Higher rank missions
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Not sure if this is of any use.
# Make MP job difficulty exactly between min and max difficulty in mbases.ini. # Jason Hood (adoxa), 22 February, 2010. # Fixed 3 June, 2010. File: content.dll # v1.1 0AAD7A: 89 44 E4 04 D9 44 E4 20 D8 64 E4 [ 99 B9 03 00 00 00 F7 F9 85 D2 74 ] 1C EB 04 66 B8 FB 06 DB 44 E4 04 [ 33 D9 05 30 B2 FB 06 DD 5C 24 04 ] D8 0D D0 97 39 06 DE C9 D8 44 E4 [ FF D6 99 DD 44 24 04 B9 03 00 00 ] 1C 5E 83 C4 10 C3 [ 00 F7 F9 8D 54 12 ] -
Sorry to dig up an old thread like this, but I saw the piece of hex code provided by adoxa and it’s exactly what I was looking for! - except I can’t get it to work, sadly. It crashes FLServer whenever I try to load a character. To be more exact, it sort of worked the first time and I was able to check the mission board, but there were no available missions - so after tinkering with NpcRanktoDiff and mbases.ini I tried again, and from that point on it crashed no matter if I used the modded ini’s or the originals. Has anyone gotten this to work?
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In my opinion it is possible without using patch made by Adoxa. I’m working on missions with rewards between 5.400-6.300.000$. Still testing but this is a result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKdUu10TP80
EDIT: It’s prototype but it work beyond expectation.
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Disregarding formulas for a moment, I notice that the last two entries in Diff2Money are using commas instead of decimals.
Could that be part of the problem?Diff2Money = 136,986301, 642369
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In my opinion is most importent NpcRankToDiff.ini and there difference between minimum and maximum on one line. It’s hard to describe it….
If we look at original setting…
[RankAndFormationSizeToDifficulty] NpcRank = 1, 0,00985.0, 0,03569.0, 0,07754.0, 0,13539.0, 0,20923.0, 0,29908.0, 0,40493.0, 0,52677.0 NpcRank = 2, 0,01348.0, 0,04886.0, 0,10614.0, 0,18533.0, 0,28642.0, 0,40941.0, 0,5543.0, 0,7211.0 NpcRank = 3, 0,01845.0, 0,06688.0, 0,1453.0, 0,2537.0, 0,39208.0, 0,56044.0, 0,75879.0, 0,98712.0 ; NpcRank = 4, 0,02526.0, 0,09156.0, 0,1989.0, 0,34729.0, 0,53672.0, 0,76719.0, 1,0387.0, 1,35126.0 ;1.325 NpcRank = 5, 0,03457.0, 0,12533.0, 0,27228.0, 0,4754.0, 0,73471.0, 1,05021.0, 1,42188.0, 1,84974.0 ;1.8 NpcRank = 6, 0,04733.0, 0,17157.0, 0,37272.0, 0,65078.0, 1,00575.0, 1,43763.0, 1,94641.0, 2,53211.0 ;2.5 NpcRank = 7, 0,06479.0, 0,23486.0, 0,51021.0, 0,89085.0, 1,37677.0, 1,96797.0, 2,66445.0, 3,46621.0 ;3.4 NpcRank = 8, 0,08869.0, 0,3215.0, 0,69843.0, 1,21948.0, 1,88466.0, 2,69395.0, 3,64736.0, 4,7449.0 ;4.7 NpcRank = 9, 0,12141.0, 0,4401.0, 0,95608.0, 1,66935.0, 2,5799.0, 3,68775.0, 4,99287.0, 6,49529.0 ;6.4 NpcRank = 10, 0,16619.0, 0,60245.0, 1,30878.0, 2,28517.0, 3,53163.0, 5,04816.0, 6,83475.0, 8,8914.0 ;8.5 NpcRank = 11, 0,2275.0, 0,8247.0, 1,79159.0, 3,12817.0, 4,83445.0, 6,91042.0, 9,35608.0, 12,1714.0 ;12 NpcRank = 12, 0,31143.0, 1,12893.0, 2,45251.0, 4,28216.0, 6,61788.0, 9,45967.0, 12,8075.0, 16,6614.0 ;16.5 NpcRank = 13, 0,42632.0, 1,5454.0, 3,35724.0, 5,86184.0, 9,05921.0, 12,9493.0, 17,5322.0, 22,8079.0 ;22 NpcRank = 14, 0,58358.0, 2,11549.0, 4,59572.0, 8,02428.0, 12,4011.0, 17,7263.0, 23,9998.0, 31,2217.0 ;30 NpcRank = 15, 