[MOD] [TC/AP] X3 Rebalance Mod (XRM) - Total conversion - v1.30d (02.12.13)

[paulwheeler]

Since the XRM mod has EMP mod integrated, could someone tell me which file to edit to change an emp ware name and description. When my son and I play a new mod we like to add 4 home brewed scripts to the game and as it is right now they all show up in the custom factory as EMP default names. ex. ZA_EMP_10233 ect.... This mod is awesome and we really love many of the ship designs. Thanks guys for any help you could throw my way !!!

You need to edit the XRM TWareT file.

[Drewgamer]

If you use cycrow's plugin manager would you edit the TwareT file that it creates instead?

Edit: or does it not matter either way?

[Wintersdark]

Re: Boarding, rare ships, etc.

Personally, I'm very happy with how the mod is, as is, in this regard. I've found the boarding process to be so enormously time consuming (ridiculous marine training process) followed by horrendously buggy and annoying - the system just doesn't work terribly well, and it's easy to lose a bunch of marines you spent a huge amount of (real life) time training to bad RNG/bugs.

I wish boarding worked better, then I'd be all over that... but as it is, it's just not a lot of fun for a lot of people. So, what you end up with is forcing players to do something they don't want to do(train marines+board) vs. simply allowing players to NOT do something they don't want to do (buy said ships).

It *would* be nice if there was some way to have certain "rare/unique" ships to spawn... well, rarely, so boarding was also an option, but I don't know enough about how Jobs works to know if it's even possible to do that without scattering them all over the place and thus destroying the rarity/uniqueness of the ship.

[Emerentius]

Emerentius wrote:
Hi, noticed a Yaki TL in Savage Spur named "....." (ITLXO-82) with zero shields and zero hull. During IS it looked indestructable. When I returned later it was gone.
I had used temp.xrm.kill.nameless after updating to version v1.04b.
Btw couldn't find any Yaki stations.

Paul wrote:
If you have no stations in Yaki sectors (look in Weavers Tempest - the sector south of Savage Spur) then the XRM is not installed correctly. You almost certainly have a conflicting X3_Universe file. This is a game breaker and very little of the XRM will work. You will need to remove the offending file and restart your game.

Hi, the sector south of Savage Spur in my game is called Ocracoke's Storm and south of that Senetor's Badlands. Is that not correct?
Further I noticed Rhy's Crusade has no discription. It says only "Sector nor recognised in database" (or something like that).

Btw I do see Hikari lasertowers everywhere and fighters disappearing into stations I can't see.

[Mizuchi]

Hi, the sector south of Savage Spur in my game is called Ocracoke's Storm and south of that Senetor's Badlands. Is that not correct?

No, that's corrent. Paul just meant "south of..." as in a general direction, rather than "adjacent to".

Further I noticed Rhy's Crusade has no discription. It says only "Sector nor recognised in database" (or something like that).

We know about that one. We just forgetting to delete the erroneous tfile line.

Btw I do see Hikari lasertowers everywhere and fighters disappearing into stations I can't see.

Hikari Laser Towers are part of Improved Races and not XRM. If you're using IR, I really recommend that you turn that aspect of the Improved Yaki off.

[Wintersdark]

Hikari Laser Towers are part of Improved Races and not XRM. If you're using IR, I really recommend that you turn that aspect of the Improved Yaki off.

This.

In my experience, Improved Yaki is very buggy and basically a minefield of potential problems. Just leave it all off.

Your best off, with IR, just turning on Improved Xenon and Improved Khaak until you get a better feel for how the whole script works - and what elements are safe to play with. Many more advanced options either don't work or cause all sorts of unintended issues.

My two bits at any rate.

[paulwheeler]

If you use cycrow's plugin manager would you edit the TwareT file that it creates instead?

Edit: or does it not matter either way?

No, edit the twaret in part 2 of the xrm, then run the plugin manager and it will integrate any changes.

If you edit the plugin manager version you will lose the changes every time you run the plugin manager.

[Emerentius]

Hi, thanks. I will disable improved yaki.
But is that the reason of the invisible stations? I also use SatelliteEarlyWarningNetwork-V1.22-03.06.2009.spk could that be the reason?

[paulwheeler]

Hi, thanks. I will disable improved yaki.
But is that the reason of the invisible stations? I also use SatelliteEarlyWarningNetwork-V1.22-03.06.2009.spk could that be the reason?

Do you mean stations are on the sector list but no model or no stations at all?

In either case there is a file conflict. Check other mods installed and your types folder for TDocks, TFactories or X3_universe.xml.

[Mizuchi]

Hi, thanks. I will disable improved yaki.

