NPC not Using JumpDrive Help Needed!!

Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:06 pm by shadow43289

Right okay, I took a little break from my expansion mod to fix my "blowing holes in the universe" problem. Anyway my mod is now back on track.

Ive run into a little difficulty.
I finally managed to get Freelancer's AI to accept My JumpDrive (im not going into how otherwise the post would be about 7 pages long)

Okay the NPC ships Jump fine (much to my amazement, but then I discovered a massive problem.

They Jump, but they reppear just above the system star (or centre of the map if the star isn't in it).

I was wondering if anyone knows why this is happening?
I thought that when a npc ship uses a jump gate it doesn't appear again (get deleted).

Any Help would be really apriciated as my expansion is already behind scheduale because of the whole encrypinting the NPC jumpdrive so i can't be reverse enginerred for realplayers.

Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:06 pm by shadow43289

Woops wrong forum, wasn't paying attension, could an admin please move this.

Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:29 pm by Zack Lyons

Whoa, hold it: I've been posting in the hyperdrive compilation thread, and I don't recall you mentioning that you'd actually gotten it to work? You may reply "I haven't got it to work yet" so in that case how would the NPCs actually use it?

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"Criminal Organisations don't just spring up overnight. It's a conspiracy" - overheard on a a Liberty comm frequency

Thu Sep 02, 2004 1:19 am by shadow43289

I though that thread was dead so i didn't post anything in it, I got it to work just fine for real players.

Has a few bugs (understatement) but it does work 95% of the time.

Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:12 am by Zack Lyons

Wow, congratulations Shadow! Well done!

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Leader of the Republic Mod Team.
"Criminal Organisations don't just spring up overnight. It's a conspiracy" - overheard on a a Liberty comm frequency

Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:30 am by Aravis

Really? Enlighten(lol) us how it works, and if you can jump 3 systems at once. And enlighten us if you can jump allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the way back to the ANS Yamato. And whn will it be up for dl ?

Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:45 am by shadow43289

It works just like a Jumpgate/hole. Except you an set the co-ordiantes yourself, er I don't think there is a limit to how far you can jump, and its never avaliable for download.

Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:54 am by Megistos

and its never avaliable for download.

Now apologies in advance if I'm wrong, but I think that about confirms the whole hoax thing, does it not? That it's never going to be made publicly available. And even if it does exist, why are you telling us about something we'll never be able to use?

Sun Sep 05, 2004 3:02 pm by Quincy

He's got a good point why make it if you don't want anyone to use it.

Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:35 pm by Zack Lyons

I don't wish to seem harsh to you, Shadow, but I can't understand why you actually post on the forums that you've made it when you don't release it. You even ask for help on it (e.g. this thread)

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Leader of the Republic Mod Team.
"Criminal Organisations don't just spring up overnight. It's a conspiracy" - overheard on a a Liberty comm frequency

Edited by - Zack Lyons on 9/6/2004 8:28:57 AM

Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:01 am by shadow43289

Hoax!!!
I have to much self respect to hoax.

I woun't release it, as some twit will rip it off, no matter how encoded it is.

plus if this is the attitude, I get after spending 3 months on my drive, then its clear that certain members of TLR have no right to have my jumpdrive (actually thats given me an idea).

Hmm im going away now to think abotu this, u may have solved by rip off problem.

Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:48 am by Gowserpaul

theres no proof that this is not a load of bullsh*t is there?

Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:53 am by Zack Lyons

I never said it was a hoax, I'm just wondering if we COULD see what you've done, even in a screenshot. Showing us would make you infamous in the FL Gaming Community.

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Leader of the Republic Mod Team.
"Criminal Organisations don't just spring up overnight. It's a conspiracy" - overheard on a a Liberty comm frequency

Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:28 pm by Chips

I have done it, i have made my very own fluctuating commodity market!!

All i had to do was to hack the odd file (I cannot say which ones due to people stealing the code), and also the exe file - including the server.exe

I added some code - a bit like
<pre><font size=1 face=Courier><font size=1 face=Courier>
if {param(sell_vol) = 1000;}
{var_{market} = -0.5;
param = 1;
goto_state = true
bs_factor = max}
</font> </font></pre>

YAY!!

Edited by - Chips on 9/6/2004 1:28:34 PM

Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:30 am by shadow43289

A screenshot, sure I can post one, (don't know if it will be any good).
Ohhh I know, I could go see if I can resize some of the development screeies taken for the mod. Yeah they show everything, yet they are a bit grainy.

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