Post by: Drakenred on July 28, 2003, 01:04:38 am
Post by: Rod O'neal on July 28, 2003, 01:30:45 am
Post by: Drakenred on July 28, 2003, 01:47:33 am
Post by: Rod O'neal on July 28, 2003, 02:00:53 am
Post by: FireSoul on July 28, 2003, 03:18:00 am
It's all been said above.
Post by: Rod O'neal on July 28, 2003, 09:05:51 am
Quote:
I didn't have to say much..
It's all been said above.
Did you restrict them on purpose? (The CF and CAD's) Or is that something that should be changed?
Post by: FireSoul on July 28, 2003, 11:26:18 am
Quote:Quote:
I didn't have to say much..
It's all been said above.
Did you restrict them on purpose? (The CF and CAD's) Or is that something that should be changed?
On purpose. There were something like.. 3 built here.. and 1 built there. It doesn't affect GSA play, and D2 play is tweaked to be more historically accurate.
The CAD's staying restricted: makes no sense to see the entire Federation fleet fly one.. But there is no reason not to have the CFs for all races made normal. What do you guys want?
Post by: jimmi7769 on July 28, 2003, 11:46:04 am
Quote:Quote:Quote:
I didn't have to say much..
It's all been said above.
Did you restrict them on purpose? (The CF and CAD's) Or is that something that should be changed?
On purpose. There were something like.. 3 built here.. and 1 built there. It doesn't affect GSA play, and D2 play is tweaked to be more historically accurate.
The CAD's staying restricted: makes no sense to see the entire Federation fleet fly one.. But there is no reason not to have the CFs for all races made normal. What do you guys want?
you may as well lift all of the restrictions. Most of the server admins are going to set it the way they want it anyway, so I'm guessing the only thing you are restricting is the single player campaigns. Most people aren't going to care much about SFB historical accuracy in single player and just want to fly what they want to fly. And in that case the whole fed fleet won't be flying a CAD as there is only one guy other than AI.
Is there a way you can restrict it from the AI but let the player pick what ever they want??
Post by: FireSoul on July 28, 2003, 07:30:02 pm
Quote:
Is there a way you can restrict it from the AI but let the player pick what ever they want??
None that I know of. If you find it, tell me.
Post by: jimmi7769 on July 28, 2003, 07:42:48 pm
Quote:Quote:
Is there a way you can restrict it from the AI but let the player pick what ever they want??
None that I know of. If you find it, tell me.
Don't hold your breath, I wouldn't even know where to look.
Got an SFB question??? I'm your man. Technical programming stuff about SFC or dyna server??? Your guess is better than mine.
Post by: FPF_TraceyG on July 28, 2003, 11:26:33 pm
Quote:Quote:
Is there a way you can restrict it from the AI but let the player pick what ever they want??
None that I know of. If you find it, tell me.
Actually there is a way to do it, but it requires a scripting solution by not enabling certain options when creating AI ships, such as escort or carrier for instance, then setting the ships you want to whatever the AI can't have, in the shiplist.
Post by: RazalYllib on July 28, 2003, 11:26:40 pm
I feel that many,if not most, of these designated varients were not "mass" production, but fabricated as needed for specific needs or as part of ongoing R&D,in the SFU, which is the starting off back story for the D2 in general, custom mods notwithstanding of course.
Post by: FireSoul on July 28, 2003, 11:28:33 pm
Hey, you wanna fly something with 7 drone racks? Take a Z-MDC+. ;>
Post by: James Formo on July 29, 2003, 12:33:15 am
Post by: FireSoul on July 29, 2003, 01:09:57 am
Quote:
Ok R=restricted. Could someone tell me what M stands for under special roles?
Marines. Official Commando Ship.
Post by: RazalYllib on July 29, 2003, 07:36:38 am
Post by: jdmckinney on July 29, 2003, 10:20:31 am
I would personally not do a D2 campaign without them if I had a say. So, to me it's just another several ships that need to be derestricted before going live.
Post by: FireSoul on July 29, 2003, 01:09:59 pm
Quote:
I don't see why all the fast cruisers couldn't be unrestricted. They are fun ships, everyone has them (I think), and they aren't specialty, one-dimensional ships in that they bulk up on one type of system over another (unless you count warp, I guess). In fact, since the fast cruisers served a specific role in the fleet to carry out deep strikes and raids, they were counted on as a crucial part of a fleet.
I would personally not do a D2 campaign without them if I had a say. So, to me it's just another several ships that need to be derestricted before going live.
