The Highways are BETTER (with mods)!!!

[Thurmonator]

Yes, after a couple of weeks, modders have done what the developer couldn't, and that is, get the highways to a decent state and drop the dumb minigame of riding tailpipes. As well as getting rid of the look of the highways as they were in vanilla was paramount as they just didn't look realistic and reduced immersion with obviously fake traffic and awful textures and sounds.

So, this is what you need to fix the highways:

better Highway Alphas ( so you can see what you pass)

Better Cockpit .5( so you can see better all around)

highway_altcontrol-nim (this allows fulll control in the lane and you can decelerate out of the highway with the throttle instead of WASD.)
((the nim variant is my favorite because it lets you sit back and enjoy the view or look at maps without getting dropped out of the highway))

highway_hiddenlanes (Get rid of the lane graphics in the highway, no need for them anyway)

HighwayClearVFX - no distant lanes ver. (This is a much better graphical representation of the highways in space. Very big improvement. The 'lines' in space are much diminished. )

Highway sound replace - (Probably made obsolete with the removal of the lanes but it was good as well.)

RS_Booster - (i use this to be able to boost longer without it draining my shields so much. I can boost down highways and don't have my shields depleted when I arrive at the exit point, or whenever I want to exit)

Tie_fighter_Boost_sfx - (Becuase the original booster sound is horrible and this is the best alternative at the moment.

I haven't tried the Colored Highways mod yet, but its out there too.


Anyway with all these, the highways are sooo much better. Enjoy.

[CharlieChop]

Yes, after a couple of weeks, modders have done what the developer couldn't, and that is, get the highways to a decent state and drop the dumb minigame of riding tailpipes. As well as getting rid of the look of the highways as they were in vanilla was paramount as they just didn't look realistic and reduced immersion with obviously fake traffic and awful textures and sounds.

So, this is what you need to fix the highways:

better Highway Alphas ( so you can see what you pass)

Better Cockpit .5( so you can see better all around)

highway_altcontrol-nim (this allows fulll control in the lane and you can decelerate out of the highway with the throttle instead of WASD.)
((the nim variant is my favorite because it lets you sit back and enjoy the view or look at maps without getting dropped out of the highway))

highway_hiddenlanes (Get rid of the lane graphics in the highway, no need for them anyway)

HighwayClearVFX - no distant lanes ver. (This is a much better graphical representation of the highways in space. Very big improvement. The 'lines' in space are much diminished. )

Highway sound replace - (Probably made obsolete with the removal of the lanes but it was good as well.)

RS_Booster - (i use this to be able to boost longer without it draining my shields so much. I can boost down highways and don't have my shields depleted when I arrive at the exit point, or whenever I want to exit)

Tie_fighter_Boost_sfx - (Becuase the original booster sound is horrible and this is the best alternative at the moment.

I haven't tried the Colored Highways mod yet, but its out there too.


Anyway with all these, the highways are sooo much better. Enjoy.

funny how people "Fix" stuff.

example:

i dont like this feature of the game that has no impact whatsoever on the overall scheme of the game. ITS BROKEN, its your fault EGO!

when i reality is a i dont like it, as in...personal opinion. hey this guy feels the same and changed the way they work !! cool!


Edit: cool for you, do anything you can to enjoy the game.

[caleb]

I have to disagree with the OP as well. Highways are not broken. They were designed that way, and they work fine. So the term "fix" is incorrect.

Sure, I do not like the design either, and will look at some of the mods (the speed control one sounds nice), but that does not mean they are broken.

[Shootist]

Re: The Highways are FIXED!!!

Does this belong here?

[LastChime]

Might try the opacity ones, some of them are really hard to see out of, and really hard to differentiate from the background (DeVries I'm looking at you and your eternal orange everywhere all the time theme), on the lower settings I run on anyhow.

[TinkerToy]

Thread title is BS frankly, because no "fix" was needed.


But I do love mods, because they allow so many different tastes to be accomodated. The extensive moddability has always been one of the greatest features of the X-series.

[esd]

Re: The Highways are FIXED!!!

Does this belong here?

Narp.

[Grevas]

Can some modder add a /teleport-to-zone and /give-money command for this one also? It seems it's "broken" :D

[UnclePaulie]

No they are not, after 7 restarts they are still crashing and making ships fly sideways in them .

[nonnex]

A fix is when something is broken resp. a bug. The highways are meant to be as they are (with the minigames). If you want to call this a bug, ok, buts not right.

Well I do understand what the OP want to say, but anyway. If its a fix for him, let him live and be happy, this is why we are doing modding. Making our self happy with the game, see our mods stuff working and feel good if other use it. Someone want to call it a fix? Well let him, see it as a compliment.

[Thurmonator]

But the highways were just FIXED!! As of 1.17, right?

Anyhow, if you didn't care for my double entendre, all I've got to say is ... Fake Traffic. But I changed the thread title anyway to appease yuns.

This thread was not another in the long line of bash threads that we've all become accustomed to on the main board. It was really just a way to give props to the many modders who have improved this game. And fixed many things before the dev (who get paid for this) got around to doing so.

So, to them I say thanks. And to egosoft, I say thanks for making it so mod-able.

[TheRealBix]

But the highways were just FIXED!! As of 1.17, right?

Anyhow, if you didn't care for my double entendre, all I've got to say is ... Fake Traffic. But I changed the thread title anyway to appease yuns.

This thread was not another in the long line of bash threads that we've all become accustomed to on the main board. It was really just a way to give props to the many modders who have improved this game. And fixed many things before the dev (who get paid for this) got around to doing so.

So, to them I say thanks. And to egosoft, I say thanks for making it so mod-able.

Right or worng title, why did you post this here ? If you want to thanks modders, do it in their own threads.
It should be better to not polluate the section with things other than MODS.

Thanks

[Thurmonator]

But the highways were just FIXED!! As of 1.17, right?

Anyhow, if you didn't care for my double entendre, all I've got to say is ... Fake Traffic. But I changed the thread title anyway to appease yuns.

This thread was not another in the long line of bash threads that we've all become accustomed to on the main board. It was really just a way to give props to the many modders who have improved this game. And fixed many things before the dev (who get paid for this) got around to doing so.

So, to them I say thanks. And to egosoft, I say thanks for making it so mod-able.

Right or worng title, why did you post this here ? If you want to thanks modders, do it in their own threads.
It should be better to not polluate the section with things other than MODS.

Thanks

M' Kay...perhaps you should police all the other threads that aren't Mods on this board as well. Have they all been notified? This is absolutely about mods. Take it as a 'Hey, all these mods work really well together to make the highways better overall.' I thought that was worth sharing. I listed the individual mods and reported on what they added to the game.

Maybe I should just post another "Trading is broken in 1.17' Post. Would that help? BTW. Trading is broken in 1.17.

[Thane>]

I had thought they would be fixed when they were sucked into a black hole never to be seen again. I rather like the cockpit too, especially in 3D.

[nonnex]

Evil individuals wispers sometimes, that ES should have only sell a solid engine as a XUniverse-SDK with tools. The rest is up to the com.