Problem with traders with their escorts circling with no destination

SlayerAIM · Post by **SlayerAIM** » Tue, 19. Jul 16, 12:04

http://steamcommunity.com/id/slayeraim/ ... 9521089608

This sector and maybe a few other is killing my x3 : Albion Prelude's performance, would like to know if there is any scripts/mods available to remove/delete unwanted or locationless ships.

Sorry this is my first post and i have been looking everywhere for a script so could not find any.

ThankS!

ubuntufreakdragon · Post by **ubuntufreakdragon** » Tue, 19. Jul 16, 14:15

Nice spam

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It shouldn't be that difficult to write a kill script to get rid of them, but first we need to know why this happened or it will happen again

, rename player to "Thereshallbewings" go to comandconsole-scripteditor-Additional Information enable both, than look up the info of the spam ships, search for jobid or jobwingsid, if the have one your jobs-file does something weird if not it's likely a mad side-mission that needs to be stopped

SlayerAIM · Post by **SlayerAIM** » Tue, 19. Jul 16, 14:48

It looks like that what you said, jobid is ranging from 210 lets say to 1300.... i guess its not a good thing??

How would i go about fixing this, i am a programmer so coding not hard for me but i need some reference to go on.

ubuntufreakdragon · Post by **ubuntufreakdragon** » Tue, 19. Jul 16, 15:41

ok so far so good it's not a broken mission, puh

, we still have to fix the jods have you ever moded the jobs if not it should be enough to delete all spawning ships and hope it doesn't come back (restart what ever isn't working

), if a ship is not invulnerable has a job id and is not owned by the player it's safe to kill by script it as it will just respawn
so we will iterate over all species than over all ships they own and kill them thats all.
Here is a complete list of aviable comands: http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=286349
you can use the ingame Scripteditor to code the script, select a script and press r to manually run it.

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$arr.race = array alloc: size=0
*now we add all races that spam ships
append Argon to array $arr.race
...
$index1 = size of array $arr.race
while $index1
 =dec index1
 $arr.ship = get ship array: of race $race class/type=null
 $index2 = size of array $arr.race
 while $index2
  =dec index2
  $ship=$arr.ship[$index2]
  *check wheather we are a jobs ship
  if not $ship->get job id
   skip if $ship get job leader
    continue
  end
  *don't delete jobsships
  do if $ship -> is invincible
   continue
  do if $ship == PLAYERSHIP
   continue
  $ship-> destruct: show no explosion= True
 end
end
return null
....you know

If the spam contiues nothing is lost, all we need to do to stop is crating an invalid JOBS and JOBWINGS file and load the save with it, than swich back to the normal file(JOBS is the only file thats unable to corrupt saves

)

SlayerAIM · Post by **SlayerAIM** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 09:43

I have an issue with this part

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 if not $ship->get job id 
   skip if $ship get job leader 
    continue 
  end

For some reason i cant seem to find the get job id part is it referenced as something else like object id or so?

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 11:01

The "get job id" command can be found in the Fly Commands section.

SlayerAIM · Post by **SlayerAIM** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 11:42

Thanks i have found it.

Finnished up the script but all the ships is stil there. All the ships had Job ID's even the onces not in that sector.

Can it be something else then?

Post by **UniTrader** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 12:14

Usually the result looks a bit diffrent but did you play around with the Gate connections?

SlayerAIM · Post by **SlayerAIM** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 12:28

Well i was busy with the first gate with the pub plot, so then this is the reason all traders are idling in that sector?

Post by **UniTrader** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 12:53

Nope, hub should be fine.. but if you assign wrong gate ids to certain gates ships will lose orientation and anter the same gate pair over and over, resulting in roughly the same amount of ships in a sector

SlayerAIM · Post by **SlayerAIM** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 12:56

Well in that case i did not play around with the gate ID's as i have never played around with scripting in X3, only thing i did was activating the first gate of the hub plot.

Just now learning the scripts to solve this issue as my save file now crashes due to someting slowing my performance down

ubuntufreakdragon · Post by **ubuntufreakdragon** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 14:37

stupid question you have launched the script via the "r" hotkey after creating it, if the script doesn't help we will do the following we place two empty textdokuments under the following paths:
for Terranconflict:
<gamedir>\types\Jobs.txt
<gamedir>\types\JobWings.txt
for Albionprelude:
<gamedir>\addon\types\Jobs.txt
<gamedir>\addon\types\JobWings.txt
This will block the Game from Spawning any ships (and delete any jobsrelated data from the save) than we run our kill script save again and remove the documents.

SlayerAIM · Post by **SlayerAIM** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 15:36

I got the script to work its deleting 5800 ships. But my universe is empty afterwords, i have also made it so it leaves round about 100 ships left per race and it works but it leaves the ships thats spammed behind. I am not sure on how many ships the games suppose to have but 100 seems fair but its deleting the wanted ships aswell like the TL and TM ships.

*NOTE*

In my universe there are a few TS ships with the current command IDLE and its just cruising around lol.

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I have look around on the scripts and its definetly the jobs script creating these ships. from that image and my understanding is that that exact script was called 1900 times? the same goes for military trader.

ubuntufreakdragon · Post by **ubuntufreakdragon** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 16:02

These ships(all difined by jobs) are not important they respawn all after about 15min-1hour.

If you know the exackt jobs id you can look up the job inside the jobs file inside one .cat/.dat archive with the X3 editor 2.

SlayerAIM · Post by **SlayerAIM** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 16:08

So its safe to clear the universe and wait and hour or so?

ubuntufreakdragon · Post by **ubuntufreakdragon** » Wed, 20. Jul 16, 16:18

Yes, everything that has a job id respawns automatically.