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[Okim]

Hm.

I`ll look into it. I never used trading past mid game - just for initial fund raising. At first levels getting XP with trading required quite a bunch of trips, so that looked pretty much ok to me.

I see a couple of ways to adress this issue:

1. simply reducing the amount of XP generated per item sold
2. making a fixed max value of XP gained, so that large trade runs will not pump you up several levels
3. making XP degrade per player level, so that at higher levels you get less XP per trip
4. removing XP at some specific level or when you get high enough trading skills
5. removing XP for trade at all

[Dr.Noid]

Am I right in that XP for trading is based on the value of the sold items?
Instead of the pure value of the item, maybe basing it on the profit percentage would be better. That way, selling a full load of expensive items for 20% profit doesn't net you more XP than selling a full load of cheap items for 20% profit...

[Okim]

You need to store the prices at which you bought the specific items and this is not worth the coding effort and extra memory usage, trust me

[Dr.Noid]

But do buy prices actually fluctuate much? My impression is that besides the 10% discount on some stations, stuff costs the same where ever it is sold. (I could be mistaken of course) Prices change when you put points in Trade, but that change is small enough to just ignore. So when someone sells trade goods, you basically know what they bought it for.

[Okim]

Prices are unique per resource and per faction. One tonn of rare minerals has 8 prices - 4 for buy and 4 for sell. You can see these prices in journal on financial info page.

Through your journey you could buy the given resource at one station and then move to another and then visit the third one that grants you a 10% discount for being friendly and etc. Storing info on each transaction is not worth it.

Look, if it would be so easy to do - i would have already done it along with introducing the trading system itself. Those 5 options of solving this issue that i listed previously are the only ones possible.

[oranoron]

Is there some kind of bug where the factions will never go to war? I've been playing my current play through for around 40 in game days as UIN Military and there have been no inter-factional hostilities the entire time.

I would like to point out that I've built my fleet up to the point it is now unsustainable fighting only Pirates because its to large and slow to chase them down. I've had to reload to an earlier point twice now because the fleet has starved to death without bigger targets. 

[Okim]

There were never any wars in the mod except for RSF/ISA conflict. UIN/XLE are fighting only pirates, aliens, ai and rockflies.

If you wish to pick other factions as targets for your fleet - buy some Scramblers at pirate bases. These will allow you to kill any fleet without anyone becoming hostile to you.

[Lcu]

Hmm, i don't know if this is a bug or not, but when i started a game and joined ISA the background of the systems is white, pure white.

[Toxcity]

I think that means you need more memory. Did you change the vmparam numbers?

[Okim]

Try to search for white screen or white background bugs on the forum. I do remember seeing a thread with similar issues quite some time ago.

It surely has nothing to do with the mod, but might be caused by extreme mod`s memory requirements as Toxcity said.

[Lcu]

I changed it just like what Okim said in the OP, change the numbers into 1024.
My Pc's RAM is 3 GB, CPU is 1.7 GHz, running Windows Server 2008 (32 bit system)

[Okim]

And what GPU does your Windows Server PC has?

[Lcu]

It's..... a pretty bad one,
Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset Family is what it says in the Device Manager.

[Okim]

That`s probably the one to blamed for your graphical issues.

[Silver Silence]

It's..... a pretty bad one,
Mobile Intel 945 Express Chipset Family is what it says in the Device Manager.

Integrated GFX is no good for Ironclads, sadly. There are just too many assets involved. Even with the memory boost, virtually every game will start up without a background (though I find that the menu often has a background as it's the first part of the game to get one). If you save a game, the sheer size of the map and all the systems that Okim has laid out may end up causing hangs as the game runs out of memory while loading and crashes while still playing music. Comes with the territory, I'm afraid. No babby shop-bought PCs here. Need some good RAM and need an actual GFX card to run Ironclads.