0,79887.0, 2,8959.0, 6,29109.0, 10,9844.0, 16,9759.0, 24,2656.0, 32,8534.0, 42,7394.0 ;42 NpcRank = 16, 1,09357.0, 3,96419.0, 8,61187.0, 15,0365.0, 23,2383.0, 33,2172.0, 44,973.0, 58,506.0 ;57 NpcRank = 17, 1,49699.0, 5,42658.0, 11,7887.0, 20,5835.0, 31,811.0, 45,471.0, 61,5636.0, 80,0888.0 ;79 NpcRank = 18, 2,04923.0, 7,42845.0, 16,1376.0, 28,1768.0, 43,546.0, 62,2452.0, 84,2744.0 ;82 NpcRank = 19, 2,80519.0, 10,1688.0, 22,0908.0, 38,5713.0, 59,6102.0, 85,2075.0 ;83 NpcRank = 20, 3,84002.0 NpcRank = 21, 5,25661.0 NpcRank = 22, 7,19577.0 NpcRank = 23, 9,85029.0 NpcRank = 24, 13,484.0 NpcRank = 25, 18,4583.0You know that maximum of difference is 100. If you write more that 100 it wouldn’t work. So you must move maximum difference to higher rank that 19. It work as complex whole. If you set maximum difference to rank 14 server will think that it is the best what he have and sent it to mission as the best of the best. The balance between each other is important too. There isn’t one but many operational settings that work. It only depends on what you want.
You must try it… Play with setting and test it. I must redone setting totally five times!
EDIT: Size of numbers is also important too
For example i post one of my work. This work good but it is not 100%… It’s designed for missions with many NPC…
[RankAndFormationSizeToDifficulty] NpcRank = 1, 0.009850, 0.002, 0.7 NpcRank = 2, 0.009850, 0.3, 0.5, 0.8 NpcRank = 3, 0.009850, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 1 NpcRank = 4, 0.009850, 0.7, 1.2, 1.5 NpcRank = 5, 0.034570, 1, 2, 4, 6 NpcRank = 6, 0.034570, 1, 2, 4, 6 NpcRank = 7, 0.034570, 1, 2, 4, 6 NpcRank = 8, 0.166190, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 NpcRank = 9, 0.166190, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 NpcRank = 10, 0.166190, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 NpcRank = 11, 0.166190, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 NpcRank = 12, 0.166190, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 NpcRank = 13, 0.166190, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 NpcRank = 14, 0.166190, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 NpcRank = 15, 0.798870, 3, 8, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21 NpcRank = 16, 0.798870, 3, 8, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21 NpcRank = 17, 0.798870, 3, 8, 10, 13, 16, 18, 21 NpcRank = 18, 2, 5, 13, 18, 22, 25, 28, 30, 33 NpcRank = 19, 2, 5, 13, 18, 22, 25, 28, 30, 33 NpcRank = 20, 3, 8, 17, 22, 26, 31, 36, 40, 41, 42 NpcRank = 21, 3, 8, 17, 22, 26, 31, 36, 40, 41, 42 NpcRank = 22, 3, 8, 17, 22, 26, 31, 36, 40, 41, 42 NpcRank = 23, 3, 8, 17, 22, 26, 31, 36, 40, 41, 42 NpcRank = 24, 3, 13, 18, 25, 28, 30, 34, 35, 45, 46, 56 NpcRank = 25, 3, 13, 18, 25, 28, 30, 34, 35, 45, 46, 56 [Diff2Money] Diff2Money = 0.05, 5500 Diff2Money = 0.1, 6000 Diff2Money = 0.15, 6500 Diff2Money = 0.2, 7000 Diff2Money = 0.25, 7500 Diff2Money = 0.3, 8000 Diff2Money = 0.35, 8500 Diff2Money = 0.4, 9000 Diff2Money = 0.45, 9500 Diff2Money = 0.5, 10000 Diff2Money = 0.55, 10500 Diff2Money = 0.6, 11000 Diff2Money = 0.65, 11500 Diff2Money = 0.7, 12000 Diff2Money = 0.75, 12500 Diff2Money = 0.8, 13000 Diff2Money = 0.85, 13500 Diff2Money = 0.9, 14000 Diff2Money = 0.95, 14500 Diff2Money = 1, 15000 Diff2Money = 1.1, 17500 Diff2Money = 1.2, 20000 Diff2Money = 1.3, 25000 Diff2Money = 1.4, 