[Discussion] Generic X3FL S&M Questions

[radon]

Hi, can anybody tell me if it's possible to/how I can change the maximum/minimum account values for the 'auto money transfer to player account' command via a script? I can use start task/set script command to assign that command and a station manager, but I'm not sure how to change the max/min numbers for AMTPA.

Thanks.

[X2-Illuminatus]

Should be stored in a local variable on that station, 'transfer.values' iirc.

[Cycrow]

if you are running the script manually, then you can just pass the values as the arguments, the first is the Minimum value and the 2nd is the Maximum value.

[radon]

Thank you! Changing transfer.values works perfectly, I'm not sure about how to use arguments in this case though (although since I can use transfer.values this doesn't really matter), if I have two scripts like this-

//aa.radon.amtpa.1
$station = get global variable: name= 'radon.station.current'
set global variable: name= 'radon.amtpa.check' value=1
$station -> start task 11 with script aa.radon.amtpa.2 and prio 0: arg1=x arg2=y arg3=null arg4=null arg5=null
return null

//aa.radon.amtpa.2
$amtpa.check = get global variable: name= 'radon.amtpa.check'
while $amtpa.check == 1 ...
  $amtpa.check = get global variable: name= 'radon.amtpa.check'
  set script command: COMMAND_STATION_MONEYTRANSFER
  @ = wait 120000 ms
end
return null

-and I set x and y (if that's right), what else do I need to do? Sorry, I'm know I'm a bit slow.

Edit: actually I've just realised this doesn't work to assign either commands, they fill the station slots but don't actually have an effect

[Cycrow]

No, that wouldn't work, as you are just running your own command script which isn't actually doing anything. You need to run the transfer script instead

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$scriptname = $station -> get command script: command=COMMAND_STATION_MONEYTRANSFER
$i = 11
while $i <= 20
  do if $station -> is named script $scriptname on stack of task=$i
     $station -> start task $i with script '!lib.interrupt' ...
  inc $i
end

$task = $station -> get next available task: 11
$station -> start named script: task=$task, script=$scriptname, prio=1, arg1={Minimum}, arg2={Maximum}, ...

set the {Minimum} and {Maximum} values to the ones you want to use.

The first part basically checks if the command is already running and stops it so you can start it again


NOTE: i wrote this from memory so the commands might not be exactly the same

[radon]

Does this look right? I can't seem to get it to work

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$station = get global variable: name= 'radon.station.current'
$scriptname = $station -> get command script: command=COMMAND_STATION_MONEYTRANSFER
$i = 11 ...
while $i <= 20 ...
  do if $station -> is named script $scriptname on stack of task= $i
     $station -> start task $i with script !lib.interrupt and prio=1 : arg1=null arg2=null arg3=null arg4=null arg5=null
  inc $i =
end
$task = $station -> get next available task: starting= 11
$station -> start named script: task=$task, scriptname=$scriptname prio=1, 100, 200, null, null, null

[Cycrow]

ok, looks like the get next available task wont work, as it wont find a task number below 30

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$scriptname = $station -> get command script: command=COMMAND_STATION_MONEYTRANSFER
$i = 10
$found.task = -1
while $i < 20
  if $station -> is named script $scriptname on stack of task=$i
     $station -> start task $i with script '!lib.interrupt' ...
     $found.task = $i
     break
  else if not $station -> is task $i in use
     $found.task = $i
  end
  inc $i
end

do if $found.task >= 10 AND $found.task <= 19
  $station -> start named script: task=$found.task, script=$scriptname, prio=1, arg1={Minimum}, arg2={Maximum}, ...

this will do the same thing manually

just note if all slots are filled then it wont do anything, but there currently isn't enough commands to fill all the slots anyway

[radon]

ah that works now, thanks that's great

[Hwitvlf]

How hard would it be make a mod to change the default setting for laser towers for "Show as enemy if enemy to me"? Or to add a toggle for this to the Global Commands menu? I have some modding experience with other games, but have no clue about FL so any hints on where to start would be welcome.

I've seen a lot of posts through the years where laser towers cause problems for people when they start vaporizing all ships from a faction because a hostile freighter flew by. It's a pain to flip this setting for each Tower and some people don't seem to know the setting exists.
Thanks

[eksha]

How can I change the mineral scanner range? Looking at the extracted globals.txt, it has two values that match the 10km radius - SG_SCANNER_RANGE_SHIP and SG_SCANNER_RANGE_STATION (both are set to 5000000, 5000000 / 500 = 10000m), but I just wanted to ask as there's a good chance people have figured it out ages ago and I don't need to start my trial and error session. Apologies if I use the wrong thread

[Realspace]

If I don't remember wrongly it is hardcoded at 40km. I increased it in my mod, take a look at the global.pck. But I remember that no matter how high I put it the limit was 40km, which is quite enough even for big sectors

[Curious Max]

How to prohibit the disappearance of stations?

[N8M4R3]

How to prohibit the disappearance of stations?

By ...

• Trading with stations which are not get supplied or where wares don't get bought from by the npc economy
• docking a ship on such stations
• adding a god factory removal exclusion

[Curious Max]

How to prohibit the disappearance of stations?

By ...

• Trading with stations which are not get supplied or where wares don't get bought from by the npc economy
• docking a ship on such stations
• adding a god factory removal exclusion

I need a script that will disable this feature. Or how do I change the existing script responsible for dismantling stations?

[N8M4R3]

I need a script that will disable this feature. Or how do I change the existing script responsible for dismantling stations?

There's still an existing one "setup.x3fl.pck" where are still removal exclusions are set. There you can add more exclusions for other races which weren't set by now. That's still one of my ideas to test and release such a modified script but I haven't found any free time to have a look at it.

[Curious Max]

Which commands will allow access to all HSAPs? By default, only a part of the HSAPs are available in the game.

[N8M4R3]

Which commands will allow access to all HSAPs? By default, only a part of the HSAPs are available in the game.

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%0set hsap discoverable: %1

Have a look from here and the next answers behind. There your question was already asked before

[olsch]

Hi,
I'm looking for a command to read the maximum cargo bay size of a ship. The commannd

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get cargo bay size

only returns the current volume and I could not find a way to get the max volume.
Thanks

[olsch]

Never mind. I figured it out:
You can get the extra cargo through

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get max upgrade for upgrade <cargo bay extension>

and then just add this value to the base cargo size.

[olsch]

Next Question:
How can I read out the price of a ship? I tried different commands, and none yield the correct value.
Example: Standard issue Argon Mercury. baseprice should be 190,501 Cr (Price for "S" version is 201,877 Cr - Trade MK1 - 1Mj shield)
This is consistent with the calculation described here.
So I tried the following script commands:

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$price = get average price of ware $shiptype --> returns 153220
$price = get max price of ware $shiptype --> returns 191525  (close, but not correct)
$price = get ship base price: shiptype= $shiptype waresize= null --> returns 164596

I also tried some other commands and trying to substitute $shiptype with a created instance of a ship but that usually returned 0

What am I doing wrong?