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Hi, I am a devoted EV fan, have registered all three EVs.
I am not a very talented editor, I rember my neutron turrent for EV fireing astroids, but enough reminiscing I need a little help with a simple edit if anyone has time.

After plaything through an EV game I like to start fiddiling around with it to have some fun. What I wanted to do was take the pirate mission stream, and make it so the Unrelenting a) looked like the kestrel (cause the kestrel looks awsome in EVN, not that it didnt in EV) and Beef it up a little, not make it to strong, about as strong as a raven.

To do this, I first copied the 'shan' of the kestral, and pasted that over the 'shan' resource for the Unrelenting (which was called pirated carrier and was number 374). This seems to have made the unrelenting look like the Kestrel, and fire from all the same places the Kestrel does.

I ran into problems when I tried to alter the stats of the Unrelenting. I opened up EV Data 1 and went to the ship resource for the Unrelenting, number 374, and changed all the states I wanted. But then when I play the game and get the ship by the normal mission dialog, only some of the changes worked. For instance I have increased amounts of space, as I editied to be. But my accleration and turn rate and pretty much everything else is the same as the old Unrelenting. Also, I tried to add two 4 more quad turrets, giveing the ship 6 in total, but only two more appeard in the actual game, so the ship only had 4. I am confused and don't know what I did wrong.

I'm using EVNEW v1.0.4.
I would appreciate anyone who can help me out on this one.

Sorry, cant help you without some of the files too look at.

As a side note, its generally a bad idea to mess with the original data files. Use backups or put the new edited rescource into a plugin.

can I post files?, I will if possible

yea, I know its a bad idea to mess around with original data files, but as I said I have already played through the games in a few of the mission strings, and i just keep the EVN istaller, so if I screw anything up beyond repair I simply unitstall EVN and reinstall it

thanks for answering

Ok, I don't know why what was happening was happening but I think it has something to do with the Unrelenting being given to you as a reward for completing a mission. When I made the ship avaliable to everywhere, the changeds I had done were put into effect. However when I got the ship through the normal mission procedure, the changes were not in effect, I don't knwo why that is, if anyone has any idea I would appreciate it, but I can just buy the ship through making in universally avaliable so I guess its not urgent.