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New to Disc., old hand with FL - Shargast - 04-11-2020

Hi ya,

Been a long time fan of FL and just happened to stumble onzto your website. Looks great! Born and raised in Canada and living at present in Switzerland (lots of mountains, north of Italy Smile and no ABBA comes from Sweden Smile

All the best
Shargast

RE: New to Disc., old hand with FL - Kokopelli - 04-11-2020

Hi there! Glad you found us!

FL may be old, but it certainly has its appeal. Disco has brought a lot of beauty and detail to the FL universe.

Just don't forget to roleplay your character in-game Smile Roleplay is one of the things that is still keeping this game afloat, not to mention it's a lot of fun.

RE: New to Disc., old hand with FL - jammi - 04-11-2020

Welcome to the server!

If you need any help, feel free to message a game master. There's also a community Discord link on the front page that can be helpful too.

Out of interest, how did you come across Disco?

RE: New to Disc., old hand with FL - Venkman - 04-11-2020

Welcome.

RE: New to Disc., old hand with FL - Shargast - 04-14-2020

HI Guys,

Thanks for the welcome. Still trying to remember all the quick keys (got'em printed out). Very stable, well put together server. Had my first deul (got wasted - was way outclassed), but the instigator did text me about the cold of space or something like that. And he was red so I guess you gotta roll with the punches.

A question: why does my ship powerdown to 75% engine capacity whe I launch? Message is "incompatible weapons - - or something like that?

Best
Shargast

RE: New to Disc., old hand with FL - MasterL410 - 04-14-2020

It's not the engine which is reduced, it's the recharge of your powercore. That means you are using a ship or weapon(s) which do not match your ID's techcell.
Tell us your ID, ship and weapons and we'll tell you what's wrong.

RE: New to Disc., old hand with FL - Reno - 04-14-2020

(04-11-2020, 05:05 PM)Shargast Wrote: Hi ya,

Been a long time fan of FL and just happened to stumble onzto your website. Looks great! Born and raised in Canada and living at present in Switzerland (lots of mountains, north of Italy Smile and no ABBA comes from Sweden Smile

All the best
Shargast

Welcome.

Since this is youre first time here you dont know yet how
Lucky you are, because you can find out everything for
yourself the hard way, which is fun because most of us
already now where everything is.

Reno

RE: New to Disc., old hand with FL - Shargast - 04-16-2020

(04-14-2020, 11:41 AM)MasterL410 Wrote: It's not the engine which is reduced, it's the recharge of your powercore. That means you are using a ship or weapon(s) which do not match your ID's techcell.
Tell us your ID, ship and weapons and we'll tell you what's wrong.

Hiya,

I found the Compatibility Calculator. It shows which ID's can fly which ships. Ok, so far. Now, where can I find "an equiptment compatiblity calculator", showing which ID's can equipt which items to gain a 100% powerplant efficiency?

Listing all the items my my ship, submitting and refitting is a bit of a slow process. There must be a table or something so that I can check it myself.

Thanks for your answer
Shargast

RE: New to Disc., old hand with FL - HoakinBlackforge - 04-16-2020

(04-16-2020, 11:03 AM)Shargast Wrote:
(04-14-2020, 11:41 AM)MasterL410 Wrote: It's not the engine which is reduced, it's the recharge of your powercore. That means you are using a ship or weapon(s) which do not match your ID's techcell.
Tell us your ID, ship and weapons and we'll tell you what's wrong.

Hiya,

I found the Compatibility Calculator. It shows which ID's can fly which ships. Ok, so far. Now, where can I find "an equiptment compatiblity calculator", showing which ID's can equipt which items to gain a 100% powerplant efficiency?

Listing all the items my my ship, submitting and refitting is a bit of a slow process. There must be a table or something so that I can check it myself.

Thanks for your answer
Shargast

On the upper part of the pages you got the server rules, House Laws, player utilities and the forum utilities.

I suggest you read most of the tutorials here https://discoverygc.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=178

RE: New to Disc., old hand with FL - darkwind - 04-16-2020

If you aren't afraid to read raw files
C:\Games\Discovery Freelancer 4.91.0_2\EXE\flhook_plugins\shipcompat.cfg
says which ship can use which stuff (including engines and e.t.c.)
[+]Example for Zoner Cruiser
Explanation which code name what means in the end of the file, for example
Code:
[tech]
; Civilian/Generic Weapons
name = gen_all_civ_guns
We can see that gen_all_civ_guns means Civilian/Generic weapons

C:\Games\Discovery Freelancer 4.91.0_2\EXE\flhook_plugins\techcompat.cfg
has explained which ships and guns can be used with which ID
[+]Example for BAF ID
what means what in the same way at the of the file
gen_all_civ_ships means Civilian/Generic ships as you can see by comment string after ;
Code:
[tech]
; Civilian/Generic ships
name = gen_all_civ_ships
item = dsy_kadesh_lf
item = dsy_kadesh_fr
item = dsy_bwtrain

In general though it's more simple to use compatibility calculator
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as it can show, which ID can choose which ships
and which ship can install which guns