I forgot all about this, until recently when I was messing around.

I don't know whether other applications give similar functionality, but between versions of Evolutions we often made some changes to the available items a user may have.

To prevent issues for server admins that this would cause, Accushot programmed up a little application - the save converter. It is for download here, but misses a description.

Essentially the save converter allows you to specify what to search the servers character files for and remove. So, an example is:



The operation is to remove equipment from the players ship (if it exists) and renumerate them by 2000 credits, or replace with another item.

This is removing a reference to a wreck (visited, known, whatever)


This is stripping a hardpoint of a specific ship (I think).


Putting stuff onto a hardpoint.



The thing is you put all this into a single file (an example is included in the download) in one go, so it runs once and performs a large number of changes. I think our script replaced items on about 18 ships, removed lots of items and locations - all very quickly. It also backs up the files before carrying out changes too.

Just thought that as mods evolve over time, such functionality to mass convert player files accordingly may be useful if something doesn't already do it, and people may not be aware of this application!