Random Ship Stats help, please

[Topstok]

random stats...

Hi!
I have installed the build 12, and when I init a new game i always get random stats on my ship... I don't know if that's a feature of the build but i don't like it. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":c" border="0" alt="mad.gif" />

There is a way to disable this?

thanx.

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" /> <b>Topstok, </b>and welcome aboard! Have an ale!

I moved your question to the general forum as a topic, so you'll get better exposure on it. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />

Did you set your own ship stats previously? Or is it an existing ship from a savegame? What has changed, that you've noticed?

 

[Topstok]

thanx for the welcome <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=")" border="0" alt="smile2.gif" />

I tried with some different ships (the original ships of the game, the ships from the build and a ship that I modded) and when I start a new game and press F2 the stats of the ships are different every time (except the max caliber).

I also noticed that when i go to buy a ship sometimes i see two lugger (for example) with the same nation design but they have different stats and price.

I have searched in the code but I only find something random on quests_reaction.c , there is a function called SetRandomStatsToShip but I don't know how can I change that.

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

I know that NathanKell is the one to ask about the ship stats; he is the one who put together that mod that fixes them. It's weird that you should have two ships from the same nation that have different stats - I wonder if there's a problem with the Nation flags mod... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

Hopefully Nathan will be around soon to help. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />

 

[Topstok]

ok, i will wait for him


I don't know if that's the problem but I have installed the european version of the game and i have installed the mod with that trick of installing first the build11 with euro support and then the build12 without euro support.

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

I've got an email out to him, hopefully he'll find some time to peek in here, he's been awfully busy lately with "real life" (whatever that means, LOL!) <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />

 

[Topstok]

thanx for all the help Catalina

one question: Is this a bug that only appears in my game or it's a feature of the mod?

I was searching in the code <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" /> and I saw that there is an intention to make the random thing, in the code of the Xebec Barbarossa there is a line that says "refShip.SpeedRate= 16.0; //will be modded back up via random"
Also there is some files that contain the SetRandomStatsToShip() thing.

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

It's a feature - or a tweak - by NathanKell. He's been fooling with the ship setup for a long time, and it's probably something he's done to change something. Don't know for sure about that, which is why he's the one to ask! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />

 

[Drunken]

<!--`QuoteBegin-Topstok`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Topstok)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I also noticed that when i go to buy a ship sometimes i see two lugger (for example) with the same nation design but they have different stats and price.[/quote]I don't think that's a bug, as the shipyard displays every ship that has different stats from the other as a separate option at the buy/repair screen. So, the game has guidelines as to what stat differences the different nations' ships have, but can tweak that a bit according to it's random taste. So, even if it's the same ship type, and built by the same nation, if it has a small difference in it's stats, the game will add it separately to add to the variety. I think that's clever! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

 

[Topstok]

ok, I agree that it adds more variety but i think that would be good to have the option to choose the random stats or the normal stats. I know Nathan is very busy so if him doesn't make that option i will understand it, but at the moment I only want to know how to turn it off. I'm searching on the code but I don't know in which file it will be, and that's I want to know

EDITED
oooooookk i have found the solution to this <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" /> , at least for my modded ship (that was what i wanted to do), I was searching in the wrong direction <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" /> . Anyways thax for the support! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />

If anyone wants to make a specific ship that don't have random stats simply put this line on the code of your ship:
refShip.unique= true;