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[GT182]

You should have tried SHIII Bill. The only bad thing about it tho was Starforce being in it. UBI did away with it in SHIV after we made such a stink over it. Hopefully V will be without it too.

 

[Lionheart]

You should have tried SHIII Bill. The only bad thing about it tho was Starforce being in it. UBI did away with it in SHIV after we made such a stink over it. Hopefully V will be without it too.

I had them all! :d

The 'nazi-ism' of SHIII didnt sit well with me though. For some reason, I just couldnt play it. The bootup screen in red with the swastika kept freaking me out, lol.... Maybe if I could somehow change that, I could play it a bit more.

For some reason, I have always loved U-Boots, as a technology and all. But SH3 for some reason caused something inside to click.

Sounds crazy.. I know.. I guess I live a sheltered life.


Bill

 

[GT182]

They do have different boot-up screens for SHIII Bill. Some pretty nice ones too, and I believe a few without the swastika. But you'd have to search for them over at SubSim. I'm not sure but I might have a couple stashed away in all my saved SHIII mods..

 

[GT182]

Scratchin My head and Wondering.......

Ok... I've been all over in different sectors looking but can't find the Best Buy/Sell software for my ship. I've looked from Argone Prime all the way to Family Whi, at every Trading Station, Equipment Dock and Shipyard to be found. It's not to be had anywhere.

And with this install of the Apricot Salvage Mod I've not seen a ship yet to grab. Yeah, it's installed correctly in the Plugin Manager and enabled. The command to salvage a ship is even there. Could it be I started with Quick Start and not as a Humble Merchant? Quick Start gives you more credits at the start, that's the reason I went that route.

Now the very first time I installed it it worked. I was at Cloud Base SW and saw several derect ships to salvage but couldn't because the Salvage command wasn't there.

 

[Marlin]

Ok... I've been all over in different sectors looking but can't find the Best Buy/Sell software for my ship. ...

What Gigabyte said below!!!!

Marlin, if you are having problems locating anything in the game I strongly suggest getting the X3 Map by Scorp, it is a standalone map program that has an excellent search feature that will tell you where anything you want/need can be found. You can download the program here - http://www.suu-design.com/downloads.html. The other neat thing about this mapping program is you can configur it so that it only displays sectors that you have already discovered in game so it does not add a cheat factor. Having said that I always found that it is a little unrealistic to not have access to a complete map, after all in real life you can purchase a map for anywhere you are going and have it for reference so why should you not have that ability in the game? Regardless this mapping program is an excellent add on and I highly recommend it.

Oh and a quick tip on the Best Buy/Sell locators, they are designed to help make "Profit" right so they have to be made and sold by Teladi - "It's all about the Profits" for them, they kind of remind me of the Frengi from SNG.

Regarding your rep with some races, yes if you trade with a race it will improve your reputation with that race, it will not be easy if they are your enemy now they will not allow you to dock to make trades, however if you go to sectors that do not have "Core level" security, you may be able to adjust the "Friend or Foe" status - which is not a cheat, it is in the General commands menu, to start trading with stations and repairing your good name. BTW if I recall the only races that you should P.O. in the story line are the Pirates and the Xenon, so you may have gotten a little trigger happy in a mission or two and that will be a challenge to repair the relations with "unfriendlies".

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[gigabyte]

Ok... I've been all over in different sectors looking but can't find the Best Buy/Sell software for my ship. I've looked from Argone Prime all the way to Family Whi, at every Trading Station, Equipment Dock and Shipyard to be found. It's not to be had anywhere.

And with this install of the Apricot Salvage Mod I've not seen a ship yet to grab. Yeah, it's installed correctly in the Plugin Manager and enabled. The command to salvage a ship is even there. Could it be I started with Quick Start and not as a Humble Merchant? Quick Start gives you more credits at the start, that's the reason I went that route.

Now the very first time I installed it it worked. I was at Cloud Base SW and saw several derect ships to salvage but couldn't because the Salvage command wasn't there.

OK GT182, as for the abandined ships it might be the quick start, I did not use that one I started with the Appricot Mapping Services Start, so that could be your problem. I hate to say this but you may need to try starting fresh with that just to test it to be sure. You can just do a fresh start and zip around a few sectors to see if there are any ships to claim, it will not effect any of you save games so you can return without loosing anything as long as you do not save over them. I guess one other clue would be do you recall getting a message at your first start to save your game and reload for the AMS Mod to activate?

The other thing about abandoned ships is they are not always obvious, when you go to a sector bring up the sector map and scroll through the list of ships, any ship that does not have a compant or race listed infront of the ship name is up for grabs, most of the time they are way off the beaten track so you have to scout outside the normal traffic to find them and some are WAY out there, as in off the grid, so patrol some.

Regarding the Best Buy/Sell software you need to get to Teladi Space, most of their equipment docks and trading stations have that upgrade.

If all else fails you may need to restart with the AMS start, and BTW if you do you get a good fleet of ships and the freighters are already equiped to do Sector trading with evrything you need.

 

[GT182]

I've got Scorp's map Bill. That is the greatest map I've seen of any you can get.

Mike, I did start over... saved my saves to a storage folder so I can get them back in if need be. I didin't see the Apricot Mapping Services start.... I don't think that's installed yet. So that could be my problem, I'll check and let you know.

