[ALP] Jumpgate Construction Technology 1.4 TC/AP 17/7/12

Meknor · Post by **Meknor** » Mon, 18. Jul 11, 12:16

I have 32 gate construction softwares and the command appears in 'general' but it is greyed out and I cant select it, I have all command softwares installed.

What have I done wrong?

And im in a mammoth

LV · Post by LV » Mon, 18. Jul 11, 18:59

i'm not sure +2 and it should work

open plugin.lv.build.gate.setcom

003 $nj = $ship -> get amount of ware Jumpgate Construction Software in cargo bay

makes sure it says that and not some readtxt or ssware entry

if it's listed as above in your script i really do not have a clue as to why

RatiuGrigore · Post by **RatiuGrigore** » Mon, 17. Oct 11, 21:59

I just cant build them,i cant find the software,so i spawned it with cheat menu and when i try to build htem the command is just blank

Calgor Grim · Post by **Calgor Grim** » Mon, 17. Oct 11, 23:50

Common fix seems to be about editing one of the scripts since it'll be looking for ZZ_BLANK_WARE_X instead of the explicitly named "Jumpgate Construction Software". No idea why, ask LV

RatiuGrigore · Post by **RatiuGrigore** » Tue, 18. Oct 11, 08:30

Calgor Grim wrote:Common fix seems to be about editing one of the scripts since it'll be looking for ZZ_BLANK_WARE_X instead of the explicitly named "Jumpgate Construction Software". No idea why, ask LV

Thx,but wich one?

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Calgor Grim · Post by **Calgor Grim** » Tue, 18. Oct 11, 09:42

Off the top of my head no idea. Just look for a "plugin.lv.build.gate" and look through those.

LV · Post by LV » Tue, 18. Oct 11, 17:59

There will be a new build up in the next few days, just spent the day rewriting it to remove emp need and put a touch of fluff and balance in

Calgor Grim · Post by **Calgor Grim** » Tue, 18. Oct 11, 18:38

Question, is it possible to do an additional with the Terran Jump Gate variant? I do love the one they build after the Aldrin plotline. I like using Commonwealth ones but the Terran one would just be icing, cherry and sprinkles.

RatiuGrigore · Post by **RatiuGrigore** » Tue, 18. Oct 11, 21:41

It wont work at all for me,the wares arnt in the stations,i put the wares in by cheating(muhahaha),but the command is greyed out.What is it to do,im in the correct ship,have 2 pieces.Thx

LV · Post by LV » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 15:35

Download at top of first link

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Imperial TC Script Library needed now!!

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Version 1.3 update

After more boredom i decided to change most of the features and removed the need for EMP and also added some fluff to the building process

As of 1.3

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You MUST use a M1 or TL class ship

Gates must be created from the materials sold at race Gate Construction Centres.
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A new hotkey allows opening of the menu although it is still also bound to the ships menu.

You can find the locations of the Gate Centres via this menu, in addition it will tell you how much of each material is needed to construct gates from x-y
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To load up with Materials fly within 6k of one of the centres and turn on the Start Material Command by clicking it
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Your ship will be loaded by the station and each transaction counts as enough materials for 1 sector, each trade costs 50k

Building gates is done the same way as before and once your route is chosen drones will now launch from you ship and build the gates for you.

Final Addition

I added some waste wares to the gate fabs which are produced during trade or production, you are advised to use the Radioactive Waste and Hazardous Waste to fill the Waste Facility that is created with the Gate Factories as they will make needed Trading Drones. It is also much safer than the fabs disposing of the waste themselves

Once a fab is full of either waste it will stop producing until the waste is traded.

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Calgor Grim · Post by **Calgor Grim** » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 17:56

Quick comment, when the Terran one spawned it put it in Aldrin...right in the middle of the big huge rock in the middle. So that one is now a duff. I can't get to that one. Is it possible to blacklist that sector so it doesn't end up there?

It's also picking to use stations that I cannot dock a TL at. So far we've had an EMPC Forge and now we're on a Gauss Cannon. Is this intentional? Is this a way of hinting that I need a small fleet of TP?

LV · Post by LV » Mon, 24. Oct 11, 23:23

1) Turn off the plugin and it will nuke the fabs, when you turn it back on they will be build somewhere else

2) I see you read the update about loading....., you only need to dock to get waste

Calgor Grim · Post by **Calgor Grim** » Tue, 25. Oct 11, 09:26

Thanks on one, oops on two.

