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      Ok, what is the function of the 'background' selection my TC is giving me when I start a new pilot? How do I make new backgrounds? How do I get it to go away?

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      I think it wants you to select a char resource.. if you made multiple ones, you'll have to mark one as the default in ResEdit/whatever. Or, if you want your players to have options about which they're picking, leave it without a default and have them pick a char resource.

      So, in short, to get it to go away, mark a char resource as your "default".

      -K

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      Personally I think that multiple char's would be cool. Like one could have a rich family, and follow a corporational storyline as an extra, and the other could be dodgy, and I dunno, gett mixed up with smugglers. Or a military background... you know the score, it'd be pretty cool.

      tdc, I got caught up with some stuff, and so I'll have the final gunship model for you sometime this week. OK? 🙂

      ~A~

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      I don't know if multiple chars would work, though.. Unfortunately, rather than paying attention to their storylines, your average Nova-Joe would pick the rich character and use it to his best advantage :frown:

      Oh well.. if it could be set up so that the -only- reason to pick a pilot were for its storyline possibilities, multiple characters would be great. But that probably won't work. sigh

      -K

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      I use an extra char is my major story-line plug Evn : Invasion , the plug will only work if you start a new char and choose EVN : Invasion as your background. It allows me to set some bits that I want to be set and give the player a proper ship and other starting stuff and I can set new intro screens , etc...

      There are many advantages to it , just check the chär resource out in novatools or the bible ,you can do a lot of stuff with it actually.

      Entarus,

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      ".Trader" is the default char isn't it?

      A, that would be sweet. Cause Consturction is really slowing down, I'm not getting mch stuff from all my people...

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      I always found an issue with this. 1) People always choose the rich player first. 2) The 'rich' player has no money! A couple of addons I downloaded only had 50K. Sad. Anyway...

      Is there a way to make a certian coughrich chär resource only availible after something has been done? Say, NCB or a testing of a resource present in a plug-in (think L33T)?

      Thanks for your time.

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      Originally posted by Madman80513:
      Is there a way to make a certian coughrich chär resource only availible after something has been done? Say, NCB or a testing of a resource present in a plug-in (think L33T)?

      Well, the 'l33t' method is impossible, since that would require engine changes. The first is more interesting.

      Obviously, creation of a new pilot file cannot depend on NCB tests, as NCBs are an aspect of an existing pilot file. The one way I can think of to limit the availability of a 'rich' character is to have that character be stored in a separate plug-in, which is compressed and encrypted with a password that is given to the player at some point during the storyline; this is rather like what The Frozen Heart did with a couple of external documents which needed to become available at a certain point during the game.

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