I don't see a reason why not do that either..
.. uhm..
.. wait-aminute.. aren't you the one that turns on the LDR all the time?
Post by: jdmckinney on July 29, 2003, 02:06:32 pm
On the other hand, an entire class of ships that all races have is another thing altogether -- there's no confusion about where they belong, just a decision to be made about whether they are worth making available, all things considered.
Post by: Klingon Fanatic on July 29, 2003, 06:53:54 pm
Quote:
Yeah, that's Moggy's fault -- he keeps asking me nicely. Thing is, I think the LDR and WYN don't belong in larger empires at all -- they should really be in mod campaigns where they occupy their own slots. In the meantime, they just clutter the other empires' lists, at least for someone like me who has to go in and check them all to see which ones should be restricted and which ones should be available. Either way, they're nice to have around, but are a pain to use in a campaign that makes sense. There's no good reason for Klingons and Kzinti, for example, to both have WYN ships just because the hulls are the same. It just doesn't fly in D2. Now, for GSA, it is no big deal. Let's just say I'm conflicted about these two races -- they weren't implemented so they could work well within SFC's existing races when Taldren added them in, but they are certainly fun ships to play. It's a campaign designer's problem.
On the other hand, an entire class of ships that all races have is another thing altogether -- there's no confusion about where they belong, just a decision to be made about whether they are worth making available, all things considered.
I get a buggy OP game (can't get past the opening screen and I finally had to reinstall the game!) when I tried to move the LDR (camboro) and WYN (Tigerheart) to the cartels. I can't get past the opening screen. I agree, Taldren put them in the game and I'd like to see them put at least in the pirate slots that way I'd run into them once in a while as I don't play them in SP otherwise. I do believe Chris Jone successfully moved them though...
FireSoul is there anyway to shift the location of the WYN/LDR? I doubt it would violate your "lets do this if we were Taldren philosophy, that is unless there is something about the pirate races that is too important to over write them.
Qapla!
KF
Post by: jdmckinney on July 29, 2003, 10:07:42 pm
Post by: FireSoul on July 29, 2003, 10:24:47 pm
Quote:Quote:
Yeah, that's Moggy's fault -- he keeps asking me nicely. Thing is, I think the LDR and WYN don't belong in larger empires at all -- they should really be in mod campaigns where they occupy their own slots. In the meantime, they just clutter the other empires' lists, at least for someone like me who has to go in and check them all to see which ones should be restricted and which ones should be available. Either way, they're nice to have around, but are a pain to use in a campaign that makes sense. There's no good reason for Klingons and Kzinti, for example, to both have WYN ships just because the hulls are the same. It just doesn't fly in D2. Now, for GSA, it is no big deal. Let's just say I'm conflicted about these two races -- they weren't implemented so they could work well within SFC's existing races when Taldren added them in, but they are certainly fun ships to play. It's a campaign designer's problem.
On the other hand, an entire class of ships that all races have is another thing altogether -- there's no confusion about where they belong, just a decision to be made about whether they are worth making available, all things considered.
I get a buggy OP game (can't get past the opening screen and I finally had to reinstall the game!) when I tried to move the LDR (camboro) and WYN (Tigerheart) to the cartels. I can't get past the opening screen. I agree, Taldren put them in the game and I'd like to see them put at least in the pirate slots that way I'd run into them once in a while as I don't play them in SP otherwise. I do believe Chris Jone successfully moved them though...
FireSoul is there anyway to shift the location of the WYN/LDR? I doubt it would violate your "lets do this if we were Taldren philosophy, that is unless there is something about the pirate races that is too important to over write them.
Qapla!
KF
I haven't even looked at moving races around.. It would be alot of work. Also, I disagree: it's not in the same style as for when the game itself got released.
.. I have an IDEA on how to do it, but it would take a heck of an effort to do.
Post by: FireSoul on July 29, 2003, 10:25:46 pm
Quote:
Well, they might have been fine as pseudo-pirates before, but now the AI knows how to engine-double. I'd hate to see an LDR Democracy Battlecruiser come at me with doubled engines. I really wish doubling was a .gf setting that could be flipped on or off for each pirate slot, but oh well.
David, at least, implemented a single switch that can be put in the sfc.ini.
Post by: jdmckinney on July 30, 2003, 06:23:27 am
Post by: FireSoul on July 30, 2003, 06:27:34 am
Quote:
Really? Does that turn it on or off for all cartels? That's a nice thing to have; shame it's not documented. What else should modders know about?
nothing else that I know of..
