HWE & Enhanced 2 Working + Documentation

[Bladez1992]

Hardwar Enhanced 4-10-05 + Enhanced 2 7-3-05 + Loader

This is a working version of HWE + Enhanced 2 that I figured out most of the stuff works with! I even wrote up a little bit of documentation on what works and what does not. Use HardwarEopt (included in file) to configure these options. Don't forget to check and uncheck all boxes within HardwareEopt once to actually create the corresponding registry keys.

HWE+HWE2+Loader+Eopt.zip (639.12 KB - Google Drive)

Enhanced 10 Apr 2005

Afterburner fuel mod - breaks afterburner permanently if you fire it with no fuel

Economy mod - breaks economy in weird ways (everything sells for $0 and some other weird stuff)

You do still need this file to get the HUD and so enhanced2 will load, even though both of these options need to be disabled for the game to work properly

Enhanced2 Options

Cabs & Thugs Respawn - works

AI moth randomization - works

AI equipment randomization - works

Police mod1 [police spawn in moths] - works

Police mod2 - couldn't test (online)

Blood Money fix - couldn't test (online)

Hangar name mod [disables renaming hangars to "xyz's hangar"] - works

Q buster [fixes moths stacking up outside hangars] - works

New TI commands - works

Increased demand tweak [higher economy demand for finished equipment] - doesn't work (breaks economy)

HANGAR TI command fix [fixes HANGAR TI command permissions issues] - works

Purchasing software mod [player hangars all come with purchasing software] - works

Cell rebalancing mod - works

Disables EXEC command - works

Estate Agent Mod [hangars get progressively more expensive] - works

Load cargo bug fix [fixes unlimited cargo bug from player hangar] - works

Narcotics recipe fix [less profitable narcotics manufacturing] - works

BLAG MOTH fix [fixes crash when blagging in limbo or full hangars] - works

[ouch]

Glad to see people are still hacking away at hardwar.

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Mar 16, 2021 23:58:53 GMT -5 Bladez1992 said:

1. HANGAR TI command fix [fixes HANGAR TI command permissions issues] - works

2. Purchasing software mod [player hangars all come with purchasing software] - works

3. Increased demand tweak [higher economy demand for finished equipment] - doesn't work (breaks economy)

4. Disables EXEC command - works

Bladez1992 The google link may not be set to public view permissions.

1. Hangar TI issues? What does it fix?
1b.

2. Purchasing software: As far as I know it only makes it possible for players to sell goods, to hangars.

3. If my guess/?memory? is not wrong this breaks the game because most of the moths (or is it only the pirates and scavengers?) start looking for finished goods sitting in hangars instead of working on supplying the chains?

3a. Would the problem be that there is no max wait for goods/equipmennt time? And|Or a clear order(s), not sure if there is a clear individual order, in this case the first order in the AI list, something like buy/fit sprats,psyco bobs 1 if(true) launch; else wait <?-- causing an infinite wait loop or something, plus the hangar queues are due to moths waiting inside to purchase goods that have been purchased before they arrived.

3b. Now for a great transition point to bullet 4: EXEC zerocool,clear,orders or EXEC zerocool,clear,order,0 (0 being the first command on list.)

3c. goto end.

4. "Disables EXEC command - 'works'" . . . most of the useful thug commands are only usable under the EXEC commands.


Does this version add trade software to the HUD? Though if it did targeting someone with certain(all?) cargo(s) always caused a crash. . .


3c. Hmm maybe MSGC could have an idle AI (flyer from now on) function added, but would the over head be too high? It would need to record the time a flyer las... well it wouldn't need every flyers' info only ones that land at certain hangars, pysb1, pysb2, trade central, etc. that are waiting for goods, then a command or function that boots (clears orders, launches) the longest idle flyer(s) that has the 'wait' queued.

Enter... 1701: taining? or rant you decide.
a. checks flyer in (name and time, if idler ex. [zerocool,wait])
b. location, a flyer landing at trade central should not force a flyer at pysb1 to launch.
c. freespace: the gre... parking war, should check that no more than 3 or 4 hangar bays are occupied by idlers
d. launch, clear order(s), whatever to force longest sitting, idler to do something else.
e. maybe force them to run a supply run?


Since I'm thinking about the economy atm, pirates generally just take their loot back to their base, does it turn into cash like they sold it to their hangar? Or sit there the rest of the game? Or get cleaned/deleted? Anyone know? Do pirates make money or do they become too broke to support the economy? (STE: By buying new and shiny missiles to spam at victims.) Or perhaps they abuse negative cash withdraws and the hangars end up paying for it...

Endless incoherent RANT Starting:
Ugh this game is sooooo broke when you think about some of these things, it's really amazing that this game is still one of my favorite games, and in my opinion one of the best games in it's genre. . . now that I think about it, is their really another game in it's genre?

Hardwar: The Future is Greedy vs
X series: No atmospheric flight.
Elite Series: The world scale is too huge to compare.
Star Citizen: ^ But has atmospheric flight.
Subnatica: You're underwater Hardwater? No, no economy.
Frontier Pilot Simulator: Okay... the controls, ugh fixed maybe? Limited world, is true, but no desperation for survival, no cut throat pirates, it does have an economy though.