[XTM - GAMEPLAY] Gameplay discussion for Xtended Mod

Sukayo · Post by **Sukayo** » Tue, 4. Nov 08, 23:19

same problem here, so it is not your IP. AS, any help needed?

2Blackhawk · Post by **2Blackhawk** » Tue, 4. Nov 08, 23:20

The site was not hacked.

The IP problem should be solved meanwhile (iirc problem with shared IPs)

And currently there are technical problem. Mokonzi is working on the problem, just try later again

Frodric · Post by **Frodric** » Wed, 5. Nov 08, 03:25

Since the site is down could anyone possibly link me to a mirror of the EXE installer for the new version?

Aragon Speed · Post by **Aragon Speed** » Wed, 5. Nov 08, 09:23

Frodric wrote:Since the site is down could anyone possibly link me to a mirror of the EXE installer for the new version?

Our host has been having server trouble all week and it seems to have finally gone kaput

. We, and they, are trying to resolve the issue.

Luckily our download server is not based at the same place. So for those of you who wish to DL the latest version of XTM...

Full version: http://downloads.thexuniverse.us/downlo ... 5_Full.exe
Patch version: http://downloads.thexuniverse.us/downlo ... _Patch.exe

Just point the installer at your x3reunion folder (the same one that has the x3.exe file in) and install.

max274bm · Post by **max274bm** » Wed, 5. Nov 08, 13:08

Can anyone tell me if the Heavy Missile Gun is a replacement for the Remote Guided Warhead in XTM? Or does the gun use Warheads as ammo?

Cheers

Max

2Blackhawk · Post by **2Blackhawk** » Wed, 5. Nov 08, 13:24

The HMG is no replacement for none of them. It uses antimatter rockets as ammunition.

Frodric · Post by **Frodric** » Wed, 5. Nov 08, 15:41

Man thanks for the link Downloaded and installed.

Aragon Speed · Post by **Aragon Speed** » Fri, 7. Nov 08, 01:45

TXU is now back on-line.

J Cubed · Post by **J Cubed** » Fri, 7. Nov 08, 05:03

I'm sorry if this (probably) has been answered in the forums before. "Extra Search" in the forums can be totally useless, sometimes, as I tried several searches that gave me loads of topics totally unrelated to what I needed.

Anyway, in the game I'm told that, before I can get my space station, I'm told that. . .

Spoiler

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I need to find a ship carrying plans for the station. I've followed the leads to the Unknown Sector below the one next to Maelstrom, with the new race. I've found their blinky blue and beautifully huge dyson sphere, but still no Boron ship. There were a few pirate ships, but they didn't last long. I tried flying back to KE, thinking they would accept that the ship is lost, but they didn't even seem to notice my return.

So, is there somewhere in the sector that I should find that ship?
Thanks for any help you can give!

Katpagan · Post by **Katpagan** » Sat, 8. Nov 08, 21:42

Hiya. Second time lucky. I tried to posted this a couple of days ago and the wee beastie managed to escape to the main board. Slippery little sucker. Hopefully I've got it right this time.

I'm not sure if this problem is a bug or not so please forgive me for posting this here if it turns out to be a bug. If someone knows if it is then please let me know and I will go to that board instead. Thank you.

Okay enough waffle and on to the problem I've been having.

After installing XTM I went back and started the game from scratch. I have just completed the main plot (again) and have a problem with the Paranid. Some of them seem to hate me or rather my traders. My Paranid rating has been returned to what it was before, Priest Protectorate and I still have my Licence. FOF is still set to Friend. When one of my traders was attacked in Empires Edge I personally went there to see if they would attack me and they didn’t. On the sector map they came up as red until I jumped my trader out of there and then they went to blue. However on the radar map and on HUD they still were red. When I completed the vanilla version I did not have this problem so I’m assuming it must have something to do with XTM. This is really going to be annoying if every time one of my UT’s goes into Paranid space they could get attacked and even destroyed. I or my traders haven’t attacked any of them and it only seems to be certain Paranid that are the trouble. I would have thought that it would be all police that would have a problem with me if I have done something wrong somewhere along the line but as I have said it is only certain ships some of which are police. Pre-Plot Ending I had no trouble with the Paranid at all.

