Fusion Guns

[JKeefe]

I just started RF (1.0 Pre2). Fusion cannons cost almost 1,000,000 credits, not 100,000 like they're supposed to...

 

[MamiyaOtaru]

fixed.

Thanks, funny that slipped through. A fusion turret with 2 fusion guns plus a tractor beam was less than a 4th the price of a single fusion cannon lol. Oops.

 

[hellcatv]

I will hold the fusion gun ransom for ONE MILLION dollars...

:-o_

 

[sage]

Oh well - no wonder it took me so long to get those 4 fusion guns for the centurion when I played RF.

I must say that those capital ship missions being defended by 20 ships are the best way that I found to get serious money - if u get 2 of those in the same system, by the time u land you have got over 1.5m credits (Though the battles are a little drawn out as the only way I can survive is gurilla tactics)

 

[JKeefe]

Yeah, in most space sims you have two choices when you attack a cap ship: you can destroy all of its escorts, then slowly blast the capship at a leisurely pace, or you can try to dart throught the fighter screen and deal a quick blow to the capship.

In Privateer, it's pretty much impossible to ignore the escorts - they will kill you.

 

[JKeefe]

So can I hack something simple to change this? I don't usually mess around with game text file sor hex files or anything like that, but this seems like it would be simple enough.

I just need to know the file name and a text string to search for.

 

[hellcatv]

edit modules/faction_ships.py
search for fusion_gun
you'll see a price...

make it less

 

[JKeefe]

I made it 100000 instead of 1000000 (dropped a zero). Now fusion cannons cost 900000.

???

 

[scheherazade0xf]

i think skill level affects prices.

-scheherazade

 

[hellcatv]

naw there's just a bit of randomness....
however I realize the problem for you ... since you already started RF, the existence of the gun is saved in your savegame!

and in your savegame is the 1000000 fusion gun stuff

you'd have to swap the 0 and the 1 in your save/savegamename under the master_part_list_price line

you have to keep the same number of digits or oelse you'll end up nuking your whole savegame file...

it's rather tricky

and even I'm having trouble figuring out which value needs changing
7 1000000
would have to change to

7 0100000
in the list beginning with

master_part_list_price

yuck, eh?

 

[JKeefe]

Yuck is right. I had a feeling the price would be stuck in my savegame...

If I grab a savegame before I start RF, will the price be correct? It's a savegame, but it's saved before Fusion cannons come into the game...

 

[hellcatv]

yep should work dandy then it gets transferred from modules to your savegame