I have documented the information on 25410 tricks on my sources and utils page:
About patch 2.5.4.10:
There are 2 hidden features in 25410. This is how you use them.
1- New Arcs. Edit the shiplist and put in these arcs where you want them.
FALX/FARX -> FAL/FAR + right down rear
LSRF/RSLF -> LS+RF / RS+LF missing arcs
RRP/RLP -> Rear plasma arcs good for some tugs and HDWs.
LR -> L+R arc used on the Hydran Fire Support Pallet
2- Disable Engine Doubling for all pirates. (Useful for Mods). Add AllowEngineDoubling=0 to the [Network] section of the sfc.ini to disable engine doubling for all pirates.
Post by: jdmckinney on July 30, 2003, 09:45:53 am
Sorry for all the questions, but we need to know a little more.
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 09:53:26 am
Any ideas on how to do this easily from an installer (NSIS or SFX/batch) without overwriting the whole sfc.ini file? I suppose I could figure it it out for myself, but hey why repeat the effort if someone has already figured out how.
I'm also curious about the NSIS installer, I've figured out simple scripts (get installation folder, set output folder, copy a few files...). I'm just using the "File" command but is there a way to drop in whole folders? I have a huge mod I'm working on and would rather use NSIS than the self exctracting rar (which runs a batch on completion) I am using now, but I would rather not have to make hundreds (thousands?) of "File" lines in my NSIS script...
Ah, scratch that second question, I just found the answer - use the /r switch on the "File" command! I also just figured out how to run a batch or other extrernal executable during the NSIS install (Exec, ExecShell or ExecWait), as well as the CreateShortCut command, too cool.
Oops, scratch the first question too! The NSIS command "WriteINIStr" will do the trick! That NSIS installer is just dandy!
Duh, I guess the answer to my questions was: RTFMS! ...now I have a bunch of work to do...
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 10:03:49 am
Quote:
OK, so if this is an sfc.ini change, how is that useful to anyone other than those playing a single-player mod? Is there a way to disable it in PvP for GSA or D2? Does it only affect AI use of doubling, or does it take it out altogether (meaning players can't double, either)?
I intend to use it on a mod I want to use for a D2 server. If everbody downloads and installs, no problem.
Using the NSIS installer, I intend to create a shortcut that will reset files to stock to allow GSA play and another to reconfigure the mod. I believe that using the NSIS system I could also create shorcuts that will just turn that switch on and off as desired (using WriteINIStr and DeleteINIStr) in additional executables created with NSIS included in the overall installation. Alternatively one could skip creating those shorcuts and the user can just install and uninstall the whole mod as desired.
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 10:48:41 am
EngineDoublingOff.nsi
Code:
Name "EngineDoublingOff"
OutFile "EngineDoublingOff.exe"
InstallDirRegKey HKLM "SOFTWARE\Taldren\Starfleet Command Orion Pirates" "Directory"
Section "" ;
WriteINIStr "$INSTDIR\sfc.ini" "Network" "AllowEngineDoubling" "0"
SectionEnd ;
EngineDoublingOn.nsi
Code:
Name "EngineDoublingOn"
OutFile "EngineDoublingOn.exe"
InstallDirRegKey HKLM "SOFTWARE\Taldren\Starfleet Command Orion Pirates" "Directory"
Section "" ;
DeleteINIStr "$INSTDIR\sfc.ini" "Network" "AllowEngineDoubling"
SectionEnd ;
Post by: Pestalence on July 30, 2003, 11:28:05 am
if bonk had engine doubling set to 0
and I had it set to 1 to allow engine doubling...
then it depends on who hosts...
say Bonk hosts.. pirates have no engine doubling
if I host, Pirates have engine doubling... it is that simple...
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 11:34:38 am
So if used in a mod for a D2 server it should work fine. (Will be set to zero for all players)
Post by: jdmckinney on July 30, 2003, 01:24:51 pm
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 02:39:54 pm
Post by: FireSoul on July 30, 2003, 03:56:19 pm
Quote:
Not unless you perform a CRC check on the sfc.ini (can it be passed/failed?) or everyone plays by the rules. Otherwise, anyone can change the setting on their end -- not that they would, but they could.
Not a good idea. sfc.ini ocntains the player's name, as well as settings such as volume, stored IP addresses, etc.
It is going to be different for each player. I don't think there's a way to check it.
