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5 hours ago, Charon said:

Remember to check which mod may overwrite it.

I forgot that, editting Charons Changes solved it.

 

5 hours ago, Charon said:

AM_Terror.xml

Yeah that is the file I already changed, but they began showing up without escorts, so I thought that there had to be another file I dont know about overwriting it. Maybe I overlooked something then, wouldnt be the first time :D

 

5 hours ago, Charon said:

Ohohoho. Is this the retribution of all that shit getting thrown at me ? I appreciate it.

I am actually a little unsure how to interpret this. Can you elaborate please ?

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Just now, Svinedrengen said:

Yeah that is the file I already changed, but they began showing up without escorts, so I thought that there had to be another file I dont know about overwriting it. Maybe I overlooked something then, wouldnt be the first time :D

Well, if you lower the ATP at which Terror Carrier start to appear, you obviously also have to lower the ATP at which the escorts can appear.

e:airplane.alien.fighter 100 100

 

2 minutes ago, Svinedrengen said:

I am actually a little unsure how to interpret this. Can you elaborate please ?

Being extra nice since i offer my help for free and dont own anybody anything, as you stated ? :D Dont worry the Endreport is coming in.

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15 hours ago, Borak said:

Hi guys, looks like a massive mod, looking forward to playing.

Just a question on the rookie soldier stats in X-Division.

One of the only things that annoys me about Xenonauts is a) How crap your 'special forces' rookies are combined with b) How superhumanly good veterans can become. To me this effectively punishes not grinding every single ground mission, which can get tedious, and late-game makes any mission where you lose several veterans catastrophic. I think losses of experienced soldiers should hurt, but not to the point where losing an elite team cripples your game.

You're playing wrong if that happens. Currently I'm on mid of phase 2 and I already could have almost full team of "elite" stat soldiers. Part of difficulty is to rotate big soldier pool (as rookies do suck). That also means losing several veterans is not catastrophe as with better equipment not so good soldiers can handle job. With some rookies with cannon fodder if necessary (I have not used that tactic).

Currently I have:

BRG G: 3, COL: 5, MAJ: 2, CAP: 6, LT: 11, SGT: 9, CPL: 11

So losing "few veterans" is very far from crippling the game even on phase 2.

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1 hour ago, Charon said:

Well, if you lower the ATP at which Terror Carrier start to appear, you obviously also have to lower the ATP at which the escorts can appear.

e:airplane.alien.fighter 100 100

No no no I absolutly 100 % did do that, yep no doubt about it.... buuut just to be sure, I checked it again and totally without changing the value to 50 so it matches, and what do you know, now it works all of a sudden, so weird ;)

1 hour ago, Charon said:

Being extra nice since i offer my help for free and dont own anybody anything, as you stated ? :D Dont worry the Endreport is coming in.

Well, when I said that, I actually meant anybody else but me, I deserve answers to my questions because I am who I am, and because I like it that way. I only said "us" to sound more in solidarity with the plebs, I do try not to look down on you peasants more than neccesary, since I believe it is the honorable thing to do :cool:

 No in all seriousness though, I wasnt sure if you were being sarcastic.

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Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuughpffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ... that was a rough time. I decided to say nothing on this matter to not put oil into the fire, which really didnt need it.

However, now that the investigation is over i can finally present the ...

 

 

 

Endreport on the Dr Ethan affair

Lets start off with the offenses.

  • Dr Ethan has uploaded another modders assets against the wishes of the mod author and without any and all permission to do so. He has been warned once, and then a second time by me, @Charon, and then warned once and a second time by @Chris. Yet the files continued to stay online for a rough period of 14 days which caused reasonable amount of damage.
  • Following this matter Dr Ethan has continuesly harrassed another user on this forum. This includes 7 dedicated posts against the other user as well as including derogatory tags in the download section for other people to see.

 

The result of this is a borderline ban, which is one step away from getting permanently banned.

 

 

Now usually this would be the end of the report but there seem to be some questions which are still lingering around, so lets answer them.

 

Why cant you work together with Dr Ethan ?

  • Dr Ethan doesnt respect the direct wishes of another person. It is just coincidence that these wishes happen to allign with an actual ruleset on this and any other modding forum. But putting the boot into another persons face and then expecting help from them doesnt work as a universal rule in most cultures. Be nice and get a nice reply.
  • Dr Ethan does ignore the general modding rules which are more or less the same on the internet, a minicopyright. An example of them can be found here: https://help.nexusmods.com/article/28-file-submission-guidelines
  • Dr Ethan doesnt accept the highest authority on this forum. Be nice to Chris. If Chris says X its X and not Y.
  • Now this is kinda a big point, but it is objectively subjective. When people read A, Dr Ethan reads B. Ill give a few examples
       1. Chris says linking to another peoples assets is against the rules, which is meat with the reply of "But i just wanna link to it", for which Chris has to reply with that it doesnt matter what he wants, which gets the reply of "But he did bad stuff too". I think you can see where this is going. An argumentation on, objectively, a childrens level.
       2. When i say datacores are missing, i mean that datacores are missing. Not "Im pretty sure they are there".
    The rest of examples is simply a "misreading" of things. If i communicate with somebody i want to get the message across.
  • People who work with me need the right kind of attitude. "Ill do the rest when i feel like it" is not the right kind of attitude.

