[Script] Factory Complex Constructor [4.02]

[Crapgame]

I've read this thread and my question has been asked and answered twice but I honestly don't understand the answers.

I have a TL loaded with:

1 Complex Construction Kit
1 Wheat Farm L
1 Space Fuel Distillery L

I use the General> Build Station FCC command and place the CCK at 0,0,0 offset at a location in the same sector that I am in.

I use the General > Build Station FCC command, select the CCK and enter in 0,1,0 for the Wheat Farm.

I use the General > Build Station FCC command, select the CCK and enter in 0,-1,0 for the Space Fuel Distillery.

Now I have all three stations nicely built, placed and it a nice little line but not connected in any way.

What is the obvious step that I am missing here to connect these three things into a complex?

Thanks

[Crapgame]

From reading other threads on this subject I get the impression that I have to place the CCK last. That doesnt agree with the instructions in the .pdf for FCC.

Can any one help?

I'm at an impasse here.

[Crapgame]

I decided to go back and buy an extra CCK to see if I can figure this out. Now I can lay out the hub, distillery and wheat farm in a nice row using the FCC.

THEN select the other CCK in my cargo bay and select "build" and it then asks me to select a station and then select another station to connect to. So I select the Hub and then the distillery which is below it. That finallt connected the hub to the distillery. The wheat farm is still not connnected.

So, I'm guessing I need to place the initial CCK as a hub (as per the instructions at 0,0,0) then place each factory and then use 2 more CCKs to connect each of them to the hub.

Anyone feel free to chime in here whenever you'd like.

[Loner87]

Found it extremely difficult with regards to setting a complex up around a L Silicon Mine...

It's my case too.

I decided to go back and buy an extra CCK to see if I can figure this out. Now I can lay out the hub, distillery and wheat farm in a nice row using the FCC.

THEN select the other CCK in my cargo bay and select "build" and it then asks me to select a station and then select another station to connect to. So I select the Hub and then the distillery which is below it. That finallt connected the hub to the distillery. The wheat farm is still not connnected.

So, I'm guessing I need to place the initial CCK as a hub (as per the instructions at 0,0,0) then place each factory and then use 2 more CCKs to connect each of them to the hub.

Anyone feel free to chime in here whenever you'd like.

I would like to know the answer too, I have s imilar issue : I placed 1 mine with vanilla command, then 1 hub and 2 stations with FCC. Then I placed a Hub with vanilla command to connect the Hub to a station (like I read in the manual ?) but it just connected my 1st Hub with only 1 station. The last station and the mine remain unconnected.

Second try : placing the Hub with vanilla command between 2 stations : I am asked to choose 2 stations, ok, then to place the Hib, ok... then only those 2 stations connected. Not The 1st Hub nor the mine.

Do we need to place as many Hubs as the number of stations +1 or are Crapgame and me making an error somewhere ?

NB : I use the version 4.01 Light

[Loner87]

Crapgame -> after many searches I finally found the answer here :
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... g+stations

Yes, we need many Construction Kits.

[lordmuck]

YAY finally,

downloaded the 'plus' installing now and thank you very very very very much.
Just got my self stations for a space weed/space fuel complex (just supply it with e-cells) and had a hell of a time trying to place the stations neatly even by spending most time reading and reloading

this is a must have script

going to try it out now

thanks again
lord muck

[Painman]

I've been using this wonderful script for a little while now, but I don't believe I ever made it back to this thread to say Thank You, so...

Thank You!

[lordmuck]

Just a quick thank you,

tried this out and all is working perfectly.

thanks again

Lord Muck

[DaveyP]

Is it possible to build mines and connect stations OOS?

cheers

[Dreez]

I have started to amass a small fortune in X3TC atm using patrol missions
and was starting to look at building complexes and my own PHQ.
So i downloaded Factory Complex Constructor but i cannot find any
txt.document where to install unzip the script. I have also searched on this
site but can't seem to find any info.

Where to unzip the FCC v4.0 ?. The main game-folder or in the scriptfolder.


