So I was wondering if there is way to install this mod without using the Plug in Manager :?:
If you have the Plug in Manager installed (I know you can't get it to work) there is a program called spk explorer (something close to that). You should be able to use it to extract the script and text files from the spk, just place them as normal in the scripts & t folders.

Failing that I'll post the files tonight.

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Post by apricotslice »

Do a zip that has the scripts in the script folder instead of spk. I dont tend to bother with spks for mods, just zip the whole thing up so when you unzip it all drops into the correct place.
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Storm - The complexes are linked to the first node and I want to use the second node to store e-cells that my power station makes and the second trade station is linked to the second node, I can link it to the frist one and get wares that way though. but I want to use the first node to hold everything for that since I have a HQ in there. Everything is linked and hit to allow on both nodes, so I dunno. Wondering if I missed something on a previous post about it.
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stealthhammer wrote:Storm - The complexes are linked to the first node and I want to use the second node to store e-cells that my power station makes and the second trade station is linked to the second node, I can link it to the frist one and get wares that way though. but I want to use the first node to hold everything for that since I have a HQ in there. Everything is linked and hit to allow on both nodes, so I dunno. Wondering if I missed something on a previous post about it.
You can do a bulk manual move between Nodes?

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Post by stealthhammer »

Yup I can, I just transfered 5k of talidunium to the second node.
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Post by Logain Abler »

stealthhammer wrote:Yup I can, I just transfered 5k of talidunium to the second node.
Cool, I will work on adding Docks to the Linked Node setup, just a bit heavy with work at the moment.

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Post by stealthhammer »

Take ya time.

So the node ware transfer between nodes is not automatic? Sorry I'm confused.
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Post by Afro Luigi »

Logain Abler wrote:
Afro Luigi wrote:I love the premise of this mod but I have been unable to install it, due to not being able to get the Plug in Manager thing to work. So I was wondering if there is way to install this mod without using the Plug in Manager :?:
If you have the Plug in Manager installed (I know you can't get it to work) there is a program called spk explorer (something close to that). You should be able to use it to extract the script and text files from the spk, just place them as normal in the scripts & t folders.

Failing that I'll post the files tonight.

LA

Thanks for the instructions I have it installed and working great. Thank you.
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Post by Logain Abler »

Afro Luigi wrote:
Logain Abler wrote:
Afro Luigi wrote:I love the premise of this mod but I have been unable to install it, due to not being able to get the Plug in Manager thing to work. So I was wondering if there is way to install this mod without using the Plug in Manager :?:
If you have the Plug in Manager installed (I know you can't get it to work) there is a program called spk explorer (something close to that). You should be able to use it to extract the script and text files from the spk, just place them as normal in the scripts & t folders.

Failing that I'll post the files tonight.

LA

Thanks for the instructions I have it installed and working great. Thank you.
Great, thanks for the update :)
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stealthhammer wrote:Take ya time.

So the node ware transfer between nodes is not automatic? Sorry I'm confused.
Once the Nodes are linked and you have set which wares you are happy for the Nodes to have access to, the supply to Station/Complexes and ASR will automatically check the linked Node if the supplying Node doesn’t have the wares in stock.

I have not as yet included Docks into this set-up but I’ll be working on that tonight hopefully


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Post by stealthhammer »

Ah, k, I think I got ARS off...I'll check here in a few hours. Thanks for the reply.

Edit - I turned Ars on and still nothing transferring. Also I re downloaded the last patch to.
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Post by StormMagi »

ARS is for ships. It is a more advanced form of the supply options (ie you can set it so ships have 100 of a missle instead of the game resupply of 60). Except that it works for more than just ammo.

Ok for some reason something wasn't clicking right in my game. Relays work @ 6j for XL nodes now. Dunno what it was but it works :)
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stealthhammer wrote:Ah, k, I think I got ARS off...I'll check here in a few hours. Thanks for the reply.

Edit - I turned Ars on and still nothing transferring. Also I re downloaded the last patch to.
ARS needs to be turned on, on both the Ship & the Node.


