Mountable Nanobots/Shield Batteries

Bats & bots are hardcoded, tested via the 01 nickname hashes. Adding more is problematic, since there’s no way to choose. It’d probably have to be exclusive (somehow), so you have 01 or 02, but not both. Which is why I haven’t done it before now.

Not sure what you mean by “map infocards”. You could try searching my plain-text FRC resources for what you’re after. Or perhaps you want DATA\INTERFACE\infocardmap.ini, which maps a base’s stats to it’s description, required to show what’s for sale.

serris wrote:
By the map infocards, I meant when you look at a bases discription on the map, it gives you a brief description of the base.

An example (using FLEd-ids): Battleship Norfolk

<rdl><push><text>The Battleship</text> <tra data=“2” mask=“2” def=“-3”><text>Norfolk</text> <tra data=“0” mask=“2” def=“-1”><text>anchors the Cambridge Line of electronic surveillance satellites to suppress the chronic pirate and smuggling activity in the system. Food transports, pharmaceutical shipments, and the local Trade Lanes are enticing targets for pirates who strike across the Line before retreating to the safety of the Barrier ice clouds.</text><para><para></para></para></tra></tra></push></rdl>

I want to know if it is the /UNIVERSE/(system)/(system.ini) that holds the place for placing the infocard data

Yes, system infocards are selected in the system.ini

In the case of you Norfolk entry as below

[Object]
nickname = Br03_03
ids_name = 196673
pos = 37986, 0, 8129
rotate = 0, -60, 0
archetype = b_battleship
ids_info = 65559
base = Br03_03_Base
dock_with = Br03_03_Base
reputation = br_n_grp
behavior = NOTHING
voice = atc_leg_f01
space_costume = br_kaitlyn_head, br_female_elite_body
difficulty_level = 7
loadout = br_battleship_base01
pilot = pilot_solar_hard

the second entry comes from the \interface\infocardmap.ini like this

Map = 65559, 65560

65560 is the more detailed “visited” infocard

serris wrote:
Is there any way to modify the hardcoding to accept the second set?

Here’s a partial solution, which should still get the job done. Have a look at Multirepair.cpp for details.

Yes, with a bit of extra mucking about, which I wasn’t really bothered doing. You can patch in a few more: 001299, 5b = last digit of the bat/bot nickname.

Assuming you’re not taking the piss, open Multirepair.dll in a hex editor, go to hexadecimal offset 1299 (it’s probably hex by default, but you may need to use 0x1299), change the byte.

You can see the number of Nanobots and Shield Batteries only if ge_s_repair_01 and ge_s_battery_01 on NPC.

Would it be possible to display the numbers for 02?

Nine years ago I would have had a go at it; now, not so much. Sorry.