Is their a reason you're not working with X4?  Their seem to be a lot of issues with x3, especially during the endgame because of how old it is. It only has single threading support, and x4 seems to be better all the way around.   Are the scripts that you're writing not compatible with later versions?

Honestly, the reason I’m working with this game is it’s the one that I happen to buy. Everything I have read about X4 says that it has a lot of potential, but that at the moment the actual gameplay experience is not there yet.  Honestly, I would rather have a thing I can play relatively quickly, rather than a year or so down the line, if I can. :-) This game and the mods and expansions for it are decent, and have been respected for quite a while.

As for the login page, you should be able to just start typing your username, and then tab and type your password. It’s ridiculous nonsense, but I was able to do it on both windows and Mac that way.

I haven’t looked into the scripting language for X4,  but the one I have at the moment is very basic, so I would imagine it would be pretty simple to get equivalent functionality. The  added first person movement gives me pause, particularly things like being able to navigate ships and stations. That would be a whole other thing I would need to theoretically script.

I have tried the terran defender start, but I can't find what position I need to travel to to get started, and when I get close to the military ships, they open fire on me and tell me to back off my weapons even though I don't have them active.

for those who want to log in to twitch to chat.
firefox esr 52 and NVDA work to some extent.
If you want to use a chat client.
1. download tc chat client for twitch, search google.
2. install tc. it asks for your username and auth key.
3. with firefox esr 52 log in to twitch, then from there go to this link:
https://twitchapps.com/tmi/
click on the link at the bottom of the page and you will get your auth key.
use that to log in  the tc client and you'll have a sort of accessible chat client for twitch.

how did you get shafted did an npc ship get to the station before you? how many people watched? i didn't get to do so because i have a friend here and we were doing other stuff and sadly i missed it. i wonder if egosoft did turn up.

Well, here's the Youtube link.

https://youtu.be/Q5ha-sZGo4E

I got shafted on the deal because I didn't check whether i was buying for an average price or above, so ended up literally being offered ~3-1 on the sale. I would have lost 75% of my investment.

Lessons learned for next time. I'm not sure if anyone from Egosoft showed up, it was a very quiet chat.

Practice makes perfect, of course. I need to try this again until I get a feel for how things operate. And make acquiring a triplex scanner a priority.

Okay.

HEre's my plan for the moment. I'm going to update my trade script to show cargo sizes, which is important, and average prices, which will keep people from being shafted on deals like I was, hopefully. I'll post a link to my DropBox and include some setup instructions.

These are just the first few scripts I plan to make.. I'd love some support from the developer if possible, but am willing to go at it on my own if I have to.

Hi.
Yeah well, that was the reason why i proposed that you should send the youtube link to the devs if they missed the stream, we have to see if they would be willing to support the project.
If not, we due still have backup from the reddit comunity, do we?

Greetings Moritz.

Hi All,

As promised, here's an initial version of my trade prices script and support files. This is definitely V0.1, but it does work, as I've managed to make almost 80K credits flying my Mercury around.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tax0symqle5xe … 1.zip?dl=1

DOwnload this .zip file, and put all the *.pck files in the Scripts folder, which is inside the main X3 TC folder.

Install the Plugin manager, and open the LIght version as an administrator. Go into Settings, and find the option for "modified mode." If you don't do this the scripts won't run, as they aren't signed by Egosoft. Alternatively, you can open the script editor in a game, but this is a bit more error-prone and isn't reallyuseful for us in any case, as the in-game script editor doesn't  work particularly well for us.

There is one known bug, the average price and volume  commands don't seem to work on stations that buy goods, so you'll have to remember how much you bought your ore for or whatever. THe log file for the script is in Documents\Egosoft\X3tC, Log0150.txt.

Enjoy, and good luck. I'll definitely keep everybody posted with updates.

zac how are you checking the distance to target?