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[Jobs] SRM[8/6] and Xtra[20/4]

Post by vkerinav » Wed, 5. Jan 11, 03:13

NighTragE has provided a new Jobs file for Xtra Ship pack users. Get it here.

The two Jobs files below are heavily altered with complete upgrades for each race's military. Both versions are similar, and will spawn the new ships included in their parent mod.

All versions are compatible with the Enhanced Equipment Spawner and Custom Weapon Priorities. (CWP is the original version of the EES, and is fully fuctional.) Using one(and only one) is recommended, but not required.

Litcube's Missile Supplier jobs scripts are required. Go download. The missile boat turret override is optional, but recommended.

[ external image ] Xtra Jobs v3.3a for Cadius' Xtra Ships. Updated 20 April.

[ external image ] SRM Jobs v3.6e for paulwheeler's Ship Rebalance Mod. Updated 4 May. Readme!

Also, thanks to Jaga_Telesin for the use of X3 Unleashed.
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Post by TrixX » Wed, 5. Jan 11, 05:08

About time you popped up a thread for this :)

Thanks mate
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Post by Sam L.R. Griffiths » Wed, 5. Jan 11, 06:37

I am producing an EES Patch and Configuration for AWRM v0.18.

I revised the Setup.CWP script to:-
  1. support laser lists that start at an id greater than 1.
  2. support missile priorities using ids greater than 10000.
I revised the Lib.Gen script to:-
  1. Prioritise missiles
  2. Prevent spawning of missiles based on missile priority list
  3. Prevent spawning of lasers by ONLY using the laser priority lists (hard coded exclusions removed - now only need to edit the XML, if the laser is absent from a priority list it will not spawn in game for the race.)
I also revised the Job.Loadout script to use the new Lib.Gen script (no boolean flags required any more).

HINT: If you wish to stop a race from spawning any missiles you can use a dummy Missile priority list like this:-

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<!-- Missiles (id = "10001"..."10048") -->
<!-- Missiles: Dumbfire -->
    <t id="10001">-1</t>    <!--Dummy Entry-->
This will also work for lasers, though I do not know why you would want to do that.
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Post by Sam L.R. Griffiths » Wed, 5. Jan 11, 09:48

OOPs... double post :shock:
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Post by Sam L.R. Griffiths » Wed, 5. Jan 11, 09:48

Roger L.S. Griffiths wrote:I am producing an EES Patch and Configuration for AWRM v0.18.
See here for the patch..

Also added a job.loadout.max script (primarily for testing of configurations).
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Post by Pora » Wed, 5. Jan 11, 18:50

Weapons are spawned using a priorities list contained in t\8387-L044. Each race has its own separate list, which allows, for example, the Boron to prioritize the IPG over the commonwealth CIG, while the Argon prefer the CIG.
Sounds like a good script will give it a try but does prefer means they will use only race specific weps ?

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Post by Sam L.R. Griffiths » Wed, 5. Jan 11, 19:20

Pora wrote:
Weapons are spawned using a priorities list contained in t\8387-L044. Each race has its own separate list, which allows, for example, the Boron to prioritize the IPG over the commonwealth CIG, while the Argon prefer the CIG.
Sounds like a good script will give it a try but does prefer means they will use only race specific weps ?
If you use my EES patch you can enforce what missiles and lasers ships for any given race will not spawn with.
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Post by vkerinav » Sat, 8. Jan 11, 21:02

Updated Xtra Jobs for 1.86.

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Post by Sam L.R. Griffiths » Sun, 9. Jan 11, 00:53

Updated my EES patch for AWRM v0.19: (Edit - Obsolete)

This new version of the patch includes two basic configurations for Vanilla as well (one with Beams and one without). The AWRM configuration has placeholder entries to support CMOD v4.3 and I intend to release a CMOD v4.3/AWRM configuration after I have had time to produce the CMOD balance/compatability patch for AWRM v0.19.
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Post by Sn4kemaster » Sun, 9. Jan 11, 13:50

Hi,

Just downloaded the latest Jobs to run with Cadius latest's Xtra pack...1st off all well done for making the X universe feel more alive but think i have found 1 bug......and i have 1 suggestion for the gameplay.

These are both with a new start......

The Bug....nearly every split sector contains a Split Mammoth....i imagine this is a bug, or it could be a dodgy download my end but just so you know and to look into it!

The game play suggestion with the new Xenon ships, i believe you have made it that the New Xenon Z will only appear in the Xenon core sectors....trouble is in reality their is only 1 Xenon core sector.....this means the chances of ever seeing a Z in very unlikely, in my new game it has only ever spawned K's.......and i have destroyed it several to see if a Z would spawn which it hasn't.

