[SCRIPT] Deployable Orbital Weapons Platforms : V1.01 : 2023/04/02

[Cycrow]

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Script: Deployable Orbital Weapon Platforms
Version: V1.01
Author: Cycrow
Created: 2023/04/02
Game: X3: Farnhams Legacy 1.3
Requires: Unofficial Patch 1.3.5+
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Downloading

• : SPK

Install via the Plugin Manager

Requirements

• Must be install via Plugin Manager
• Unoffical Patch 1.3.5+

Introduction:

This scripts add Orbital weapons platforms that you can by from shipyards and deploy via your own TL

Usage:

You can find the Oribital Weapons Platforms available from various shipyards (Argon, Split, Terran & Pirates)
Load them onto your TL and deploy them from the TL's Freight Bay

Once deployed they cant be packed up again, but can be moved via Tractor Beam.
They come preinstalled with Shields but require you to install your own weapons

[rudi_pioneer]

Aw yis, gate defenses here i come! Is there rough range of influence? like 5km radius?

[Cycrow]

Updated: 1.01

Fixes setup script when reloading

[Agimar]

YEEEEEHAAAAAA

Does it work with existing savegames?

[Cycrow]

Yes it should work fine for existing saves

[rudi_pioneer]

Do I need to do anything special when deployed? I deployed one at gate entrance with 15 CIGs, and P kept attacking it, where P was not losing shields but platform was. I've set platform to 'attack all' to see if that will help next time.

[Cycrow]

setting the command should work. I tested it with attack all and it attacked the ships just fine.

i will make it start the command automatically when deployed in the next version.

The idea is that you can use the command console to control when and what it might attack

[rudi_pioneer]

Confirmed, attack all works great

[alexalsp]

After update 1.3.6, on shipyards =READTEXTЕ= instead of Weapons Platform names.
Reinstalling mod helped.

[Cycrow]

Not really sure what might have caused that.

The texts are from the base game, so should be unaffected by the patch

[Vovanoff]

Deployable Orbital Weapon Platforms
Если отправить корабли защищать позицию - выбрать платформу (у меня большая) то они летят в центр сектора и там тупят.

[alexalsp]

Deployable Orbital Weapon Platforms
Если отправить корабли защищать позицию - выбрать платформу (у меня большая) то они летят в центр сектора и там тупят.

Translation

If I send ships, with the command - "Defend Position", and select the Gun Platform (I have a large one), then the ships fly to the center of the sector and do not know what to do next.

[X2-Illuminatus]

How do you select the coordinates of the defend position command? As explained here the UI behaviour of entering coordinates was changed in X3FL in comparison to previous X3 games.

[Vovanoff]

How do you select the coordinates of the defend position command? As explained here the UI behaviour of entering coordinates was changed in X3FL in comparison to previous X3 games.

Thank you for the clarification

[Wing2137]

Heyo.

I'm trying to install this mod with the plugin manager, but it keeps saying that I need the "Unofficial Patch V1.3.5 by Cycrow" in order to install it. The thing is... I have 1.3.8 installed. Is it not yet compatible for later versions of the unofficial patch? The OP states 1.3.5+ is required which gave me the assumption that this mod should work even on a higher version. Or perhaps I'm just doing something wrong? :/

EDIT: Actually, I think I know what it is. I have the unofficial patch installed manually. I grabbed the zip file in that thread to install it. I like to install stuff manually like that in case I decide to edit anything in the X3 Editor. Could I perhaps have a manual install zip file for this mod as well? I'd really appreciate it! Also just to clarify, the plugin manager does state that I have 1.3.8 installed. I just suspect that the "Orbital Weapons Platforms" mod doesn't think I have the unofficial patch because it's not installed the same way.

[Cycrow]

Yes you need the unoffical patch to be installed via the plugin as it can only check dependencies with packages installed via the plugin manager.

A manual zip file won't work for this as it needs a custom ware that is generated by the plugin manager, this will be missing if installed manually.

If you edit any files, the easiest solution would be to save the files out to a seperate mod file. Although installing the patch via the plugin manager shouldn't really make any difference.

The other option is to edit the spk file in the created and remove the dependency which will allow it to install

[stevecs]

Just tried installing this with your plugin manager. Have Unofficial Patch 1.3.10 installed (via spk) and tried adding this (v1.01-02.04.2023) via spk but the plugin manager still gives the error that unofficial patch 1.3.5 is needed. Is there a problem here where 1.3.10 is NOT an update to 1.3.5?!? Or a problem with the check that it's not recognizing that .10 is > .5 ?

[Cycrow]

This is a bug in the plugin manager version checker. It'll be fixed in the next update.

The issue is that it was being treated as a decimal. This means that .5 is higher than .10

[Muwulafraga]

hello it would be possible to have a manual installation of the mods ?

[Cycrow]

No it's not possible as it uses custom wares and relies on a generated wares file