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 04:14:40 pm
Post by: FireSoul on July 30, 2003, 04:16:37 pm
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 04:31:20 pm
Post by: Drakenred on July 28, 2003, 01:04:38 am
Post by: Rod O'neal on July 28, 2003, 01:30:45 am
Post by: Drakenred on July 28, 2003, 01:47:33 am
Post by: Rod O'neal on July 28, 2003, 02:00:53 am
Post by: FireSoul on July 28, 2003, 03:18:00 am
It's all been said above.
Post by: Rod O'neal on July 28, 2003, 09:05:51 am
Quote:
I didn't have to say much..
It's all been said above.
Did you restrict them on purpose? (The CF and CAD's) Or is that something that should be changed?
Post by: FireSoul on July 28, 2003, 11:26:18 am
Quote:Quote:
I didn't have to say much..
It's all been said above.
Did you restrict them on purpose? (The CF and CAD's) Or is that something that should be changed?
On purpose. There were something like.. 3 built here.. and 1 built there. It doesn't affect GSA play, and D2 play is tweaked to be more historically accurate.
The CAD's staying restricted: makes no sense to see the entire Federation fleet fly one.. But there is no reason not to have the CFs for all races made normal. What do you guys want?
Post by: jimmi7769 on July 28, 2003, 11:46:04 am
Quote:Quote:Quote:
I didn't have to say much..
It's all been said above.
Did you restrict them on purpose? (The CF and CAD's) Or is that something that should be changed?
On purpose. There were something like.. 3 built here.. and 1 built there. It doesn't affect GSA play, and D2 play is tweaked to be more historically accurate.
The CAD's staying restricted: makes no sense to see the entire Federation fleet fly one.. But there is no reason not to have the CFs for all races made normal. What do you guys want?
you may as well lift all of the restrictions. Most of the server admins are going to set it the way they want it anyway, so I'm guessing the only thing you are restricting is the single player campaigns. Most people aren't going to care much about SFB historical accuracy in single player and just want to fly what they want to fly. And in that case the whole fed fleet won't be flying a CAD as there is only one guy other than AI.
Is there a way you can restrict it from the AI but let the player pick what ever they want??
Post by: FireSoul on July 28, 2003, 07:30:02 pm
Quote:
Is there a way you can restrict it from the AI but let the player pick what ever they want??
None that I know of. If you find it, tell me.
Post by: jimmi7769 on July 28, 2003, 07:42:48 pm
Quote:Quote:
Is there a way you can restrict it from the AI but let the player pick what ever they want??
None that I know of. If you find it, tell me.
Don't hold your breath, I wouldn't even know where to look.
Got an SFB question??? I'm your man. Technical programming stuff about SFC or dyna server??? Your guess is better than mine.
Post by: FPF_TraceyG on July 28, 2003, 11:26:33 pm
Quote:Quote:
Is there a way you can restrict it from the AI but let the player pick what ever they want??
None that I know of. If you find it, tell me.
Actually there is a way to do it, but it requires a scripting solution by not enabling certain options when creating AI ships, such as escort or carrier for instance, then setting the ships you want to whatever the AI can't have, in the shiplist.
Post by: RazalYllib on July 28, 2003, 11:26:40 pm
I feel that many,if not most, of these designated varients were not "mass" production, but fabricated as needed for specific needs or as part of ongoing R&D,in the SFU, which is the starting off back story for the D2 in general, custom mods notwithstanding of course.
Post by: FireSoul on July 28, 2003, 11:28:33 pm
Hey, you wanna fly something with 7 drone racks? Take a Z-MDC+. ;>
Post by: James Formo on July 29, 2003, 12:33:15 am
Post by: FireSoul on July 29, 2003, 01:09:57 am
Quote:
Ok R=restricted. Could someone tell me what M stands for under special roles?
Marines. Official Commando Ship.
Post by: RazalYllib on July 29, 2003, 07:36:38 am
Post by: jdmckinney on July 29, 2003, 10:20:31 am
I would personally not do a D2 campaign without them if I had a say. So, to me it's just another several ships that need to be derestricted before going live.
Post by: FireSoul on July 29, 2003, 01:09:59 pm
Quote:
I don't see why all the fast cruisers couldn't be unrestricted. They are fun ships, everyone has them (I think), and they aren't specialty, one-dimensional ships in that they bulk up on one type of system over another (unless you count warp, I guess). In fact, since the fast cruisers served a specific role in the fleet to carry out deep strikes and raids, they were counted on as a crucial part of a fleet.
I would personally not do a D2 campaign without them if I had a say. So, to me it's just another several ships that need to be derestricted before going live.
I don't see a reason why not do that either..
