[MD] The Traveling Mechanic - v0.2 - updated 03.12.2008

Creston · Post by **Creston** » Thu, 25. Dec 08, 18:13

Awesome stuff. I have always wanted to make a script exactly like this but my scripting "knowledge" failed me. As a result, I always just charge myself for cheated overtunings at 100K a piece.

But this is far cooler. Thanks so much!

Creston

shrikebtr · Post by **shrikebtr** » Thu, 25. Dec 08, 22:28

Any tricks to finding him? I have been checking the three Boron shipyards I know about over and over for some time now, and have never seen him.

Teladidrone · Post by **Teladidrone** » Fri, 26. Dec 08, 18:38

shrikebtr wrote:Any tricks to finding him? I have been checking the three Boron shipyards I know about over and over for some time now, and have never seen him.

Sorry, no tricks I am afraid...
And there are a lot more than 3 Boron shipyards out there in TC; and like CNiall said that ship is SLOW: I tuned it to run around at about 40m/s; still it may take a really long time until it shows up at one of the 3 shipyards you are watching...

And if it arrives at some shipyard it will not stay in this sector for long... another shipyard is randomly selected as new destination and it will take off again - the ship is always on the move.

Only thing you can be sure about is that there is always a ship out there somewhere - if destroyed it will be respawned within a couple of minutes and continue the voyage.

draffutt · Post by **draffutt** » Sun, 4. Jan 09, 04:36

just installed this. the message log says v0.1 was installed but the spk says v0.2. is that a typo in the setup file?

sferum · Post by **sferum** » Mon, 5. Jan 09, 02:01

Teladidrone wrote:Same problem as always with other languages - you need to copy t/8371.xml to t/8371-L049.xml and change the language id on the second line to 49.
Usually this should be done before the script is loaded/run for the first time...

I know it's a bit offtopic... but... imagine I have intslalled this script, forgotten to change the textfile...started my game... and saved

And now I dont get rid of the READTEXTS, even changing now the name, unless I start a new game.

What can I do? Is there any post where it is explained how to fix it?

I lilttle idea:

You could make it purchaseable and make it work like SECTOR MOTHER (X³R) with some nice scripts, or even ask the autor for his help

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=175572
So you could buy a huge ship which takes care of your ships or of a complete wing

Thatnks for this great script!!

western · Post by **western** » Mon, 5. Jan 09, 08:27

Don't know whats happened here but overtuned my Carrack and its now capable of 696kph. the odd thing is that whichever saved game I use its speed is now the same!

Any way of reducing/removing the upgrade and starting again!

Thx.

mostlikely · Post by **mostlikely** » Mon, 5. Jan 09, 09:55

western wrote:Don't know whats happened here but overtuned my Carrack and its now capable of 696kph. the odd thing is that whichever saved game I use its speed is now the same!

Any way of reducing/removing the upgrade and starting again!

Thx.

Use the 'remove upgrades' function from the X3TC Cheat Package?

western · Post by **western** » Mon, 5. Jan 09, 20:02

Phew - Thanx, will be more careful next time!

Wainaa · Post by **Wainaa** » Wed, 7. Jan 09, 14:35

Well, I found the ship once and bought some upgrades. Now i found it again, but there is no ! and when i comm the onboard engineer, I dont have the option to upgrade my ship. Last time around I upgraded a M6, now I'm in a M2. Does that make a difference? Also, should it start working normally if I uninstall the script, run the game, save&reload, quit and install it again?

Teladidrone · Post by **Teladidrone** » Wed, 7. Jan 09, 16:51

Wainaa wrote:Well, I found the ship once and bought some upgrades. Now i found it again, but there is no ! and when i comm the onboard engineer, I dont have the option to upgrade my ship. Last time around I upgraded a M6, now I'm in a M2. Does that make a difference? Also, should it start working normally if I uninstall the script, run the game, save&reload, quit and install it again?

That's weird; maybe the conversation got stuck - I'll need to do some checking.

Unfortunately uninstalling/reinstalling MD scripts usually does not have the effect of resetting everything; certainly this will not fix the mechanic - only way to do that right now is to destroy the whole ship and let it respawn.

//Edit:
Ok, lets try something here.
In my script I added a "catch all" condition that should automatically reset the mechanic and the ship to make sure everything is working as designed.
This cue will only fire every 30 minutes if the player is NOT in the same sector as the ship.
Leave the ship alone and go OOS for at least 1 in-game hour (you can assign a scout to follow it so you may find it later again) and check back later if that fixed the mechanic conversation.

