How to get randommissions from new faction?

Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:24 am by Black Eagle

Hi

I made a mod with a new faction. The faction works and the encounters are flying around in the system. Now I want this faction to give me missions, in which I fight some Nomads. I created the Destroy Vignettes in the System, but I don't know what else I have to do! Please can someone tell me how to add randommissions for a new faction! I couldn't find anything about that in the forums. I also added the faction in Vignetteparams.ini, but it doesn't work. What do I have to do, to make them give me random missions? Thanks for your Help!

Sat Mar 13, 2004 11:09 am by Chips

random missions?

First off - does your faction respond to other NPC's? Does it attack those that are enemies? Does it defend itself from pirates?

If the answer is no, then there is a reason you cannot take missions against them, and why not from them. Notice that lib navy never gives missions against the bounty hunters? They only hand out to kill factions that are hostile, if yours is not hostile to anyone = no random missions for you. Also - the best way to work this out is making your npc's interact with the normal NPC's in the game.

The other half of the reason is this:
Vignetterparams.ini - this is where the details of WHICH type of random mission is given out. Where-ever you see factions names in here, is basically a type of random mission (don't get excited there are about 10 kill ships ones here, all of which are fly and kill the ships........its just that there are 10 different texts telling you to do the same thing

). Each one you add your faction to will ensure it gives out missions of that type (kill shoot, tractor loot, assassinate etc).

Edited by - Chips on 3/13/2004 11:10:26 AM

Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:20 pm by Black Eagle

My faction fights against the Nomads. The encounters fly around in the bottom Unknown system. They attack any Nomad they see. In Vignetteparams.ini I added my faction "fc_ap_grp" at the end of each line, in which the other unlawful factions (fc_..._grp) are written. But my new faction doesn't give me missions. I also tried to make the Order give me missions on their base (I made one). They doesn't give me missions too. Can the problem be that both, Order and the new faction are only enemies of the Nomads? Of course I want them to give me missions against the Nomads, but Is this possible?

Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:02 pm by Chips

mbases.ini file - offers_missions = true line needs to be included along with the difficulty at the bases you want random missions at. Look in Mbases at Li01_01_base (first one in file) and you will see - below liberty police and liberty navy you get offers_missions = true line

Also - no, no missions against Nomads - tried it, doesn't work.......

Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:28 pm by Black Eagle

OK I'll think about what to do, if I can't make missions against Nomads! Thank you Chips for your Help!!!

Sat Mar 13, 2004 7:27 pm by Geekus Maximus

You can if you make nomads a faction or replace a faction with them

Sat Mar 13, 2004 7:42 pm by Chips

Yes, it does work, and they will give out missions against them....but against the existing nomads you cannot. Even tried to see if it was to do with encounters paramters (as fighter class is different to normal fighters in the npcships.ini file) but that doesn't work, however, nomads do appear in missions text, so i guess at one point there were supposed to be missions. However, having said that, so do the other factions, including quintaines men.......so perhaps not

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