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A newb question...

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Mandalore

Post Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:14 am

A newb question...

1) I've been playing space-trader sims since I was a kid (Elite ftw), and I just recently... "acquired" a copy of Freelancer (play the trial a bunch about a year ago) and immediately got the Freeworlds mod. Now my roommate wanted to play with me so I set up a server on LAN, and we're playing together and the first thing that I noticed is there's not enough NPC traffic around... It was sparse enough to begin with.

Anyway, my question is, since it's just me and my roommate, and we both have nice computers that we got this summer, is there some variables or a script that I can toy around with to add a lot more random traffic it to make it seem more alive out here? And if so, what is a rough estimate of the hardcoded limit we should stick to so it doesn't bog down and crash.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Argh

Post Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:02 am

See Foxer01's Mod-Thing Mod for some clues as to how to increase the size of Random Encounters.

XML Toolkit Mod, 1.3, will have features that will allow modders to get much better control of Encounters in general. No, it's not done yet, but that's one of the (many) new features that will be available.

AuGuR

Post Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:23 am

Alternatively, there's two lines in the encounter zone that relates to how soon/often a "new" spawn of NPCs show up.

repop_time = ##
relief_time = ##

Try setting those lower to increase spawn rates of the NPCs showing up.

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When all else fails...

RUN AUG RUN!!!
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Buck

Post Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:27 pm

Or increase
max_battle_size = 12

to

max_battle_size = 30

and

density = 12

to

density = 30

the latter makes em stick around. If the density is greater than the max battle the number in the density entry will spawn but some will fly off until the number matches the the max battle size and vice versa

Buck Rogers
Server Admin
Colours Elite UK
www.colourselite.co.uk

Edited by - Buck on 12/20/2005 3:30:11 PM

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