My theory is this -

Jumpgates are usually patrolled by the military and police. Shortest path which includes jump-gates are called 'legal' because they are usually used by the law-fearing ships. Notice that in the storyline all the rebels are using jumpholes . Hence shortest 'illegal' path.

You've got it basically right. That's why I need to re-write the path files to account for that. On the whole, illegal paths are usually shorter, however.

If you want to make new systems, you need to place the holes and gates, and include them in the shortest_legal, and shortest_illegal files. However, your nav_computer only uses jump_gates to caluclate paths. That's why you have to reclassify all jump_holes as jump_gates. That gives you the problems I mentioned, as some properties of jump_gates appear to be hard-coded. So it requires a change of tactics, until I can figure out how to change them.

Ceylon

I've got tutorial for adding new jumpholes from a system to another without changing any path files, 'cause it didn't need any changes on those, I found out.

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/forum/t ... er&M=False

Uhh, doesn't seem to work for me. I got the FLMM mod and activated it, but the game still only uses jumpgates. When I first tried to test it I was in New York so I set a best path to a point close to the New York jumphole in Texas. I was guessing that if the mod had worked it would have used the Texas jump hole instead of the gate, but it did not. Also, when I was trying to set a best path in or out of a system that only has jump holes (no gates, like Omicron Theta) it could not set a path. So I have not noticed any change in the best path behavior. Maybe it just doesn't like me?

That is odd. i have noticed that it is somewhat unpredictable when there are holes and gates to the same places. But it always works for me to systems with only holes. I am going to re-write the pathing files, but it is going ot take a while.

Ceylon

The jump holes wll work fine if you use the default/original/unchanged path files (system, legal, and illegal).

Now, by changing the solararch.ini file, you basically change the game's architecture. Shouldn't be a problem, but try using default/original/unchanged files.

Mines work ^_^

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