[ALP] BountyBoost 1.2 21/2/10
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I tried it this evening, I had the start messages (payout on/off, bounties low/med/high, put it on high). Very happy, I saved, logged out, logged in, started a patrol mission, called my M2 near me to let it atomize my poor enemies... It killed a lot of xenons, nothing. Nada. Rien. I log out, restart, do the patrol mission in the M2, and get ridiculously low bounties.
With me in the M2 it seems the foes were much more powerful, then 2 xenon M2 spawned ; I destroyed them and got the awesome bounty of 30.000 credits (for a M2... Yi-pee-kai !)
I'll uninstall completely the game and reinstall it from vanilla tomorrow, and install only the bounty script, to see if it works correctly then
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With me in the M2 it seems the foes were much more powerful, then 2 xenon M2 spawned ; I destroyed them and got the awesome bounty of 30.000 credits (for a M2... Yi-pee-kai !)
I'll uninstall completely the game and reinstall it from vanilla tomorrow, and install only the bounty script, to see if it works correctly then

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I just wanted to point out that remapping the SIGNAL_KILLED for all ships in the Universe is a bad, bad idea.
I don't want to question your scripting, but doing so does lead to conflicts with every other script using SIGNAL_KILLED.
Furthermore, while the uninstall script looks fine, it did not work perfectly for me. I had freezes after uninstalling that seem to have been related to SIGNAL_KILLED not being reset for some ships.
You may want to change this into a map secondary signal, as you have already added this line in you code, but commented it out-.
I don't want to question your scripting, but doing so does lead to conflicts with every other script using SIGNAL_KILLED.
Furthermore, while the uninstall script looks fine, it did not work perfectly for me. I had freezes after uninstalling that seem to have been related to SIGNAL_KILLED not being reset for some ships.
You may want to change this into a map secondary signal, as you have already added this line in you code, but commented it out-.
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I like the plugin, but the payout high = low bug had me a bit confused (which isn't listed as a bug in your first post). I also thought that the difference between high low and med payouts would be bigger. I would have expected it to be around 10 times as much for the high, and one tenth for the low payouts).
Perhaps just create a possiblity for a numerical multiplier. (lets say, medium payouts is 100, remove two zeros from all the values, easy is 50, high is 150) and let people play with this multiplier).
I also think the payouts are way to high. (I modified it so they pay a tenth of the normal amount, and the ufo only gives 10 now). Actually having a payout for the ufo is a bit silly. You should only get payouts for targets the current region normally gives bounty for. I'm also missing the other types of mines, and the drones and ranger from the list. (And the space suit, but you should get a penalty for killing an helpless person who has surrenderd).
And as another request, currently the bounty plugin doesn't require a license. Which is great in unknown, xenon and terran regions. But it should be a requirement in others.
I hope this post wasn't to harsh or needy. But I really like your plugin so far, and it is better than the vanilla bounty concept. (I love the logging, finally, you see what you kill).
Ps: what is the xenon/kha'ak multiplier?
Perhaps just create a possiblity for a numerical multiplier. (lets say, medium payouts is 100, remove two zeros from all the values, easy is 50, high is 150) and let people play with this multiplier).
I also think the payouts are way to high. (I modified it so they pay a tenth of the normal amount, and the ufo only gives 10 now). Actually having a payout for the ufo is a bit silly. You should only get payouts for targets the current region normally gives bounty for. I'm also missing the other types of mines, and the drones and ranger from the list. (And the space suit, but you should get a penalty for killing an helpless person who has surrenderd).
And as another request, currently the bounty plugin doesn't require a license. Which is great in unknown, xenon and terran regions. But it should be a requirement in others.
I hope this post wasn't to harsh or needy. But I really like your plugin so far, and it is better than the vanilla bounty concept. (I love the logging, finally, you see what you kill).
Ps: what is the xenon/kha'ak multiplier?
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Rrrriigght, murdering, pillaging, boarding pirates should be left alive so they can just wander off to the closest station, do some raping there, and then be picked up by one of their buddies to eventually get a new ship and start the cycle over, again!Soyweiser wrote: (And the space suit, but you should get a penalty for killing an helpless person who has surrenderd).
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I just wanted to know if anyone else gets a blank player log message when docking at a pirate station to collect the bounty for killing a race ship in it's own sector. I killed 8 split ships in a split sector went to a pirate base docked and it said incoming message. When I looked it was a blank message and I didn't appear to recieve any money for the bounties.
Don't make me slap Ye!
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I was running this on medium payout for the first patrol mission of the base Terran start...by the end I'd gotten almost 700k from just killing a few M5/4--I'm pretty sure I was getting about 50k/Xenon N which seems ungodly high. Seems like the payout tables could use a little more work if that's the case...
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try docking at a pirate base
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ok i copy pasted the stuff in the folders then started the game and it let me choose my settings (log yes and med pay) and then it said that it was working or something like that and then i jumped to a kha sector and killed a few ships and nothing no voice saying you earned..., no pay #, no message nothing? so am i just moving to fast for the script and have to wait or is something wrong? Thx
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