[SCRIPT] Marine Training Manager *Updated - v3* 12/23/2008
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I'm curious, at what point do I get charged for the training?
'cos I micro-managed a bunch of marines to 3*all (& 1 to 4*Fight) without my funds getting hit for anything I couldn't account for in other spending...
(this game needs balance sheet so you can track your finances, really).
Edit: Ok, finally caught it happening at the end of the training to the specified level.
Response to next poster: It works in my 2.0a Install.
'cos I micro-managed a bunch of marines to 3*all (& 1 to 4*Fight) without my funds getting hit for anything I couldn't account for in other spending...
(this game needs balance sheet so you can track your finances, really).
Edit: Ok, finally caught it happening at the end of the training to the specified level.
Response to next poster: It works in my 2.0a Install.
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Thank you for this script. I was going crazy with the vanilla version.
It took me awhile to get it started because I didn't read anywhere that you could not use the script if you were docked and I keep trying to get it to work while docked.
Does the training still occur while the ship with the marines is docked? Also, if I were to unintentionally 'Train' my marines at a Military Base while they are being trained by your script what happens? (other than just a waste of credits). How does it affect their training level? (Not that I want to make that mistake, but I have various ships with marines and many are in the middle of training the old fashion way. I don't want to have to undock my Capital ships in order to train my marines with your script and then have to try and redock them again.
One additional question. Can you use these marines while they are in training? If you enter a battle with the ship that has marines in training will they board another ship and which level of training are they using, since they don't get their star rating until all the training is complete. Does their training stop once they board another ship and they stay at the old rating? (in other words, you cannot use them when they are training or you lose all the training so far).
Sorry, one final question. If you have marines in training using your script to, say level 4, and they have not completed it yet, then you decide to increase it to level 5,... will they lose the training so far or pick up from the current progress of the training. In other words, do you have to wait for all the training to complete before you increase it to another level?
It took me awhile to get it started because I didn't read anywhere that you could not use the script if you were docked and I keep trying to get it to work while docked.
Does the training still occur while the ship with the marines is docked? Also, if I were to unintentionally 'Train' my marines at a Military Base while they are being trained by your script what happens? (other than just a waste of credits). How does it affect their training level? (Not that I want to make that mistake, but I have various ships with marines and many are in the middle of training the old fashion way. I don't want to have to undock my Capital ships in order to train my marines with your script and then have to try and redock them again.
One additional question. Can you use these marines while they are in training? If you enter a battle with the ship that has marines in training will they board another ship and which level of training are they using, since they don't get their star rating until all the training is complete. Does their training stop once they board another ship and they stay at the old rating? (in other words, you cannot use them when they are training or you lose all the training so far).
Sorry, one final question. If you have marines in training using your script to, say level 4, and they have not completed it yet, then you decide to increase it to level 5,... will they lose the training so far or pick up from the current progress of the training. In other words, do you have to wait for all the training to complete before you increase it to another level?
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Could be just me, but it seems if I launch a marine while it is in training, the entire training for that marine is bugged up and the marine is not trainable anymore; the script will complain the marine is still training, but it never actually completes.
Pure speculation but u can try to restore it: put the marine back into a Barracks to manually train up 1 more star then put it back into this MTM script.
If u use this script I recommend keeping ur active marines with u but don't train them, while u have another ship that holds marines in training.
Pure speculation but u can try to restore it: put the marine back into a Barracks to manually train up 1 more star then put it back into this MTM script.
If u use this script I recommend keeping ur active marines with u but don't train them, while u have another ship that holds marines in training.
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Thats my thought also, but what it means is that the ship you have the marines in for training are committed to the training sessions until all training is completed. The Script should make that clear. (Given the fact of course that you can transfer marines to another ship while in training which stops their training cycle, but thats not a solution).... of course this is compared with the vanilla version where you can leave them at a military base for training and do whatever you want with the ship that brought or purchased them there. (as long as some ship in your fleet comes back to collect them or provide more training)If u use this script I recommend keeping ur active marines with u but don't train them, while u have another ship that holds marines in training.
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Yep its been posted that it looks like you cant start training marines with this script while docked, only once so easy to miss.zymurg wrote:Thank you for this script. I was going crazy with the vanilla version.
It took me awhile to get it started because I didn't read anywhere that you could not use the script if you were docked and I keep trying to get it to work while docked.
I would imagine the marines continue to train as the script is still running. Any actual skill change or cost for training marines with this script is not made until the end of the training. So if you happen to accidentally start regular training at a Military Outpost it should remove it from the script training with no skill increase, as that is done at the end.Does the training still occur while the ship with the marines is docked? Also, if I were to unintentionally 'Train' my marines at a Military Base while they are being trained by your script what happens? (other than just a waste of credits). How does it affect their training level? (Not that I want to make that mistake, but I have various ships with marines and many are in the middle of training the old fashion way. I don't want to have to undock my Capital ships in order to train my marines with your script and then have to try and redock them again.
