I would guess it's an idea that never made it into the finished game, because its description is the "old" tradelane one, the one concerning Valhalla Research and Monument Engineering. Try putting one in a system and using it.

Sorry, your entry sort of confuses me. If you mean this entry above, it has already been tested and taking the material library out doesnt do anything.

Sorry, I thought you were asking what it was. No idea about the whole mat file thing

what if you set the lod ranges to 0

Hmm I will try that later on when I have the time, and post back here.

Which system is that in?

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It might not be in a system, that entry looks like the one from solararch.ini

Talking of which, are you running a mod? I did a search of my unmodded solararch.ini and there was no ballista.

This is actually for the Acadia MOD, there are many details about it on the home page of Lancer's in the news section.

The idea is for everything to be new in this mod so we are trying several ways of changing the tradelanes and jump gates.

For instance the tradelanes, now called Ballista's will be two shipyard put together to look like a large launching tube. There wont be any Ballista's inbetween the first at the start location and the last at the receiving location. So in a sense it catapults you across the system to your detination. This is also the reasoning why I was interested in tradelane speed.

Now for jumpgates we'll have one of the track rings from the dublin system be the actual part you jump with, however on both side of this ring there will be stations attached to be 'controlling' the gate, which are now called Catapult by the way.

Now i have been editting the shipyard_2x in utf editor, though for a fallback option I was hoping to make a tradelane invisible and simply place the shipyards to look like you were docking with a ballista and not a tradelane. This would be easier than utf editing as well.

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Did you try the idea of zeroing the LOD ranges? In theory it should work...

Wow that worked. Thanks for your help.

One more thing though - don't you have to click on it to dock with it? Surely someone who's not on the mod team wouldn't know exactly where it is?

Well, like I said, the two shipyards will be acing as the lane so you'll see it.

You SHOULD (not tried it) be able to specify those ship docking things as having a "parent" which is the ring. How? See shipyards and stuff - the ring in Berlin is good example - parent = Rh01_02_base - or something like that...

Nickname the first tradelane ring, and that way they can select it, hit dock - and it will dock with the tradelane.........you hope..

Like i said, i haven't been arsed to try it, so do NOT know at all if this will work or not - its just a guess by yours truly

Yeah those were my thoughts exactly. In theory it should and most likel will work, but we'll have to see