I've been playing around with a new concept lately, and came up with a bit of a dilemma. I am trying to create an outfit that when purchased, changes the status with the government to a positive standing. If you sell it, it should decrease your standing. I know you could give the outfit a fake ID modtype, but that still leaves out decreasing your status when selling the outfit.

Here is what I had set up before. The outfit calls a mission in the onpurchase field, which has a compreward value of 1000 (the starting status with the govt is -500). When the outfit is sold, it calls another auto-aborting mission that instead has a compreward of -1000, to restore the government to it's previous status.

I believe the problem is that the compgovt fields do not take effect when the mission auto aborts. Is this standard behavior, and if so, does anyone have any ideas of how to work around it?

Thanks,
SpacePirate

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EVN Resource Bible:

Axxx - if mission ID xxx is currently active, abort it
<snip>
* The mďsn resource
<snip>
CompReward      How much to increase your record with CompGovt
                (any value)    Increase record by this much
                (note: if you have a CompGovt and reward defined and you fail
                the mission, that govt will take it personally and decrease
                your record by 1/2 the amount specified in CompReward. This is
                useful for making missions whose success is considered vital by
                a certain party
<snip>
Flags2          More flag bits
                0x0001         Don't offer mission if the player doesn't have
                                 enough cargo space to hold the mission cargo
                                 (even if the mission cargo won't be picked up
                                 until later)
                0x0002         Apply mission Pay on auto-abort

So when you auto-abort the misn, you have to have the 0x0002 flag set in Flags2 for it to work.

-Vaumnou

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(This message has been edited by Vaumnou (edited 05-12-2003).)

Yep. It didn't change the status at all.

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Quote

Originally posted by SpacePirate:
Yep. It didn't change the status at all.

Before or after you set the flag I mentioned?

-Vaumnou

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"He's too late. SEE?!? THE CLIFFS OF INSANITY!!! Hurry up!"
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. .... Radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." - Albert Einstein

I've had the flag set the entire time. That was the first thing I tried.

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Hrm... that stinks. Try changing the Axxx tag to a Fxxx tag (so it fails the mission), put a negative number in the CompReward field, and set the flag for 5x penalty on failure.

-Vaumnou

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"He's too late. SEE?!? THE CLIFFS OF INSANITY!!! Hurry up!"
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. .... Radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." - Albert Einstein

All righty. I'll try that.

Thanks Vamnou!

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Perhaps a ränk?

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Hrm... That may work as well...

What I really need to do is find an easy way to get a spöb to stop shooting at you when you have the outfit, and always shoot at you otherwise.

I'll play with it more at home.

Thanks!

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Flags field, in the ränk resource:

             0x0100   Ships of the affiliated government will not automatically
                       attack the player when he has this rank
             0x0200   All planets of the affiliated government will let the
                       player land when he has this rank, regardless of their
                       MinStatus field

That might do it, SpacePirate. The 0x0200 flag also prevents the syst from turning red on the map, I believe.

-Vaumnou

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Good deal.

Thanks for all the help.

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