[SCRIPT] BBS Extras V1.61 : Updated 04/12/2006

Dgn Master · Post by **Dgn Master** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 13:19

Ok i'll meet ya half way

A rep hit is ok, so long as it's not instant war in most cases, maybe a one rank drop say from Argon Federation Guardian to Argon Trusted Ally or simular. Not so much as to cripple you if you have been trying to earn rank, but enough so that you feel the sting of your actions.

However if your only a citizen it would put you at war with them.

Sound fair?

Sandalpocalypse · Post by **Sandalpocalypse** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 13:22

it takes some pretty evil actions to go to 'at war'. For the most part, even a serious reputation hit will just bar you from docking or entering 'Core' sectors.

Dgn Master · Post by **Dgn Master** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 13:28

Kinda moot us discussing this anyways when it's Cycrow's script and i'm sure he will decide what to do with it. Although it has been nice debatin with ya.

Sandalpocalypse · Post by **Sandalpocalypse** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 13:30

Where would we be without irrelevant debate? Somewhere, that's where. And who wants to be somewhere when you can be elsewhere?

DrunkenPirate · Post by **DrunkenPirate** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 13:37

The station and gate location offers are a little steep don't you think?

80,000 to show me where 4 gates are? It would take 2 mins to find em on yer own.

Maybe wrap this and the station one into 1 BBS and cut the price a little.

Post by **Cycrow** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 13:49

yyeah i wasn't too sure what prices to set
so i'll just have to balance out the prices

but remember, it will reveal the distance gates and stations too, like pirate bases

Crush · Post by **Crush** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 14:08

Sandalpocalypse wrote:Still, maybe something that made getting a pirate capital ship more involved?

something like...

pirates have found out that during some huge battle with xenon or khaah some capital ships were so badly damaged that their crew left them to float around in the universe until some tug comes and tugs them to a recycling plant.

the ships are guarded by some fighters (to prevent marauding) and it's only going to be there for a certain time. so you pay only for the information, but have to fight for the wreck yourself. and then claim it. of course, it will be very badly damaged... and the distance to a shipyard will also be considerable...

now that would be interesting.

because huge battles happen all the time and it would be only natural if they left ships behind that are too expensive to repair... maybe...

by the way, how is that 'jump to me' command working out?

Post by **Cycrow** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 14:17

should be a simple command, but i've not started on it yet, been finishing of a few things first, i wanted to get all the bugs out the current scripts first

Crush · Post by **Crush** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 14:20

Cycrow wrote:should be a simple command, but i've not started on it yet, been finishing of a few things first, i wanted to get all the bugs out the current scripts first

yeah, that would be better. noone likes bugs... especially when x3 has enough to last a lifetime.

X-it · Post by **X-it** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 14:23

Another great script. Thank you Cycrow!

Yellowman · Post by **Yellowman** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 23:04

mmmmmmmmmmm i now have my ray (tnx too this script

) But can u buy more capital ships or is this it?? Because now i cant find it anymore (agian)?

Post by **Cycrow** » Tue, 27. Dec 05, 23:21

there is no limit to how often the offer will show up
so u can buy as many as u like

Yellowman · Post by **Yellowman** » Wed, 28. Dec 05, 11:22

ok tnx then i will search further. But will it always be a Collossus, Ray and Hydra or will it chance also?

Post by **Cycrow** » Wed, 28. Dec 05, 13:28

no, it will be random ships

Rambam · Post by **Rambam** » Wed, 28. Dec 05, 15:27

I think that the current system of buying capital ships from the BBS is fine ( but then I would - I've just bought a Teladi Condor that I'm using hull repair technology to patch up

).

I had a similar idea, but didn't know nearly enough about scripting to be able to knock a script together. My idea was that rogue Teladi salvagers would jump into battle zones after the fighting had finished and use their TLs / tugs to pick up any ships that had been abandoned. Mostly, they'd deal in fighter ships selling to dodgy organisations that didn't have the governmental contacts to buy them legitimately. Occasionally they'd offer capital ships, but any captured carrier or destroyer would have been so shot up that the crew would have had to bail. The salvagers would be willing to sell them to you, but wouldn't bother repairing them first.

I was considering putting the idea on the forum as a script request, but now I don't have to. Thanks Cycrow!

I do take the point that buying capital ships is maybe too easy. I personally don't feel guilty about buying my Condor, as I have pretty good race relations already - just one rank below being able to buy capital ships from shipyards (for all races). Increasing rank is so slow now - even a Xenon invasion will only increase my rep by 2% or so, and I can't even leave the game on SETA because I still have issues with freezing! Maybe there should be something extra involved, though - the peeved former owners of your new ship could send out a squad of fighters to destroy it and/or you. Imagine a dozen argon novas armed with mass drivers suddenly turning red when they get within 1 km of you!

Post by **Cycrow** » Wed, 28. Dec 05, 15:32

im thinking making putting the cap ship heavly damaged in a sector somewhere thats guarded by some fighters, when you pay on the BBS for the ship, you get given the position of the shpi, and its urs if you take out all the defending ships

it makes it gives you abit of work to get it as well as paying for it and makes it feel abit more real

X-it · Post by **X-it** » Wed, 28. Dec 05, 15:43

Cycrow wrote:im thinking making putting the cap ship heavly damaged in a sector somewhere thats guarded by some fighters, when you pay on the BBS for the ship, you get given the position of the shpi, and its urs if you take out all the defending ships

it makes it gives you abit of work to get it as well as paying for it and makes it feel abit more real

If you can pull this off, you're a true genious! (then again I know nothing about scripting...

)

Out of curiosity, are you a professional programmer or something? I took a java programming class in college (and made a few simple programs in Basic and 'hex-code' in the 80's), and I've studied some of your scripts in the script editor. They look very intelligent and logical, if you know what I mean. No redundant code as far as I can see. But again; I know nothing about scripting in X3...

Post by **Cycrow** » Wed, 28. Dec 05, 15:55

yes, i have a degree in games programming
and have worked for games companies, altohu im freelancing atm, working on various programming projects like control systems for moter sports

but in the new year i will start to work for a games company again

Crush · Post by **Crush** » Wed, 28. Dec 05, 17:04

it's nice to see that my ideas have contributed to this script.

Post by **Cycrow** » Wed, 28. Dec 05, 19:49

ok, the new version has changed the buying of capitol ships, you now have to fight for them

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[SCRIPT] BBS Extras V1.61 : Updated 04/12/2006