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[Dreez]

Was setting up my next complex and suddenly i noticed i had a few saved
'station beacons' and now i can't remove them. I read the FCC manual but
it only says how to create them, not how to delete them.

[pelador]

Object commands:

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<RefObj> destruct: show no explosion=<Var/Number>

(Var/Number is a boolean TRUE/FALSE)

or if you need to identify an agressor:

<RefObj> destroy object: killer=Value>, show no explosion=<Var/Number>

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Edit: Topics merged, misinterpreted the request (as not familiar with term FCC) as a scripting question, please ignore.

Looks interesting. Have read it before and certainly appeals as a complex manager.

[Mightysword]

After placing my PHQ I'm in the process of build some mega complex to support it. The first one in the pile is a big Argon food factory.

Basically I figured out placing all the Castle Ranch L vertically on top of each other will make them look really good. But I spent about one hours and still can not find a good position/orientation to put the Cahoona Bakery L in. I tried quite a few times and they all look funky when I try to connect the Bakeries into the Castle Ranches.


So anyone have any advice on station positioning for a good looking Argon Food complex? (10 Castle Ranch L + 10 Cahoona Bakery L). Thanks.

[Dreez]

Object commands:

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<RefObj> destruct: show no explosion=<Var/Number>

(Var/Number is a boolean TRUE/FALSE)

or if you need to identify an agressor:

<RefObj> destroy object: killer=Value>, show no explosion=<Var/Number>

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I am sorry, but i am quiet new to X3 and a total noob with scipts. What do i write
where to make those station-beacons go away?.

[pelador]

Object commands:

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<RefObj> destruct: show no explosion=<Var/Number>

(Var/Number is a boolean TRUE/FALSE)

or if you need to identify an agressor:

<RefObj> destroy object: killer=Value>, show no explosion=<Var/Number>

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I am sorry, but i am quiet new to X3 and a total noob with scipts. What do i write
where to make those station-beacons go away?.

If they are relevant to the FCC process i wouldnt want to advise doing anything with them without guidance from Dusty they may have a purpose?

However if you download the Cycrows cheat package it has destroy ship object command already in it if you just want to do some tidying up (beacons are ship objects so should remove them). You set the beacon as the target object then in the menu you will see the destroy function.

A simple script could be done to delete the beacons but as the above already exists and can handle multiple tweak situations so useful having for testing/corrections even if you dont use it as a cheat process. Then there is the old fashion way and may be more fun of simply shooting them. If they belong to you shouldnt be an issue, but again I'd get Dusty's advice if relevant to FCC.

[hairyhermit]

I have read the manual and don't seem to understand what I am doing wrong. I have built 3 stations offset from each other by 1, then added a complex hub. Now I have the 3 stations sitting there and the complex hub doesn't seem to be attached either. I was trying to do this OOS.

[Saetan]

FCC can build stations und complex-hubs OoS, but FCC can't connect stations to a hub. Neither IS or OoS. You have to use the regular building-command by egosoft for connecting the stations.

[hairyhermit]

hm, ok... still useful. When I deploy the stations and offset them does it automagically line up the nodes so I can just deploy the kit and be done with it? That would be phenomenal.

[Saetan]

No ... it doesn't seem so ... as far as I recognized, FCC simply takes the rotation (x-, y- and z-axis) of the choosen station when building by offset.

If you want to build compact-complexes with tubes, there is still quite a lot of work to do ... especially bevause there is no source which shows the angles and positions of the nodes of a station ... at least, I don't know any.

Because of that, I started to replace complexes with compact-complexes without tubes (extra modded) by placing new stations with coords and moving them as near to the complex as possible.

I think, you can better plan you complex, because you've got a fix grid of 25 meters.
By buiilding with ofset, you can minimal move by 25 meters too, but the stations can get positions between 0 and 25 meters too. Can maybe be a kind of crap, if you want to reposition stations in your complex later.

[Knossos]

Literally just saved my bacon! I placed my complex kit in a stupid place and blocked off my docking gantries!

Moved my stations away from it where necessary, no problem. Very intuitive.

Thank you very much