 

[gigabyte]

I've got Scorp's map Bill. That is the greatest map I've seen of any you can get.

Mike, I did start over... saved my saves to a storage folder so I can get them back in if need be. I didin't see the Apricot Mapping Services start.... I don't think that's installed yet. So that could be my problem, I'll check and let you know.

Go to the bottom of the menu the AMS start is under "Custom" it is a seperate page...

BTW if you would like them I have found a list of the stations that sell the Best Buy loactor, but I will hold off posting it unless you specifically want it.

 

[GT182]

Ok Mike, it looks like that Save00 was the problem.

In Continue I now have:
Cloud Base SW
Julian - 03/13/2007
Ship - Apricot Gunbus
Account - 10,000,000Cr ...... man it's nice to start out rich. LOL

I think I've struck paydirt. My thanks Mike. :ernae: This is for you.

Now a question... or two.

Can the Apricote Gunbus Mos v3a be installed and not mess things up? Slice says "Unzip download file to X3 directory". Just extract it right to the main X3 folder and all will go where it's supposed to? I hope.

I do have a 10 Cat and Dat files in the X3 folder already. He says copy it out and then install Gunbus. Then change 10 Cat and Dat to 11 Cat and Dat and copy back in. Correct?

Hey, I'm still learning. So that's why the dumb a$$ questions for confirmation. I don't want to mess this up, and it'll help the new players too, cause I'm sure there's some still scratchin their heads just like me.

 

[gigabyte]

10,000,000Cr ...... man it's nice to start out rich. LOL

Now a question... or two.

Can the Apricote Gunbus Mos v3a be installed and not mess things up? Slice says "Unzip download file to X3 directory". Just extract it right to the main X3 folder and all will go where it's supposed to? I hope.

GT, there should be no need to download the Gunbus, if you are running the AMS Mod 2.11 or later the Gunsbus is already included, it is part of the AMS Fleet. If you do not already have one, you can buy it at the Apricot Mapping Service Shipyards, there is one in Argon Prime, Legends Home and another in Esylum of Light, I am sure there are others but those are the three I have used.

Keep in mind the AMS 3.11 and 3.2update are complete they include all of the AMS scripts and additional ships, you only need the one download to get everything. The other downloads were released over time and are sill avaliable for those who want to pick and choose.

MP

 

[gigabyte]

GT, I just looked if you notice in your post you are in the GUNBUS... lol

In Continue I now have:
Cloud Base SW
Julian - 03/13/2007
Ship - Apricot Gunbus
Account - 10,000,000Cr ...... man it's nice to start out rich. LOL

 

[GT182]

Ok on that Mike, I won't use AMS Gunbus v3a. It's a gone.

Crapola, now the Sav00 file I downloaded is corrupt. X3R will not start from it. Same with the alternate download.

 

[gigabyte]

Ok on that Mike, I won't use AMS Gunbus v3a. It's a gone.

Crapola, now the Sav00 file I downloaded is corrupt. X3R will not start from it. Same with the alternate download.

Back up here a second, are you using AMS on Reunion or Terran Conflict? AMS Mod I have been talkign about is for Terran Conflict, if you are talking about Reunion the downloads are different, and I believe you do have to install each seperately, I do not recall seeing a complied version of all of the AMS stuff in a single download for Reunion. I am sorry if I led you astray here I forgot about X3R and AMS I have never even tried using any of his stuff in my Reunion games.

I do evpect that if you are using Reunion you would have to download the Gunbus, and unzip it directly into the parrent Reunion folder, that is the way all of his mods work and they install fine, then the sav.00 file will work fine.

Sorry about that GT I was in a whole other version when I replied.

 

[GT182]

No Mike I'm sorry for not saying I was using Reunion. It's the Salvage Mod v1.1 I'm using. The Save00 file I downloaded is for Reunion but is corrupt, or it's the Gunbus save00 file. I'm suspecting it's the one for Gunbus v3a.

There was a SaveOO file for the Reunion Salvage Mod but it seems I can't find it. I'll have to search some more.

I've got to get my act together and start using the TC version.

 

[GT182]

Just to let everyone know.... the JSGME Mod Installer does not work with X3. I've tried to load a couple of different mods with it and it was a "no go". But then again, I might have done something wrong. Maybe Mike or Bill has tried it and had better results. But from what I see so far, "it just ain't gonna work". Another case of "Damital".

 

[gigabyte]

No Mike I'm sorry for not saying I was using Reunion. It's the Salvage Mod v1.1 I'm using. The Save00 file I downloaded is for Reunion but is corrupt, or it's the Gunbus save00 file. I'm suspecting it's the one for Gunbus v3a.

There was a SaveOO file for the Reunion Salvage Mod but it seems I can't find it. I'll have to search some more.

I've got to get my act together and start using the TC version.

OK now I understand, I am going to try this on my copy of Reunion, I thin kI know how it works it should be easy enough for me to write you up a cheat sheet, leave it with me for tonight.

 

[gigabyte]

Just to let everyone know.... the JSGME Mod Installer does not work with X3. I've tried to load a couple of different mods with it and it was a "no go". But then again, I might have done something wrong. Maybe Mike or Bill has tried it and had better results. But from what I see so far, "it just ain't gonna work". Another case of "Damital".

That is another thing I have wanted to try I have the installer ready to go but have not had time to try, I will see if I can work it in tomorrow and report on that effort???