Mon Sep 01, 2003 6:38 pm by Chips
The script went over 200kb - at that point i switched to files as the scripting at this point somehow doesn't seem to work. Also - as everyone knows you are making a mod, and not to be cagey - but the stuff contained in mine would cut your release date by ages (been working 12 hours a day for nearly 1.5weeks now - thats alot of work). The mod itself is resting roughly at 30mb right now (unzipped) zipped with RAR its abut 5.5mb. The funny thing is that these systems aren't modded at all (it now happens in bretonia too (cambridge) - and i removed the encounters parameters i set in place....nothing else has been touched) and yet i still visit the desktop every time i launch from a station (sometimes i make it too the tradelane, sometimes i don't leave the station, sometimes i am heading to the trade lane - which suggests its an encounters/ patrol problem - however - these haven't been touched. I am wondering if there is an inherrent instability associated with OPEN SP (based loosely round bootstrap for testing purposes only - this will be removed when the mod is released). I thank you for your offer of help - but to put it mildly there are only a few people here that i would trust to look over my mod.......why? Theft of 30hours work is a right b**tard. It undermines the person totally, especially as someone else takes the credit. Basically the people i would let look over it are the people that have nothing to gain from it! ie - Reynen, Giskard, Accushot, Ripperman, Wanderer, Xenocide, Kendo THM and a couple of others i can't remember off hand. I aint saying someone would nick my work - but then again, you can understand the waryness of just handing it over - specially as i have converted lots of planets to be dockable bases now as well - it would be the perfect shortcut for 11 fully functioning bases in only 10 mins.............
So, I am just wondering if anyone knows of any probs associated with OPEN versions of the game. As i said before - these systems aren't modded - so i don't know where the crashes are coming from. All the stuff i have made is stable and working wonders but this prob is holding me back BIG time!!
Chips