Topic: EAW Campaigns for OP update: installer.

[FireSoul]

I made an easy-to-use installer for the EAW missions recompiled for OP.
.. and to my amusement, the total size is 1/5th of the ZIPs' sizes added together. (3mb)

Download: http://klingon.stasis.ca/EAW_missions/EAW_Campaigns_for_OP-20030330.exe





Also See:
http://klingon.stasis.ca/EAW_missions/


-- Luc
FireSoul

[Klingon Fanatic]

Thank you Firesoul!

I just wish we had some SFC1 missions like Repair Roundevous to go with these

"...If wishes were horses..."

Qapla!

KF

[Stylsy]

I hear ya KF!

Nice one FireSoul!

[FireSoul]

Thank you Firesoul!

I just wish we had some SFC1 missions like Repair Roundevous to go with these

"...If wishes were horses..."

Qapla!

KF

Why don't you do like I did and just start fixing/doing these things no one else will?

[Klingon Fanatic]

Thank you Firesoul!

I just wish we had some SFC1 missions like Repair Roundevous to go with these

"...If wishes were horses..."

Qapla!

KF

Why don't you do like I did and just start fixing/doing these things no one else will?

The C++ Service pack needed is over 140 MB and on my 56k modem it will take me about 8 days to get it downloaded. It is unlikely that I will be in a position to do this myself anytime in the immediate future.

Here's what I would like to see to help folks like me get started with mission scripting; give us ONE mission written out STEP by STEP.

Maybe someday I will be in a position to make SFC missions like The Quantum Factor but it does not appear that day will come anytime soon.

Qapla!

KF

[Arcanum]

I have just been playing with Firesouls excellent OP+3.4 and having alot of fun with TOS  , but I did reinstall SFC 1 and was wondering about some of those "stock" mission for OP . . 

Two really seem to stand out and they were just missions not "specials" one was where your escorting a large convoy (more than 6 freighters would be cool) and you can see the Starbase ahead and you come under attack by either pirates or a rival empire (think cloaked romulans) of course the task was to save your convoy but it was more chocolate and less vanilla than OP convoy escorts. 

The other one was similar in that you where in system, a Starbase was there with a light cruiser or destroyer patroling near the base but near the edge of the map tryin to get back to base was a DN under attack by a 3 ship squadron and you had to rescue it . .

What I am asking is how hard is it to make missions and add them into the general scripts so you can get more variety out of whats there?  Or would any brillant scr writter make a few like this for SFC:OP?

and the noobie question what do you need to write a script? and is it "freeware" . .

[stormbirdd]

Hmm. I installed this over the top of the existing EAW conversion (without Evil_Dave pack) and now the Missions button is greyed out for every single new EAW (Evil Dave) campaign mission I am on. That is, I start the campaign as Hydrans, Roms or ISC War of Pacification, all Evil Dave in parentheses (the three I tried). It loads, I get to the main map, I check the News, click on an adjacent hex. MNore News but no Mission lights up. So I move to another hex (yes, left-clicking of course, I've played about a dozen campaigns so I am familiar with how it works), then another and another until I am wandering through different empires. No Missions. Every campign in any era is like that.

If I start a new campaign that isn't one of the EAW (Evil_Dave), it works fine, but it has also broken all of my saved campaigns!

Any ideas? Have you seen this before?

[stormbirdd]

A little more info:
I loaded the Hydrans vs. Mirak campaign I am 6 scenes or so into so far from the Map screen of another campaign (doesn't matter which - they are all broken now). I was able to load the Hydrans vs. Mirak for one mission, but once I failed it (it is "Dilithium Dance", a broken mission that cannot be won), I went back to the same problem: no Mission button in any hex.

[stormbirdd]

Problem solved by reinstalling all of the missions from ZIP file.

I hope I am not coming off as Mr. Negative in these forums. As a player (just a player), I and my circle of about six all GREATLY appreciate the mods, the OP 3.x ship lists, the campaigns, the new weapon graphics and sounds, everything! This community is the most intelligent and creative one I have ever seen in the gaming world.

Thank you from the six of us: Stormbirdd, Fenris, Retro, Bossman, Stormparrot and the Rock...

[FireSoul]

What I am asking is how hard is it to make missions and add them into the general scripts so you can get more variety out of whats there?  Or would any brillant scr writter make a few like this for SFC:OP?

and the noobie question what do you need to write a script? and is it "freeware" . .

For SFC-OP? You need Microsoft Visual Studio 6.. It's now an old version, so it's hard to get 'new' in the stores, but I am sure you can still find it online.
Sorry.. it's not freeware.


.. after you have MSVC++ , you need to set up the software API for SFC-OP which is available for download.

[FireSoul]

Hmm. I installed this over the top of the existing EAW conversion (without Evil_Dave pack) and now the Missions button is greyed out for every single new EAW (Evil Dave) campaign mission I am on. That is, I start the campaign as Hydrans, Roms or ISC War of Pacification, all Evil Dave in parentheses (the three I tried). It loads, I get to the main map, I check the News, click on an adjacent hex. MNore News but no Mission lights up. So I move to another hex (yes, left-clicking of course, I've played about a dozen campaigns so I am familiar with how it works), then another and another until I am wandering through different empires. No Missions. Every campign in any era is like that.

If I start a new campaign that isn't one of the EAW (Evil_Dave), it works fine, but it has also broken all of my saved campaigns!

Any ideas? Have you seen this before?

Yeah..  There can only be 64 campaigns listed in the campaign list. .. the ones you really want aren't present. The ones available are the ones for EvilDave missions, but if they are not installed on your machine, that's what you'll see.

[FireSoul]

Problem solved by reinstalling all of the missions from ZIP file.

I hope I am not coming off as Mr. Negative in these forums. As a player (just a player), I and my circle of about six all GREATLY appreciate the mods, the OP 3.x ship lists, the campaigns, the new weapon graphics and sounds, everything! This community is the most intelligent and creative one I have ever seen in the gaming world.

Thank you from the six of us: Stormbirdd, Fenris, Retro, Bossman, Stormparrot and the Rock...

I am glad we got you on-board and playing.