I love the Xai Corporation

mr_south · Post by **mr_south** » Fri, 23. Jan 04, 14:38

BurnIt! wrote:No, we don't want to go into competition with sites such as xscripting.com or the xai corporation for that matter - great stuff there - but we have planned this from the beginning and still plan to make our plans come true

I'm so glad to hear that. How could we possibly beat this guy, right?

OK, get serious. I personally don't like competition. My making script is purely because I would like to create more fun in my favorite game. And joining Xai Corp. is because I realize that team work can make my good dream even better. We want so much from this game, and it does have all that potential in it. One person or one group can never be able to cover every aspects of it.

So, I dare to propose the following to all that are interested:

1) Create theads in this section, exchanging info on the big plans of your scripting.

2) We work on our plans independently, but by the exchange of info, we may avoid major overlaps between projects. So our similar projects may sever more like complementarities to one another, than duplications of one another.

3) All non-scripters can take good parts in it by providing ideas, making suggestions, beta testing and more. This could happen not only after the script is finished, but before and during development. (Like the incoming message suggestion on Jumpdrive command)
As the more time a scripter spent on scripting, the lesser he/she could spend on actual playing. So non-scripters can provide much more insight on the game play.

In this way, it is possible that we can distribute our efforts more efficiently, and cover much more grounds. Then, well, it's almost a cliche but, I do believe our X-Universe could be a better place than ever.

Of course there's risks that somebody may steal your idea before your release. To those who would do this, I say SHAME ON YOU. To those who may suffer from this, I say, come on guys, you see your idea is so good that others cannot resist the temptation to steal it... be pround of yourself.

Ok, ok, I will shut up, for now.

n0tsane · Post by **n0tsane** » Fri, 23. Jan 04, 20:31

mr_south wrote:1) Create theads in this section, exchanging info on the big plans of your scripting.

2) We work on our plans independently, but by the exchange of info, we may avoid major overlaps between projects. So our similar projects may sever more like complementarities to one another, than duplications of one another.

3) All non-scripters can take good parts in it by providing ideas, making suggestions, beta testing and more. This could happen not only after the script is finished, but before and during development. (Like the incoming message suggestion on Jumpdrive command)
As the more time a scripter spent on scripting, the lesser he/she could spend on actual playing. So non-scripters can provide much more insight on the game play.

these are great ideas that i wish all the people who are currently scripting would do. combine this with Reven's idea of listing out what is in character and not i think this would improve the efficiency and reliability of scripts that are coming out to make more professional looking scripts that add to the games value instead of mudding it up and making it worse.

one thing that i'm not sure if it is possible, but working directly or indirectly with the game developers so that good scripts made by gamers did not or will not conflict with things they are developing or planning to add to the game with a patch or updates like the Trade MK3.

strikerrb · Post by **strikerrb** » Sun, 25. Jan 04, 17:30

It would be nice to try some of the scripts posted on the Xai Website but I can not get them to send me a valadation message when I try to register.

When I try to login it states that I am off line hense no downloads are possible.

Strikerrb

Omicron · Post by **Omicron** » Sun, 25. Jan 04, 18:08

please! someone! BurnIt!, Xai Corp.! SOMEONE!!!

CAPTURABLE CAPITAL SHIPS AND KHAAK SHIPS!!!!!!!

moggy2 · Post by **moggy2** » Sun, 25. Jan 04, 18:08

strikerrb wrote:It would be nice to try some of the scripts posted on the Xai Website but I can not get them to send me a valadation message when I try to register.

When I try to login it states that I am off line hense no downloads are possible.

Strikerrb

The downloads are also available at www.xscripting.com

I sent you an email. Your account registered properly, I think you must have some kind of problem accepting our cookie, maybe a filter that's rejecting it for some reason.

kryptyk · Post by **kryptyk** » Mon, 26. Jan 04, 05:36

@stikerrb

Check to see how high your internet security settings are for IE. If they are too high they won't accept any identifying cookies.

Lorien · Post by **Lorien** » Mon, 26. Jan 04, 18:55

mr_south wrote:There's another new feature you may or may not cheer: you have to buy the command pack as an upgrade now! It's available in Goner Temple, and most Argon Equipment Docks, at a price of 95K.

