In regards to my last report, I went back through and checked and didn’t find any blank entries in universe.ini (I’m working from a different build Timmy so the file you have isn’t identical) which is wierd. Anyway, figured I’d post this one up as well in case it’s an issue for anyone else.

[fatal] An error happend while checking file: ships\shiparch.ini 'Index was outside the bounds of the array.'
   at FLScanIE.Util_Functions.FLDataFile.Setting.Str(Int32 index)
   at FLScanIE.ShipChecks.CheckShip(String file, Section ship)
   at FLScanIE.ShipChecks.CheckShipFile(String file)
   at FLScanIE.Util_Functions.Util.RunCheck(CheckFileDelegate check, String file)

I have a report for you

[error] An error happend while parsing. The scan can't continue. 'Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: path2'   at System.IO.Path.Combine(String path1, String path2)
   at FLScanIE.UniverseChecks.ParseSystemFile(String file, String system, Dictionary`2& objectNicks)
   at FLScanIE.UniverseChecks.ParseUniverseFile(String file, List`1& systemNicks, Dictionary`2& baseNicks, Dictionary`2& objectNicks)
   at FLScanIE.UniverseChecks.ParseUniverseFolder()
   at FLScanIE.Checker.Parse(String flPath)

I looked around for a thread regarding this but despite the fact that I swore I saw it somewhere before it eludes me heh. Is there a set value to the number of unique items a character or account can have? I thought it was 255 for the whole account but I’m not positive.

They are flagged as needing to be visited before showing up, that’s a vanilla feature.

I’m guessing the reputation info you’re talking about is related to what FL is telling FLServer about my reps and then bouncing back to me in the form of friendly/neutral/hostile?

Yeah shutting down the server is not actually required when doing this. I’ve moved player accounts over to new MPID folders with no issues just by copy/pasting the character file into the new folder and then deleting the old account folder. And yeah backup is probably overkill especially if you already have regular backups scheduled as is. It might be a good idea to backup the one account you’re fiddling with I suppose, but that’s about it. To each their own though

Well I applied your mod to a fresh copy of FL and I couldn’t launch it with the paths files deleted so it would appear something has changed in the mod somehow where FL will no longer auto-generate those files.

Alright, here’s an interesting proposal. Is there any way to get SP’s rep filter for patrol paths to work in MP? This always struck me as a pretty neat tool that MP got shafted out of so here I am asking. Anyone have any luck with this one by chance?

I don’t know if this will do anything but have you tried deleting the files altogether? When I do auto-generation of the paths files I just remove all three of them and delete them completely. FL may be trying to reference them on your desktop and failing, which would lead to you not generating them and/or your CTD problem.

The paths files I believe are server prioritized for MP so that would probably explain why you had no issue plotting courses on an actual server that wasn’t hosted on your machine.

Lastly, try deleting them on an unmodded copy of FL and see if it works then. It might be something in your mod, although I have zero idea what would cause that.

Your Borg system is likely immune to the 10 gate/hole limit due its exclusive use of jump holes. FL doesn’t seem to ever use shortest_illegal_path.ini for MP, although it does for SP I believe. I’d bet though that if one of those was a gate you’d have crashes

I’ll see about grabbing your mod and getting it to work. It’ll take a while since your mod is kinda large and I have a fail download speed

Hey folks I tried looking around but couldn’t seem to find any info on this so I figured I’d ask. I was interested in knowing whether or not the offset(s) necessary to allow nanobots/shield batteries to be viewed in excess of 999 have been found yet, and of course what they are if they have been With our capships now all mounting stupidly large sums of both I figured it’d probably look a little better than just showing 999 and having people get confused.

