Newbie in Trouble

[Viper]

Hi everybody. I've been playing Transcendence 0.98d and I made a huge mistake...I jumped into a stargate with no fuel...hehe. So, in the new system, I just die. in other words, I locked up my game. Any way out of this mess? Thanks in advance.

[Bobby]

do you have fuel rods? if so use them(always leave at least 1 fuel rod so you get the grace period before dying).

if you don't care about cheating... i know a way for that.
1 find out at least one item in your cargo hold
2 copy that item from the xmls(or tdb) into a mod(can be deleted later with no ill effects)
3 place the following code in an <invoke> on that item
4 use the item, it will not be deleted

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(block nil
(setq itemsToUse (itmCreate &itfuelyouwanttouse; howmanyrodstouseanumber))		(shpRefuelFromItem gPlayerShip itemsToUse)
)

i havn't tested but this should work.

or you could just give yourself fuel rods from an invoke.

[Viper]

No...no fuel rods. Like I said, I'm newbie, so...how do I open the code?

[F50]

name one item in your cargo hold and someone can make a mod to fix your problem.

[Periculi]

lol.. exploits-are-us!

It has never even dawned on me to do that! I usually just start over if I get in a bind like that.

[Arisaya]

lol.. exploits-are-us!

It has never even dawned on me to do that! I usually just start over if I get in a bind like that.

I "cheat" w/ "checkpoint" saves (make a copy of your saved game)

[Psycholis]

I do the same thing. I have like 10 different .sav files now.. should try and either finish them or delete them

[Sheltem]

all is lost.
start over again

[Viper]

or you could just give yourself fuel rods from an invoke.

Sounds great...how do I do that?

[Periculi]

Basically the same as adding the code to an item as mentioned above.

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<Invoke>
(block Nil
(objAddItem gPlayerShip (itmCreateByName "f" "Helium" 1) 3)
)
</Invoke>

Or something like that.

Again, you would have to know an item in your inventory and make an extension that changed the item by adding the Invoke code.

[Arisaya]

I do the same thing. I have like 10 different .sav files now.. should try and either finish them or delete them

lol. i have 2gb of old ones... gotta go and delete all of those...

[omniaddict]

I'll try to suggest some solutions that *don't* involve modding.

first: double-check your inventory for fuel. You can usually use several different types of fuel rods. you might have one type but not the other. Probably not. You can often use longzhu spheres as fuel (though that's obviously a very expensive way to refuel!)

second: get to a source of fuel. You can get fuel from most stations, including black markets and, sometimes, the sisters of dominia. (The sisters only give you fuel if you've given them lots of that type of fuel in the past). You can also get fuel from wrecks, so keep an eye out for wrecks to loot (maybe blow up a friendly ship or two). Speaking of wrecks...

third: try flying without fuel. you can often move and even change directions after you have run out of fuel by using the dock command. When you hit D to dock, your ship moves toward the thing you're docking with. If you hit D again quickly, the dock will be canceled, and you will continue moving in that direction. you can control which object you're "docking" with by using the "f" key to target friendly objects (say, the gate and it's two or three beacons, for starters). the ship will run for (I think) 60 seconds after you run out of fuel.



ps: make sure you get the maximum use out of the small amount of fuel you have: hit B and disable everything you aren't using (Ideally, disable everything but your engine).

[Periculi]

Adding to the above suggestions I think you might be able to try to:

Power down everything to conserve energy- disable shields, weapons, devices- anything you can turn off.

Then try to make a run for a nearby station.

If you can't stretch the fuel, you might try to take out some random ships coming from the gate and hope they have a fuel rod in cargo.

[Viper]

The problem is worse thanyou're assuming...

I have like 10s of fuel left...

[F50]

Either start a new game or tell us an item in your cargo hold.