AL Plugin : Treasurehunt Redux 1.1 20.3.07

WetWarev7 · Post by **WetWarev7** » Fri, 2. Dec 05, 16:28

Have you thought about attaching this to the BBS? I've allways thought that you should be able to do something with some of those messages.

I know you'd have to write a whole bunch of different messages, but it would be cool to see messages about ships being lost/captured and being able to track them down to claim(or get attacked by) them...

999-JAY-999 · Post by **999-JAY-999** » Fri, 2. Dec 05, 16:37

Interesting thought there WetWarev7.

Tie in and make this 'treasure' some sort of Bulletin Board mission of discovery.

Even go as far as conjuring up elaborate explanations of a famous battle or first contact that has left a ship stranded.. Find the ship, rescue the pilot etc.

LV · Post by LV » Fri, 2. Dec 05, 16:39

BBS stuff later maybe i'm too busy fixing and writing new stuff atm

Can any of you running thunt let me know if plugin.treasurehunt.ships is constantly running in your global scripts menu before i posts updats to my scripts

ta

999-JAY-999 · Post by **999-JAY-999** » Fri, 2. Dec 05, 16:52

Such a traumatic decision... expand current scripts or write more????.... I am giddy just thinking about it !

Your question about script constantly running?.. If you mean is it always set to YES in the AL script menu then yes, mine is always on ... if you mean something else then I will have to hand it over to someone else as I can not check right now.

Goffik · Post by **Goffik** » Fri, 2. Dec 05, 22:50

I get a "Page not found" error when clicking the link to download.

nefas · Post by **nefas** » Fri, 2. Dec 05, 22:58

Same as Goffik.

LV · Post by LV » Fri, 2. Dec 05, 23:11

CTRL +F5 the first page of this thread and the link will work.

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This is the Globals Scripts menu

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You will see the script running in here if it's locked

Updated

tweaks nothing too special other than enabling Escort to tap into the plugin

please dl from first post link

DemaeRamen · Post by **DemaeRamen** » Sat, 3. Dec 05, 03:09

Do the treasures disappear over time?

I'd been filling a notebook with sectors to check. Finally got round to it and I find nothing in any of them.

Maybe I just looked sloppily but the notes were a few days old.

NumNuts · Post by **NumNuts** » Wed, 7. Dec 05, 17:54

I'm also having difficulty finding anything in sectors that pirates have given me......
Are the ships within the gate confines of the system?
Do they only appear if you get close enough to a coordinate?

Just accepted a pirates plea for life and he told me to go to PTNI HQ, I went there immediately and found no unpiloted ships....

What am I missing???? Any ideas/help??
Thanks.

LV · Post by LV » Wed, 7. Dec 05, 18:25

from other threads it appears that ships with no command a killed by the game over time, this may be the issue, i'll take a look later

Mule · Post by **Mule** » Thu, 8. Dec 05, 00:30

LV,
As to your earlier question...
I do have the script running in my global menu. Is this bad?

LV · Post by LV » Thu, 8. Dec 05, 01:43

no

delete it in that menu

then comment out in that script via the script editor (lines 4+5 below) run the script once using 'r' comment them back in then re-init script caches about 2 mins seta later.

it should then appear periodically in that menu and switch off again.

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003   $runonce = get global variable: name='lv.scrun'
004   skip if $runonce == $anull
005    return $anull

NumNuts · Post by **NumNuts** » Thu, 8. Dec 05, 07:15

LV, My Global Script Tasks lists it as:
plugin.treasurehunt.ships : null

Should I do what you mentioned earlier?? ie.
"delete it in that menu,
then comment out in that script via the script editor (lines 4+5 below),
run the script once using 'r',
comment them back in then re-init script caches about 2 mins seta later.

004 skip if $runonce == $anull
005 return $anull
"

LV · Post by LV » Thu, 8. Dec 05, 09:41

999-JAY-999 · Post by **999-JAY-999** » Thu, 8. Dec 05, 10:01

I did this procedure (Script editor, comment out certain lines) about 5 times for the escort script before it kicked back into action.... and at last ....its working... reading here do I need to do the same for this one ????....

Very strange that there seems to be a time delay where certain scripts suddenly STOP..... can you LV add something into a script or provide a script that can reset and reinitialise automatically all scripts that are being used (or even display on screen in simple terms whats actually running at a touch of a button) as its becoming a brain bender as a player. Instead of playing the game I am wondering all the time are the scripts in the game actually working ..?

Like many here I am sure, I am very new to the script engine and its editor(no time, barely enough to actually play the game)...all I see are many many many entries of scripts describing this that and the other..

I personally like to simply plug in a script and not have to worry again about it.

Without actually becoming a scripter in our own right its not easy to know what to do with these little marvels of programming.

Which is why I look to you about this issue ...

NumNuts · Post by **NumNuts** » Thu, 8. Dec 05, 11:15

Hi LV,
Doing the above procedure didnt cure the script appearing in Global permanently for me, however deleting it again from Global then turning TH off and on again in AL settings has stopped it from appearing in Global. I ran seta (x6) for 15 mins and didnt see treasurehunt.ships appear once, many others including TH.addboxes and escort.me but no TH.ships.
Is this a good thing? Should it only launch when a Pirate gives info on a ship?
Sorry to ask so many questions, I have no idea whats going on but trying to provide as much info as possible.
Thanks.

DeltaWolf · Post by **DeltaWolf** » Thu, 8. Dec 05, 13:31

I see you are using text file "5676" and not "8802" as specified here:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... 31#1188531

I know it's not a problem at the moment, but as Burianek said:

Text file names between 7000 - 8999 are reserved for unsigned scripts in X3. Please use numbers in this range.
(example: use 447002.xml, 448246.xml, etc. NOT 440050.xml)

you might consider changing it.

Also in the "setup.lv.thunt" file you are using the following code:

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 al engine: register script='!a.plugin.treasurehunt.ships'
015   al engine: set plugin '!a.plugin.treasurehunt.ships' timer interval to 900 s
016   
017 @ = wait randomly from 100 to 200 ms
018   al engine: register script='!a.plugin.treasurehunt.addboxes'
019   al engine: set plugin '!a.plugin.treasurehunt.addboxes' timer interval to 900 s

the files" !a.plugin.treasurehunt.addboxes" and "!a.plugin.treaurehunt.ship" does not exist.

LV · Post by LV » Thu, 8. Dec 05, 15:45

LV lines up and hands each person a large fish to beat him with.

I'll fix all this laters, thanks for the spots guys, I have toooo many scripts to deal with \o/

LV · Post by LV » Fri, 9. Dec 05, 13:23

Script has now been updated to 1.2 (first post

)

Changes

all ! references removed from setup file (you can delete setup.thunt from your scripts folder) , tfile is now 8802 and not 5676 which you may delete if you already have thunt installed.

Cheers

I have also aded a link to the first post of all my plugins which will disable any global mission blocks *for peeps who were not being offered escort/dma/ect/ect missions

NumNuts · Post by **NumNuts** » Fri, 9. Dec 05, 13:44

Thanks LV.
Now gotta go find some pirates.

AL Plugin : Treasurehunt Redux 1.1 20.3.07

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