We’re having an issue getting a certain SP trigger working properly, although it is due to Li01 having more than 10 jumpgates/holes. Anytime a player activates a mission trigger in Li01 (we haven’t gotten any of them out of the system yet :() that contains an NNPath entry, the client CTD’s. If we comment out those lines then the trigger functions normally, it just won’t generate a waypoint path. As the NNPath entries are all related to starting the mission and not actually doing them I’m leaning towards just leaving them out but Forsaken wants to see about upping the limit rather than just moving one of our jump holes to another system lol.

Well there you go, 11 Why do you ask anyway?

Do you need more than 10? Right now SWWT’s Bw05 has 10 holes/gates in it, which I believe is the most in the mod. It’s certainly the most I’ve ever seen in one system anyway

Actually, I just had another thought. Your vendor line is set to 5, 7 and it looks like you only have 4 vignettes (unless I’m misreading your picture). If that’s the case then try putting in something like 2, 4 and see if that does anything for you.

Have you tried maybe changing the [Mbase] diff = field to something like 19? Perhaps they’re not offering because isn’t considered ‘hard’ enough to offer missions in a difficulty 4 zone. Also, are your vignettes setup properly, ie lawful, unlawful and open properties (assuming they’re not in debris fields anyway)?

Hey all I’m working with Forsaken on this one and thought I’d add in something to the mix.

What I’m having trouble figuring out is what constitute a ‘jump’ exactly. An example is in order (taken from my newly generated shortest_illegal_path.ini):

Path = Rh03, IW07, Rh03, Rh05, Rh01, Rh02, Iw01, Iw02, Li04, Li01, Li03, Iw05, IW07

So, in this example we have 13 system references. Now I know that the path is generated using a <origin>, <destination>, <origin>, <path>, <path>, <destination>format, where the first two systems are the start and ending points for the file. I’ve discounted those as being ‘jumps’ as they’re just specifiers, or seem to be anyway. What I’m trying to figure out is whether or not the second set of origin and destination references are ‘jumps’ or not, ie path = li01, li03, li01, li03. Would the second li01 and li03 both be considered jumps, or just the li03? If I look at the starting system entry, or the one that only paths the origin system itself, it only has 3 entries which would lead me to believe that in the above example the first 3 entries don’t count as jumps, but I’m not sure.

My last question is, do the legal and illegal files adhere to the 10 jump limit, or is that merely for the systems_shortest_path.ini?</destination></path></path></origin></destination></origin>

Well I figured I’d post something in here just to clear it up and in case anyone else happens to have the same card. The GeForce 9400 is one of those cards that FL simply doesn’t like so avoid it like the plauge ;D

The control panel has been set to all off before, although some of those options are forced off and I’m not sure what FL does and does not support graphics wise. Most of the features are either force on/off or application controlled. Setting to app controlled nets me nothing although there is an option in the panel to enable multi-threading for older games so in theory the .dll thing shouldn’t be an issue, but with FL who knows.

AVG, Spybot, and Adaware completely removed, down to even rummaging through my registry and looking for entries. Still getting it.

No associated AVG processes are running at all at any given time. I switch on the scanning and update processes when I want to run a scan, other than that the processes list is clear of them.

@FF: That sounds similar to my problem but I’m not 100%. I notice slowdowns when I pan over SWWT’s jump holes and most nebulas, in addition to when I’m spinning and there’s a lot of fire coming at/from me.

@ST: Yes my hdd is just the one partition, although at the moment there’s virtually nothing on the thing and probably never will be as I can’t imagine needing 1TB of space. Even my old 160GB hdd never filled to capacity. I’ve never fooled around with partitions before and so would be in the dark as to how to create them. I’m guessing there are programs that can help me with this?

I’ve tried the game at all resolutions but on my old box (AMD 3200+ single core with 128MB GPU) I ran the game on 1600x1200x32 with all options on with no issues so that’s what I’ve been attempting.

Dear Bob no ;D I’ve got like 900GB free on this monstrosity.

I use AVG 8.5, although I don’t have it turned on while I play so it’s a non-issue.

I have no idea what that is but I’ll give it a shot I guess.