[SCRIPT] Overtune BBS V1.50 : Updated 19/06/2006

[Cycrow]

yeah, i think the only way would be to make the player leave his current ship and then fly it to a station for the upgrade to happen

the only problem i can c is that it might display in the logbook that ur ship is destroyed ?

but im not sure

[Mehrunes]

the only problem i can c is that it might display in the logbook that ur ship is destroyed ?

It does, even if you set it to destruct without explosions.

[Cycrow]

what aobut if u changed owner first then destroyed it, that might work

[Mehrunes]

what aobut if u changed owner first then destroyed it, that might work

I never thought of that. I'm betting it would work.

[furstukin]

the only problem i can c is that it might display in the logbook that ur ship is destroyed ?

but im not sure

Well if you pick up a satelite that you had dropped it records in your log satelite destroyed in sector whatever. So I don't see that as much of a problem. We all know the truth

[DIGSIN]

Cycrow

Little idea for you, i was thinking the other day about your tunning scripts (alright sobbing, for when i buy a Boron Ray) is it possible to overtune the cargo bay with a script?

[Cycrow]

unfortuatly not
cargo space can only be changed via a hard mod

[Crush]

edit: maybe some1 has already noticed this, but i didn't read all the posts...

i like your scripts a lot, but i think i may have stumbled on another bug.

i was in my nova when i read about overtuning my ship in the bbs. my ship was already overtuned enough, so i thought, maybe one of my wingmen could use the tuning better.

so i changed the ship, but the bbs message still showed that the tuning is available for my other ship, not the one i'm in now.

so i guess, the message gets made for the ship that first sees it, not the one that i am in at the moment.

i noticed this with the 'sell me your adv. mineral scanner' bbs message, too. it offered me to sell my scanner, although i didn't have one and the scanner was on my other ship.

so maybe this is a problem with the game itself, not just the scripts...

[Cycrow]

its a limitation of the script editor, or we havn't found out how

basically, you cant edit the message on the BBS onces its been posted so it sets it to the first that view it

i could make it so if you accept it, it will overtune your current ship, the only problem is the price will be differnet, so you might be paying more than you first thought
i shall have to look into the option for doing this, and find out the best way to solve it

[MillerTime]

Can power gen upgrades be made via script ?

[Sandalpocalypse]

No. Mod only.

[Cycrow]

not as far as i can tell no, seems stuff like power, shields, cargo, etc, all has to be done via modding

would be nice if ego could add upgrades for ships power

[DIGSIN]

edit: maybe some1 has already noticed this, but i didn't read all the posts...


i was in my nova when i read about overtuning my ship in the bbs. my ship was already overtuned enough, so i thought, maybe one of my wingmen could use the tuning better.

so i changed the ship, but the bbs message still showed that the tuning is available for my other ship, not the one i'm in now.

I've noticed this, but if you go to another station in the other ship the BBS will change for the other ship

[n!ghtshade]

I've got a problem with this script, I overtuned my nova raider but only the max steering got higher the speed didn't change.
(when I installed it I didnt overwrite the existing file because it was newer)
btw your mercenaries script is great I just finished my first khaak invasion.

Edit: Reloaded the savegame and overtuned again now the ship got faster

[Cycrow]

yeah, theres 2 entries on the BBS available, one for your steering, one for you max speed, they dont do both, only one or the other, u just make sure u accept the right one

yeah, i quite like the kha'ak invasions
should have a new version soon with a few new missions on

[Tritous]

how hard would it be to try and put your scripts together into a mod with the added functionality of being able to change hardcoded stuff? I've noticed that most people who have any of your scripts have them all lol. Then again, maybe making a mod is an entirely different beast

[Cycrow]

putting the scripts together isn't all that hard, and its something i am planning on doing at some point, when i feel each of them is close to a finished state

making a mod is abit different, and the problem with it is, that you can only run one mod, so it could cause conflicts with other mods that ppl are using

the problem about using a mod to change stuff simlar to how the overtune works, is that if u mod something, u change all ships in the universe, not just urs

so u cant really have a bbs entiry to upgrade say the power generator of ur ship, as a mod cant be controlled within the game and is fixed for all ships, the only way to make it work would be to create multiple ship entries, so u have a normal disco, and a disco with a bigger power generator, which is basically what the variants do

[Tritous]

but aren't there cases of rare ships and ships that aren't used?

as for mod compatability, it's dead easy to fix. you rename your mod to be like an update. so in this case if you rename it to 003.dat then it will be classed as the latest update and it's settings will override the previous stuff where there is a clash. when update 1.3 comes out you'll probably have to rename it to 004, and another other mods you have to 005, 006, etc depending on what you want to take preference over what.

[Cycrow]

i've not really looked much at modding, all the sutff i've done has been via the script editor atm

im looking into making it availbe to upgrade ur ship into a varient

so if u have a standard ship, you could pay to get it upgraded to vanguard, or something

[n!ghtshade]

since I started a new game in with 1.3 there are no more Overtune BBS messages and I've docked in many stations. The other scripts I'm using work fine and I can see the Overtune script in the script editor.