Just noticed from your file paths you might be using the old svn version of FLHook.

The newer FLHook is on Github: https://github.com/Friendly0Fire/FLHook

Should be easier to make the edit and compile.

May be you need to set “process = shatter” ??

If he’s worried about NPC farming, look also at cargo drops. You can limit the amount of cargo a NPC ship carries in the shiparch.ini files.

There’s an old junker farming trick in NY that I had to mod the CSVs for to prevent exploitation of a little glitch in the files there.

Fooling a while with those cloaks,
WTS has usually 1a set of a no-cloak
and one cloak-able ship - the cloak 1
with worse stats in handling, shielding and weapons.
Result: almost no one uses those cloak ships.

IMHO it would be cool to have

shields keeping completely off-line while cloaked
(maybe at least drop shield once more, when uncloaking) cloaks using power
and something like weaponsmoddb for scanner - cloak relation

PS:
And weapons keeping off-line till the end of the uncloaking process
or even a second or 3 longer.

A - no, not with conventional modding
B - yes, absolutely. they already drop from ships, so why not from asteroids, too? (unless I’m overlooking that they only drop from mission enemies since they are listed as item to be dropped; however, this is not necessarily a limitation either)

guess what this is exactly the tutorial i have copied and downloaded from the starport archive. actually in my spreadsheat you can choose between ship classes and how much cargo they should have. depending on the class it calculates the mass of the ship and sets the degrees/second value. depending on those all other variables are calculated. be advised, that the strafe force calculation of this tutorial is messy for large ships (when i entered it, they strafed about a dozen times faster than their top speed with engines).
also useful would be a calculation of engine power and drag depending on mass and ship class, so all ships of the same class do accelerate and decelerate within a sensible time.

You don’t change a float or anything, you change the hex itself. You should see “0C” by your cursor at the address provided, you make it “00” instead. It’s directly in the hex view.

It should work in SP too and for your last question, I’m afraid you’re looking for something that doesn’t exist.

make the explosion lifetime not two values but only one. this way you can make it hold on without the length is random. sure, if you want to make it a bit random, have two numbers (min&max).

Gisteron wrote:
first ofc is makeing their weapons fire longer (lifetime and velocity of projectile section). second, you need either to put in their loadouts a scanner with a longer range (base scanner?) or to edit their usual scanner’s range. the npc does not see you, but you can select a target via the contact list and follow the direction your hud shows. imagine that the npc’s brain work just like this, their scanner is their only way to see something.

thx bud, that was the ticket.

The ALE editor is available here: http://digitalbrilliance.com/Evo-Forums_-file-viewtopic-t-_272.html

You may have to register to get the download link.

You would need a UTF editor to play with the txm files, I believe. Here’s a link on TSP: http://the-starport.net/freelancer/download/singlefile.php?cid=2&lid=23

Tiger_MU wrote:

Also take into your calculations that damage delivered by the missile decreases with distance to impact so if you have detonation_distance set to a high value the damage delivered will be already less than the value put into the ammo section.

No.
1. detonation_distance is the distance from the centre of the target that missile explodes.
2. Unlike in fuses, damage delivered by missile does not decreases gradually from the centre of the [Explosion] radius = parameter found in weaponequipment.ini. Everything within explosion radius will get the same damage.

If I got that part of your post right.