[Request] Kill NPC Ships?

[Simoom]

Is it possible to make a script that clears the universe of NPC ships? (basically a "reset")

My game currently has hundreds upon hundreds of "stuck" freighters parked on top of one another in Wrecksville. There's no way I can kill them all (because I get about 1 frame every 5 seconds in this zone), and I don't see any cheat script that will allow players to insta-kill or delete NPC ships.

Also, where exactly are NPC ships listed in the Save files? I cannot find any reference to these hundreds of freighters in my Save at all.

[docwho83]

Use at your on risk. As I am not sure what will happen.

in my quicksave there are 1417 entry that match this key.

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<connection connection="ships">

use notepad++ and hit the - next to the connection node

then highlight the line and backspace it or delete and you should see your line numbers on the side go down.

[Simoom]

Am I deleting only that line? Or all the contents regarding ship details following it?

I just spent like two hours deleting all the AES ships from my save file, and it broke the save (game crashed halfway into loading)

I backed up the original of course... but I am not sure what I did wrong.

[UniTrader]

everything inside then node. thats why you should click [-] before - it reduces the node to one line.

alternatively here a patch file for savegames, if you should know how to apply it to saves (i doubt it though):

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<diff>
<remove msel="//connection[@connection='ships']" />
</diff>

although there may be some exception necesary for that since it does not exclude the playership..