[SCRIPT] [2012.01.21] Automated Satellite Network v2.00

Corporeal · Post by **Corporeal** » Tue, 29. Dec 09, 13:19

Automation ftw! Thanks for giving me back all the time this normally takes!

Would be nice to have the length, width, and height of a sector's network up to the player though. Even so, downloaded

Ceryse · Post by **Ceryse** » Sun, 17. Jan 10, 19:43

Been using this mod since getting the game off of Steam recently and have enjoyed it. However, I had to re-install the game to fix a few issues. Since then, this mod hasn't.. well, seemed to work properly.

When I go to set up a ship (Argon Discoverer) everything seems to be as it should be. I set the Home sector, jump radius, etc., etc., hit Start and.. nothing. I get a mail notification telling me the ship couldn't find any "friendly sectors". I haven't a clue what's wrong and causing it to spit that out.

I've tried setting Home Sectors to everywhere from Argon Prime, Neptune, Kingdom's End, etc., and have 8+ notoriety with every race. Only hostiles I have are Pirates, Yaki, Xenon and Kha'ak. I've tried using Ship Friend Foe both on and off, tweaking friend and foe settings, making sure all the Race Deployments are On, and so on. Also tried it without setting a Home Sector at all.

Nothing works, I always get the message that it can't find any friendly sectors. The ships are properly out-fitted (Nav, Special, Jumpdrive, satellites already in their cargo bay and so forth) but.. same message, every time.

Anyone got a clue as to what's going wrong? I never had this problem prior to re-installing the game, and every other mod I've downloaded is working properly (MARS, Lucike's trading mods).

dakingmaster · Post by **dakingmaster** » Mon, 25. Jan 10, 19:21

Some feedback from my game:
I got 3 Discoverers geared up and ready
I loaded them all with Adv. Sats, set home sectors, radius bla bla bla and clicked [Start]
The first thing I dont understand is the "none" command (or action) in the ships screen - it's a bit hmmm disorientating; but the second thing is worse - the "8 box formation" (which is the only reason I've installed this script) doesn't work!!! The ship deploys the first (?) satellite in the upper right corner of the sector and goes idle for a couple of minutes and then goes to another sector, deploys one sat and so on...

something is definatelly wrong... and I didn't even mention that this script (particularly ordering a ship to start deploying sats while docked to a station) caused my game to crash for the first time since I've installed the 2.5 patch...

hedge0035 · Post by **hedge0035** » Tue, 9. Feb 10, 04:40

Ok so i wanted to give some feedback on this, i just downloaded the latest version today... so far it works. only problem i see is that when they get the sats they will sit around docked for 15 min before starting and the after droping just 1 sat they will then sit on top of it for around 15 min before moving on. i was just wandering if this was normal behavoir?? other than that it is working.

i have money in the bank and they have sats in the cargo hold during the waiting. btw.

Shadow_Wolf33 · Post by **Shadow_Wolf33** » Thu, 11. Feb 10, 20:22

Just wanted to say that this script is AWESOME! Makes getting the galaxy re-mapped out after starting a new game SO much easier. Thanks for the excellent work!

Only thing I would really like to see added to the script, is something in the 'current order' field so that I know that this particular craft is mapping out the galaxy for me, rather than just sitting around picking his nose.

Other than that it works great for me!

kurisu · Post by **kurisu** » Thu, 25. Feb 10, 08:55

I have the same exact problem as dakingmaster and hedge. I get no mail notifications from this script, it always shows up as "None" in the command window, even when it IS doing something. Its puts down the first satellite and just sits there indefinitely. Using the single sat option works slightly better.

Sometimes it seems to work alright, placing the satellites, other times it places one satellite, sits there forever and then eventually places another or moves on to another sector.

I'm not quite sure if this is intended behavior or not.

