no one knows???..... :O

So u want it to be that there are less ships in random missions. Which factions are you using? Surely you could modify the diff to money setting a bit and have it so that missions are less tough.
I had a funny one when i was doing new missions for the first time and my mbase setting was too high for the difficulty level. I was playtesting using a basic legionnaire and went up against the mollys. Must have had about 16 or mollys to fight against, each coming in waves of 4 or 5.
Depending for the faction, you might need to add higher level npcship entries for some of the weaker ones. Other than that you could post up a few mbase bits. Just the bits that control the mission level, not the baseside pop stuff.

Well, the problem is happening with every faction and every mission, on every base. Not just my new systems, systems like New York, Texas, etc.
Here is one for the Outcast on Planet Beta in the Alpha system.
[MBase
nickname = Hi01_03_Base
local_faction = fc_ou_grp
diff = 19
msg_id_prefix = gcs_refer_base_Hi01_03_Base
[MVendor
num_offers = 5, 7
[BaseFaction
faction = fc_ou_grp
weight = 100
offers_missions = true
mission_type = DestroyMission, 28.478239, 53.365002, 100
[GF_NPC
nickname = Hi0103_fix_bartender
body = pl_male1_journeyman_body
head = br_bartender_head
lefthand = benchmark_male_hand_left
righthand = benchmark_male_hand_right
individual_name = 245147
affiliation = fc_ou_grp
voice = rvp106
bribe = fc_c_grp, 10000, 16101
rumor = base_0_rank, mission_end, 2, 133240
rumor = base_0_rank, mission_end, 2, 133241
rumor = base_0_rank, mission_end, 2, 133242
rumor = base_0_rank, mission_end, 2, 133243
rumor = base_0_rank, mission_end, 2, 133245
rumor = base_0_rank, mission_end, 2, 133246
rumor = base_0_rank, mission_end, 2, 133247
rumor = base_0_rank, mission_end, 2, 133248

and here is one for malta in Alpha system
[MBase
nickname = Hi01_01_Base
local_faction = fc_ou_grp
diff = 19
msg_id_prefix = gcs_refer_base_Hi01_01_Base
[MVendor
num_offers = 5, 7
[BaseFaction
faction = fc_ou_grp
weight = 100
offers_missions = true
mission_type = DestroyMission, 28.478239, 100.000000, 100
npc = hi0101_outcasts_001_m
npc = hi0101_outcasts_002_m
npc = hi0101_outcasts_003_m
npc = hi0101_outcasts_004_f
npc = hi0101_outcasts_005_f
npc = hi0101_outcasts_006_f

See, not much differnt, but the problem is and with every other base is that it is showing up with crazy amounts of npc, like this one missions too me forever and I killed well over 20 Npc before I got outnumbered and blew up.
I've been working on this for over 2 weeks on and have not had much luck, but I'll still be working on the problem,
any tips would be a huge help.

PART 2
Now with the money to diff, I've tryed editing it, here is mine.
[Diff2Money
Diff2Money = 0, 90000
Diff2Money = 0.082100, 140000
Diff2Money = 0.112380, 156000
Diff2Money = 0.205130, 190000
Diff2Money = 0.351000, 250000
Diff2Money = 0.480490, 356792
Diff2Money = 0.657740, 465887
Diff2Money = 0.900380, 570264
Diff2Money = 1.232530, 690001
Diff2Money = 1.687200, 710201
Diff2Money = 2.309610, 843994
Diff2Money = 3.161630, 970551
Diff2Money = 4.327960, 1090093
Diff2Money = 5.924540, 1109004
Diff2Money = 8.110100, 1253056
Diff2Money = 11.101920, 1349028
Diff2Money = 15.197410, 1400246
Diff2Money = 20.803740, 1511018
Diff2Money = 28.478239, 1644597
Diff2Money = 38.983860, 1785476
Diff2Money = 53.365002, 1870150
Diff2Money = 73.051361, 1927015
Diff2Money = 100.000000, 2040000

NOw the weird thing about this is that no matter what level my missions are they are still the same amount of money as the unmodded FL. So level 100 missions as you can see would not be 2 million, it would be like.......(guessing)100 k.
Now what have I done to make it do this? I have no idea, this whole problem never showed up til I started preparing it for an online testing.

Well, u had said that you have edited npcships, what knid of changes did you make there?

um um um.....
I changed all pliots to Aces, but later changed them back to normal.
But I've been messing with the mbases and turning down the level to 5 or 6 makes them alot better, but ....they still have alot of work needed. Like Rheinland back-up get's killed by the level 19 NPC, but that's all easy to get done.
I've had never had luck with this part of FL modding. There is always a bug that happens.
But making the levels lower will just have to do til I can figure out a better way to do it.
I've tested on lan, and it seems to work alot better now.
But hey thanks for answering my questions. 2 week problem slove and will be nice tohave in my fix.


QuEsTiOn AsKeR
Last Hope MOD






Edited by - Question Asker2044 on 1/31/2006 2:33:39 PM

If its just some of the random mission types, you might be able to remove some entries from vignette params. Yo might be able to adjusy wether you get the couple of high levels or lots of lower levels.
Might be worth a shot?