[MOD] Sector Satellites
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[MOD] Sector Satellites
V0.9.4 tackles a few station storage allocation issues that recently came to light. More infos on that regard in the changelog and the update spoiler on nexus.
Allows satellites to pull prices from all stations in a sector.
Adds a few more features to advanced satellites.
Adds 3 more satellites, one with passive radar unless hostiles are closeby, an interdiction satellite, (Piracy!) and Survey Units that allow the player to discover hidden treasures like data vaults or ships.
All fully configurable.
Alot more infos on Nexus:
Link to Nexus: https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations ... id=7195291
Allows satellites to pull prices from all stations in a sector.
Adds a few more features to advanced satellites.
Adds 3 more satellites, one with passive radar unless hostiles are closeby, an interdiction satellite, (Piracy!) and Survey Units that allow the player to discover hidden treasures like data vaults or ships.
All fully configurable.
Alot more infos on Nexus:
Link to Nexus: https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations ... id=7195291
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
I've been using this and your older longer range version. Love it.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
Heh, I finally caved even though I was a bit concerned about how it manages to reveal stations (I'm that Kadath in your comments at the Nexus), and been loving it as well. After all, even if the spawning/despawning of temporary player ships were to influence other less apparent things and reveal some indirect issues down the road, it's not like X4 is currently in a state were I can really get 100% invested in a long term playthrough anyway, it's going to take some months before that. So, thanks for the quality of life here and now
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
Thanks guys, glad you like it. Ya, as i said, hopefully i'll find another way soon. There's most likely already a function that does it, but wasn't included in the current xsd files. I'm not about to decompile the exe to look for it, so this workaround will have to do until we know more. It's not really something critical, i've been using this method in previous mods already to get things done, like creating a within restrictions randomized location to build stations for my xr black legion pirate mod, and since most events will probably check for the player being there and not just a ship, there's not too much to be worry about.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
If I understand correctly, Advanced Satellites will reveal yet-unrevealed stations, correct? Will they also reveal newly built stations after the advanced satellite has already been deployed? I've been dropping vanilla sats everywhere and noticed the NPC factions are building new stations in my game, and I worry about new stations being dropped that I won't have visibility of after having already gone through the work of dropping the sats in the first place.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
I guess it's time to write a more clear description for the mod. ^^akirhol wrote: ↑Wed, 5. Dec 18, 17:57If I understand correctly, Advanced Satellites will reveal yet-unrevealed stations, correct? Will they also reveal newly built stations after the advanced satellite has already been deployed? I've been dropping vanilla sats everywhere and noticed the NPC factions are building new stations in my game, and I worry about new stations being dropped that I won't have visibility of after having already gone through the work of dropping the sats in the first place.
Yep, all satellites will rescan the sector they're placed in every 10 minutes. If a new station is found, it'll be added for price updates. A normal satellite will only find new stations in places that have been discovered, an advanced satellite will also find new stations that are in undiscovered space, reveal them and sign them up for price updates.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
Brilliant, thank you for the quick reply. This is exactly the kind of mod I was hoping for while roaming around dropping sats everywhere.iforgotmysocks wrote: ↑Wed, 5. Dec 18, 18:05I guess it's time to write a more clear description for the mod. ^^akirhol wrote: ↑Wed, 5. Dec 18, 17:57If I understand correctly, Advanced Satellites will reveal yet-unrevealed stations, correct? Will they also reveal newly built stations after the advanced satellite has already been deployed? I've been dropping vanilla sats everywhere and noticed the NPC factions are building new stations in my game, and I worry about new stations being dropped that I won't have visibility of after having already gone through the work of dropping the sats in the first place.
