[SCR][MD][TC][AP] LIFE-V0.95b (update: 06-May-2014)

[dfm5000]

lol I love this mod probably 1 of the best I've I seen in a long time.

I couldn't stop laughing at one of my pilots telling the enemy he could help him by performing a mind melt.

[PDouma39]

@ Shush

Thanx for the great update, ingame it is now even more lifier than before.
Even the laughs of other nps pilots are great.

[Steninger]

* Sigh * - this is an excellent mod, one of the best on the forums in my view. It is hampered by one thing only. NPC Bailing is simply too frequent.
I use XRM so battles are frequent, large scale and intense.

I simply wait for the entertaining madness to subside and, like a vulture or some other carrion bird, I swoop in and collect any abandoned ships.

The biggest problem is the equipment left over. The vessels can be stripped and sold for millions. A Terran cutlass I found had 8 guns which went for c. 350k each! Why bother with any other endeavour when you can 'rubber neck' the battles rinse and repeat. If it wasn't for lowly race rep I'd be sorted guv'nor.

Can we have an option to switch this off in a future update? Everything else is marvellous (the shockwave stuff is worthy of Hollywood - it really adds to the immersion).

[Shush]

X3ap 20140411.mp4
(right-click and “save file” to download)

video/mp4 - 95.13 MB

That was a great video, I really enjoyed it.

lol I love this mod probably 1 of the best I've I seen in a long time.

Thanx for the great update, ingame it is now even more lifier than before.

No problem; expect a big update shortly.

* Sigh * - this is an excellent mod, one of the best on the forums in my view. It is hampered by one thing only. NPC Bailing is simply too frequent.
I use XRM so battles are frequent, large scale and intense.

I'm glad you're enjoying it, the next update will have a configurable bailed pilot's setting, from none to lots.

[Shush]

LIFE-V0.95b is available for download; it has had some major structural changes in preparation for a huge update. Unfortunately due to some last minute visual glitches, (mostly on Nvidia cards), I've decided to hold back about 50% of the update for another week or so.

Instead what you get is a proper installer, more control over dynamic missions and audio actors as well as lots of bug fixes; see the first post in this thread for a detailed update.

[PDouma39]

@ Shush once again thank you for your great work.
I have a question though, could I install Life as before (copy and paste the mod files in the appropriate directories) without using the installer?
I am used to manually install these files you see. Thanx.

[Shush]

I have a question though, could I install Life as before (copy and paste the mod files in the appropriate directories) without using the installer?

Yup, you sure can; nothing has changed with the way manual installation works.

[markmid]

Your mod is amazing it was what I was trying to do for ages with the old game , if I remember all those years ago (almost ten!) the approach I was using was to change the race dynamically to create fights between opposing companies/individuals then switch them back to neutral after it was concluded.

Thus allowing unlimited races and mods to work together, in theory.

Anyway thank you for it!

If I ever get back into modding I'll make sure i'm compatible with what you've done, and i'll be interested to see how you accomplished it .

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edit
As expected a day or so on I am looking at modding right now

I had a few questions for the dev if he has chance. I am hooked with your mod + XRM!

1, What happens if I try to add sectors to life, will anything likely break, if so what? Never tried a sector mod before, I always just messed with modding AI life plugins and scripts so apologies for the basic inquiry.

2, Have you modded the unknown race, enemy race, neutral race, friendly race in any way. Will I break anything touching these races.

3, Any changes to Race 1, ATF or Race 2? Will I break anything touching these races.

Thanks again. If I get the modding bug again which is likely, I will definitely be making it Life + XRM compatible or even dependent.

All the best

[Boringnick]

Shush,

have you "officially" tested LIFE with Litcube's Universe already?

[Shush]

Your mod is amazing it was what I was trying to do for ages with the old game , if I remember all those years ago (almost ten!) the approach I was using was to change the race dynamically to create fights between opposing companies/individuals then switch them back to neutral after it was concluded.

Are you thinking of XRM's Weapon Dealer? LIFE doesn't have any new races or change any of the dynamics between the races; a couple of the things LIFE does is offer news and dynamic missions based on what transpires within the universe without faking or injecting events, (one of the reasons it is compatible with a large number of mods/scripts).