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Post by Logain Abler »

StormMagi wrote:ARS is for ships. It is a more advanced form of the supply options (ie you can set it so ships have 100 of a missle instead of the game resupply of 60). Except that it works for more than just ammo.:)
Spot on, great for carrier operation.
StormMagi wrote:Ok for some reason something wasn't clicking right in my game. Relays work @ 6j for XL nodes now. Dunno what it was but it works :)
Great, was looking last night, more like scratching my head :?

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Yeah sorry about that. I had tried 3-4 times and no luck but when I tried again earlier it saw it no problem so I have no idea what was going on.

In a side note my trading network is starting to grow, just finished a station building job that payed 156 mill so I think I am gonna put up another XL node and a few more trading docks :P

And a quick question, do you plan for anything besides nodes to be able to resupply ships (via ARS or regular)?
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StormMagi wrote:Yeah sorry about that. I had tried 3-4 times and no luck but when I tried again earlier it saw it no problem so I have no idea what was going on.

In a side note my trading network is starting to grow, just finished a station building job that payed 156 mill so I think I am gonna put up another XL node and a few more trading docks :P

And a quick question, do you plan for anything besides nodes to be able to resupply ships (via ARS or regular)?
Sounds great, one thing a like about FDN is that I would never have put the time and money in such large scale production. It was too much of a pain to manager, needing a large fleet of TS's, loads of messy Complexes, or both!

Now I can keep my fleets supplied with missiles, ammo, weapons and shields, jump in, leave a few minutes, then jump back to the fight.

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I still cant get it to transfer from node one, my trade stations see it fine though. I'll move it around I guess, see what happens. Thanks though.

Storm, LA - I've been spending time filling up node one and its taken forever, also trying to find some roids to make crystals cus my complexes been eating e-cells at a monster rate to. I'm hoping that when things level off, or do it'll cut down. :lol: But I havnt done a building mission yet, to busy killing and stealing.

Edit - I moved the node closer and the same thing happened, I can transfer manuly but not automatically. Like to use it to store wares for ship building
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stealthhammer wrote:I still cant get it to transfer from node one, my trade stations see it fine though. I'll move it around I guess, see what happens. Thanks though.

Storm, LA - I've been spending time filling up node one and its taken forever, also trying to find some roids to make crystals cus my complexes been eating e-cells at a monster rate to. I'm hoping that when things level off, or do it'll cut down. :lol: But I havnt done a building mission yet, to busy killing and stealing.

Edit - I moved the node closer and the same thing happened, I can transfer manuly but not automatically. Like to use it to store wares for ship building
Hi StealthH,

Could you outline what you’re trying to do, what the set-up is, what’s failing?

Cheers

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Post by stealthhammer »

Well, I got a HQ in Kuiper Belt along with a node and Trading station, the Trading station fills fine, when its connected to the one in Montilar. Also I've built a gate using the Adv. Hyper jump script so I can connect the Trading Station to the node in Montilar, my first node, this adds in a couple wares. I did the same with my second node which is in Kuiper belt. This can see it however I can only transfer the wares manuly, not automatically. Maybe I'm wrong on the automatically transfer, I got everything set to allow. Also got the ARS set to active and everything else to.

Its not a big deal but I was going to use this second node to store wares for ship building. I don't mean to be a pain in the aris but you said try to break it... and I don't mean to put more work on your lap.
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stealthhammer wrote:Well, I got a HQ in Kuiper Belt along with a node and Trading station, the Trading station fills fine, when its connected to the one in Montilar. Also I've built a gate using the Adv. Hyper jump script so I can connect the Trading Station to the node in Montilar, my first node, this adds in a couple wares. I did the same with my second node which is in Kuiper belt. This can see it however I can only transfer the wares manuly, not automatically. Maybe I'm wrong on the automatically transfer, I got everything set to allow. Also got the ARS set to active and everything else to.

Its not a big deal but I was going to use this second node to store wares for ship building. I don't mean to be a pain in the aris but you said try to break it... and I don't mean to put more work on your lap.
The Node will only automatically request wares from the linked Node if it can't supply the wares to a station from it's own stock. It won't just remove wares for storage purposes?

With ASR the ship needs to be in the same sector as the Node.

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