Need some help

[Pieter Boelen]

I need to find out how to give a ship from one officer to another through code. Officer one has the ship and it should be given to officer two who doesn't have a ship at all. I tried some things myself, but no luck so far. Reason for this is my changes to Bartolomeu's Santiago quest.

 

[konradk]

Try something like this:<!--c1--><div class='codetop'>CODE</div><div class='codemain'><!--ec1-->ref Char1 = CharacterFromID("Person without ship");
ref Char2 = CharacterFromID("Person with ship");
ExchangeCharacterShip(Char1, Char2);
Char1.ship.name = characters[GetCharacterIndex("Person with ship")].ship.name;<!--c2--></div><!--ec2-->I hope that should help...

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Are you sure that works? I tried to use the ExchangeCharacterShip code, but it made the game go crazy. In any case: I'll try your suggestion.

BTW: I just noticed that Bartolomeu has a 0 sailing skill, which would make him a bit of a poor captain. I wonder what I should do about it. The easiest solution would be to just increase his sailing skill be default. I just don't know what the real Bartolomeu would think of me doing that... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I am sorry to say that I have been unable to get it to work. I keep having the same problem: The game starts to run with a lot of lag and as soon as I open/close an interface, it crashes. No matter what I try. I tried it myself, I tried your code, I tried setting Bartolomeu's sailing skill to > 0, I tried adding a RemoveOfficersIndex line first, but no luck whatsoever. Perhaps you can try yourself. The code needs to be added in the last Santiago quest case or in case "exit_hired": in Txiki Pijuan's dialog file in my latest pb_modifications.zip. When you do that, the final questtext will also need to be changed, because it doesn't make sense anymore after that change.

 

[Bartolomeu o Portugues]

Bartolomeu is a "comrade-in-arms" (so he can't sail a ship). Do you think that is the problem? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />

 

[Pieter Boelen]

That isn't the problem. I don't know what the problem IS, but that isn't it. Any officer can sail a ship, as long as he doesn't have a zero sailing skill. However, giving Bartolomeu a higher sailing skill doesn't solve my issue either, so that isn't the cause either. I wonder if the problem is that I perform a ship swap on a character who doesn't HAVE a ship. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />

 

[morgan terror]

i thought a would-be captain needed more skills than just sailing? i don't remember what though. maybe it was cannons and accuracy. but i agree with you that the other officer not having a ship would likely be the problem.