Matching NPC toughness to Player

Timmy51m

Many thanks Adoxa, it does exactly what it says on the tin! Makes a refreshing change seeing sabres and hammerheads in New York when you’re maxed out. Works perfectly well with vanilla FL, now I have to work out why the hell it won’t work with my mods…

Timmy51m

The problem I seem to be having is related to FLMM I think. If I apply the changes directly to the vanilla freelancer folder, no problems, works fine. If I try to activate it as a mod via FLMM v1.3 then the game will CTD on splash. Is that to be expected?

adoxa

Yes, since FLMM v1 will add all *.dll files to the [Resources] section of Freelancer.ini. I think the common trick is to store it as *.dat, then use renamefile (but just pointing to the .dat file should work too; they don’t have to be .dll). V2 fixes it (only adding what’s in the main folder), if I can ever stop myself getting distracted long enough to finish it…

Timmy51m

You need to clone yourself Great job and many thanks Adoxa.

foxUnit01

YES. This has more uses than you can imagine. Thanks Adoxa!

Gisteron

weird stuff. what is it based on? does it read out the faction’s stronger loadouts? that would make sense since so the user can code more factions all behaving like named corsairs and bounty hunters.

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Brrr

DLL = MatchPlayer.DLL, , NORMAL

or simply

DLL = MatchPlayer.DLL

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Trying to run server-side:

crash at content.dll; 1.0.1254.11; 000592f6

Timmy51m

rename the file to MatchPlayer.dat and then
use DLL = MatchPlayer.dat

Problems solved!

adoxa

@Gisteron: The encounter toughness is changed when the system is read.

@Helloween: That’s a weird place for an error, since it just writes to it a couple of instructions back. Since it doesn’t really work in MP anyway, I’m not bothered.

rsabatino

heres a question where to you put the files ?

Timmy51m

adoxa wrote:
look at MatchPlayer.cpp for notes and how to install.

adoxa

I should do something similar for the job board - that would also work in MP, then. I just don’t know how I should set it up. Any thoughts?

rsabatino

yeah i checked out the file after i found out i can open it in note book . did everything it said and it didnt work

Timmy51m

rsabatino wrote:
yeah i checked out the file after i found out i can open it in note book . did everything it said and it didnt work

rename the file to MatchPlayer.dat and then
use DLL = MatchPlayer.dat instead, see if that works for you, it did for me.

rsabatino

heres another stupid question does it work on mods for single player ?

Timmy51m

Sure does!

rsabatino

i finally got it to work after numerous crashes and other mishaps. but it to work npc are startrackers and not starfliers

adoxa

All it does is change the encounter toughness - if your factions don’t have ships to match it, I think they’ll go as high as they can. To see for yourself, try it in vanilla - around Buffalo Base you’ll see Outcasts flying Sabres (if your own level is high enough, of course).

adoxa

Match Job will adjust the job board (but not NPCs) to match the player’s level.