AI Competetors : Removal Update

[bendyspex]

I'll try re-installing the script again when I get back, and I'll let you know what happens.

[DesertEagle]

Man alive. I can't even imagine the amount of time + scripting skill this required. Congratulations on your ambition. I'll test it this weekend.

Desert Eagle

[bendyspex]

I have tried re-installing the script and I am still getting the readtext errors. Any other ideas?

[LV]

unless you have either Autotransfer Alternative and Station Profit Monitoring by fortysix2nz installed i see no reason why you get RT as they were conficting with the old tfile which is now changed due to my inability to notice the difference between 7000 and 7700

[bendyspex]

Ah, I think you've found the problem there. I do use that script, so what should I do, although I don't mind taking it out if I need to.

[LV]

reinstall those scripts then reinstall mine, you need to overwrite the 447700 t file as they did confict but dont now as i've changed it to 7000 as it should be

[bendyspex]

OK, everything is working fine there, and I have people cruising around now with proper names. Thanks

[hayato]

hiya

thx alot for the huge amount of work you put into this. the basic idea seems to be a real good addition to the x3 universe from my point of view. sadly enough that the download doesnt seem to work ..... would be nice having a chance to take a closer look at it. hope you can fix that soon.

thx in advance

hayato

[Augustini]

I've only encountered 2 factions, and i've played alot the last week or so...

1. Charlie Bubbles Vendors
2. The Whiteraider Republic

Shouldn't there be more factions, you mention that 5 factions should spawn. I've explored almost every sector in the game.

I'm also running the M7 mod.

[LV]

use my sig to get a working download link


there will be 5 races but i would guess they are not doing very well although iirc republic is the max rank so that factions doing very well, maybe they didn't like the other three.

If you want to see the other factions pm me and i'll send you some codeing info

[xierxior]

this looks like it could be really cool but I can't seem to get it to work

I picked EPIC when I got that message that asks you what settings you'd like but my problem is I don't see any new ships or races roaming around and I've been playing with this turned on for 3/4 days?

[InvrSmall]

I'm now about three game days with this plug-in running and all the factions except one are at the Republic level.
There are a lot of traders and factories about, which adds a huge amount of life to the game, but I am starting to see NPC traders beating me to deals by using the "jump direct to station" command. Is there any way to remove this so that the AI traders enter the sector by normal means ?


Also,
One of the AI seems to think that Jumpdrive kit factories are a good investment.

[LV]

If most are up to republic already then it's running too high/fast.

The only traders that should use gateless jump is the leader of that faction (1x TS per faction), all other traders should jump to gate.

I had to give the leader GL.JD as the factions really didn't move up much or got toasted soon after creation otherwise.

+ they are beating you as they are competitors

[Augustini]

I am about 2-4 weeks in with this script, and i only have 1 republic faction, 1 dealer faction and 1 vendor faction.

Then i have about 4-7 factions with no level designation.

Would it be a good idea to turn off the plugin and then turn it back on?

[narn]

I like this idea. Do you have plans on making them be aggressive to the player? Or are they going to be just trading competitors that will attack only if attacked?

[LV]

I like this idea. Do you have plans on making them be aggressive to the player? Or are they going to be just trading competitors that will attack only if attacked?

Pirate and Yaki factions may attack you but they are set to be neutral at the start and you will need to gain their attention before they react


attack any faction and find out, of course if they only have ts's there is nothing to worry about but beware that some of them are race factions and that will hammer your race rep.

If you want to test the theory attack a Republic station or ship

[Runner]

Eh, LV, some questions:

The spk download link doesn't work. Intended?

If I install it - will there be any chance to cleanly remove it later again?

How does upgrading work, will I first have to kill / nuke all competitors, deinstall and then install the new version?

(It's just too cool that I can continue playing without it, but I also don't want to spoil my save game) (And yes, I am doing backups like hell)

[xierxior]

I'm still having problems here.. it doesn't even really work for me I extracted it to my x3 dir and picked the epic setting when I got the message asking me what difficulty to set the script to but I NEVER see any competitors in space ever...

[Heretic666]

How long have you left it for?

The competitors start with only 1 ship in a random race sector (so I understand) so it could be that you just havent ran into one yet..

[Runner]

Also, if you really want to see action, then pick PLAYER instead of EPIC. EPIC is the slowest possible start!