30000 Diff2Money = 1.5, 35000 Diff2Money = 1.6, 40000 Diff2Money = 1.7, 45000 Diff2Money = 1.8, 50000 Diff2Money = 1.9, 55000 Diff2Money = 2, 60000 Diff2Money = 2.2, 70000 Diff2Money = 2.4, 80000 Diff2Money = 2.6, 90000 Diff2Money = 2.8, 100000 Diff2Money = 3, 110000 Diff2Money = 4, 130000 Diff2Money = 5, 150000 Diff2Money = 6, 170000 Diff2Money = 7, 190000 Diff2Money = 8, 210000 Diff2Money = 9, 230000 Diff2Money = 10, 250000 Diff2Money = 11, 270000 Diff2Money = 12, 290000 Diff2Money = 13, 310000 Diff2Money = 14, 330000 Diff2Money = 15, 350000 Diff2Money = 16, 370000 Diff2Money = 17, 390000 Diff2Money = 18, 410000 Diff2Money = 19, 430000 Diff2Money = 20, 450000 Diff2Money = 21, 470000 Diff2Money = 22, 490000 Diff2Money = 23, 510000 Diff2Money = 24, 530000 Diff2Money = 25, 550000 Diff2Money = 26, 570000 Diff2Money = 27, 590000 Diff2Money = 28, 610000 Diff2Money = 29, 630000 Diff2Money = 30, 650000 Diff2Money = 31, 670000 Diff2Money = 32, 690000 Diff2Money = 33, 710000 Diff2Money = 34, 730000 Diff2Money = 35, 750000 Diff2Money = 36, 770000 Diff2Money = 37, 790000 Diff2Money = 38, 810000 Diff2Money = 39, 830000 Diff2Money = 40, 850000 Diff2Money = 41, 870000 Diff2Money = 42, 890000 Diff2Money = 43, 910000 Diff2Money = 44, 930000 Diff2Money = 45, 950000 Diff2Money = 46, 970000 Diff2Money = 47, 990000 Diff2Money = 48, 1010000 Diff2Money = 49, 1050000 Diff2Money = 50, 1090000 Diff2Money = 51, 1130000 Diff2Money = 52, 1170000 Diff2Money = 53, 1210000 Diff2Money = 54, 1250000 Diff2Money = 55, 1290000 Diff2Money = 56, 1330000 Diff2Money = 57, 1370000 Diff2Money = 58, 1410000 Diff2Money = 59, 1450000 Diff2Money = 60, 1490000 Diff2Money = 61, 1530000 Diff2Money = 62, 1570000 Diff2Money = 63, 1610000 Diff2Money = 64, 1650000 Diff2Money = 65, 1690000 Diff2Money = 66, 1730000 Diff2Money = 67, 1770000 Diff2Money = 68, 1810000 Diff2Money = 69, 1850000 Diff2Money = 70, 1890000 Diff2Money = 71, 1930000 Diff2Money = 72, 1970000 Diff2Money = 73, 2010000 Diff2Money = 74, 2110000 Diff2Money = 75, 2210000 Diff2Money = 76, 2310000 Diff2Money = 77, 2410000 Diff2Money = 78, 2510000 Diff2Money = 79, 2610000 Diff2Money = 80, 2710000 Diff2Money = 81, 2810000 Diff2Money = 82, 2910000 Diff2Money = 83, 3110000 Diff2Money = 84, 3310000 Diff2Money = 85, 3510000 Diff2Money = 86, 3710000 Diff2Money = 87, 3910000 Diff2Money = 88, 4110000 Diff2Money = 89, 4310000 Diff2Money = 90, 4510000 Diff2Money = 91, 4710000 Diff2Money = 92, 4910000 Diff2Money = 93, 5210000 Diff2Money = 94, 5510000 Diff2Money = 95, 5810000 Diff2Money = 96, 6110000 Diff2Money = 97, 6210000 Diff2Money = 98, 6310000 Diff2Money = 99, 6410000 Diff2Money = 100, 6510000 ```Results: mise($) - rank - numbers(in waves) 44.000 - 1 - 1 x 2 + 3 x 3 55.000 - 7 - 4 x 4 85.000 - 14 - 3 x 2 115.000 - 7/14 - 1 x 2 (14) + 3 x 2 (7) 180.000 - 7/14 - 1 x 4 (17) + 1 x 3 (14) 180.000 - 7 - 2 x 4 195.000 - 7/17 - 1 x 4 (7) + 1 x 2 (17) 200.000 - 14/19 - 1 x 4 (17) + 1 x 2 (19) 210.000 - 7 - 4 x 4 245.000 - 5 - 2 x 4 310.000 - 14 - 4 x 4 495.000 - 17/23/25 - 1 x 2 (23) + 1 x 4 (17) + 1 x 2 (25) 580.000 - 17/23 - 2 x 5 (17) + 1 x 3 (23) 620.000 - 23/25 - 1 x 3 (25) + 1 x 3 (23) 740.000 - 23 - 2 x 4 800.000 - 19/23 - 3 x 4 (19) + 1 x 3 (25) 870.000 - 19/23 - 1 x 7 (19) + 1 x 5 (23) 940.000 - 19 - 4 x 4 1.150.000 - 23/25 - 2 x 7 (23) + 1 x 1 (25) 1.400.000 - 23 - 2 X 6 1.500.000 - 23 - 2 x 8 1.700.000 - 25 - 2 x 