Toastysoul · Post by **Toastysoul** » Wed, 24. Mar 10, 05:01

Would it be possible to get special handling for Aldrin? The 8 point box just isn't suitable coverage. I like the box config, but it needs to be about 2 steps larger to get good coverage there.

nuttyprot · Post by **nuttyprot** » Sat, 10. Apr 10, 14:48

I'm also haveing the same problem as Kurisu,darkingmaster and hedge

lordmuck · Post by **lordmuck** » Tue, 4. May 10, 22:57

gonna try this out, thanks
Just need something to cover gates in all sectors or mostly all anyway

EDIT: baah it laid one AdvSat and that's it, he went on strike

EDIT2: oooooooooh I see, he needs to have a brake after each one.. hmm kinda reminds me of the government road-workers here in Malta(or wreckers) .

Nvm working ok

mikegale56 · Post by **mikegale56** » Mon, 17. May 10, 20:04

Requiemfang · Post by **Requiemfang** » Mon, 17. May 10, 20:24

Should be under the navigation menu near the bottom or middle I think that says advance sat network

mikegale56 · Post by **mikegale56** » Tue, 18. May 10, 01:49

Requiemfang · Post by **Requiemfang** » Tue, 18. May 10, 02:27

Explorer command I believe... or you could just fit both Explorer and the docking computer

Makita · Post by **Makita** » Tue, 18. May 10, 12:48

mikegale56 wrote:I have that only on my personal ship (M3 Skate). I'm trying to send a Discoverer off on sat duty and it won't even give me the option. I'm trying to send a Buzzard (Duplex, Fight MK1 & 2, Nav MK1, Patrol MK1, Special MK1) and it's not giving me the option.

Do I need Explorer Command Software? Or a Docking Computer? I think those are the 2 main differences.

Thanks!

U don't need explorer software but you do need special command software, so the command to activate it would be under special.

TestingTesting · Post by **TestingTesting** » Fri, 18. Jun 10, 09:14

1st, i noticed that a lot of ships got stuck as well, but i realized that it's because they are waiting (processing) what to do next, and they fly back to stations a lot, again because there are not Adv sats available yet.

BUG i have found which breaks the CAG script.

when a ship is exploring a new sector, the gate is has just flown though is not updated on the galaxy map, after a while systems become revealed, but no direct connections exist to get to them,

the gate the ship has gone into is revealed, but the gate that the ship has come out of is not shown,

if you look on the galaxy map, you will see a line going to a new sector that has just been revealed, but there is no line going back from the sector the ship has just come from,

the CAG script stops working, because TS ships can get stuck out in the galaxy, if no direct path exists on getting back to home base, then the TS ship will just sit there indefinitely,

i tried turning of the explorer jump drive thinking that was it, but that has done nothing to help the situation.

for me this is a real game killer,

as i have to go round into new revealed sectors, and personally reveal the gates, just to create the links necessary for all auto ships to get to that new sector and back.

as a temp fix, i am going to increase the tripplex scanner range to see if that will cause the gate the explorer ship has just come from to be updated.

please fix this issue, or help me find a solution,

Krewzur · Post by **Krewzur** » Sun, 27. Jun 10, 15:14

Aoshi_ wrote:Two suggestions;

1) Make it so i can tell if this script is working or not on a particular ship. It just says "None" in the orders, but suddenly the ship jumps to life and runs off. Even if it used Idle or something would be better than none.

2) Please, have the ship return to a safe port when it can't find anything to do. This should include any instance where the ship goes idle. I loose almost all my ships due to the fact they drop a sat, can't find a safe route and just go idle right there in space. It would be great if this worked like the Scan all asteroids in sector command, returning the ship to the nearest safe port when it goes idle.

Other than that, this script has lit up almost every sector. I'm quite happy with it.

lLongshanks wrote:I get a message every 15 mins telling me that all satalites are deployed and its going idle for now. I got 4 ships setting up satalites and after 4 hours of seta it takes ages to look through my log file to find lost ships.

kurisu wrote:it always shows up as "None" in the command window, even when it IS doing something. Its puts down the first satellite and just sits there indefinitely. Using the single sat option works slightly better.

Sometimes it seems to work alright, placing the satellites, other times it places one satellite, sits there forever and then eventually places another or moves on to another sector.

I'm not quite sure if this is intended behavior or not.

I have the same problems as all of these guys.

