frustrating base problem

Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:55 am by XetoX

Here is my problem.
I have made a base but when I try and dock with it, the ship goes into the docking bay and then the screen just fades away to nothing. I have followed the tutorial to base building excatly (i think o.O) but still i cannot get to the start room. I have set up the files for the rooms, checked and double checked their directories but still nothing. I have tried to fix it for along time now and refrained myself from asking for help but now i feel i must.
Does anyone know any common errors to base building that i might have forgotten about? If you would like me to put up the code for my base i will gladly

any help would be usefull right now

Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:07 am by TripleJH

seeing your base code would be helpful

example:

[BaseInfo<---closing bracket
nickname = Hi02_03_Base
start_room = Deck

[Room<---closing bracket
nickname = Bar
file = Universe\Systems\Hi02\Bases\Rooms\Hi02_03_Bar.ini
[Room<---closing bracket
nickname = Deck
file = Universe\Systems\Hi02\Bases\Rooms\Hi02_03_Deck.ini
[Room<---closing bracket
nickname = Trader
file = Universe\Systems\Hi02\Bases\Rooms\Hi02_03_trader.ini
[Room<---closing bracket
nickname = Equipment
file = Universe\Systems\Hi02\Bases\Rooms\Hi02_03_equipment.ini
[Room<---closing bracket
nickname = ShipDealer
file = Universe\Systems\Hi02\Bases\Rooms\Hi02_03_shipdealer.ini

if your code is good than maybe there is a problem with your docking hardpoints on your base.

Triple

Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:20 am by XetoX

ok here's the code

[BaseInfo ; <- bracket
nickname = Li01_20
start_room = Deck

[Room ; <- bracket
nickname = Bar
file = Universe\Systems\Li01\Bases\Rooms\Li01_20_Bar.ini

[Room ; <- bracket
nickname = Deck
file = Universe\Systems\Li01\Bases\Rooms\Li01_20_Deck.ini

[Room ; <- bracket
nickname = Deck2
file = Universe\Systems\Li01\Bases\Rooms\Li01_20_Deck2.ini

[Room ; <- bracket
nickname = ShipDealer
file = Universe\Systems\Li01\Bases\Rooms\Li01_20_shipdealer.ini

Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:31 am by TripleJH

well your code looks fine it might be your docking points are to close to the base and your not actually reaching them.

Triple

Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:12 am by XetoX

Well im going into them, then stopping, then the the game just slowly fades into a black background

Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:20 am by erkolos

Does it work to skip docking sequence (hitting Esc) getting you into the base?

Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:08 am by Mace_166

The fading to black problem is where the base hasn't been placed into universe.ini. You might want to check that you haven't got a mis-spelt universe entry.

Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:18 am by XetoX

here is the code for the base in universe.ini:

[Object
nickname = Li01_20_base
system = li01
strid_name = 196766 <--could be wrong?
file = Universe\Systems\Li01\Bases\Li01_20_base
BGCS_base_run_by = W02bF01

Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:47 am by Mace_166

Could just be the last post but shouldn't:
file = Universe\Systems\Li01\Bases\Li01_20_base
be
file = Universe\Systems\Li01\Bases\Li01_20_base.ini

Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:08 am by XetoX

Ah, it seems I have solved the problem

[Object <--------should have been [Base
nickname = Li01_20_base
system = li01
strid_name = 196755
file = Universe\Systems\Li01\Bases\Li01_20_base
BGCS_base_run_by = W02bF01

thanks for everyones help though

XetoX

Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:35 am by erkolos

Gratz!

By the way, I think something similar happened once when I tried to moore a battle, transport or a cruiser something to Newark station outside of planet Manhattan. That might have been answered before however.

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