Modifying Asteroid Field Loot Drops (server side)

[keithlawless]

This may be more of a server admin question than a modding
question, so feel free to point me to a different place.

I’m running a Freelancer server (with Discovery mod) on a
dedicated machine, and would like to tweak the settings for
asteroid fields to change the loot that is dropped by mined
asteroids.

When I make changes to the asteroid_field.ini files in
DATA/SOLAR/ASTEROIDS and restart the server, the changes
are not visible to clients logging into the server. I suspect I’m just
changing the “client” on the server machine.

Is there a step I’m missing to cause the server to push the new
asteroid data down to the client? I know that different servers
have this feature without requiring clients to download a mod. For
example, Discovery PTC (among others) tweaks the asteroid field
in PA to help out new players.

Any help is appreciated.

[Alex.]

Use the minecontrol plugin.

[rsabatino]

in order for something like that to work i am pretty much sure you have change both server and client files

[Gisteron]

if asteroid loot is server-side then your changes would be there for the clients. however, not readable in the infocards due to they’re client-side.

if asteroid loot is client-side, there is no way but auto-updating, which would conflict the clients if they play on other servers.

[Cannon]

The mine control plugin for flhook-plugin lets you change the drops server side. You can find flhook and various plugins here
http://forge.the-starport.net/projects/flhookplugin/files

[keithlawless]

Thanks for all the quick responses - I was pretty sure I was making this way more complicated than necessary.

I’ll try the mine control plug-in - sounds exactly like what I’m looking for.

[FriendlyFire]

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