Confused here. Has anyone else had this problem and if so could you please tell me what is causing it and can I correct it? I’m playing XTM version 0.7.3 in case that is relevant.

Thank you for any help you could offer and if you have any question please let me know. I really want to see if I can get this sorted before I continue with the game in case I have to alter something and start from scratch (Oh god, please not again!)

Kate

Aragon Speed · Post by **Aragon Speed** » Sun, 9. Nov 08, 06:45

Katpagan wrote:Hiya. Second time lucky. I tried to posted this a couple of days ago and the wee beastie managed to escape to the main board. Slippery little sucker. Hopefully I've got it right this time.

I'm not sure if this problem is a bug or not so please forgive me for posting this here if it turns out to be a bug. If someone knows if it is then please let me know and I will go to that board instead. Thank you.

Okay enough waffle and on to the problem I've been having.

After installing XTM I went back and started the game from scratch. I have just completed the main plot (again) and have a problem with the Paranid. Some of them seem to hate me or rather my traders. My Paranid rating has been returned to what it was before, Priest Protectorate and I still have my Licence. FOF is still set to Friend. When one of my traders was attacked in Empires Edge I personally went there to see if they would attack me and they didn’t. On the sector map they came up as red until I jumped my trader out of there and then they went to blue. However on the radar map and on HUD they still were red. When I completed the vanilla version I did not have this problem so I’m assuming it must have something to do with XTM. This is really going to be annoying if every time one of my UT’s goes into Paranid space they could get attacked and even destroyed. I or my traders haven’t attacked any of them and it only seems to be certain Paranid that are the trouble. I would have thought that it would be all police that would have a problem with me if I have done something wrong somewhere along the line but as I have said it is only certain ships some of which are police. Pre-Plot Ending I had no trouble with the Paranid at all.

Confused here. Has anyone else had this problem and if so could you please tell me what is causing it and can I correct it? I’m playing XTM version 0.7.3 in case that is relevant.

Thank you for any help you could offer and if you have any question please let me know. I really want to see if I can get this sorted before I continue with the game in case I have to alter something and start from scratch (Oh god, please not again!)

Kate

There were some problems with races turning hostile in 7.3 (mostly the Sohnen tho), you should upgrade to 7.5 really as there were a lot of bugs in 7.3 that have been fixed in 7.4 and 7.5.

Full version: http://www.thexuniverse.com/viewarticle ... icleid=301
Patch version: http://www.thexuniverse.com/viewarticle ... icleid=300
(Install instructions are also on those pages

)

It may also be caused by a script conflict, can you list any other scripts/mods you are running apart from XTM please?

Katpagan · Post by **Katpagan** » Sun, 9. Nov 08, 11:38

Thank you ever so much for your reply.

I am very new to installing scripts/mods etc. so please forgive my muppet status when it comes to this. I wasn't sure where to look to see if I have any other scripts running so I went to the Plugin Manager to see what it said there and the only one that is there is Xtended Mod Scripts 0.7.3. If there is any where else I need to look please let me know. I don't remember ever installing anything else other than XTM.

As to version 0.7.5 could you please tell me if I need to install the full version and then the patch or just the patch?

One final question - script editor. I followed the link to see how to enable it and once you have changed name, saved and reloaded can you then go back to your old name or would this turn it off again?

Thank you again for your help.

Kate

Aragon Speed · Post by **Aragon Speed** » Mon, 10. Nov 08, 00:36

Katpagan wrote:Thank you ever so much for your reply.

I am very new to installing scripts/mods etc. so please forgive my muppet status when it comes to this. I wasn't sure where to look to see if I have any other scripts running so I went to the Plugin Manager to see what it said there and the only one that is there is Xtended Mod Scripts 0.7.3. If there is any where else I need to look please let me know. I don't remember ever installing anything else other than XTM.

As to version 0.7.5 could you please tell me if I need to install the full version and then the patch or just the patch?

One final question - script editor. I followed the link to see how to enable it and once you have changed name, saved and reloaded can you then go back to your old name or would this turn it off again?

Thank you again for your help.

