Can this be done? Start the story mode with any ship and equipment and money?

corpse

You sound like a perfect rogue … XD
Many servers have more PvE objectives like mining, trading or missions.
Also some mods give you more/other stories to play
http://the-starport.net/freelancer/download/singlefile.php?cid=9&lid=68

adoxa

1. How to get my Eagle and its equipment and cargo to be the ship that Juni offers, meaning that it’s in the Equipment Room with us. That would be cool.

This is done (I believe) via [c]rtcprop_civ_fighter[/c] in [c]DATA\SHIPS\rtc_shiparch.ini[/c] (replace [c]starflier[/c] with [c]vheavy_fighter[/c]). It also uses [c]msn_playerloadout[/c].

TwoCables

adoxa wrote:

1. How to get my Eagle and its equipment and cargo to be the ship that Juni offers, meaning that it’s in the Equipment Room with us. That would be cool.

This is done (I believe) via [c]rtcprop_civ_fighter[/c] in [c]DATA\SHIPS\rtc_shiparch.ini[/c] (replace [c]starflier[/c] with [c]vheavy_fighter[/c]). It also uses [c]msn_playerloadout[/c].

Oh, so does this mean that I could get it to be the Eagle, but it would have to be its default loadout?

adoxa

No, it means carry on as you have been doing, modifying [c]msn_playerloadout[/c] to what you have.

TwoCables

adoxa wrote:
No, it means carry on as you have been doing, modifying [c]msn_playerloadout[/c] to what you have.

Oh, loadouts.ini, not m01a.ini. I confused myself. I somehow convinced myself that it uses it from m01a.ini in the mrp_accept nickname. I apologize for that.

P1p3r

Yes it can. I had written a program sometime ago that lets me do exactly this.

Any money, ship, weapons, and base.

It also let’s you adjust your affinity with any group. allowing you to take missions from their base, or not.

Unfortunately, It will allow the user to start on any base, regardless of whether or not it’s playable. Same with ships and weapons.

It also sets trade lane and cruising speeds.

If this is of interest for anyone, just let me know and I will upload it.

For what you want, you simply need to modify your player profile. no inis or dlls.

I can’t remember what else this thing does. It’s been a while.

TwoCables

Now, when you use this to set yourself up with any money, ship and weapons, can you also set yourself up with any cargo as well - including extra weapons and whatnot?

Also, when you set yourself up with anything you want and any ship, does it work in such a way where if you click New Game, you still get the opening movie of Freeport 7, you still get to meet Juni in the bar and you still get to meet her in the Equipment Room? If so, then is your selected ship the ship that Juni offers you in the Equipment Room?

When you fly out to meet King, is it your ship and its weapons?

Or, is it just like Freelancer Discovery? Meaning, no story mode?

