How to get factions to scan only some factions

Okay, here’s what I want to do (hi again, by the way):

I want a faction (say, Liberty Police) to only scan some other factions while leaving some alone. Is there a way to do this?

Friendly neighborhood bump.

I’m pretty sure this can be done by setting factions to be allied, but I’d rather not do that, as that has the added side effect of ships of one faction coming to the aid of another. I’m looking to make a faction that is generally neutral, so none of them coming to the aid of others, while at the same time not being scanned, for… reasons.

Well, this is exactly what I was looking for, so I installed it just as instructed, then fired up Freelancer. My computer said, “Objection!” and Spat out the following errors:

WARNING: failed to load mission DLL 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\dlls\bin\FactionScan.dll'

ERROR: failed create DLL instance 'FactionScan.dll' (make sure file exists)

before crashing to the desktop. My setup in Freelancer.ini is thus:

[Initial MP DLLs]
path = ..\dlls\bin
DLL = Content.dll, GameSupport, HIGHEST
; required to operate gates and docks
; required to create ships in space
DLL = Content.dll, SpaceSupport, NORMAL 
DLL = Content.dll, BaseSupport, NORMAL

DLL = Content.dll, SpacePop, LOWEST ;populator
DLL = Content.dll, AISandbox, BELOW_NORMAL
DLL = Content.dll, TestAutomation, BELOW_NORMAL
DLL = Content.dll, BasePop, LOWEST

DLL = FactionScan.dll

[Initial SP DLLs]
path = ..\dlls\bin
DLL = Content.dll, GameSupport, HIGHEST
; required to operate gates and docks
; required to create ships in space
DLL = Content.dll, SpaceSupport, NORMAL 
DLL = Content.dll, BaseSupport, NORMAL

DLL = Content.dll, StoryLauncher, BELOW_NORMAL ;story/static missions
DLL = Content.dll, SpacePop, LOWEST ;populator
DLL = Content.dll, AISandbox, BELOW_NORMAL
DLL = Content.dll, TestAutomation, BELOW_NORMAL
DLL = Content.dll, BasePop, LOWEST

DLL = FactionScan.dll

Deleting the relevant lines caused Freelancer to start up normally, so the DLL is definitely the offender.

I should note that I found the installation instructions odd. Every other DLL I’ve installed from you has gone in the EXE folder, not DLLS/BIN, and has been added to dacom.ini, not Freelancer.ini.

Furthermore, I found the wording in the source code file to be awkward. For instance, you mention that multiple factions can be used in one [FactionScan] block, but you don’t mention if that means the scanning faction or the scanned faction. Also, does having a “scan =” overwrite normal behavior, i.e. if it’s not listed after “scan =,” will that faction not be scanned even if it normally would by the indicated faction, or does it just add factions that otherwise wouldn’t be scanned to the list of those that would?

At any rate, thanks for getting this out to me. I’ve already come up with one idea I hadn’t even thought of when I first asked for something like this (namely, a faction scanning other ships of that same faction).

Well, I found the offender in why it wouldn’t work: for some reason, FLMM refuses to put the thing in the DLL/BIN folder, so it couldn’t find it. Any idea on how to fix this particular problem?