Derax · Post by **Derax** » Tue, 6. Dec 11, 10:35

Is the AI using the gate in a good way?

LV · Post by LV » Tue, 6. Dec 11, 19:55

define good

Kodiake · Post by **Kodiake** » Sun, 8. Apr 12, 21:28

I have been having issues with getting this software to work correctly and I seem to have hopefully figured it out. We'll see after this build timer is complete

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From what I have gathered, the requirements for building gates has changed. Does it not require the JCS anymore? It seems to only require that you have the right kind of ship and the proper amount of required materials. I don't see the JCS as an option in any of the ware lists, but I do show all of the construction materials in that list. I'm thinking to eliminate the EMP requirements, you must have taken out the JCS, but I could actually be wrong about that. I seem to get the Construction menu available, everything seems to work and I have no JCS on my ship.

But anyway back to my issue. I was attempting to build a gate from a "gateless" sector (Aldrin) to Cloudbase Southeast. I had a whole TL full of construction kits and materials. Every time I would estimate the cost it would show the required amounts, but every time I would try to build it would say "Not enough construction materials". It appears to calculate the amount of jumps required to jump from a gateless sector as NULL. There was no code to deal with this issue (at least not that I saw in my quick scan). I seem to have corrected this by adding in 3 lines of codes to the plugin.lv.build.gate script.

Line 231 has the following:

$jumps = get jumps from sector $sec to sector $tsec

I added the following 3 lines after line 231:

if $jumps == null
$jumps == 25
end

If during the build process, it gets a Null value for the amount of Jumps, it will make it 25 jumps. I figured 25 jumps was a large enough amount to accomodate for having to link to a gateless sector.

I never was able to get it to work before this. It would say "Funds Transferred" or whatever then it would fail.
I just got it to actually say it was building the gates after adding those 3 lines. We'll see how well it works in about 93 minutes.

*** UPDATE ***

The fix above seems to work correctly. I now have a gate from Aldrin to Cloudbase Southeast. Excellent job on the script LV. Hopefully now my supply ship can actually load the guns from Aldrin to my new ships without me having to do it all manually. My UT's seem to be trading here now so it appears it's working fine now.

*** UPDATE 2 ***

Ok I just had to come back and update this post with a warning for everyone who might use this script. I would advise against making a gate to Aldrin. It could cause you to have a game crash at a certain point in the plotline.

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If you make a gate to Aldrin, during the Aldrin Expansion plotline, the system will reconfigure the Aldrin system and it will make 6 gates there. If you have an existing gate there when this happens, it will crash your game and every time you try to jump to Aldrin you will end up at the desktop instead. I had a gate from Aldrin to Omicron Lyrae and a gate from Aldrin to Cloudbase Southease, which I then linked to my hub. As soon as I got to that point in the plotline and jumped in to Aldrin, I would crash to the desktop. Tthe only way to fix it was to go way back to an early save I had from before I installed the Aldrin gates. Without the gates the plot worked perfectly fine. And another note: If you have a gate that you created and linked to your Hub and then you turn off the script, it will actually delete the created gates in the original sectors, but in the process it will also remove the Hubs gates that were linked.

Turnus · Post by **Turnus** » Sat, 16. Jun 12, 15:23

Hey LV I know this was made a long while ago, but is it possible to make a Reunion version? I could totally dig placing complexes in a bunch of unknown sectors and creating gates in each one to my phq. >.<

LV · Post by LV » Sat, 16. Jun 12, 17:36

speak to bullwinkle, he's enjoyig scripting at the moment, he may port it

he may also tell you to take a hike of course

DrBullwinkle · Post by **DrBullwinkle** » Sat, 16. Jun 12, 20:15

LV wrote:speak to bullwinkle, he's enjoyig scripting at the moment, he may port it

he may also tell you to take a hike of course

I have never even installed Reunion.

Surely, there must be similar scripts already done for Reunion? When I look through the archives it seems as though *everything* was done for Reunion. No?

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Thraxwhirl · Post by **Thraxwhirl** » Mon, 16. Jul 12, 16:05

Quick Question... and forgive me if someone has already asked this, but...

...does it matter that Jumpgate Construction Software doesn't exist after installing this scriptset?

The Construction stations have spawned, and the hotkey works fine, bringing up the menu, but JCS doesn't exist in the game, nor does the "Gate Construction Interface" mention it as a required Ware.

It DOES however reckon that SIX(not two) units of JumpDRIVE Components are required.

Will it still work if I use those instead?

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