Setting starting sector and starting ship.

[shamas_the_wise_shaman]

How do you change the starting sector of a new game (with a new map) and how do you change the ship in which the player starts? It seems to default to the coordinates of Argon Prime, with an Argon Discoverer.

-Shamas the wise Shaman

[khaakbaiter]

Sorry dude but i think its a fixed setting

[shamas_the_wise_shaman]

Is there a script that will position the Player into a new spot once a new game has been started?

-Shamas the wise Shaman

[Pogi]

If Argon Prime does not exist...You will start in the upper-most left part of the map..Whichever sector that is.

[khaakbaiter]

Kingdom End pogi, and also Ringo moon in X2 cannot remember where...

[Chris Gi]

This is done by means of a special script. This script has to be named galaxy.{YourMapName}.initplayership, with YourMapName being the name of your map. If you name your map Universe.xml for example, the script name would be galaxy.Universe.initplayership.

This script take no arguments and must return the ship of the player. You can call any script you want from this script, as long as none of the called scripts uses PLAYERSHIP (which doesn't exist at that moment). Ah, and don't forget to add a little money to the player...

So, here's a useful script (in pseudocode):

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$sec = get sector from universe index: x=$x, y=$y
$startship =  create ship: type={ShipType} owner=Player addto=$sec x=0 y=0 z=0
= $startship -> install {as much as you want} units of {whatever you wand}
add money to player: {as much as you want}
return $startship

Happy positioning,
Chris Gi

[shamas_the_wise_shaman]

Thanks, this is what I was after.

-Shamas the wise Shaman

[khaakbaiter]

it's amazing how many people joined in 2006 and especially august

although i'm now more of an X3 player now