corpse

That is what we have all been explaining
To add items as cargo

cargo = ge_s_repair_01, 3
```cargo = item, amount
hope this helps

TwoCables

I know. I thought that I demonstrated that a few times. lol Regardless, that’s not what I was asking in that last post.

Do you see what I was asking now?

P1p3r

Yes. What you want is to play through the story mode with your chosen load out. Is this correct?

That being the case, there is a file in your saved game folder called Restart.fl. Whatever you have in that file is what Juni gives you. This is what is waiting for you in the equipment room.

For the sandbox mode, you simply need to set your mission to at least 41 in your saved game file. That alone will put you in no story mode.

TwoCables

P1p3r wrote:
Yes. What you want is to play through the story mode with your chosen load out. Is this correct?

That being the case, there is a file in your saved game folder called Restart.fl. Whatever you have in that file is what Juni gives you. This is what is waiting for you in the equipment room.

For the sandbox mode, you simply need to set your mission to at least 41 in your saved game file. That alone will put you in no story mode.

She gives you the Debug Ship?

P1p3r

She doesn’t give you the debug ship. She gives you what ever you set up in the Restart.fl file.

TwoCables

P1p3r wrote:
She doesn’t give you the debug ship. She gives you what ever you set up in the Restart.fl file.

Well, that was the first thing I tried before making this thread. I changed everything underneath where it says “Debug Ship - gets replaced if missions active”. There’s no other place in the whole file to do it that I can see.

If it were that easy, then I wouldn’t be here.

corpse

ok i guess its time for you to post your code / scripts that you edited.
This may help to pin down what is missing

TwoCables

I did that earlier, but here:

Here’s what didn’t work:

In m01a.ini, I changed ge_fighter to ge_fighter06:

[Trigger]
nickname = mrp_accept
system = Li01
Cnd_MsnResponse = accept
Act_SetShipAndLoadout = ge_fighter06, msn_playerloadout

In loadouts.ini, I changed everything under this:

[Loadout]
nickname = msn_playerloadout
archetype = ge_fighter

…beginning with changing ge_fighter to ge_fighter06.

As instructed by someone else earlier, I changed nickname = msn_playerloadout_faux as well.

This doesn’t change the ship in the Equipment Room when Juni is offering the first job, and this doesn’t change the ship you see when you meet King out in space - but I do see the Starflier outfitted with 3 of my weapons and some of my equipment - both in the Equipment Room and when meeting King.

As soon as the fight begins, I have everything that I want, except only 2 of the 6 guns are turned on; I still have to turn on the other 4 at this point.

Before coming here, this is what I was doing (and this is what I’ll still be doing whenever I want to do this):

Before clicking New Game, I edit the “money” line in Restart.fl to be the amount of money that I had before I decided to start a new game (which is usually in the 100s of millions, just to give you an idea of how long I play after the story mode ends).

I wait until Juni offers the job, and I click Accept. As soon as I do that, I exit the game and I edit that game save so that I have everything that I worked so hard to get - my ship, weapons, equipment, cargo, etc. Everything.

Then I load the game, launch to space to meet King, laugh at my temporary Starflier, and wait for the fight to begin.

When the fight begins, all 6 of my guns are armed and ready to go. All I have to do is start playing.

So, I’m really just trying to increase the realism that I still have everything I worked hard to obtain and Juni is just unwittingly offering it to me as though I’m really fresh off the boat and don’t have a ship.

Sure, once the first battle begins after the Donau is destroyed, it’s no big deal. Still, it would be very fun to click New Game and not have to do anything else after that.

khayman

Hello all long time no see.
Found some code from an old mod of mine that might help here

 <data file="data\MISSIONS\M01A\m01a.ini" method="sectionreplace" options="2:9">[Trigger]
nickname = mrp_accept 
system = Li01 

 <dest>Act_SetShipAndLoadout = ge_fighter, msn_playerloadout</dest> 
<source>
Act_SetShipAndLoadout = rh_elite, msn_playerloadout</data> 
 <data file="data\SHIPS\rtc_shiparch.ini" method="sectionreplace" options="2:9">[Ship]
nickname = rtcprop_civ_fighter

 <dest>LODranges = 0, 60, 120, 250, 500, 1000 
DA_archetype = ships\civilian\cv_starflier\cv_starflier.cmp 
material_library = ships\civilian\cv_ships.mat</dest> 
<source>