Yes you have to wait before you can do any further training, as its already been said.One additional question. Can you use these marines while they are in training? If you enter a battle with the ship that has marines in training will they board another ship and which level of training are they using, since they don't get their star rating until all the training is complete. Does their training stop once they board another ship and they stay at the old rating? (in other words, you cannot use them when they are training or you lose all the training so far).
Sorry, one final question. If you have marines in training using your script to, say level 4, and they have not completed it yet, then you decide to increase it to level 5,... will they lose the training so far or pick up from the current progress of the training. In other words, do you have to wait for all the training to complete before you increase it to another level?
You should always use the newest version of a script/mod. Unless you read the thread and prefer an older version for whatever reason.
Graxster posted in early April his mother had to have quadruple bypass heart surgery. For some reason i cant click on peoples forum names to check to see when he last posted to see if he is back and just forgot about this thread.
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I think I found another bug, anyone else have it ?
sometimes the hotkey won't work depending on which ship I am atm,
for instance if I try to train some marines from my TL, the script will complain that they are already training, when they are not.
If immediately afterwards I hop in my, say, M6 then try training the same guys again, it will work, not sure what causes this, maybe it has to do with which ship was used when the training started/finished.
This only happens using the micro manager, I think I'll stop using it altogether and just use bulk training (which always work because it does not check for training in progress)
sometimes the hotkey won't work depending on which ship I am atm,
for instance if I try to train some marines from my TL, the script will complain that they are already training, when they are not.
If immediately afterwards I hop in my, say, M6 then try training the same guys again, it will work, not sure what causes this, maybe it has to do with which ship was used when the training started/finished.
This only happens using the micro manager, I think I'll stop using it altogether and just use bulk training (which always work because it does not check for training in progress)
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I'm using it fine, with no problems. Except for that one split guy that I couldn't train anymore because I was already training him even though he never got any better. Ended up spacing him...uhmmm...Letting him go due to inadequate performance. No problems with any of my other 40 or so I used it on.
Brute force and ignorance solves all problems, just not very efficiently.
If brute force isn't working, then you aren't using enough.
If brute force isn't working, then you aren't using enough.
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Its easy to make it yourself.
I have one for the german version but the text is in the script so there has to be a separate download for every language.
Graxster has allowed me to alter his script. For the german version i implemented the ship name in the messages and the entry for cycrows plugin configuration menu.
My next project will be to get all the text out of the script into the text file. If i have done that the download will be for both languages. But i cant specify a concrete time for that because i am busy with other work (translations and some work in my house ).
Cheers.
I have one for the german version but the text is in the script so there has to be a separate download for every language.
Graxster has allowed me to alter his script. For the german version i implemented the ship name in the messages and the entry for cycrows plugin configuration menu.
My next project will be to get all the text out of the script into the text file. If i have done that the download will be for both languages. But i cant specify a concrete time for that because i am busy with other work (translations and some work in my house ).
Cheers.
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I use this mod with patch 2.1 and work apparently perfectly
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Loving this script but some questions.
1. I read from the post earlier that moving marines in training to different ship cancels training. If so, boarding a ship with the marine in training will also cancel the training since he has moved to another ship?
2. If the training is canceled... all the training up to that point is lost? If I tell it to go from level 1 to 5 and cancel in the middle, do I get level 3 marine or does he go back to level 1?
3. Is the money taken out at the beginning of training or at the completion?
4. What happens when there's no more money while the training is in progress? Is it canceled and have to restart or does it resume when there's money back in the account?
5. When using the bulk training ALWAYS trains from level 1 regardless of the marine's existing level? If I set a 3star marine and a 1star marine to be bulk trained, both of them will start training from 1 star?
Basically what happened is I set 10 marines to be trained from level 1 to 5 in all skills not realizing how much money it costs. I'm running low on cash and wish to stop the training temporarily but wanted to know if I would be wasting all the money and training levels.
1. I read from the post earlier that moving marines in training to different ship cancels training. If so, boarding a ship with the marine in training will also cancel the training since he has moved to another ship?
2. If the training is canceled... all the training up to that point is lost? If I tell it to go from level 1 to 5 and cancel in the middle, do I get level 3 marine or does he go back to level 1?
3. Is the money taken out at the beginning of training or at the completion?
4. What happens when there's no more money while the training is in progress? Is it canceled and have to restart or does it resume when there's money back in the account?
5. When using the bulk training ALWAYS trains from level 1 regardless of the marine's existing level? If I set a 3star marine and a 1star marine to be bulk trained, both of them will start training from 1 star?
Basically what happened is I set 10 marines to be trained from level 1 to 5 in all skills not realizing how much money it costs. I'm running low on cash and wish to stop the training temporarily but wanted to know if I would be wasting all the money and training levels.
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