Kate

Almost all modern scripts and mods use Cycrows plug-in manager, so the chances of you having something installed that isn't listed in that program are very small. You would probably remember if you had anything else installed anyway as you would have had to do it manually.

Script Editor (SE): If your name has changed then the SE hasn't been activated; This is usually caused by a typo. Give yourself your normal name back.

To activate the SE you need to type in the following exactly:-

Thereshallbewings

Two common errors that cause problems are:
1. Forgetting to make the first letter a capital.
2. SE has trouble with double letters if they are typed too fast. Make sure you have two ell's in 'shall'. ie Thereshallbewings

If it has worked correctly there will be a short pause where the game looks like it has frozen but then it will carry on as normal, and your name will not have changed either.

The patch version of XTM is for people who have a current version of XTM installed, and the full version is for people who have never played it before and so includes all the core files as well.

As by your own admission you are a muppet

when it comes to modding, I would download the full version of XTM 0.7.5, and although it is a long winded process this is the safest course to follow to install it without problems. (This will assume you are using Windows XP, if you aren't let me know and I will do a set of instructions altered for Vista.

)

1. Open 'My Documents' and look for the 'Egosoft' folder.

2. Copy and paste it to your desktop.

The ES folder contains your save games, by doing this you have backed them up for safety in case it all goes wrong.

At least you will not have lost your saves like this.

3. Open Cycrow's Plug-in manager and un-install the 7.3 script files, then close plug-in manager again.

4. If you have it installed, un-install the ES bonus pack.

5. Uninstall X3 itself.

6. Go into your 'Program Files' folder and look for the leftover folder from X3R. It is usually called 'Egosoft' or 'Deepsilver'. (This depends on which country you bought X3R in.) Delete this folder. This makes sure there are no leftover files that may cause problems later.

7. Install X3 again.

8. If you installed from a disk and not from steam then patch X3 to version 2.5. >>>Click to go to the X3R patch page<<< (Steam will automatically patch the game to the latest version.)

9. (Optional) Install the latest ES bonus pack. >>>Click to go to the bonus pack page<<<

10. Install XTM 0.7.5 using the full version.

You should now be able to continue with your old save games without any problems. If they don't show up in the load menu, then just copy your backed up folder from your desktop back into your my documents folder.

If your problems with hostile paranoid Paranids continue please let us know and we will attempt to help further.

Katpagan · Post by **Katpagan** » Mon, 10. Nov 08, 20:07

THANK YOU big time for all your help. I have just finished following your very muppet friendly instuctions

, (fingers crossed) and had a very brief fly around to see if there were any nasty paranid but didn't spot any. I won't have the time to have a good rumage around until Wednesday so if I come across any then I'll let you know.

Hope you don't mind me asking just a couple of little questions to clarify a few points.

1. On the main startup screen that has the version number on it, it has version 0.7.4 instead of .5. Is that what it should say after installing .5? It was definitely .5 that I installed - I just double checked to make sure before asking this.

(thought that might be a good thing to do

)

2. Do I still need to install the patch or not? The saved games seem to work fine so I wasn't sure whether to install it or not.

In the meantime I can't thank you enough for all your, very much appreciated, help.

Love the pagan saying at the bottom of your posts

.

Kate

Aragon Speed · Post by **Aragon Speed** » Mon, 10. Nov 08, 22:58

Katpagan wrote:THANK YOU big time for all your help. I have just finished following your very muppet friendly instuctions , (fingers crossed) and had a very brief fly around to see if there were any nasty paranid but didn't spot any. I won't have the time to have a good rumage around until Wednesday so if I come across any then I'll let you know.

Hope you don't mind me asking just a couple of little questions to clarify a few points.

1. On the main startup screen that has the version number on it, it has version 0.7.4 instead of .5. Is that what it should say after installing .5? It was definitely .5 that I installed - I just double checked to make sure before asking this. (thought that might be a good thing to do )

2. Do I still need to install the patch or not? The saved games seem to work fine so I wasn't sure whether to install it or not.

In the meantime I can't thank you enough for all your, very much appreciated, help.

Love the pagan saying at the bottom of your posts .

Kate

7.5 has the 7.4 number for 2 reasons.

1. 7.5 was just a small bug fix release of 7.4. And more importantly...

