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[w0dk4]

Well, those hacks are only for the GUI. There is a lot more involved in patching the max player slots, the most difficult one being to extend the player-connection array in remoteclient.dll which involves messing with .dll section headers, etc…

I released the 200 player hack back in the day so I cannot think of any good reason why you would want to go through the headache again…

[Guest]

This is a huge request, maybe it’s even impossible, I don’t know.
When you are at the equipment dealer and viewing an item’s infocard, you’ll notice two sections: the left hand section is a written text about the item, consisting of headline + text body, whereas the right hand side is an automatically generated stats listing. What I want to be able to do is basically similar to what you have with ship infocards, where you have one infocard containing all the categories, and another one containing all the corresponding values. (ship dealer side only, in space you have both in one infocard)

If it would be possible to have one part of the weapon script saying ids_info, where you could store the text, another one called ids_info1 that contains the categories, and another one saying ids_info2 where you could store the values and these ids_info1/ids_info2 replacing the part that’s auto-generated, it’d be possible to add custom information.

Maybe some of you programmers (looking to adoxa mainly ) could at least have a look at it and say what they think of this. If not, then thanks for reading anyways.

Thanks in advance!

[NeXoSE]

Can i make station can be dock only for absolutely neutral(0.0-0.64) and friendly(0.65-1) players?

[adoxa]

content.dll	0CC985	40->00 = jump gates test reputation ~adoxa
content.dll	0CC986	0C->04 = jump holes test reputation ~adoxa
content.dll	11BCF4	-0.6f = hostile docking reputation ~adoxa

```Trade lane docking seems to ignore reputation altogether, so would have to delve deeper and do a plugin for that one.

@Aigle: Could probably do that, some day… What type of extra information do you want, though? If it's only what's defined by the ini, be better off doing customisable dynamic stats. In either case, I don't think it's a suitable discussion for this thread (it'll be a plugin, not an edit).

[NeXoSE]

adoxa wrote:

content.dll	0CC985	40->00 = jump gates test reputation ~adoxa
content.dll	0CC986	0C->08 = jump holes test reputation ~adoxa
content.dll	11BCF4	-0.6f = hostile docking reputation ~adoxa

```Trade lane docking seems to ignore reputation altogether, so would have to delve deeper and do a plugin for that one.

WOW! Big amaze! Thank you adoxa!

[Xarian_Prime]

Thanks Adoxa this is a great find.

[adoxa]

Oops, I had jump holes wrong, updated the post (jump holes are 800, so I should have removed 8 from C, not made it 8; 400 is the airlock, btw).

[Nova]

Hello adoxa! Are you still just planning the plugin which adds additional hp_x_special_x slots, or there are some results?

[NeXoSE]

adoxa wrote:
Oops, I had jump holes wrong, updated the post (jump holes are 800, so I should have removed 8 from C, not made it 8; 400 is the airlock, btw).

And other two is works very very very much very good! TESTED

[adoxa]

@Nova: Long way off, sorry.

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply adoxa, I thought about information that covers background information like the manufacturer or the year it was introduced plus some other stuff that can’t be automatically.

[adoxa]

Louva asked me in an IM if ships could drop out of cruise once power runs out. He’s offline atm, so I’ll post it here for all to use.

# Drop out of cruise once power reaches 0.
# Jason Hood, 18 November, 2010.

File: common.dll
03659E: 79				[ 4F ]
036618: 8B 8E 94 01 00 00 EB 14		[ 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 ]
036634: 6A 00 E8 A5 D5 03 00 EB B1	[ 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 ]

```He also asked if power could have an activation delay like shields, but that can wait for another day…

[adoxa]

freelancer.exe	08AEBE	20f = drop cargo dialog timeout PART 1 ~adoxa
freelancer.exe	1D2688	20f = drop cargo dialog timeout PART 2 ~adoxa
content.dll	118130	20f = time given to drop cargo ~adoxa

[oZed]

Hey,

After using adoxa’s hack so that you drop out of cruise once you run out of power (which works great btw), I wanted to know if it is possible to do the same thing with sheilds? So that if you run out of juice both your engines and sheilds die.

Thanks
Ozed

[adoxa]

I don’t see it as necessary. When shields are charged, they’re independent of the power supply, so losing power shouldn’t mean losing shields. As they’re drained, though, they only recharge if you have sufficient power.

[oZed]

Just wondering, is there anyway to activate the damage_per_fire line in weapon entries, i assume it is the damage done to the weapon on shooting, but it seems to have been disabled.

Thanks
Ozed

[Dragnite_MU]

thats incorrect, damage_per_fire means the weapon does damage to the user when it is fired.

[oZed]

Really, i always though it would be for damaging the weapon so as to simulate wear. Either way i haven’t every seen it work.

Just wondering how you found that out?

Ozed

[Thaddeus]

Dragnite_MU wrote:
thats incorrect, damage_per_fire means the weapon does damage to the user when it is fired.

hmmm, how does that work then? not getting at you, but how did you come to that conclusion?

by default - damage_per_fire = 0

changing it does not seem to do anything, like oZed, I assumed that it was some legacy code left in for simulating weapon wear…

@adoxa

adoxa wrote: shields

lol, subtle

[Chips]

or maybe it was the original method of how much damage a weapon dealt before they separated it into shield/hull!