LODranges = 0, 60, 150, 1000
DA_archetype = ships\rheinland\rh_elite\rh_elite.cmp
material_library = ships\rheinland\rh_playerships.mat</data> 
 <data file="data\MISSIONS\npcships.ini" method="sectionreplace" options="2:9">[NPCShipArch]
nickname = fauxplayer

 <dest>loadout = msn_playerloadout_faux
level = d1
ship_archetype = msn_playership
state_graph = FIGHTER
npc_class = lawful, FIGHTER</dest> 
<source>
loadout = msn_playerloadout_faux
level = d1
ship_archetype = rh_elite
state_graph = FIGHTER
npc_class = lawful, FIGHTER</data> 
 <data file="data\SHIPS\loadouts.ini" method="sectionreplace" options="2:9">[Loadout]
nickname = msn_playerloadout

 <dest>archetype = ge_fighter
equip = ge_gf1_engine_01
equip = shield01_mark01_lf, HpShield01
equip = ge_fighter_power01
equip = ge_s_scanner_01
equip = ge_s_tractor_01
equip = ge_s_thruster_01, HpThruster01
equip = li_gun01_mark01, HpWeapon01
equip = li_gun01_mark01, HpWeapon02
equip = LargeWhiteSpecial, HpHeadlight
equip = SlowSmallOrange, HpRunningLight01
equip = SlowSmallOrange, HpRunningLight02
equip = SlowSmallOrange, HpRunningLight05
equip = contrail01, HpContrail01
equip = contrail01, HpContrail02
equip = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight01
equip = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight02
cargo = ge_s_battery_01, 3
cargo = ge_s_repair_01, 3</dest> 
<source>
archetype = rh_elite
equip = ge_re_engine_01
equip = npc_shield02_mark06, HpShield01
equip = rh_elite_power01
equip = ge_s_scanner_01
equip = ge_s_tractor_01
equip = ge_s_thruster_01, HpThruster01
equip = armor_scale_1
equip = rh_gun01_mark03, HpWeapon01
equip = rh_gun01_mark02, HpWeapon02
equip = rh_gun01_mark02, HpWeapon03
equip = rh_gun01_mark02, HpWeapon04
equip = rh_gun01_mark01, HpWeapon05
equip = rh_turret01_mark01, HpTurret01
equip = cruise_disruptor01_mark01, HpTorpedo01
cargo = cruise_disruptor01_mark01_ammo, 5
equip = mine01_mark01, HpMine01
cargo = mine01_mark01_ammo, 20
equip = ge_s_cm_01, HpCM01
cargo = ge_s_cm_01_ammo, 20
equip = LargeWhiteSpecial, HpHeadlight
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight01
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight02
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight03
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight04
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight05
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight06
equip = contrail01, HpContrail01
equip = contrail01, HpContrail02
equip = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight01
equip = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight02</data> 
 <data file="data\SHIPS\loadouts.ini" method="sectionreplace" options="2:9">[Loadout]
nickname = msn_playerloadout_faux

 <dest>archetype = ge_fighter
equip = ge_gf1_engine_01
equip = shield01_mark01_lf, HpShield01
equip = ge_fighter_power01
equip = ge_s_scanner_01
equip = ge_s_tractor_01
equip = ge_s_thruster_01, HpThruster01
equip = li_gun01_mark01, HpWeapon01
equip = li_gun01_mark01, HpWeapon02
equip = LargeWhiteSpecial, HpHeadlight
equip = SlowSmallOrange, HpRunningLight01
equip = SlowSmallOrange, HpRunningLight02
equip = SlowSmallOrange, HpRunningLight05
equip = contrail01, HpContrail01
equip = contrail01, HpContrail02
equip = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight01
equip = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight02
cargo = ge_s_battery_01, 3
cargo = ge_s_repair_01, 3</dest> 
<source>
archetype = rh_elite
equip = ge_re_engine_01
equip = npc_shield02_mark06, HpShield01
equip = rh_elite_power01
equip = ge_s_scanner_01
equip = ge_s_tractor_01
equip = ge_s_thruster_01, HpThruster01
equip = armor_scale_1
equip = rh_gun01_mark03, HpWeapon01
equip = rh_gun01_mark02, HpWeapon02
equip = rh_gun01_mark02, HpWeapon03
equip = rh_gun01_mark02, HpWeapon04
equip = rh_gun01_mark01, HpWeapon05
equip = rh_turret01_mark01, HpTurret01
equip = cruise_disruptor01_mark01, HpTorpedo01
cargo = cruise_disruptor01_mark01_ammo, 5
equip = mine01_mark01, HpMine01
cargo = mine01_mark01_ammo, 20
equip = ge_s_cm_01, HpCM01
cargo = ge_s_cm_01_ammo, 20
equip = LargeWhiteSpecial, HpHeadlight
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight01
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight02
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight03
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight04
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight05
equip = SlowSmallYellow, HpRunningLight06
equip = contrail01, HpContrail01
equip = contrail01, HpContrail02
equip = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight01
equip = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight02</data>