1, What happens if I try to add sectors to life, will anything likely break, if so what? Never tried a sector mod before, I always just messed with modding AI life plugins and scripts so apologies for the basic inquiry.

LIFE should be fine with sector mods as long sector 0, 0 exists, (which by default is Kingdom End).

2, Have you modded the unknown race, enemy race, neutral race, friendly race in any way. Will I break anything touching these races.

The only thing LIFE does with respect to races is use the neutral race notoriety as a signalling mechanism between the MSCI and the MD. If you use a MSCI or MD script that modifies the neutral race notoriety then LIFE will have issues.

3, Any changes to Race 1, ATF or Race 2? Will I break anything touching these races.

No changes, you should be fine.

Thanks again. If I get the modding bug again which is likely, I will definitely be making it Life + XRM compatible or even dependent.

All the best

Cheers.

have you "officially" tested LIFE with Litcube's Universe already?

I haven't had time, LU looks pretty amazing from the few minutes I have had scanning the LU thread. If I do ever get a chance to do some compatibility testing it probably won't be until LU matures in terms of patches.

[Aeshi]

Would it be possible to get the news to get the Player's gender correct? The start I'm using is Female, but all the News reports refer to them as Male. I assume it can be done since the Pilot Chatter gets the gender correct.

(I'm using one of the XRM starts, so sorry if that's an XRM problem and not a LIFE one)

And as a possible request/suggestion for future versions, could we change how the news refers to us? "[Player Name] Conglomerate" and other such things sound kinda dumb. Prehaps we could input a "Company Name" that LIFE would use when talking about things done by our ships, while using our Pilot Name to refer to things done by us specifically?

EDIT: Another question I'd like to ask out of curiosity: Can an NPC ship get overtuned via leveling?

[Taro8]

Hey, I love that this mod continues. I have a request and I think a bug.

Request: add support for community configuration menu. I wish all moders did this, my keyboard has only so much keys.

Bug: Khaak raided a sector (Khaak swarm mod), borons deployed their forces and won. There were 2 boron ships that now have K : x L : x. The problem is once the Khaak are gone the 2 borons are just sitting dead in space. I think they may have been spawned by response script.
I would suggest for LIFE to scan for NPC ships with K : x L : x, from time to time. If it finds one that is sitting dead in space it sends him on a tour across the universe.
This actually may be fun to watch, you know: NPC's abandoning their former lives and adventuring around.

[Shush]

Would it be possible to get the news to get the Player's gender correct? The start I'm using is Female, but all the News reports refer to them as Male. I assume it can be done since the Pilot Chatter gets the gender correct.

I'll add an option so that you can set the sex of the player in the next version of LIFE.

And as a possible request/suggestion for future versions, could we change how the news refers to us? "[Player Name] Conglomerate" and other such things sound kinda dumb. Prehaps we could input a "Company Name" that LIFE would use when talking about things done by our ships, while using our Pilot Name to refer to things done by us specifically?

I'll fix this so that news generated by the player versus news generated by player owned property is more consistent. I'll also add another option that allows you to choose how the player's name is decorated, (e.g. default, random, etc).

EDIT: Another question I'd like to ask out of curiosity: Can an NPC ship get overtuned via leveling?

Yup, that is the whole point of NPC leveling, to give NPC ships a fighting chance through overtuning and max'ed shield/weapon loadouts, you can also enable/disable leveling for player owned NPC ships.

Request: add support for community configuration menu. I wish all moders did this, my keyboard has only so much keys.

The older versions of LIFE used to use CommunityPluginConfiguration, but I pulled it out as I didn't want to rely on any external dependencies. What I can do simply enough is build two version, one as it is now and one using CommunityPluginConfiguration and allow you the choice of which to install through the installer. Look for this in the next version of LIFE.

Bug: Khaak raided a sector (Khaak swarm mod), borons deployed their forces and won. There were 2 boron ships that now have K : x L : x. The problem is once the Khaak are gone the 2 borons are just sitting dead in space. I think they may have been spawned by response script.

