Topic: I cant get my ship into SFC3

[James Formo]

First off I did this once before. I added a new Fed frigate my copying and pasting the fed frigate line in DefaultCore.
Then rename FedFrigate to FedFrigate2. Did the same thing in DefaultLoadout and Shipnames.  No problem except I noticed that the Fed frigate is in 3 places in DefaultLoadout. My ship would only show up in the library if I put it in the middle one.

So I spent 2 hours using exact same steps for a rommie destroyer2. There are 4 listingss for destroyer under rommies. Tried all 4 together and seperate. Checked my spellings of all files and folders 6 times. The stupid ship will not show up.

Not too brag but I have an IQ of 130. So if I spending 2 hours and can't get it to work. Then They need a fricking more detailed manual I would say.
Is there anything else left to try? If not looks like I'll be back to SFC2 real quick.

[James Formo]

Hey got my ship in. Turns out there are 5 listings for the destroyer for rommies and it only shows up in the top 1. For the feds the middle of there 3 worked.

New problem. It shows in the libraty but the text wont display. Instead I get ???   Again did this befor for my Mirak Talon.

For that in LOadouts I had the beginning of the line read  Fed-Frigate2 Mirak Talon  MirakTalon.

The 1st listing of the ship name has a space and is how the txt files are named. The second shipname listing is the name of the folder the ship is in. I tried this same thing for Seltorian Boomerang SeltorianBoomerang.  But I only get ??? for text.

Tried shorting the name as well. no good, Tried it in all 5 dest slots, no good, tried in in just the top one, still ???
I mean I could spend the rest of my life on this but I nah.  

[James Formo]

WOOHOO My computer crashed big time. Makes me happy why? Cause I had everthing backup except SFC3. Reimaged my hard drive in 15 minutes. about 1% of the time it takes to put a ship into SFC3. this is only the 2nd time in 3 years my puter crashed. No not from a virus but 1 too many lock ups from SFC3 POS game. where I had to just hit the power button to get out of the game. It will not be reinstalled and my planned mod for it is canceled. Thank you(very sarcastically) activision for not supporting Star TRek or your products either.  Thanks for listening to my rant. Back to my trusted OP.

Oh and a sincere thanks to Taldren who has no control over Activsion  and made the best PC game ever SFC/OP
and would make SFC3 much better if Activision hadn't pulled the plug on support since there suing Paramount.

[Reverend]

Try this one- I have been attempting to mimic Pelican's nine- race map mod over a series of... what was it Pelican?- six months at least?...
anyhow, I have had to completely re-format my computer over six times at least because of it- and people wonder why I have such disregard for Activision and Taldren, in their present states.  

[James Formo]

Well Reverend you have much more patience than me   But I always try to find solace in something. SO this is my oppurtunity to mod SFC1. Which is really a great game and still has the best tractor beam.