Sure, go ahead.

This.

Dynamically created loadouts would save so much trouble when changing hundreds of loadouts.

Necro-post. I’ve made some great progress in making multiplayer scripting practical, and I think bumping this thread would gather more attention than my other post that goes into more detail.

In hindsight, I probably should have been more specific on my request, while including some background. I decided to take a look at Flak’s current FLHook in hopes of making missions a perfectly functional feature in multiplayer.

After some help from Wodk4 in getting Hook to create instance, I made an admin command that spawns a mission instance on a player you select; it worked perfectly. With that fully working, the only remaining issue was multiple mission instances canceling each other out. To solve this, I figured there should only be one mission instance active on the server at all times. That means if someone tries to spawn an instance while another player is in a scripted mission, it’ll say “ERR: Mission in use”. With a check in place, I next made a command that any player could use to give themselves a mission instance if one were available with “/mission”. Again, with the check in place, it worked beautifully.

Now to the present. I have to make a way for mission instances to kill themselves so that another player can use them; be it from either finishing a mission or not getting a mission within a time limit. Surprisingly, “Act_ChangeState = SUCCEED” and “Act_ChangeState = FAIL” didn’t crash the server. Making a mission succeed wouldn’t work, as any future instances would no longer be created since the mission was technically completed. Fail, on the other hand, could be used. When I hit a FAIL state, a pop-up screen similar to when you die shows up (with Respawn | New Player | New Server | Main Menu), but the best part is that it kills the instance, making it a practical applicant for killing instances. (Note: When you press “Respawn,” it works akin to pressing “New Player” in space and reconnecting with the same player.) Ideally, I’d want to just not show the Mission Failed pop-up so that it would just kill the instance.

Sorry for the lack of background information and somewhat demanding demeanor. I was trying to keep it a surprise, but I figured I’m probably better off sharing the information since the Freelancer community is too small to hoard stuff.

TL;DR: Practical missions.

I know this sounds like a very far-fetched hack, but is it possible to disable the mission failed pop-up?

When you do “ACT_CHANGESTATE = FAIL” in multiplayer, it displays a screen similar to how you would when you die (Respawn, New Player, New Server, and Main Menu). I need to disable that.

Nice. Thanks Adoxa.

Bump

Is it possible to change ships with “type = Freighter” to use large_ship_names and large_ship_desig defined in faction_prop.ini instead of normal names?

Sorry for necro-posting, but I’m having some issues with moors.dll

I’m trying to get battleships to use moors correctly on a Freeport station, which already has moors for medium and large ships. No matter what I try, I get the “Request Denied. Cannot accomodate ships of your size,” message. I know moors work because when I change a fighter to medium or large, it docks/undocks correctly. It only seems to affect the Liberty Dreadnought (in my tests so far).

Any clue what’s wrong?

EDIT:

Nevermind, I found out what was wrong. I was trying to use separate shiparch.ini’s to better organize the ships. Everything seemed to have worked except mission_property since I was having no trouble. Any fix for this other than clumping it into one shiparch?

Stupid organization habits. That’s what I get for being neat.

Sorry for bumping, but is it possible to restrict certain ships from docking on trade lanes?

Is there a way to restrict what type of ships can use trade lanes, such as judging their mission_property? If their mission_property is can_use_large_moors they can’t use trade lanes. I want to restrict battleships in particular from accessing trade lanes and have to rely on flying around in cruise.

Wow, thanks Fox and Gisteron. I forgot not everything is solved with hacks.

(Note: I was unsure if it belonged here since it’s half a hack request)

I remember seeing an old picture of beta Freelancer that had trade lanes side-by-side rather than how it was released as on top of another. I experimented in a test system to rotate the trade lanes which looks a lot more of space highways. The problem, however, was that when I entered the trade lane, my ship auto-rotated as if the trade lane were on top of each other.

Is there some way to change the rotation of trade lanes so that you don’t enter them sideways?

After toying around with both updaters, I seem to like DSUpdate more, due to its convenience of starting with Freelancer, but whenever I run it, the updater downloads the file, but fails to extract it correctly. Anyone know what’s wrong?

@Grimmjow

How do you set up your updater and how does it work?

Thanks a lot Cannon. Your auto-updater looks pretty nice. I’ll be using it for the 88 Flak server if you don’t mind.

I’m curious if anyone knows where to find an easy-to-use auto-updater. I’ve been looking for one to use on 88 Flak, but I haven’t found anything. From what I’ve heard though, an auto-updater sounds like a simplified SVN client. So does anyone know where I can get one and set one up.