.. uhm..
.. wait-aminute.. aren't you the one that turns on the LDR all the time?
Post by: jdmckinney on July 29, 2003, 02:06:32 pm
On the other hand, an entire class of ships that all races have is another thing altogether -- there's no confusion about where they belong, just a decision to be made about whether they are worth making available, all things considered.
Post by: Klingon Fanatic on July 29, 2003, 06:53:54 pm
Quote:
Yeah, that's Moggy's fault -- he keeps asking me nicely. Thing is, I think the LDR and WYN don't belong in larger empires at all -- they should really be in mod campaigns where they occupy their own slots. In the meantime, they just clutter the other empires' lists, at least for someone like me who has to go in and check them all to see which ones should be restricted and which ones should be available. Either way, they're nice to have around, but are a pain to use in a campaign that makes sense. There's no good reason for Klingons and Kzinti, for example, to both have WYN ships just because the hulls are the same. It just doesn't fly in D2. Now, for GSA, it is no big deal. Let's just say I'm conflicted about these two races -- they weren't implemented so they could work well within SFC's existing races when Taldren added them in, but they are certainly fun ships to play. It's a campaign designer's problem.
On the other hand, an entire class of ships that all races have is another thing altogether -- there's no confusion about where they belong, just a decision to be made about whether they are worth making available, all things considered.
I get a buggy OP game (can't get past the opening screen and I finally had to reinstall the game!) when I tried to move the LDR (camboro) and WYN (Tigerheart) to the cartels. I can't get past the opening screen. I agree, Taldren put them in the game and I'd like to see them put at least in the pirate slots that way I'd run into them once in a while as I don't play them in SP otherwise. I do believe Chris Jone successfully moved them though...
FireSoul is there anyway to shift the location of the WYN/LDR? I doubt it would violate your "lets do this if we were Taldren philosophy, that is unless there is something about the pirate races that is too important to over write them.
Qapla!
KF
Post by: jdmckinney on July 29, 2003, 10:07:42 pm
Post by: FireSoul on July 29, 2003, 10:24:47 pm
Quote:Quote:
Yeah, that's Moggy's fault -- he keeps asking me nicely. Thing is, I think the LDR and WYN don't belong in larger empires at all -- they should really be in mod campaigns where they occupy their own slots. In the meantime, they just clutter the other empires' lists, at least for someone like me who has to go in and check them all to see which ones should be restricted and which ones should be available. Either way, they're nice to have around, but are a pain to use in a campaign that makes sense. There's no good reason for Klingons and Kzinti, for example, to both have WYN ships just because the hulls are the same. It just doesn't fly in D2. Now, for GSA, it is no big deal. Let's just say I'm conflicted about these two races -- they weren't implemented so they could work well within SFC's existing races when Taldren added them in, but they are certainly fun ships to play. It's a campaign designer's problem.
On the other hand, an entire class of ships that all races have is another thing altogether -- there's no confusion about where they belong, just a decision to be made about whether they are worth making available, all things considered.
I get a buggy OP game (can't get past the opening screen and I finally had to reinstall the game!) when I tried to move the LDR (camboro) and WYN (Tigerheart) to the cartels. I can't get past the opening screen. I agree, Taldren put them in the game and I'd like to see them put at least in the pirate slots that way I'd run into them once in a while as I don't play them in SP otherwise. I do believe Chris Jone successfully moved them though...
FireSoul is there anyway to shift the location of the WYN/LDR? I doubt it would violate your "lets do this if we were Taldren philosophy, that is unless there is something about the pirate races that is too important to over write them.
Qapla!
KF
I haven't even looked at moving races around.. It would be alot of work. Also, I disagree: it's not in the same style as for when the game itself got released.
.. I have an IDEA on how to do it, but it would take a heck of an effort to do.
Post by: FireSoul on July 29, 2003, 10:25:46 pm
Quote:
Well, they might have been fine as pseudo-pirates before, but now the AI knows how to engine-double. I'd hate to see an LDR Democracy Battlecruiser come at me with doubled engines. I really wish doubling was a .gf setting that could be flipped on or off for each pirate slot, but oh well.
David, at least, implemented a single switch that can be put in the sfc.ini.
Post by: jdmckinney on July 30, 2003, 06:23:27 am
Post by: FireSoul on July 30, 2003, 06:27:34 am
Quote:
Really? Does that turn it on or off for all cartels? That's a nice thing to have; shame it's not documented. What else should modders know about?
nothing else that I know of..
