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I can't send a distress call with some federation ships, and yet some newly-installed ships (like the Titan) have no problem sending one... how do I go about making it possible for any other particular ship to call for help?

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What is the problem with it?

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With certain ships (like my Stargazer-A modified Intrepid Class, for instance), when you click on "Send Distress Signal" it will make a sound but not darken or complete the command (Kiska says nothing).

How do I go about making it possible for the Stargazer-A, or any other ship, to send a distress signal? Is there code I have to add in the scripts\ships\hardpoints file for each or is it somewhere else...?

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Is there anything in the console?

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I'm handy at a lot of BC things, but I've actually never gotten into the "console" thing - does that come up when you press a button during gameplay? What should I look for? Thanks for looking into it personally, Defiant. =)

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ASDB_J wrote:

With certain ships (like my Stargazer-A modified Intrepid Class, for instance), when you click on "Send Distress Signal" it will make a sound but not darken or complete the command (Kiska says nothing).

actually, i have observed this as well... next time i encounter this, ill get a console report...

ASDB_J wrote:

I'm handy at a lot of BC things, but I've actually never gotten into the "console" thing - does that come up when you press a button during gameplay?

ya - MLeo made a thread in the Tech Support Forum about creating console reports... (the stickied one, called How To Beat The Black Screen of Death and Script Problems)

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Here's a console report (cropped screencap) with my Stargazer-A.

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If im not mistaken you need to modify the ships species to be federation:

Open the following file:

Scripts/Custom/Ships/"ShipName".py
Search for the following line of code:

Code:

Foundation.ShipDef."ShipName" = Foundation.ShipDef(abbrev, species, { 'name': longName, 'iconName': iconName, "SubMenu": SubMenu, 'shipFile': shipFile })

Change the code to make the ship Federation The code should now read like below:

Code:

Foundation.ShipDef."ShipName" = Foundation.FedShipDef(abbrev, species, { 'name': longName, 'iconName': iconName, 'shipFile': shipFile })

Where "ShipName" is the name of the ship giving you the issue (Without the quotation marks.)

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Thanks, that seems to have fixed the problem!

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that seems to have been my issue as well...

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Glad I could help

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Thats correct. That line tells Foudantion which Race this ship belongs to.

And distress call needs this information from Foundation.

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So does that cover federation ships only? What about non-federation ships, or ships that use the cloakfire def in the ship script?