8 1.900.000 - 19/23/25 - 2 x 5 (23) + 1 x 5 (25) + 1 x 7 (19) 1.950.000 - 25 - 2 x 8 1.950.000 - 23/25 - 2 x 5 (23) + 2 x 5 (25) 2.150.000 - 19/23/25 - 2 x 6 (25) + 1 x 8 (19) + 1 x 6 (23) 2.300.000 - 25 - 2 x 7 2.650.000 - 23/25 - 2 x 6 (23) + 2 x 6 (25) 2.700.000 - 19/25 - 3 x 5 (25) + 1 x 7 (19) 2.850.000 - 23/25 - 2 x 7 (23) + 2 x 7 (25) 3.000.000 - 23 - 4 x 6 3.200.000 - 23/25 - 3 x 6 (23) + 1 x 7 (25) 3.250.000 - 23 - 1 x 8 + 1 x 7 + 1 x 8 3.650.000 - 23/25 - 2 x 7 (25) + 2 x 7 (23) 3.800.000 - 25 - 3 x 8 4.050.000 - 23/25 - 2 x 7 (25) + 1 x 8 (23) 4.150.000 - 25 - 3 x 8 4.400.000 - 23/25 - 1 x 7 (23) + 3 x 8 (25) s pomocĂ NPC Bounty Hunters Rank 25 poÄŤet 6 4.650.000 - 25 - 3 x 8 5.300.000 - 23/25 - 3 x 7 (23) + 1 x 8 (25) 5.500.000 - 25 - 3 x 7 5.700.000 - 25 - 3 x 8 6.100.000 - 25 - 4 x 8 6.300.000 - 23/25 - 1 x 7 (25) + 1 x 8 (23) + 2 x 8 (25) For capitals in missions is good old Evolutions setting from Chips, i think.[RankAndFormationSizeToDifficulty]
NpcRank = 1, 0.009850, 0.035690, 0.077540, 0.135390, 0.209230, 0.299080, 0.404930, 0.526770
NpcRank = 2, 0.013480, 0.048860, 0.106140, 0.185330, 0.286420, 0.409410, 0.554300, 0.721100
NpcRank = 3, 0.018450, 0.066880, 0.145300, 0.253700, 0.392080, 0.560440, 0.758790, 0.987120
NpcRank = 4, 0.025260, 0.091560, 0.198900, 0.347290, 0.536720, 0.767190, 1.038700, 1.351260
NpcRank = 5, 0.034570, 0.125330, 0.272280, 0.475400, 0.734710, 1.050210, 1.421880, 1.849740
NpcRank = 6, 0.047330, 0.171570, 0.372720, 0.650780, 1.005750, 1.437630, 1.946410, 2.532110
NpcRank = 7, 0.064790, 0.234860, 0.510210, 0.890850, 1.376770, 1.967970, 2.664450, 3.466210
NpcRank = 8, 0.088690, 0.321500, 0.698430, 1.219480, 1.884660, 2.693950, 3.647360, 4.744900
NpcRank = 9, 0.121410, 0.440100, 0.956080, 1.669350, 2.579900, 3.687750, 4.992870, 6.495290
NpcRank = 10, 0.166190, 0.602450, 1.308780, 2.285170, 3.531630, 5.048160, 6.834750, 8.891400
NpcRank = 11, 0.227500, 0.824700, 1.791590, 3.128170, 4.834450, 6.910420, 9.356080, 12.171400
NpcRank = 12, 0.311430, 1.128930, 2.452510, 4.282160, 6.617880, 9.459670, 12.807500, 16.661400
NpcRank = 13, 0.426320, 1.545400, 3.357240, 5.861840, 9.059210, 12.949300, 17.532200, 22.807899
NpcRank = 14, 0.583580, 2.115490, 4.595720, 8.024280, 12.401100, 17.726299, 23.999800, 31.221701
NpcRank = 15, 0.798870, 2.895900, 6.291090, 10.984400, 16.975901, 24.265600, 32.853401, 42.739399
NpcRank = 16, 1.093570, 3.964190, 8.611870, 15.036500, 23.238300, 33.217201, 44.973000, 47.506001
NpcRank = 17, 1.496990, 11.788700, 20.583500, 31.811001, 39.811001, 45.471001, 51.563599
NpcRank = 18, 2.049230, 16.137600, 28.176800, 35.176800, 38.571301, 43.546001, 56.245201
NpcRank = 19, 2.805190, 38.571301, 43.546001, 45.546001, 47.546001, 48.546001, 53.610199, 58.245201, 65.207497
NpcRank = 20, 2.805190, 50.168800, 52.090799, 54.090799, 56.811001, 58.811001, 60.571301, 62.571301, 63.571301, 69.610199
NpcRank = 21, 2.805190, 55.168800, 57.168800, 58.090799, 63.090799, 65.811001, 67.811001, 68.57130, 69.57130, 70.57130, 85.207497, 91.107497, 91.207497, 99.207497
NpcRank = 22, 2.805190, 60.610199, 62.610199, 64.245201, 67.610199, 70.610199, 72.245201, 73.245201, 74.245201, 78.207497, 85.207497, 91.207497, 99.107497, 99.207497
NpcRank = 23, 2.805190, 65.546001, 67.546001, 69.546001, 75.546001, 77.546001, 78.546001, 79.546001, 80.546001, 83.546001, 85.207497, 91.207497, 99.107497
