I'm trying to set my mission bits for my plug but I'm having so many problems.

I did the first 2 missions in the major string and set !(b511 | b515) as available bits. Then set b511 on accept. I think that should have cut out all other major strings. I think that worked.

Then I set the on success bit to b901. That worked

Then I set the second mission available bits: b901
on success: b902

This also worked.

Then I set the third mission available bits: b902
on success: b903

And it didn't work. What did I do wrong? I can post the plug here if it helps...

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Check to make sure the bit isn't used by the stock scenario. Also, add !b(whatever bit is set OnSuccess) to the Availability field so that you onlt get it once.

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Cool thanks.

And bits 900 - 990 are free...

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Well I messed around with it a bit using your advice Orcalover and it fixed the second mission, which had broken for some reason, but mission 3 still doesn't work.

It's exactly the same as the second mission just with different start and finish stellars.

I'm so confused... And it's slowly ebbing at my will to make this plug...

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Have a look at the log file to see if b902 is actually set.

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I can't get the pilotlog to work.

It's not doing anything at all...

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You mean it's not rewriting? That's happened to me, too. Open your pilotlog in SimpleText/TextEdit/Notepad (for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows respectively), then select all, delete, and save. This will force it to rewrite it.

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The programmer's code of entomology: there's always another bug.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who have friends.
Windows users: stop asking for plugins. (url="http://"http://www.aznt.com/EVN/EVNEW/")Make one yourself.(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.cwssoftware.com")Sephil Saga Website(/url) | (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/infernostudios/search.html")Add-ons Search Engine(/url)

I tried that, now it's just staying blank

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Never hit your mother with a shovel - It leaves a dull impression on her mind

Did you reopen your pilot?

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The programmer's code of entomology: there's always another bug.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who have friends.
Windows users: stop asking for plugins. (url="http://"http://www.aznt.com/EVN/EVNEW/")Make one yourself.(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.cwssoftware.com")Sephil Saga Website(/url) | (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/infernostudios/search.html")Add-ons Search Engine(/url)

Yup. Reopened, flew round. landed. took off. jumped. landed. jumped back. landed. took off. quit.

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Originally posted by pp0u20e8:
**I'm trying to set my mission bits for my plug but I'm having so many problems.

I did the first 2 missions in the major string and set !(b511 | b515) as available bits. Then set b511 on accept. I think that should have cut out all other major strings. I think that worked.

Then I set the on success bit to b901. That worked

Then I set the second mission available bits: b901
on success: b902

This also worked.

Then I set the third mission available bits: b902
on success: b903

And it didn't work. What did I do wrong? I can post the plug here if it helps...

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Ok it's still not working and I'm getting peeved...

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pp0u20e8, on Aug 26 2004, 06:01 PM, said:

Ok it's still not working and I'm getting peeved...

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Right, my plug still isn't working. I fixed the pilotlog. b901 (I changed it from b902) isn't actually being set.

I've put b901 into the On Success field, and I even tried putting it in the On Accept field, but to no avail.

Can anyone help me?

I could send it to a few people to test, but I don't want to attach it here for everyone to download.

This is destroying my plug making impetus...

I'd be happy to check it for you...

Aelran, on Sep 16 2004, 05:27 AM, said:

I'd be happy to check it for you...
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Thank you so much.

I just PM'd the file to you

pp0u20e8, on Sep 16 2004, 03:25 PM, said:

Thank you so much.

I just PM'd the file to you
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If you want, I can help aswell.

pp0u20e8, on Sep 15 2004, 09:30 PM, said:

Right, my plug still isn't working. I fixed the pilotlog. b901 (I changed it from b902) isn't actually being set.

I've put b901 into the On Success field, and I even tried putting it in the On Accept field, but to no avail.

Can anyone help me?

I could send it to a few people to test, but I don't want to attach it here for everyone to download.

This is destroying my plug making impetus...
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Works fine for me with the bit in "on accept":
"Mission bits currently set:
b42
b511
b801
b900
b901"

No problem at all (except for the difficulty of the first mission had to do the whole "flee and continue in a straight line until you get back near the planets after having done a loop" technique ton down the number of big ships, and maybe make it 20 tons instead of 30). And I'll post another reply with what to do for your cargo to show up (coz it certainly doesn't on mac)

Okay. Here's how to make a proper cargo appear.

First off, open up "Nova Data 5" and check out the "STR#" section.
Look for IDs 4000 through 4005. The most important for you are 4000, 4001 and 4002.

So copy them into your plug.
Now, in your plug, you'll have to modify them (for your cargo to exist).

4000 is "All Cargo", meaning the full name of the cargo goes there. So create a new part in it (there are 79, so the next one is obviously 80), and enter the name of the cargo (ie, in here, "Opals"). Put a "*" in front of the name if it is not quantifiable (you'll see other examples).

4001 is "LC Cargo", meaning the lower-case name of the cargo. Once again, create a new field (the same number as before), and enter "opals". Same thing as before: "*" for uncountable.

4002 is "Cargo Abbreviations". Here, if you have a long name, make it short (because that's what you'll see in the Status Bar). In your case, just put "Opals" again.

Then, in your mission resource, you enter the number used by all three for your commodity (so 80 in this case). Voilŕ.

This post has been edited by Pace (haldora) : 16 September 2004 - 01:53 PM

I was about to say one can patch STR# strings with some STR, except you can't for these.