[SCRIPT] Advanced Jumpdrive V1.50 : Updated 11/03/2007

[Cycrow]

the Jumpdrive Energy Generator is just a cheap update for energy free jumps. The Advanced Jumpdrive does much more, which is y it costs more.

ie, u need the Advanced Jumpdrive if you want to use the Targetting scanners.

as for the SETA thing, its down to the game engine itself, SETA doesn't effect the Jump Command

[Cycrow]

New update available, 1.50

adds a new command, the Auto Jump Command, which is found in the Ships Additional Commands.

while running, the command will make your ships jump when ever you try to travel to a distant sector.

IE, when you use the Dock At command and the station is a few sectors away, the Advanced Jumpdrive will kick in and jump you to the sector instead of flying there.

[jocan2003]

mirror link dead

[Cycrow]

yeah i know, u need to use the main webpage instead

[Hadhafang]

So if I give the Auto Jump Command to my ships using the Advanced Jumpdrive they will jump instead of going the long way? Does this include UT's?

If I wasn't already Married I'd marry you Cycrow, but I think the Wife would have something to say about that

[reinhart_menken]

If I wasn't already Married I'd marry you Cycrow, but I think the Wife would have something to say about that

That is some disturbing proclaimation, both to a friend or a stranger jk.

Great update Cycrow. A question though, if I use the addon I wouldn't really need to use the additional ship command that you added correct? (since they're essentially the same function)

Or does this update cover the still-need-to-buy-enough-"fuel" issue with the add-on?

In an afterthought, I don't know if I would want to equip my traders with nine million worth of equipment just to save the fuel anyways. It's going to take a long time to "save" that money back Anyways, the thought is just for conversation's sake not bashing

[Cycrow]

they actualyl do things in different ways, the addon replaces the normal jumps with energy free jumps.

whereas the auto jump command, replaces standard movement with jumps. So with the auto jump, u tell your ship to fly to a sector, and it will jump instead.

the addon only effects when ships try to jump, so if u usse a fly to sector or dock at command, they will still fly there.

also remember that the auto jump takes up a command slot, u only have 2 available, and u have to enable it on each ship that you want to use it on

[reinhart_menken]

Okay, so I guess the add-on is more appropriate for traders (which utilize normal jumps on their own), where as the auto jump is more appropriate for....escorts and the sort.

But they both have to have the advanced jumpdrive (or energy generator) installed to actually jump without energy right? (because what you said was a little misleading, if you don't really mean making all jumps energy-free )

Thanks!

[Cycrow]

the auto jump command must have the Advanced Jumpdrive, it doesn't work with jsut the Energy Generator.

an example would be the best buys/ best sells commands for stations. normally they select a station and fly to that station, then fly back. If you set the auto jump command, then instead of flying there, they will jump there and back. If they have the targetting scanners, they will also jump to the position, ie, jump straight to the station

[DarthVain]

Yep, It works terrific Cycrow. I've installed it on my fleet ships, turned the auto jump command on on each ship, gave the ships orders to either follow or protect me and whalla, they jump where ever I jump to.

[JTK225]

queston, will this work with 2.0.0.2?

[Cycrow]

yes it will

[Deleted User]

Great Script as Always. Keep up the great Work...

[reinhart_menken]

I just found a weirdest bug - like the scriptors say, "Players always find the weirdest ways to bug a script out."

I had an advanced jumpdrive and a jumpdrive targetting on my Hyperion, and I had the Auto Jump command activated in the aux command (the only aux command active). Now, I ordered the Hyperison to patrol a single sector, and then input four destinations. Then I watched the inventory of my Hypersion (this is after I found the bug and then now I am reproducing it), the energy cells in its inventory increased steadily by the hundreds, and then when it reached around 1800 - 2000, everything else in the inventory vanished (not the softwares) and only 360 E-cells were left; and then nothing. It still had the patrol sector in it's command though.

Only reason I ever found out it was because of your aux command was that I actually had another warship patrolling a single sector before this, and the only different between the two was the activated aux command. Once I disabled the Auto Jump command on my Hyperion it patrolled the sector just like normal and nothing vanished (and no E-cell appearing out of nowhere either).

[Cycrow]

sounds like the auto command was attempting to jump each time but it failed.

which is strange as it shouldn't try to jump if its in the same sector, is it 100% repeatable ?

[reinhart_menken]

Well, after I discover it for the first time I tried two more times afterwards, and it happened both times as well, so I'd say it's 100 repeatable for as many times that I tested.

[Graxster]

I was just thinking of this, and now I found that someone wrote it!

Any way to make this work w/o having to use the EMP mod? I play with another mod enabled and there's no way I can activate EMP...

[kamikazepenguin]

The EMP is not a mod, it's a false patch. Put it in your main X3 directory as the next highest number .cat (i.e., if you have 01.cat to 08.cat, name the EMP 09.cat). It interferes with nothing, and does not require any mod merging voodoo.

[Cycrow]

and no, you cant make it work without EMP, as EMP is used to add extra wares to the game, without it, the script wouldn't be able to have new wares for the Advanced Jumpdrive and other devices

[cloppy007]

How can I jump to a position inside a Kha'ak sector? (There are crates awaiting for me...)