Planning for the 7th Transcendence succession game

[AssumedPseudonym]

 I figured that was probably the issue, but my wife (who also uses 7) couldn’t reproduce the problem. Regardless, it should be a fairly easy fix on my end, just a matter of telling Pluma to save the file with Window line endings instead of Linux/Unix.

EDIT: Re-upped (along with the inevitable tweaks I’d added since the last upload). See if that doesn’t look any better. If not, I’ll figure something else out.

[PM]

I updated the PSD6+ Xelerus pack. I did not finish the Foomerian update yet; I decided to upload what I finished and try to finish another update later.

@ AssumedPseudonym: AE-0002-Ships-TC.xml is illegible, but the other two look fine and I can read them.

EDIT - For Descendence, there are two files. The (disabled) _Descendence.bak file consists of energy unit/shield orb powerups, which are fired as missiles when an enemy, usually a station, dies. This should be renamed to Descendence.xml (and the other Descendence.xml file removed).

[Tshark9999]

If the game save uses Corporate Command, but you do not have Corporate Command, you will not be able to load the save.

That means I can't play then... D:

[FourFire]

No apparent carriage returns. Everything appears as one long stream.

In the past, when I used WinXP, fixing such files was easy - open in MS-DOS shell text editor, save it, and they get auto-converted. That is not an option in Win7 Home edition.

Have you tried Notepad++ ?

[FourFire]

Since TShark does not have CC, and is very enthusiastic about the Succession, I propose that we Drop CC from the modlist, this also solves some mod incompatibilities, I presume...

[pixelfck]

No apparent carriage returns. Everything appears as one long stream.

In the past, when I used WinXP, fixing such files was easy - open in MS-DOS shell text editor, save it, and they get auto-converted. That is not an option in Win7 Home edition.

Have you tried Notepad++ ?

^This is the solution to your problems. Notepad++ is aa free, open source, full fledged programmers editor and nearly as easy as notepad.

~Pixelfck

[TVR]

Major updates

-Fixed "AutonsExtended" by DBG
-Updated "Hoshigami" by Hatsya to work with PSD6
-Fixed infinite credit exploit in "Interstellar Communication" by oldmanwynter
-Fixed "Nano Cannon" by Cygnus.X1
-Fixed and updated "R/C scout auton" by sdw195
-Fixed buy errors in "Alcurean Paper Fleet" by Psycholis
-Updated "ODM Test Drive" by RPC
-Mixed in "Mining Pack v1.04" by TG and WTS
-Mixed in "Elemental Shift: Shrike's Mines and Missiles+" by Shrike

NEW BUGS

BLOCKER: Modifying installed items in <OnCreate> or <OnInstall> crashes initial system generation
VERSIONS AFFECTED: 1.2, 1.3b1
MODS AFFECTED: AutonsExtended, PDmod
PROPOSAL: Will provide specific code and better explanation.

MAJOR: "Systen Density" by ShivanHunter incompatible with "Beyond the Mainline" by Pixelfck, crashes on loading St.K
PROPOSAL: Will research and attempt fix.

MAJOR: Ares Shipyards and certain other stations don't seem to respawn in "DySys 6" by RPC
PROPOSAL: Will research and report.

MINOR: (shpOrder ship 'goto destinationShipObj) sends the ship towards the exact coordinate of the destination ship at the time of ordering. Only after arriving at the previous coordinate will the ship begin homing in on the current position of the destinationShipObj.
PROPOSAL: 'goto should send ships directly to the destination, instead of first heading to the position at time of order.

@Pixelfck

BMX seems stable so far, already fixed Kate Morgental bug (Replaced "&itKateMorgentalCruiser" with "&itKateMorgentalCruiserArena"). Do you have any other plans for it? I stripped ModCommonwealthMining.xml for compatibility with Mining Pack v1.03

@Tshark9999

No worries - the Succession is intended to be as participatory as possible. Therefore, even if CC is included, we'll think of some way to allow everyone to join in.

[Song]

Major updates

-Mixed in "Elemental Shift: Shrike's Mines and Missiles+" by Shrike

Was anything in it actually broken, or was it just compatibility stuff to make it play with other mods?

