The mystery of the moving Deckgun

Sniper297 · 03-27-14, 09:27 PM

I ran a couple tests with the stock game, starting Asiatic careers with an S-18 then getting the "new construction" offer, both times it was a Porpoise which did default to bow gun.

Since I've never fiddled with RSRDC or RFB I can only speculate about that, but I would GUESS (theory only, no evidence to support it) that one of these crewmember slots modifications with the special abilities hacks might be a factor. Or might not.

Looking at the file sizes for my mod of NSS_Porpoise.upc and the one from TMO, I note that mine is 65,763 bytes and the TMO is 65,957 bytes. In notepad with status bar enabled mine shows 2029 lines, TMO has 2032 which would suggest three lines of data have been added someplace. Obviously it would take a while to find out where and what. And if RSRDC has some bug in it elsewhere causing this I have no way to test that. What you could try is activate TMO and RSRDC, then my mod last, overwriting whatever changes the other two made to the UPC files. If there are special crewmen abilities or something in one of those you would lose them, but at least you'd be guaranteed a bow deck gun.

03-27-14, 09:27 PM	#8
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	I ran a couple tests with the stock game, starting Asiatic careers with an S-18 then getting the "new construction" offer, both times it was a Porpoise which did default to bow gun. Since I've never fiddled with RSRDC or RFB I can only speculate about that, but I would GUESS (theory only, no evidence to support it) that one of these crewmember slots modifications with the special abilities hacks might be a factor. Or might not. Looking at the file sizes for my mod of NSS_Porpoise.upc and the one from TMO, I note that mine is 65,763 bytes and the TMO is 65,957 bytes. In notepad with status bar enabled mine shows 2029 lines, TMO has 2032 which would suggest three lines of data have been added someplace. Obviously it would take a while to find out where and what. And if RSRDC has some bug in it elsewhere causing this I have no way to test that. What you could try is activate TMO and RSRDC, then my mod last, overwriting whatever changes the other two made to the UPC files. If there are special crewmen abilities or something in one of those you would lose them, but at least you'd be guaranteed a bow deck gun.