Wainaa · Post by **Wainaa** » Fri, 9. Jan 09, 12:25

What ever you did, didnt have the effect you wanted. the mechanic didnt reset, no matter how long i waited. And it stayed in the same sector the whole time. in the end, i got it to work by taking a xenon patrol mission in that sector and letting the xenons kill it. The respawned mechanic worked normally

Teladidrone · Post by **Teladidrone** » Fri, 9. Jan 09, 19:54

Well, that's not good. I mean for me - I'm glad that you could fix it without too much trouble though.

But this means that the script may end up in some deadlock state which I was not able to reproduce or experience myself... yet. Dammit.

mcsquared · Post by **mcsquared** » Sat, 17. Jan 09, 19:50

Just tried your script. I "tuned" my Vidar, Tiger, and Osaka. I really like this script becuase the tunings did not over do it. Other cheats turn your ships into ridiculously fast guided missiles. These tunings are just about perfect!

SoggyGoat · Post by **SoggyGoat** » Mon, 30. Mar 09, 13:58

Hi Teladidrone,

I have a problem if I'm "out of universe", i.e. in a Khaak sector, or in the

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unfocussed jumpdrive sector

then when the Navy Tender docks, the cues to find the next destination fire. The find station appears to fail since there are no boron dockyards within 75 jumps of where I am (since where I am has no gates). The result is that the destination is unchanged and the dock command is issued to where the Tender is already docked. The cue resets and spins in a loop. If I have debug on, I get an infinite number of "dest reached" and "new dest" messages. If I have debug off, the game freezes.

Since I'm currently trying to wipe out the Khaak, this is a bit of a problem, so I've had to rename the MD xml for now. I tried adding a couple of timing clauses to those cues but it didn't help much. Maybe I need to delay the reset of the cue like you do with check3_1.

Otherwise, a cool addition to the game, thanks.
S.G.

LiveAus · Post by **LiveAus** » Wed, 1. Apr 09, 12:47

I've installed this script about 3 weeks ago and have not found the ship in any Boron sector. Is there a script to allow me to search for it?

SoggyGoat · Post by **SoggyGoat** » Thu, 2. Apr 09, 11:23

@LiveAus: It travels between Boron shipyards, so can be found anywhere inbetween.

Stingads_Gsöchts · Post by **Stingads_Gsöchts** » Mon, 6. Apr 09, 17:16

EDIT: Problem solved. It worked when I manually installed the data without the scriptinstaller.

Teladidrone wrote:Just one short notice in your log: "The Traveling Mechanic version X installed."
If you have got that all is well and the ship will start to move around... somewhere.

I installed the script via Scriptinstaller. Ingame however, I don't get a confirmation that the mod has been installed. I'm not even getting a ReadText error

(I'm using the German version) What am I doing wrong?

P.S.: I also tried to add a German Text file to the spk packet, but with no result.

Stingads_Gsöchts · Post by **Stingads_Gsöchts** » Sun, 19. Apr 09, 22:50

New Problem....

I managed to install the script and it worked fine in the beginning. I guess the ship was destroyed, because all of a sudden it appeared in the southern Boron sectors. When the ship respawned it was named "=TextIdNotFound= and the mechanic had the same problem. So I decided to remove the files from the t and Director folders and later reinstalled the script. After doing so a new ship spawned (the Textidnotfound one was still there. So far so good:

now here is the problem. The ship has a lightpulp-symbol as it should have, so has the boozy mechanic, but when I talk to him I just get the standard Options: where's the nearest shipyard yadda, yaddah...

What can I do ? When I first installed the script everything was fine?!

Tanooshman · Post by **Tanooshman** » Wed, 29. Apr 09, 19:17

About three weeks into X3TC - first X experience. Just want to share a few notes for others like me, who lack the background to understand some of whats posted on these forums.

First - and foremost. For the sake of you and your family DO NOT attempt searching for the ship before the package is successfully installed. Really.

Second - the name of the ship IS NOT "Mechanic". I strongly recommend reading the initial post and clicking on the links before spending 2 days searching.

Third - the Mechanic is BIG. It maneuvers through space and changes course to avoid collision. If you collide with it - YOU LOSE. Period. Altogether.

A NICELY done piece of work.

mikthescot · Post by **mikthescot** » Wed, 13. May 09, 15:22

can it be put into a RAR file insted of spk

[MD] The Traveling Mechanic - v0.2 - updated 03.12.2008

Found the Mechanic - it works - THANK YOU! - a few notes from a X3 initiate