script question

[Bondalf]

Hello,

i would like to remove all AI ships in a game. Is it an easy way to do it ?

Thanks a lot !

[UniTrader]

from the currently unreleased X Fleet Fest Mod:

libraries/jobs.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<diff><replace sel="/jobs"><jobs/></replace></diff>

[Bondalf]

Hello UniTrader

In fact i would like to remove all AI ships at the start of a game, but want that during the game, AI ships are spawned normally.

I would like something similar as a starting universe exploration, nothing has been discovered by no faction.

[UniTrader]

with that change no ships will spawn at the beginning of the game and existing ships should de-spawn over time

if you want to have finer control over the jobs you can add a startactive="false" attribute to each of them and control when they should be activated via md-script (or possibly also ai-script, but these are not really suited for this purpose)

activating all jobs shortly after gamestart (or destroying all ships at this moment) will btw not really serve your purpose since at such a degree of underpopulation the jobs are prettty quick at spawning.. its a matter of about half an hour to an hour to reach regular population levels with that....
you need to activate more and more jobs over time to reach something like you want.. and probably need to split some of them for finer control how many ships exist

[Bondalf]

UniTrader,

Thanks a lot ! i think i understood !

Thanks again, will try your solution (and it is a quick one and easy one for a beginner in x rebirth Scripting)