Yep, all satellites will rescan the sector they're placed in every 10 minutes. If a new station is found, it'll be added for price updates. A normal satellite will only find new stations in places that have been discovered, an advanced satellite will also find new stations that are in undiscovered space, reveal them and sign them up for price updates.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
FWIW with this mod and his older longer scan range version you can pretty much delegate ships stocked with advanced sats to deploy them in each region. That's what I've been doing. I can get away with one technically but I usually end up queueing 2-4 per region depending on station saturation. Plus you never know when a raiding party might actually take one out. They eventually snuff them out in Xenon zones even if they're put out of the way. One thing I dislike is zooming out brings back the FoW on the map so you can't for example take a screencap to have a game world outline. Might be able to find it via the files who knows.akirhol wrote: ↑Wed, 5. Dec 18, 18:08Brilliant, thank you for the quick reply. This is exactly the kind of mod I was hoping for while roaming around dropping sats everywhere.iforgotmysocks wrote: ↑Wed, 5. Dec 18, 18:05I guess it's time to write a more clear description for the mod. ^^akirhol wrote: ↑Wed, 5. Dec 18, 17:57If I understand correctly, Advanced Satellites will reveal yet-unrevealed stations, correct? Will they also reveal newly built stations after the advanced satellite has already been deployed? I've been dropping vanilla sats everywhere and noticed the NPC factions are building new stations in my game, and I worry about new stations being dropped that I won't have visibility of after having already gone through the work of dropping the sats in the first place.
Yep, all satellites will rescan the sector they're placed in every 10 minutes. If a new station is found, it'll be added for price updates. A normal satellite will only find new stations in places that have been discovered, an advanced satellite will also find new stations that are in undiscovered space, reveal them and sign them up for price updates.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
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[=ERROR=] 0.00 Error in MD cue md.SectorSatellites.SS_Main: Signalled cue md.SectorSatellites.SS_Main_RevealKnownStation_Bugfix has no corresponding listeners
* Expression: SS_Main_RevealKnownStation_Bugfix
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
Thanks alex, i'll take a look what's up. Not sure why but i'm guessing it tried to call the cue again even tho it's been already executed. It only needed to run once.
I'll take a look in a few minutes. Thanks for letting me know.
Edit: So ya, the message just popps up because the cue doesn't have a valid call anymore (which was intended), the only call happend the first time the mod was executed, so this message can be ignored.
I'll take a look in a few minutes. Thanks for letting me know.
Edit: So ya, the message just popps up because the cue doesn't have a valid call anymore (which was intended), the only call happend the first time the mod was executed, so this message can be ignored.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
Thanks for this mod!
When placing advanced satellites do they only make stations 100% discovered that are within the radius of the satellite or is it every station in the sector?
When placing advanced satellites do they only make stations 100% discovered that are within the radius of the satellite or is it every station in the sector?
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
They don't set stations to 100% discovered, they only set them known, add price updates and reveal the fog of war, but yes, they do it sector wide.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
V 0.7 is out:
To easy players minds who had trouble with the idea of ships being spawned to uncover stations i created a new type of satellite that will do the job from now on and won't count as a ship. To also give advanced satellites more value, the player will find 5-7 more missions available at random stations of a sector after entering. Have fun.
To easy players minds who had trouble with the idea of ships being spawned to uncover stations i created a new type of satellite that will do the job from now on and won't count as a ship. To also give advanced satellites more value, the player will find 5-7 more missions available at random stations of a sector after entering. Have fun.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
Awesome, thanks for the update. Going to start a new game with 1.3 (released right after I had just found an abandoned Odysseus ), but at least with your mod mapping and monitoring the galaxy will be a much less tedious endeavour.
And thanks for that heads up about Win7. I had issues with another mod (thought it must have been because of the contents.xml, but couldn't repair it) and this apparently turns up to be the cause. This needs to be either addressed or made widely known asap, 45% of pc users still are using Win7.
And thanks for that heads up about Win7. I had issues with another mod (thought it must have been because of the contents.xml, but couldn't repair it) and this apparently turns up to be the cause. This needs to be either addressed or made widely known asap, 45% of pc users still are using Win7.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
Where to get these probes? - Advanced Satellite Detection Probes
I have not tried the mod yet, I wanted to ask in advance.
They need to buy or they automatically fly out during the installation of the satellite.?