[PM]

Quick note: Foomerian update is almost done. Weapon and thruster effects have been updated, some ships and weapons got some tweaks, and the ships may be rebuilt and piloted. The bigger ships have a lot of linked fire weapon slots (heavy cruiser has 16+ slots), but to compensate, Foomerian ships get a global damage penalty to all non-Foomerian weapons (like Manticore's shield penalty, but for weapons).

[pixelfck]

MAJOR: "Systen Density" by ShivanHunter incompatible with "Beyond the Mainline" by Pixelfck, crashes on loading St.K
PROPOSAL: Will research and attempt fix.

Let me know if you need any help on this.

@Pixelfck

BMX seems stable so far, already fixed Kate Morgental bug (Replaced "&itKateMorgentalCruiser" with "&itKateMorgentalCruiserArena"). Do you have any other plans for it?

Yes, I've another plan for it: I've updated the whole mod for full compatibility with Transcendence 1.3beta1 I've tested it as good as I could and I could find no bugs. (I'll buy a beer for whomever introduces unit testing to Transcendence)

I stripped ModCommonwealthMining.xml for compatibility with Mining Pack v1.03

That's fine, it should not present any issues.

Cheers,
Pixelfck

[RPC]

-Updated "ODM Test Drive" by RPC

Elaborate pls? I wouldn't mind putting up the updated version on Xelerus.

This is the latest version of DySys I have that I've recently played with, it might have fixes or whatnot:

DySys V6 PrintTo (for 1.2 Beta 2).zip

(1.56 MiB) Downloaded 147 times

Ok, so I think that Dysys will conflict with CorpCom because CorpCom might register enemy stations to keep track of the economy and that might override DySys keeping track of stations dying and stuff.

[FourFire]

I think we're going to need to drop CC from the modlist in order to allow everyone interested in this succession to play.
for those who really want to play a CC succession, we will have succession #8.

I'd like to add armorAssistant to the modlist, it tells you if you can install armor on your ship or if it is too heavy.
I have a copy afaik it is not availible on xelerus, but downloadable from a thread here somewhere.

[TVR]

Updated and tested ~120 mods for compatibility, most okay so far, though there's still much to do.

@PM

New version of PSD6+ loaded - Great work on patching Descendence and Hayari Noosphere!

@Shrike

No load errors from the entire pack, but conflicting launcher overwrites from WE5 leaves missiletypes in one extension unable to be used by their launcher definition from the other. More mixing will be required to fix that.

@Pixelfck

Appreciate the offer, it seems like the stargate location overrides in System Density conflict with Beyond The Mainline's stargate placer, disabling those overrides has stopped the errors for now. Will still need to update nebula effects to 1.3.

Received, remixed and reloaded BMX.

@RPC

Thanks, I'll test the new version and report if those shipyards respawn.

Changes to "ODM Test Drive"
-Made the target buoy able to take damage from weapon fire.
-Changed the test ship stats to match the Sapphire.
-Streamlined the Test Drive process: Just select the weapon in the shop screen and press T.

TODO
-Add multiple sample target types.
-Remove 16 second timelimit.
-Allow testing ammo-consuming weapons and launchers.
-If a missile is selected, then next menu asks to select a launcher, else if a launcher is selected - next menu is select a missile.
-Freeze time to protect the original playership.

With so many new weapons, Test Drive is proving to be invaluable for finding the right one to buy.

[RPC]

@TVR: With the numerous amount of changes you made to the mod I think you should be able to upload this version on your own, if you want to.

If you don't want to though I would be fine with waiting for the Succession version and update Test Drive then.

[PM]

Updated the PSD6+ Xelerus pack again, which adds support for Foomerians and AE ships. It also adds large ship images (in start select and ship's interior) for Hayari ships.

Also updated Items 912, More Tinker Recipes, and Wasp Launcher. Transcendence upgraded the helium assembly sometime recently (gives 15000 fuel instead of 10000), and I needed to update my mods for that change. Wasp Launcher gets new effects and some bug fixes.

EDIT - Updated Flash Cannons and Sidearms too.