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The Nostromo commercial tug

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The nostromo with it's refinery in tow

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Just add a dockable (1 m6/TS slot) mineral refinery, and you are ready to head off to the nearest Asteroid belt. The refinery will have its own TL-like stats but would be scripted to perform two special tasks. 1) The refinery has its own manufacturing processes 2) The refinery is scripted to have ze...

You have the throttle wide open; and, you have just managed to pull through that last tight turn before the missile hit. Now you have hull damage and enemy has just unleashed another missile barrage. Worse yet; he is gaining on you and soon your battered ship will be within gun range. Perhaps, you c...

My biggest problem with the whole mess is that player complexes are extremely fragile. I would rather replace the feature with three (S,M,L) standard industrial complex and add production lines via script as you install additional factories within the complex.

It is not just the mods.

Doubleshadow's X3 editor release 7 does not work well wit the new patch. It shows a Type Mismatch when editing T-ships and editing the compatible missiles shows the problem clearly.

@rustybucket: It seems that you have X3E set weirdly (eh: weird->weirdly? too lazy to check my vocabulary ;) ). It seems that it cannot find the needed files. Thanks, that was it. The editor was set to MOD folder instead of the main game folder. As soon as I corrected it all of the files loaded up.

EDIT: @rustybucket - you don't have to activate the DevIL - just install it and then you can look into Help->About and click on Libraries. You should see "DevIL for X" with version.) Yes, I see it. If you have it and you open lasers or missiles with TXT Editor, you will see their icons displayed in...

How do we activate the DevIL library?

I've done that in the past too. SOmething was screwy, so I deleted ALL component.txts from every cat file. X3 will make a new one on startup, which you'll know when it does, since it'll take considerably longer to get the in-game menu screen. The X3 generated component files do not seem to support ...

tensin wrote:Yea. I'm pretty sure that the problem is with the import, not the original. The most common cause I've seen thusfar is when the scene file calls another scene file (that was the case with the Dralthi, which is now working).

Where is the new Dralthi? I can't seem to find it on the web page.

tensin wrote:Let me know if you need more examples of ships with working turrets in their original mods that then fail to function when exported (Nebulon-D, ISD, etc).

The front guns are not working on deadly's Draithi M3. It works well in the original mod, but fails when merged.

I always forget its name.

The alpha/beta pulse emitters

There seems to be a hard coded limit to the number of weapons objects available in X3. Which makes it hard to develop new weapon types for the game. I am wondering if we might impliment new weapons effects by combining a mix of the available weapons. E.g. create a weapons turret such, that by mounti...

You could also add a new game dynamic and boost reality by greatly reducing the rate of acceleration. The only thing missing would be an AI piloting system that can help in figuring out the course vectoring. In play, you would have ships engaged in a 3d dog fight even as they continue to travel in a...

the latest version is 1.53

How about a real TL/mobile trade station. A ship with a large cargo hold that travels between sectors; but, once stopped within a sector it is managed as a trade station. Commercial traffic within the sector will detect its presence and dock. Your docking bay would contain player and non-player owne...

Maybe the X-universe is actually sideways, so that up and down in the denizens' perspective is actually East and West. The possibilities are really quite endless when you open up the pandora's box of a 3-d universe. But real space is pretty flat on a large scale, and a 3-d universe map would be ins...

Cycrow wrote:maybe u should wait for firelance, some of the sectors are going to be 2000km wide with stations spread out

More then just spread out; I was hoping for a more logical grouping of stations. Something that forces you to explore the various geographic points.

There would have to be a proportional increase in scanner range too, otherwise exploration would become a little tedious. The increased speeds would also probably make hitting enemy ships a lot harder too, unless there was a proportional increase in the various weapon "bullet" speeds. I don't know ...

afaik editting the games missions isn't possible (i am not sure) even if it was possible, i wouldn't recommend it, it would most likely have bad repurcusions I mention it because I accidentally managed to edit the profile a few days ago; and, figured that there must be a better way to do it. In my ...