I have documented the information on 25410 tricks on my sources and utils page:
About patch 2.5.4.10:
There are 2 hidden features in 25410. This is how you use them.
1- New Arcs. Edit the shiplist and put in these arcs where you want them.
FALX/FARX -> FAL/FAR + right down rear
LSRF/RSLF -> LS+RF / RS+LF missing arcs
RRP/RLP -> Rear plasma arcs good for some tugs and HDWs.
LR -> L+R arc used on the Hydran Fire Support Pallet
2- Disable Engine Doubling for all pirates. (Useful for Mods). Add AllowEngineDoubling=0 to the [Network] section of the sfc.ini to disable engine doubling for all pirates.
Post by: jdmckinney on July 30, 2003, 09:45:53 am
Sorry for all the questions, but we need to know a little more.
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 09:53:26 am
Any ideas on how to do this easily from an installer (NSIS or SFX/batch) without overwriting the whole sfc.ini file? I suppose I could figure it it out for myself, but hey why repeat the effort if someone has already figured out how.
I'm also curious about the NSIS installer, I've figured out simple scripts (get installation folder, set output folder, copy a few files...). I'm just using the "File" command but is there a way to drop in whole folders? I have a huge mod I'm working on and would rather use NSIS than the self exctracting rar (which runs a batch on completion) I am using now, but I would rather not have to make hundreds (thousands?) of "File" lines in my NSIS script...
Ah, scratch that second question, I just found the answer - use the /r switch on the "File" command! I also just figured out how to run a batch or other extrernal executable during the NSIS install (Exec, ExecShell or ExecWait), as well as the CreateShortCut command, too cool.
Oops, scratch the first question too! The NSIS command "WriteINIStr" will do the trick! That NSIS installer is just dandy!
Duh, I guess the answer to my questions was: RTFMS! ...now I have a bunch of work to do...
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 10:03:49 am
Quote:
OK, so if this is an sfc.ini change, how is that useful to anyone other than those playing a single-player mod? Is there a way to disable it in PvP for GSA or D2? Does it only affect AI use of doubling, or does it take it out altogether (meaning players can't double, either)?
I intend to use it on a mod I want to use for a D2 server. If everbody downloads and installs, no problem.
Using the NSIS installer, I intend to create a shortcut that will reset files to stock to allow GSA play and another to reconfigure the mod. I believe that using the NSIS system I could also create shorcuts that will just turn that switch on and off as desired (using WriteINIStr and DeleteINIStr) in additional executables created with NSIS included in the overall installation. Alternatively one could skip creating those shorcuts and the user can just install and uninstall the whole mod as desired.
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 10:48:41 am
EngineDoublingOff.nsi
Code:
Name "EngineDoublingOff"
OutFile "EngineDoublingOff.exe"
InstallDirRegKey HKLM "SOFTWARE\Taldren\Starfleet Command Orion Pirates" "Directory"
Section "" ;
WriteINIStr "$INSTDIR\sfc.ini" "Network" "AllowEngineDoubling" "0"
SectionEnd ;
EngineDoublingOn.nsi
Code:
Name "EngineDoublingOn"
OutFile "EngineDoublingOn.exe"
InstallDirRegKey HKLM "SOFTWARE\Taldren\Starfleet Command Orion Pirates" "Directory"
Section "" ;
DeleteINIStr "$INSTDIR\sfc.ini" "Network" "AllowEngineDoubling"
SectionEnd ;
Post by: Pestalence on July 30, 2003, 11:28:05 am
if bonk had engine doubling set to 0
and I had it set to 1 to allow engine doubling...
then it depends on who hosts...
say Bonk hosts.. pirates have no engine doubling
if I host, Pirates have engine doubling... it is that simple...
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 11:34:38 am
So if used in a mod for a D2 server it should work fine. (Will be set to zero for all players)
Post by: jdmckinney on July 30, 2003, 01:24:51 pm
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 02:39:54 pm
Post by: FireSoul on July 30, 2003, 03:56:19 pm
Quote:
Not unless you perform a CRC check on the sfc.ini (can it be passed/failed?) or everyone plays by the rules. Otherwise, anyone can change the setting on their end -- not that they would, but they could.
Not a good idea. sfc.ini ocntains the player's name, as well as settings such as volume, stored IP addresses, etc.
It is going to be different for each player. I don't think there's a way to check it.
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 04:14:40 pm
Post by: FireSoul on July 30, 2003, 04:16:37 pm
Post by: Bonk on July 30, 2003, 04:31:20 pm