- Command shows up as "None", making me think the ship isn't even doing anything.
- The ship sits in space when it's finished deploying satellites, instead of docking at a nearby trade station for safety.
- I get spammed with loads and loads of messages simply saying something along the lines of "i'm not doing anything"

The message spamming is extremely irritating. Sometimes when i start a new game i leave my computer on while i go to sleep with the game on SETA. When i woke up i had over 400!! messages from the single ship that i had deploying satellites!

I don't set up so that my ships explore and deploy satellites in the entire universe, i have it set up so i have 1 ship responsible for a certain area. The ship in question was responsible for Argon Prime and all argon sectors in that area.

After seeing all these messages, too many to go through, i just deleted them. What i didn't realise was that there were a few messages telling me that a bunch of my freighters had been destroyed.

A while later over half of my factories went off-line due to lack of resources. Because the freighters supplying them had been destroyed.

If anything the messege spamming is definitely the biggest problem for me in using this script. Messeges being sent less than every 10mins.

Other then that i would use this script no problem, i prefer it over any of the others because it just does what it says on the tin!

Nebula X13 · Post by **Nebula X13** » Sun, 5. Sep 10, 03:20

Its a nice script. I like it a lot makes things a lot easier not having to drop satellites myself.

But I have noticed a few issues.

One the script seems to have some problems and exhibits strange behavior. The script seems to have difficulties with gates in odd positions or that are at angles. Like in they systems of, Saturn the North gate, Midnight Star the West gate and others. Belt of Aguilar the East gate next to a X gate.

Two I have noticed the script has issues with X gates, sometimes it will drop AdvSats above and below them like in Heretics End, the one that is off of the map. That was amusing. And the one in Belt of Aguilar has caused a few problems, sometimes it wants to drop a AdvSat there sometimes it doesn't.

I have also noticed it will drop stats above and below place it thinks a gate is but there isn't one there.

And the script sometimes drops excessive AdvSats or drops them in spots that don't match up with its sister AdvSat.

But I still like the script just thought I would let you know about these issues and see if you are still working on the script like you I have a bit of OCD and like my stats to be in the right spots, matching up and being over my gates proper.

Not sure if you are still working on it or not. If you are maybe you could add in some more options like, the ability to tell the ship running the script to place AdvSats over gates manually in addition to doing it automatically.

And some clean up options would be nice. Like telling the ship running the script to go pickup all AdvSats from a sector, or to manually tell it to pickup selected AdvSats. Picking up AdvSats all over the Universe placed all over the Universe gets tiresome. And I tend to pick up stray AdvSats when I see them if they are placed in the wrong spots or over non-existent gates or around X gates.

Would also be nice to be able to tell the Script to place AdvSats to a list of sectors and not just a jump radius.

Just some thoughts I know that would probably be a lot of scripting and I would do it myself expect I don't know a thing about scripting and I am sure this is a complex script.

builder680 · Post by **builder680** » Sun, 20. Mar 11, 07:54

Can anyone elaborate on how to uninstall this mod? His instructions on page one say"Uninstall via. the script package." I don't understand this, I don't see anything named "uninstall" inside the script editor when in X3. I don't want to just delete all the files in the original zip because some of them may be used by other mods. Would appreciate any feedback. Thanks

Ash Axiom · Post by **Ash Axiom** » Wed, 23. Mar 11, 21:32

builder680 wrote:Can anyone elaborate on how to uninstall this mod? His instructions on page one say"Uninstall via. the script package." I don't understand this, I don't see anything named "uninstall" inside the script editor when in X3. I don't want to just delete all the files in the original zip because some of them may be used by other mods. Would appreciate any feedback. Thanks

Use Cycrow's plugin manager to uninstall.

builder680 · Post by **builder680** » Wed, 23. Mar 11, 22:11

Ash Axiom wrote:
builder680 wrote:Can anyone elaborate on how to uninstall this mod? His instructions on page one say"Uninstall via. the script package." I don't understand this, I don't see anything named "uninstall" inside the script editor when in X3. I don't want to just delete all the files in the original zip because some of them may be used by other mods. Would appreciate any feedback. Thanks
Use Cycrow's plugin manager to uninstall.

I installed via .zip file. I don't think you can uninstall anything but .spk with plugin manager. Thanks for trying to help though.

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[SCRIPT] [2012.01.21] Automated Satellite Network v2.00