2. I forgot to change the graphic.

So yes it should show 7.4.

No you do not need to install the patch. The patch is for people who are already playing a previous version of XTM (7.4/7.3/etc) and only contains the files that have changed since .7a was released - so it is a smaller download than the full version as it does not contain the core files from .7a. The full version contains all the files - the core files from .7a and the files from the patch version.

The Pagan saying is taken from a game called Thief. I liked it as it made me think that with all the advances we have made in the technological areas and scientific areas etc, that essentially the nature of humans has stayed the same...

J Cubed wrote:I'm sorry if this (probably) has been answered in the forums before. "Extra Search" in the forums can be totally useless, sometimes, as I tried several searches that gave me loads of topics totally unrelated to what I needed.

Anyway, in the game I'm told that, before I can get my space station, I'm told that. . .
Spoiler
Show
I need to find a ship carrying plans for the station. I've followed the leads to the Unknown Sector below the one next to Maelstrom, with the new race. I've found their blinky blue and beautifully huge dyson sphere, but still no Boron ship. There were a few pirate ships, but they didn't last long. I tried flying back to KE, thinking they would accept that the ship is lost, but they didn't even seem to notice my return.
So, is there somewhere in the sector that I should find that ship?
Thanks for any help you can give!

Sorry I missed that earlier. I am not a scripter so I can't offer a solution to your problem, but I can see it is a bug. I would post in the XTM Tech Support Forum, as from there we can help you better with what could possibly end up being a complex issue.

English XTM tech support forum: http://www.thexuniverse.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=33 Bug reports and Known Issues relating to the XTM .7
Deutsche XTM Tech Support Foren: http://www.thexuniverse.com/forum/proje ... rojectid=4 Bugs und entdeckte Probleme im Bezug auf den letzten Xtended Mod-Release.

Katpagan · Post by **Katpagan** » Wed, 12. Nov 08, 16:31

Hiya. Update - I think a yipee! might be in order.

Upon start of play, I loaded up my game from where I'd left it (just after completing plot) and sent a trader into Empire's Edge and immediately got a message saying that everybody hated him (poor thing) and asked what to do. Start planning a 'wake' I think as he was destroyed in seconds (bless him).

Upon a wee think, I decided to go back to last mission of plot as I had no trouble before then. Luckily I had saved the game halfway through last mission so I loaded that. After completing it (again ahhh!) I went straight to Empire's Edge and parked meself there. So far all blue on HUD. But could they be bluffing? Ummm. So I 'volunteered' a sector trader to go in and see what happened next (brave man). Still all blue. Promising. After 3 hours of play still all blue and not one ST or UT trader attacked. So I think a big

is in order.

Thank you once again for everything and for allowing me to keep my hair

Also, in total agreement on 'saying'. Well said.

Happy playing.

Kate

uptheirons · Post by **uptheirons** » Fri, 5. Dec 08, 14:17

i originally had the scrapyard ship dealer script installed on my old game but lost it when i bought a new pc. does anybody know where i can get the script as i can not seem to find it or is it actually in xtm which is what i am running at the moment?

uptheirons · Post by **uptheirons** » Sat, 13. Dec 08, 03:01

i have just managed to get to venus and all the terrans there tolerate me so i jumped a mercury hauler in and sold a few energy cells to them but still everything is red on the station product details.

how do i get these terran fellas to like me?

Post by **Nanook** » Sat, 13. Dec 08, 03:04

XTM is a mod for X3 Reunion. Your question is best answered in the Scripts & Modding Forum.

Anach · Post by **Anach** » Sun, 14. Dec 08, 11:56

Looking for any info on Marines + Boarding in XTM. Found a Marine factory but no details on them.

Apparently only one ship (An OTAS ship?) can use marines. Can anyone elaborate on this? Can you board other ships, how do you do so and what ship can do it?

Thanks in advance.

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[XTM - GAMEPLAY] Gameplay discussion for Xtended Mod

Stuck on X3 Xtended looking for Boron with plans for my station.

Why do some paranid hate me?

Re: Why do some paranid hate me?

scrapyard ship dealer

X3:xtm..how Do I Make The Terrans Like Me