After an enemy is destroyed attacked ships should be heading back to their homebase, either these ships had no homebase or their is a bug in this part of the MD script, I'll look into it; even so, they should eventually start moving as their race logic is enabled and G.O.D./race logic scripts should find something for them to do.

[Taro8]

Well, you dont any special stuff for configuration menu. I have added LIFE to it with one line of code.

Also, how about using the titles you get like venturer, fighter, harmless etc. for something. At least they would be of some use.

[Aeshi]

Also, how about using the titles you get like venturer, fighter, harmless etc. for something. At least they would be of some use.

I'm fairly certain LIFE already does that, at least for Combat Ranks (My pilot's been referred to as "Instructor [Name]" at least once.)

[Daemonjax]

Cool mod.

Just a heads up:

The conversations.xml file included for XRM is for AP. If used with TC it will break stuff... I noticed when my terran plots broke.

Thanks for including a diff file, though, so we can edit the file ourself. I'll throw one up on dropbox once I make the changes myself and link it here.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/327 ... e-0.95b.7z

^ original xrm tc conversation file is in there, too.

Edit 1: Upon closer inspection, XRM for TC doesn't modify the conversations.xml file, and so the version I linked above is equivalent (confirmed with winmerge) to your conversations_TC.xml file which was included.

Edit 2: The line "if $systemPopupEnabled == [TRUE] AND $argInitialise == [FALSE]" in the setup script appears to be broken because I get the notification popup on each savegame load. I checked and think the issue is related to $argInitialise check, but I think the issue is just a cosmetic one so I just commented the lines for the popup:

* if $systemPopupEnabled == [TRUE] AND $argInitialise == [FALSE]
* $text = '[author]G.O.D.[/author]' + $gTitle
* send incoming message $text to player: display it=1
* end


TLDR: If you're using XRM for TC, then don't use the included conversations.xml for XRM; use the TC one or merge your own.

[Shush]

Cool mod.

Cheers.

The conversations.xml file included for XRM is for AP. If used with TC it will break stuff... I noticed when my terran plots broke.

Thanks for spotting that, I'll modify the instructions in the installer and readme files to make a note of this.

Edit 2: The line "if $systemPopupEnabled == [TRUE] AND $argInitialise == [FALSE]" in the setup script appears to be broken because I get the notification popup on each savegame load.

This used to work, i.e. it will always show the popup message at least once, (at the start of a new game), but from then on not show it again if $systemPopupEnabled is set to [FALSE] in LIFE's configuration. I may have inadvertently snafu'ed it, I'll check it out and fix it if needed for the next version, thanks again.

[Hamburglar]

Love this mod! Adds a lot of much needed spice.

Quick question:

Do the shockwave explosions destroy floating wares within their range?

Also, how does the bounty system work? Normally there's nothing in the bounties section of the news, but when it does show something it's when a bounty has been claimed/killed, not available ones.

Thanks and great job!

[Sgt Doom]

What option in the installer should I choose if i'm running XRM with TC plots for AP? Or would I need to tweak things manually?

[Teleth]

Great mod, though a little noisy in XRM warzones.

I made my own small edit to how ship naming works because I felt I didn't need to see every kill on every ship, so I reduced it to show only ships levels which had surpassed level zero.
I posted it here for anyone else wanting to reduce clutter but know when a ship is level badass.

0.95b ONLY (note I do not know what side effects my edit may have):
X3/addon/Scripts/plugin.LIFE.ship.leveling.xml
https://www.mediafire.com/?67i8jj18crragip

Shush:
Consider adding an option to change what is shown on the ships name.
For options maybe:

1. Ship name: K1 L0 (default appears when ship gets a kill)
2. Ship name: L1 (level appears when ship gets to level 1)
3. Ship name: L3 K255 (display level when level 1, kills appear when level gets to 3 or more)
4. Ship name: Green/Veteran/Elite/Captain (level up rank instead of numeric)

I'm sure you already have plenty to do though, it's just a minor aesthetic for me. Thanks for the excellent mod.