I have not tried the mod yet, I wanted to ask in advance.
They need to buy or they automatically fly out during the installation of the satellite.?
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
Aww, sucks about ur Odysseus, glad you like the mod.Kadatherion wrote: ↑Sat, 8. Dec 18, 09:40Awesome, thanks for the update. Going to start a new game with 1.3 (released right after I had just found an abandoned Odysseus ), but at least with your mod mapping and monitoring the galaxy will be a much less tedious endeavour.
And thanks for that heads up about Win7. I had issues with another mod (thought it must have been because of the contents.xml, but couldn't repair it) and this apparently turns up to be the cause. This needs to be either addressed or made widely known asap, 45% of pc users still are using Win7.
Ya, took a bit to figure out what was causing some players not to be able to use mods correctly and how to work around it. It beeing a OS issue was one of my last ideas, might have something todo with text encoding.
It's all in the description. Once you place an advanced satellite it'll use the detection probes to uncover stations in the current sector which disappear again afterwards.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
Hello,
The work of satellites does not work here is what is written in the console debug :
[gamestart: 2] - [Mon Dec 10 15:49:04 2018]: Error: File I/O: Could not find file '.\extensions\sectorsatellites\index\macros.xml.sig'
[gamestart: 2] - [Mon Dec 10 15:49:04 2018]: Info: File I/O: Failed to verify the file signature for file '.\extensions\sectorsatellites\index\macros.xml' (error:14)
The work of satellites does not work here is what is written in the console debug :
[gamestart: 2] - [Mon Dec 10 15:49:04 2018]: Error: File I/O: Could not find file '.\extensions\sectorsatellites\index\macros.xml.sig'
[gamestart: 2] - [Mon Dec 10 15:49:04 2018]: Info: File I/O: Failed to verify the file signature for file '.\extensions\sectorsatellites\index\macros.xml' (error:14)
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
o-papaya-o wrote: ↑Mon, 10. Dec 18, 17:03Hello,
The work of satellites does not work here is what is written in the console debug :
[gamestart: 2] - [Mon Dec 10 15:49:04 2018]: Error: File I/O: Could not find file '.\extensions\sectorsatellites\index\macros.xml.sig'
[gamestart: 2] - [Mon Dec 10 15:49:04 2018]: Info: File I/O: Failed to verify the file signature for file '.\extensions\sectorsatellites\index\macros.xml' (error:14)
This is not a mod error, but the lack of a signature. Now this is for all files. The mod works and these sig errors are not worth paying attention to.
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
Yup, that's right. Thank you Alex!alexalsp wrote: ↑Mon, 10. Dec 18, 17:12This is not a mod error, but the lack of a signature. Now this is for all files. The mod works and these sig errors are not worth paying attention to.o-papaya-o wrote: ↑Mon, 10. Dec 18, 17:03Hello,
The work of satellites does not work here is what is written in the console debug :
[gamestart: 2] - [Mon Dec 10 15:49:04 2018]: Error: File I/O: Could not find file '.\extensions\sectorsatellites\index\macros.xml.sig'
[gamestart: 2] - [Mon Dec 10 15:49:04 2018]: Info: File I/O: Failed to verify the file signature for file '.\extensions\sectorsatellites\index\macros.xml' (error:14)
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Re: [MOD] Sector Satellites
ok Thank youalexalsp wrote: ↑Mon, 10. Dec 18, 17:12o-papaya-o wrote: ↑Mon, 10. Dec 18, 17:03Hello,
The work of satellites does not work here is what is written in the console debug :
[gamestart: 2] - [Mon Dec 10 15:49:04 2018]: Error: File I/O: Could not find file '.\extensions\sectorsatellites\index\macros.xml.sig'
[gamestart: 2] - [Mon Dec 10 15:49:04 2018]: Info: File I/O: Failed to verify the file signature for file '.\extensions\sectorsatellites\index\macros.xml' (error:14)
This is not a mod error, but the lack of a signature. Now this is for all files. The mod works and these sig errors are not worth paying attention to.
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