mission vendor

    any1 know how to do it? some1 must

    Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.........That way, when you criticize them, you`re a mile away and you have their shoes.

    You need some mission areas in zones with encounters who are foes of the base you want to sell the missions...have a look into li01.ini there are some zones like e.g.: [zone nickname = zone_li01_destroy_vignette_1 pos = -23536, 0, -52599 shape = SPHERE size = 10000 mission_type = unlawful, lawful sort = 99.500000 vignette_type = open ...you need some of them in your new system...also they have to be in an encounter zone like i mentioned above. There are three vignette_types, open, field and exclusion...field and open is easy, but what´s exclusion, maybe someone else nows?? For now to be save place one of every type. Next you have to add the mission vendor to your mbases.ini ...the line entry should look like: [MVendor num_offers = 8, 12 ...first number is minimum offered, second maximum...Enjoy!

    ...sorry i just realized that some lines are missing in the above description: example for mbases.ini (in /DATA/MISSIONS/): ********************************************************* [MBase nickname = rs000_0_base local_faction = br_p_grp diff = 1 msg_id_prefix = gcs_refer_base_Li01_01_Base [MVendor num_offers = 8, 12 [BaseFaction faction = br_p_grp weight = 100 offers_missions mission_type = DestroyMission, 0.000000, 0.442387, 100 ...this is from my mod. As you can see the base belongs to Bretonia Police...the block with the BaseFaction defines the faction which offers you mission at the board. You can have multiple of them (see Li01_01) each with it´s weight. The level of the mission is defined in the last line: mission_type = DestroyMission, 0.000000, 0.442387, 100 first value = minimum level, here 0 second value = maximum level, here 0.442387 third value = weight of this entry ...to get the level of the mission (from this game internal level system) open the file "npcranktodiff.ini" in /DATA/RANDOMMISSIONS

    should not offers_missions be offers_missions = true? thnks for this <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

    There are a ton of other crucial points to this... 1.) You must make sure that the encounters you are putting your mission objectives into have opposing factions in them. So, for example, an encounter must contain the Liberty Rogues and Liberty Police in order to get a mission objective to work... Here´s a sample from my mod.... [Zone nickname = Zone_BR08_pop_ambient_01 pos = -394, 0, -10650 rotate = 0, 0, 0 shape = SPHERE size = 22484 comment = JG Battle sort = 51 toughness = 19 density = 12 repop_time = 10 max_battle_size = 8 pop_type = jumpgate relief_time = 10 population_additive = false faction_weight = li_n_grp, 1 faction_weight = li_p_grp, 1 faction_weight = fc_lr_grp, 20 encounter = area_bh_assault, 19, 0.250000 faction = li_n_grp, 0.500000--------&gt; This is the Liberty Navy faction faction = li_p_grp, 0.500000--------&gt; This is the Liberty Police faction encounter = area_bh_defend, 19, 0.250000 faction = fc_lr_grp, 1.000000-------&gt; This is the Liberty Rogue faction encounter = area_gunboats, 19, 0.250000 faction = fc_lr_grp, 1.000000 encounter = capitalships_Liberty, 19, 0.100000 faction = li_n_grp, 1.000000 encounter = capitalships_Escorts, 19, 0.100000 faction = li_n_grp, 1.000000 It took me a while to figure this out. Also, you can´t take two encounters and over lap them to get your &quot;opposing factions&quot; For example, you can´t take an encounter that only contains Liberty Navy factions, and another encounter that contains Liberty Rogue factions, over lap them, and stick mission objections in the over lapping areas. 2.) This is very important. The missions that are being offered must be oppropriate difficulty levels. If they aren´t, your missions WILL NOT work. Here´s an example from my mod. I found it best to just enter in difficulty 1-32 or whatever the hardest level is... [MBase nickname = LI06_04_Base local_faction = fc_lr_grp diff = 1 msg_id_prefix = gcs_refer_base_LI06_04_Base [MVendor num_offers = 8, 12 [BaseFaction faction = fc_lr_grp weight = 64 offers_missions = true-------&gt; This should always say TRUE if you want this base to offer missions... mission_type = DestroyMission, 0.000000, 100.000000, 100 Now, look at the &quot;mission_type&quot; section. The first set of numbers, 0.000000, is the lowest difficulty setting for the missions being offered at this base. 0 meaning difficulty level 1. The second set of numbers is the highest difficulty setting for the missions being offered. 100.000000 being 32 or whatever. Now look at the num_offers section under [MVender. These two numbers determine how many missions are offered at your base. An 8,12 setting is for a more busy planet. A 5,7 setting is more of a steady setting. And 2,4 being a slow setting. 3.) Make sure none of you mission objective zones overlap. If they do, your missions WILL NOT work. I always make the difficulty setting 0.000000, 100.000000. Also, to make lower leveled missions, I will set the difficulty to about 1-3 instead of 1-32. I´ve always found it better to always start my minimum level to 1. Experiment a little. See what works best for your systems. Hope this helps you guys! Cheers!