So would it be better to either, 1 just make it so its only ever a Z that spawn's in the core sector? or 2 allow them to spawn in any Xenon sector and increase the chances of seeing 1?

Also is their anyway you can make more Xenon ships spawn in Xenon sectors? In my new game an average Xenon sector contains 1-2 C, 1-2 Q and a G.....that's all.....its not often that i see a K or a J...anymore :(

I would really like to see Xenon space become a very very dangerous place to be......lethal really :twisted:

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Post by vkerinav » Sun, 9. Jan 11, 15:34

Would that be a Split Recon Mammoth? If its there now, I bet its been there for months.
The game play suggestion with the new Xenon ships, i believe you have made it that the New Xenon Z will only appear in the Xenon core sectors....trouble is in reality their is only 1 Xenon core sector.....this means the chances of ever seeing a Z in very unlikely, in my new game it has only ever spawned K's.......and i have destroyed it several to see if a Z would spawn which it hasn't.

So would it be better to either, 1 just make it so its only ever a Z that spawn's in the core sector? or 2 allow them to spawn in any Xenon sector and increase the chances of seeing 1?
It was supposed to be Zs only, but I might have overlooked something. If any of those Ks are escorted by around twenty fighters, then it should be a Z.

Its easy enough to increase the number of ships. Js will have to stay rare, so as not to raise the CPU load too much, but I can increase Ks, Qs and Cs. Too many Gs would just be overkill, if they can be tempted to launch their missiles.

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Post by vkerinav » Sun, 9. Jan 11, 17:14

I found a rogue corvette entry, which is presumably the source of those Mammoths. It should now spawn Drakes.

I had also missed setting the new Xenon M2+ entry properly, so it spawned Ks instead of Zs.

There should be a few more Qs, Cs and Ks, now.

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Post by Sam L.R. Griffiths » Sun, 9. Jan 11, 21:22

MediaFire keeps presenting me with stupid ad's rather than letting me download Xtra jobs v3.2c.

Can we have this file hosted somewhere else? or can someone send me the file directly?
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Post by HotSake » Mon, 10. Jan 11, 01:20

Roger L.S. Griffiths wrote:MediaFire keeps presenting me with stupid ad's rather than letting me download Xtra jobs v3.2c.

Can we have this file hosted somewhere else? or can someone send me the file directly?
Same. I get the usual MediaFire ad bombs, but the download link does nothing.

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Post by vkerinav » Mon, 10. Jan 11, 02:06

I use Adblock for that.

Do we have somewhere specific in mind?

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Post by Sn4kemaster » Mon, 10. Jan 11, 02:11

HotSake wrote:
Roger L.S. Griffiths wrote:MediaFire keeps presenting me with stupid ad's rather than letting me download Xtra jobs v3.2c.

Can we have this file hosted somewhere else? or can someone send me the file directly?
Same. I get the usual MediaFire ad bombs, but the download link does nothing.
I got it for the EES download (still have not got it) but the Jobs download was ok.....

By the way your tweaks have worked perfectly....lots more Xenon cap ships have spawned now.....and the odd Z, Xenon space is now a dangerous place to be :twisted:

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Post by Sam L.R. Griffiths » Mon, 10. Jan 11, 04:55

Updated my EES patch: (Obsolete)
This updated version of the patch has support for a bias against each laser and the default configurations reduces the probability of Beam lasers being spawned.

In addition, the AWRM configuration reduces the probability of Adv/Enh lasers being spawned relative to their vanilla/base counter parts.
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Post by Sam L.R. Griffiths » Mon, 10. Jan 11, 05:00

Roger L.S. Griffiths wrote:MediaFire keeps presenting me with stupid ad's rather than letting me download Xtra jobs v3.2c.

Can we have this file hosted somewhere else? or can someone send me the file directly?
I use Norton 360 which includes ad/pop-up blocking (or it is the default IE pop-up blocker), either way I just tried to download it again and had success (guess it must be mediafire doing some form of bandwidth control).
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Post by Sam L.R. Griffiths » Mon, 10. Jan 11, 05:03

vkerinav wrote:Do we have somewhere specific in mind?
Well there are two possible alternate options that I can think of... host it on TXU or look into having Egosoft host it?
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Post by Goncyn » Mon, 10. Jan 11, 06:57

Dropbox is easy and free for light file hosting. They will block your public links temporarily if you exceed a certain amount of bandwidth, but it's not a number I expect a compressed text file linked on these forums to ever hit.

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