Limit breaking 101

Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:57 pm by alfa_astrix

Not to be rude, but there's one problem with editing the newplayer.fl. From what I've found, there's only one reason to even have the newplayer.fl, and that's if you've never played freelancer.

Freelancer copies newplayer.fl to your save games file and renames it restart.fl. And as I have just descovered, in order to have a new starting ship, you have to edit the restart.fl instead of the newplayer.fl. Just thought I'd post this as it may help a lot of people in the future.

Sun Jun 10, 2007 12:42 pm by Cold_Void

it *should* be possible to kill restart.fl (i hate it myself - it can cause real problems when its out of synch with mod updates) by removing/redirecting the game away from it - the trick is to find where it says 'check for restart.fl first' and disable checking so it assumes its not there, or never writes it. i'm pretty sure this has been worked on without joy yet

Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:43 am by SWAT_OP-R8R

wouldnt it be easier just to "update" the restart.fl so it does fit to the mod?

Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:17 am by alfa_astrix

take a look at my Career Selection 1.2 Mod. One example of how easy it is to edit the restart.fl.

Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:51 pm by Alcander

So what is it you guys are wanting then ideally? For restart.fl to not be made at all and continue using newplayer.fl? I don't imagine that would be hard to achieve (I'll look into it). If this is not it then what?

Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:18 pm by Mace_166

Great work dev. Do you have the details for increasing the maximum credits too?

Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:29 pm by Cold_Void

Alcander: hey! mmm yup... that's what i said

Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:02 pm by alfa_astrix

First, what differense would it make to completely get rid of the restart.fl? All it is is a copy of the newplayer.fl file. I found that when working on my current TC mod.

Second, it's good to see you again Alcander. There's something that I've been wanting to ask you. What ever happened to your Freelimits project?

Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:33 pm by w0dk4

The point is, you can change the newcharacter.ini with a mod easily, but you cannot change an existing restart.fl that easy because it is stored on your own documents folder, and NOT in your FL folder.

Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:04 pm by alfa_astrix

but see you can change that with the FLMM v1.4 beta 4. So why not fix that instead?

Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:20 am by SWAT_OP-R8R

the restart.fl can be changed in various ways... one would be the flmm 1.4
another would be a client side script that can be integrated in FL
another would be the use of an installer

Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:32 am by mknote

I could use a Freelancer that only uses newplayer.fl, because that's how my OpenSP works. Until someone fixes FLMM 1.4, I'd say that that is the best option that we have.

MK

Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:09 pm by alfa_astrix

ok, so let's take two birds with one stone. Instead of just patching the problem, let's get someone to fix the v1.4 beta 4. I mean, someone should know how.

Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:14 pm by Cold_Void

the reason is that there are two files for the same task and it's not really necessary (all it does is add empathy rates); if you want to program an options script to edit both you will have a very slow-activating mod. that and the restart.fl crashes when empathy de-synchs due to changes, are what we're really annoyed with.

Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:01 pm by alfa_astrix

All I know is that I've tried going through an editing the newplayer.fl and it doesn't work with a restart.fl. I guess getting rid of this may help, but my biggest concern is that there are a good bit of things that you can do by editing the restart.fl that I personally don't think we should give up just because it's the easiet way to go about this.

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