How do you set the price - I've looked all through the files that come with FATE v1.1 and can't find the figure in any of the files that relates to the price in the Argon Equipment Dock (or is it so blindingly obvious that I'm missing it???)

moggy2 · Post by **moggy2** » Mon, 26. Jan 04, 19:36

seems to be built into the game.

Lorien · Post by **Lorien** » Mon, 26. Jan 04, 20:11

moggy2 wrote:seems to be built into the game.

It must have something to do with the ID number you supply to the product in the .xml file in the t folder.

Anybody official willing to say?

Lothmorg · Post by **Lothmorg** » Mon, 26. Jan 04, 20:18

Lorien wrote:How do you set the price - I've looked all through the files that come with FATE v1.1 and can't find the figure in any of the files that relates to the price in the Argon Equipment Dock

Umm, check out the Jumpdrive script, not the FATE. You might see it there.

Lorien · Post by **Lorien** » Mon, 26. Jan 04, 20:29

Lothmorg wrote:
Lorien wrote:How do you set the price - I've looked all through the files that come with FATE v1.1 and can't find the figure in any of the files that relates to the price in the Argon Equipment Dock
Umm, check out the Jumpdrive script, not the FATE. You might see it there.

I've looked all through the FATE scripts and can't find the 7944cr figure that the game asks me to pay for the upgrade so I wouldn't have much luck in finding the 95k one in the jumpdrive one now (I've not even downloaded it yet, I just used this as a reference point as it should be in the same type of file regardless of the script sets)

moggy2 · Post by **moggy2** » Mon, 26. Jan 04, 21:45

Lorien wrote:
moggy2 wrote:seems to be built into the game.
It must have something to do with the ID number you supply to the product in the .xml file in the t folder.

Anybody official willing to say?

There are about 20 unused product slots that show up in the wares list. Each one already has a price asociated with it.

LV · Post by LV » Tue, 27. Jan 04, 01:25

Is there only me that has the problem with the mining script .?

I tried it with 2 ships at once and it took so long and so many keypress to mine anything i just ended up jumping in a demeter myself

strikerrb · Post by **strikerrb** » Tue, 27. Jan 04, 04:09

Thanks for replying to my post. I have checked and all seems ok but still nothing so I must be missing something I will keep at it.

Anything worth having is worth figuring out as well.

Strikerrb

mr_south · Post by **mr_south** » Tue, 27. Jan 04, 04:55

Hehe, you won't find it! The price is hardcoded into X2 and bound to each unused ware slot. I was also lost in this issue until Dr Xavia told me about that.

I'm kinda worried we will soon run out of price choices...

I tried setting ware price in a script, but it doesn't work... at least doesn't work for Equipment Docks... haven't tried other factories tho.

moggy2 · Post by **moggy2** » Tue, 27. Jan 04, 06:20

LV wrote:Is there only me that has the problem with the mining script .?

I tried it with 2 ships at once and it took so long and so many keypress to mine anything i just ended up jumping in a demeter myself

I'll have a look at that tomorrow. You say it keeps flying round in circles?
It takes a while for it to rotate so the rear turret faces the 'roid.

xSiNx · Post by **xSiNx** » Tue, 27. Jan 04, 06:45

mr_south wrote:Hehe, you won't find it! The price is hardcoded into X2 and bound to each unused ware slot. I was also lost in this issue until Dr Xavia told me about that.

I'm kinda worried we will soon run out of price choices... I tried setting ware price in a script, but it doesn't work... at least doesn't work for Equipment Docks... haven't tried other factories tho.

I'm worried about commands too.... Isn't the limit 32 slots per category? Xai Corp alone is set to take about 10-12 of each category with the projects we have in mind and there are 2-3 new ideas that pop every day!!!

I think we'll need a command manager soon....

Alex.
Xai Corporation.

LV · Post by LV » Tue, 27. Jan 04, 09:24

added you to my msn list moggsy so i can explain in detail

3iff · Post by **3iff** » Tue, 27. Jan 04, 09:31

Ore Collector script. See here for a potential bug.

http://www.egosoft.com/x2/forum/viewtop ... 5&start=15