Just disable the Laser Tower and Aoandon options and the rest of Improved Yaki should be fine.

[Nagittchi]

The reason why I wanted cap only/board only ships is because I feel like scouring the universe for it instead of scouring for a shipyard. I have Improved Boarding and Cap modifiers installed in my modded x3tc folder; with everything purchasable, it makes it moot point.

Think of it as your quest to find a Shiny Pokemon.

The only Pokemon game I played were the first red/blue versions when they said there were only 150 pokemon. Then I got mad when they added on more.

And Mizuchi, you talked about being against military using prototypes -

The Griffon was a prototype

[Mizuchi]

The Griffon was a prototype

Keyword: was.

It hasn't been a Prototype in SRM for as long as I can remember.

Now if it was "Prototype Griffon", you'd have a point; but it's not, and the Argon M7C is seeing a lot of service in the universe now.

All ships were originally a prototype - or, rather, had a prototype model or five when the ship was being designed.

My point was that it doesn't make a lot of sense for the Military to still be using prototype vessels when the actual production model has been entered into service. That's why you can still find one prototype in use for each race (as that's the first production model), but the why the rest are relegated to specialist retailers.

Besides which, the Prototype variants are kind of pointless.

Anyhow, I'm not adding unique ships to XRM Jobs. Jobs as it stands is pretty much final now. Even when Cadius releases more ships and XRM gobbles them up, they should appear in the Universe (almost) right away without any Jobs tweaks.

[surferx]

Hi,

Just updated to v1.04c and I'm noticing something really odd.

I've been to several sectors where, thanks to IR, the Kha'ak are invading. However now (right after applying the update) when Kha'ak M2's fire you see the beams coming from the ship plus another beam that's dislocated in space, some km from the M2!

So basically, Kha'ak M2 fires one of its turrets & I see three beams shoot out towards the target. At the exact same moment, and for the same duration, three other beams shoot out randomly several km away from the ship - I'm viewing from a distance.

The odd thing (other than there being this floating beam in the first place!) is that during its lifetime these beams start and end points move.

Bloody weird!

The only thing different is that I applied v1.04c just prior to this session. All other mods and scripts remain unchanged.

Cheers,

Scoob.

I saw this about a week ago and took this [ external image ]screenshot.
The battle was going on in the other part of the sector, but everytime a ship fired these appeared.

[Scoob]

Hi surferx,

Yep, that's it! I'd taken some shots myself of it in action last night but hadn't got around to posting them.

Glad someone else is reporting this too.

Cheers,

Scoob.

[paulwheeler]

I've already got this fixed. It will be in the next update.

[bernoud]

Hi all,

I installed a small Orbital Plateform, but how it works ? It is just like a dock ....

How do the defense working with such a building ?

[morikaane]

I installed a small Orbital Plateform, but how it works ? It is just like a dock .... How do the defense working with such a building ?

Firstly (apologies if you've done this already) is assign a hotkey to the XTra Cadius OWP Activate. You need to access the controls on the main in-game menu and find that in the extensions section on the interface tab. Once you've assigned a key, save the updated profile, target your OWP and press that key.

it was change from a station into a proper OWP. last i checked the OWP comes complete with free weaponry and shields. Then, all you do is leave it as is, and have the turrets set to "Attack Enemies" and if any enemies fly past it whilst in weapons range, well, they get blown away

i usually put it into Defend Position mode (the OWP itself) but I doubt it makes little difference. also, don't place it too close to a gate or something as it is likely to move around and go out of position when you enter that sector after leaving it.

Hope that helps.
M.

[Kadatherion]

I remember OWPs didn't work at all OOS though, vanilla bug related to their max speed being 0 IIRC, and it seems that is still true now, judging by how I see commonwealth ones get easily destroyed OOS by just a wing of xenon fighters (while they are pretty wicked IS). If it's the same for player owned ones, then, they aren't much more than just flavour and hardly worth the money. Lasertowers are probably the way to go now, they've been beefed up quite a lot in XRM, and they are really cheap. A bunch of lasertowers near a gate should be able to make short work of pretty much anything hostile trying to come through.

[Alan Phipps]

@ morikaane: Agreed. Being normally classed in-game as a ship, an OWP might be moved any time you enter sector if the placement proximity detection thinks that it is going to be put too close to something else (static or a ship in transit) that has already been positioned. It is better to put them a bit away from static objects and normal transit lanes between gates and stations. Obviously you still need them in weapon/missile range of likely hostile approaches to your assets.

[bernoud]

Thank you for the replies ;=)

I saw that early, and this was not talking to me as I'm not understanding english very well.

Will have a try