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Post Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:22 pm

Okay - there is room in the dll files in the game already to make a totally new drone wiht info cards etc......it can be done, but i can't do it for you(don't have time to do it right now!). however, combining the post above about the drone (you copy and paste removing the ; and text behind it in each line) then i can tell you what numbers to use, and where to put what and how!! That will take a minute or two of my time....... but only if you follow instructions to the letter - lol
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Change of heart! - can you get to alaska on the server though? or what?
Cause otherwise, whats the point in putting it in alaska? Might as well just make you a new base somewhere.........lol - converting a planet will take about 2 mins....hee hee
And its done, a stand alone ship with personal ids names etc called the "KalleFreshman" Prototype Drone Freighter!
Where do you want it selling? It could be a second ship at a base somewhere - someone tell me if everyones settings have pitts to sell one ship, but the server has two ships to sell there, will it crash them, or will they just not see it?

Edited by - Chips on 08-09-2003 20:24:05

Edited by - chips on 08-09-2003 20:30:02

Edited by - chips on 08-09-2003 20:47:33

Post Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:41 pm

That would be great. Just post it here in this thread.

The server (and the admins) use the alaska system only for cheaters. If the sever is spotting a cheater, he will put him into the alaska system and he can't get out.

Post Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:50 pm

Too late - i made it - LOL!!! Just set to sell at prison station mitchell then? and the server is rigged to sort you out with getting there???? (ie it has changed prison station mitchell to be able to allow ships to be sold there???)
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Post Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:54 pm

What? You did it? You are finally done? The new Drone is now buyable at Prison Station Mitchell (Alaska)? With all it's new stats?

Post Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:50 pm

Yeah - it literally takes about 5 mins max to do the whole thing......the other guys would have done it, its just that the 'getting round to putting something down and starting it' part is difficult to overcome, especially when flat out on projects.....lol I just had a sudden despair at the amount of systems i had too do, and this looked like an attractive quick alternative.... AS long as prison station mitchell is still li05_01_base then it will sell there, also as LONG as the base is set to actually have any rooms in it (all server side, not client) so find out if that is true from your admin, otherwise you will have to change it all round to getit going..............


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Post Tue Sep 09, 2003 10:24 am

Oh man how can I ever thank you? Thanks a lot for this. You're great. Well please send me the mod to my E-mail adress: [email protected]

And I will test it with the admins. Again: ThHank you.
Just come and visit our server (JoJo & Dice 24/7 Server (IP:131.211.238.33).

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Post Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:05 pm

hy there CHIP. i hope you read this cause we tested the drone mod you made and it worked fine was it not we founded 2 problems. first one should be simple to redo. it is the lvl off guns. cause we have factions at jojodice server evry faction member has or an titan or an eagle. to whitstand those tremendouse forces we would like ( we is me, kalle and admin Dice) to set the guns to lvl 10 and the turrets to lvl 7. this is the guns up 2 lvls so thei wil be able to hold secret weapons. and the turrets one lvl down for the balance in power. that is the first thing we would like to have chanched. the second thing is of more inportance. we buyed the ship and flew into space eccept for the gun lvl's evrything was fine. although it was so untill we looked at the hull and shield bars. there is no shield bar. its totally empty. and the hul bar is so huge and long it is going off the screen. making the drone a nomad kinda ship ( no shields but tremendous hull). i hop youl be able to fix that for a normal hull bar as wel as a filled shield bar. we thought of something that might be the cause and that is that the ship is bought along whit a lvl 8 shield. meyby youd better make just slots and no equipment on em so the one who buy's it has to equip it himself. writing this message i remembered another thing that is could you make the price of this ship 10.000 credits? we sincerely hope you or some other modders are able to do this for us. and no problem if it is buyable at manhatten instead of the light fihgter that is normally selled there.

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Post Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:37 pm

just find the ship in the shiparch.ini and add
hp_type = hp_gun_special_10, HpWeapon01, HpWeapon02
to bring up the gun level to 2 level 10 gunmounts, if you look a bit lower from those lines you will see its just as easy to to change the turret levels to lvl 8 or what you wish, you would actualy be better off creating a new ship that uses the Drone shape file (cmp) and adding a custom dll to name the ship something like Drone GTX or something, that way you keep the original drone, plus the new one with the new name, sold at a whatever base for whatever value.
Simple realy.

Post Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:37 am

for you it is simple but im just turned 17 and i diddnt get anny **** of that modding stuff thats wy we asked fot it to be modded together. so if you find it that simple please mod it for us. and we chosen the drone cause we find that one the most beuatifull freighter there is, so if you are able to make a whole new ship please make it like the drone or drake but whit larger wings and smaller hull than the drone, make it a real dragon, thats what wed like. so if anny of you is capable please do so.

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Post Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:16 am

I didnt mean a new Ship as in a new shape file or cmp as its called, i meant creating a ship called whatever that uses the shape file (cmp) for the drone, but its own statistics. leaving the original Drone still available.
creating a new shape file for the ship and texture it would take too much of my limited time sorry, but i could do the rest quite quickly.
The problem you face is if the Admin will allow the mod to run as this would require any that play on it to activate the mod and for the server to be running the same mod.
get me on msn and ill take a look at it.

Post Fri Oct 24, 2003 3:36 pm

Well I have the "old" mod-file too. I could send it to you, and you can alter the desired things. Would that help you?

Post Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:24 pm

I have already started work on it, but like anything i do, i like to do it properly, so im creating the info cards and stuff for the Jojo_Dice Freighter, it actualy replaces the Anubus so wont affect any MP game as its not used, doing it this way saves a bit of work, it uses the Drone shape at the moment, but this could be changed to drake if you wish, its available at battleship missouri and im just sorting out the various stats as per this post, its done with FL mod manager so once finished you will be able to activate or deactivate it through that.
i still have to do the stats but here is a screen to show ya what ive done so far.


Edited by - CrazedMoon on 24-10-2003 19:35:26

Post Fri Oct 24, 2003 7:06 pm

Awesome. Realy nice man! So you do the info-cards stuff for us? Very nice but we have to find someone who is altering the equipment for us.

PS: Keep the Drone skin! We take it.

Post Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:11 pm

lol im doing the equipment, in fact most of it is done since the last post, it will have the equipment you guys have posted here, and the stats, as i said i like to do it properly including the info files. so have a little patience and have this implemented properly.
or not and do it yourself.

Post Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:33 pm

No no keep going. Don't want to slight you. Sorry, but my Englsih is not that good. It's great that you mod this thing for us. Thank you. I hope everything works fine and doesn't make you too many problems.

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