Just a hunch but go back and take a good look at your files, there may be just one small mistake a missing space or any little detail and thats all it takes to make you sit back and wonder what went wrong. Bet your glad that you backed up the files before you started hacking away again, ah you did backup the files again did'nt you. Other than that you may be on your own on this one, unless of coarse you want to send me the files and maby I can see the problem.

I did so many little mods and had so many backups. The problem wasn't spotted until very lately and I doubt that I still have the proper un-screwed backup. DAMN!

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War does not decide who is right, only who is left.

That sucks

Same problem here
but only on one specifc server.
I'm stil abel to get jobs from the pepole in the bars
If I make a new char on a server it also has the problem.
Only two other pepole have the problem to.

The server has some added systems though.

Fixed it folks.

BINI v1.1 and probably also v1.0 has a minor bugette.

The "separable=" lines in the "[CollisionGroup" sections of the *arch.ini files are being merged with the following line. So what comes out as...

separable = parent_impulse = 240.000000

should actually be...

separable = true
parent_impulse = 240.000000

and in mbases.ini the "offers_missions=" line is also being merged with the following line...

offers_missions = mission_type = DestroyMission, 0.000000, 0.112387, 20

should be...

offers_missions = true
mission_type = DestroyMission, 0.000000, 0.112387, 20

It's this what's causing the job boards to be blank - none of the bases are set to offer missions.

Moose out.

AFAIK only BINI 1.0 has this bug, as decompressing mbases.ini without changing anything locked me out of the job board aswell.
version 1.1 didnt show this error though...

another question.
as you are struggling with random missions, did you find out where to edit the level requirements for those missions?
resp. the level of the offered random missions?

wasnt able to figure this out...

Hello

Big thanks to Mousehead, that worked. This problem has been a pain in butt for me for some time. Its all working now thanks to you

Giskard

Sorry for the slow reply guys - I'm up to my eyeballs writing a random universe generator for FL which currently is just serving to prove how little I actually know rather than what I just took for granted... but it will work... oh, yes... it will work. *slightly deranged grin*

Damn! It seems I was using v1.0 - dunno how that happened. I was positive I was using v1.1. Ah well.

EDIT: ok, it looks like v1.1 only fixes the "offers_missions=" lines in mbases.ini, the "separable=" lines in *arch.ini are still merged so there's still some manual repair work to be done.

sp00n, from what I've been able to make out so far the level of the offered missions is based solely on player level on the job board. Jobs from NPCs are fixed to a particular difficulty range by the 'misn = job_type, min_diff, max_diff' lines in the 'GF_NPC' sections of \DATA\MISSIONS\mbases.ini

To alter the global difficulty settings for missions, take a look at these two files...
\DATA\RANDOMMISSIONS\killablesolars.ini
\DATA\RANDOMMISSIONS\npcranktodiff.ini


Edited by - Moosehead on 04-06-2003 16:17:47

Edited by - Moosehead on 04-06-2003 16:43:51