**Tutorial** - Liberty Battleship with mooring fix

Wed Apr 16, 2003 10:37 pm by Jackel

Alot of troubles with battleships come from when you have to actually move them. Battleships getting stuck in tradelanes, etc.

I read in the forum a mod for increasing your cruse speed. Since a battleship will more than likely have it's own "warp" engine would there be a procedure where you can simply set it's cruse speed the same as a tradelane? Say around 1000-1500 should be right. I know there are mods available to make that speed change but it applies it to every ship in the game. How much trouble would it be to actually make the edit to the INI's so your cap ship needs no tradelane?

~Jay~

Fortune favors the strong mind.

Edited by - Jackel on 16-04-2003 23:43:49

Thu Apr 17, 2003 1:14 am by Wanderer

A simple but unrealistic way of giving warp speed to the battleship would be to increase the engine thrust and increasing the drag by 1/10th the amount of the thrust. That way you can accelerate to as fast as you want. Just watch out for slowing down.

Thu Apr 17, 2003 2:44 am by Chris03

I've been having the same problems with the Dreadnought getting stuck in the moor, and I can't dock with tradelanes either. Also, is there any way to change the controls of the ship to something along the lines of a Rhino? Btw, if there's any updated files with the moor changes and other up to date things, please email me

[email protected]

p.s, sorry for bothering you with so many questions via email Wanderer.

Fri Apr 18, 2003 1:58 am by Wanderer

Unless i'm mistaken, didn't i send you the files for it not to long ago? If you want rhino type agility, just follow the tips i gave you earlier and copy the rhino maneuverbility stats over.

Fri Apr 18, 2003 2:13 am by IGx89

I finally was able to find and modify the mod script for this tutorial! You can download it here:
http://lancersreactor.com/t/forum/topic.asp?Topic_ID=10016&Forum_ID=18

Wanderer, could you look it over and see if it needs any tweaking? The equipment shop has some variations of some of the turrets that you might need to modify/remove.

Fri Apr 18, 2003 4:12 am by Chris03

Yeah, I managed to get the mod working great, with some tweaking in the controls. One problem I've had from the start is the shield hardport isn't available in the ship. I saw this problem before in this thread, and added the file left out of the files you sent me. However the shield hardport still isn't in the game, so I might have edited it wrong. Any thoughts?

Sat Apr 19, 2003 2:20 am by Wanderer

If i sent you the correct files, it should also have included a specially modified cmp file of the dreadnought. If its there, not only should you have an extra beam turret, you should have TWO shield hardpoints.

I'll take a look at the file IGx89. On a side note, could you send me and email detailing the extras you have done. That way i'll save time on checking it.

Edited by - Wanderer on 19-04-2003 03:21:59

Sat Apr 19, 2003 4:09 am by Chris03

Modified cmp. file? I don't know, the Battleship shield is for sale at Manhattan, but there's no hardpoint. I don't understand, could you send me the file with the hardpoint, or possibly just what lines I'm supposed to add in?

Sat Apr 19, 2003 8:34 pm by Chris03

And is there any way to dock with smaller stations? My battleship just cuts its engines after flying into an odd position.

Sun Apr 20, 2003 3:33 am by Wanderer

I can't keep track of all the requests i'm getting so if you haven't got the modified cmp file, email me and i will send it. Otherwise i get lost as to who wants what.

Wed Apr 23, 2003 3:59 am by Chris03

Email sent.

Sat May 10, 2003 4:04 pm by RadiologistRebooted

Where do I buy the battleship?

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During my travels, I have learned that being optimistic doesn't always help, hey, the light at the end of that tunnel may be an oncoming train.

Sun May 11, 2003 3:19 am by Wanderer

Not sure, haven't heard of this kind of problem before. Try using other mods and see what happens. Is this multiplayer or SP by the way. If its MP it could be because the server doesn't have the mod but if that was the case you shouldn't have been able to lift of at all.

Wed May 14, 2003 8:05 pm by Fixxar

what does the morring do i tryed it but i couldnt undock or go into the station.why is this?

Thu May 15, 2003 2:26 am by Wanderer

Mooring is supposed to let you dock with stations using their moors rather than the too small berths. If you have problems, its probably because you haven't changed all the mooring distances for the large moors as specified. If you have, email me and i will send the solararch i have.

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