NpcRank = 24, 2.805190, 85.526001, 85.536001, 85.546001, 90.207497, 91.207497, 92.107497
NpcRank = 25, 2.805190, 86.207497, 86.217497, 91.207497, 92.207497 -
I’m using those settings for npcranktodiff and missions offered are at mission_type = DestroyMission, 53.365002, 90.112387, 60
The Nomads are showing up 2 at a time with a total of about 8 ships to destroy. The missions are illogically easy even at those settings. In fact, using the same settings against outcasts, the outcast missions are much harder and ships seem to come in in greater numbers.
Someone suggested to me that I have all nomad missions offered at a lower rank using the same ship pilots and loadouts as the higher ranked random encounter NPCs. How would that work? I want big payouts for very hard missions.
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I was looking at the info on this page.
The last post seems to indicate that the npcranktodiff settings are added from the beginning of the line to give number of fighters in waves. When the sum becomes greater than 100, that’s the max you’ll get.
ie.
NpcRank = 16, 1.09357, 3.96419, 8.61187, 15.0365, 23.2383, 33.2172, 44.973, 58.506For missions difficulty npc rank = 16, (11.101920, 15.197410)
1.09357+3.96419+8.61187+15.0365+23.2383+33.2172+44.973=130.13463 which is greater than 100, so you’ll never see waves of fighters with numbers greater than 6 in each wave.If that’s so, why would the vanilla file offer values that would go well beyond that 100 value?
If I wanted greater numbers in each wave, would the solution be to add additional values in each rank level below the maximum vanilla capability?
ie. 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 3.96419, …. giving many more ships in each wave?
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Difficulty is maxed out at 100. See if this helps:
content.dll, 1143D4, 100f = maximum value of misn difficulty content.dll, 1175F0, 100f = maximum value of DestroyMission difficulty (I think; it's part of the StateMachine) content.dll, 11B22C, 100f = maximum value of rank_diff and generated mission difficulty -
After i make the edits, what kind of changes do I need to make in the mission type settings?
The problem we have is that the level 43 missions against NPC rank 19s are just too easy. I just did a level 43 mission for max payout that sent me four waves of enemy fighters, each with only two ships. I’d like to see each wave consisting of at least 4-5 ships for a total of 20-25 enemy fighters. I seem to recall having to fight more GMG for the outcasts in beta and having to work much harder at it.
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There is an internal weighted vector which is used to determine how many ships should occur. This only goes up to 8, so adding more entries to NpcRank won’t do you much good. The weighting is at 11CC58 in content.dll (SP first, then MP; 0 & 1 are both 0):
Ships SP MP 2 3 2 3 9 3 4 6 9 5 2 6 6 1 4 7 1 2 8 1 1 ```This weighting ends up determining which rank will be selected for the job. Here's a patch to allow for 31 ships:content.dll 0F8A4B 58CCFB->00CBFC = use 30-float array at 12CB08 (created manually!) for SP ship weighting vector ~adoxa
content.dll 0F8A54 7CCCFB->80CBFC = use 30-float array at 12CB88 (created manually!) for MP ship weighting vector ~adoxa
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