Now each and everyone of the above is a dealbreaker, but together they form quite a clear picture.

 

Why did you ignore Dr Ethan ?

To de-escalate the situation. It didnt need more fire than it already had.

 

What about his work epic ?

I said i will only let pass work on an X-Division quality standard through but ... its honestly a joke.

  • The mod assets dont have a single working code line. The only things in there are either X-Division layouts with no holes, or XNT layouts, with no datacores. Im not even sure if a single line of code has seen work beyond a copy and paste.
  • Okay, this is a big. Im not joking. ( Clears throat ). Dr Ethan has made holes into the wrong art assets. The mod doesnt have any original X-Division art. I assume it was unintentional. Or maybe it was another copy and paste.
    I think this ties together with the hard to communicate part above, but Dr Ethan needs the competence to find the right art assets. I literally cant do that for him. The point is that he needs to see for himself that the UFOs in X-Division actually look different, and then he needs to connect the dots.

So we have not a single working code line, and we dont have any art. Now i sweeped the rest of the assets and there seems to be other files which may or may not work, but for the heart of the matter there has been zero work done. Zero.

Apart from that

  • Datacores are missing which means blocked research paths and no new aircraft ( try building aircraft without datacores ).
  • Research incompability breaks save games.

The mod is more than just a blank file, it actually blocks people from progressing through the game. Guess who has to give support for that.

 

Anything else to add ?

There was this thing on another page about using X-Division assets. Im not blocking anybody from making their own mod ontop of X-Division, even if it contains X-Division assets, unless i expressly forbid it. The general rules for using X-Division assets are layed out here under "Permissions and credits":
https://www.nexusmods.com/xenonauts/mods/34

 

 

 

 

At this point i would have said that Dr Ethan has wasted my time, wasted Max´s time to investigate, and wasted Chris´s time to intervene,  but i think all of this has a silver lining. Through this incident there have been a number of weakpoints in the administrative routine exposed, which may lead to an improved terms of service and code of conduct as well as improved protection of modding assets and harassed users on this forum, without installing mind control machines in everybodys brain ;)

 

I will briefly speak about uploading assets on steam.

Its a bad idea. Not only does Steam have a lot of problems with deep directories, it also has problems with images, especially with aircraft images. Fruthermore "updating" new versions is what Steam isnt great at either. You will get lucky if the "update" button even works. New versions can take up to 2 hours to actually get taken by steam, and then redirected to the user. And this is just scratching the surface.
So if @Dr. Ethanactually wants to get people to get their hands on his latest version i suggest uploading it to reliable sites. Like MEGA, but any other site that can share files is an option too, maybe google drive or whatever. Just constructive criticism though.

 

What does the future hold ?

For security reasons i will not answer anything provided by Dr Ethan for the next month. Today is the 14.3.2019. Just for de-escalation reasons.

 

With this i consider the whole matter closed.
Charon

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I get that he did harassment and was a bit overboard in his replies, but how does:

 

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Yet the files continued to stay online for a rough period of 14 days which caused reasonable amount of damage.

work at all? No one gets paid for this. It's a mod. How does a modification of a mod being online damage anything?

 

I get 'it breaks the rules', but damages implies...well, monetary value lost, no? No one was forced to use the submod. No one was forced to install it.

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 Dr Ethan has made holes into the wrong art assets. The mod doesnt have any original X-Division art. I assume it was unintentional. Or maybe it was another copy and paste.

Isn't that why he kept asking people on here to test and asking for help?

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The mod is more than just a blank file, it actually blocks people from progressing through the game.

If people installed a submod without starting a new game, that's kinda their own fault, isn't it? Unsure why they'd come to you for it, you didn't make the submod.

 

 

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I wasn't planning on answering because I would probably not talk about this anymore but there are some egregious errors in what Charon has said.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

Yet the files continued to stay online for a rough period of 14 days which caused reasonable amount of damage.

Users cannot delete their own mod content (at least i couldn't figure out how to do it) so that is why it stayed up, if you saw in the last post i tried to take it down but i decided to just wait for Chris to do it.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

Following this matter Dr Ethan has continuesly harrassed another user on this forum. This includes 7 dedicated posts against the other user as well as including derogatory tags in the download section for other people to see.

What, where? The tags were a joke and got taken down the second they were found XD.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

The result of this is a borderline ban, which is one step away from getting permanently banned.

Apparently not, only an official warning for the tags and uploading the content which i tried to take down when the administration asked for, by my count that makes me about midway to a ban.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

Dr Ethan doesnt respect the direct wishes of another person. It is just coincidence that these wishes happen to allign with an actual ruleset on this and any other modding forum. But putting the boot into another persons face and then expecting help from them doesnt work as a universal rule in most cultures. Be nice and get a nice reply.

Just look at my previous post on the rudeness on Charon and i dont listen to wishes if they make no sense (like saying everyone can use 10.0.10 but getting mad at me for showing people where it is).

3 hours ago, Charon said:

Dr Ethan does ignore the general modding rules which are more or less the same on the internet, a minicopyright. An example of them can be found here: https://help.nexusmods.com/article/28-file-submission-guidelines

That isnt this forum, so idk why you keep pointing to that, i could make my own mod hosting a website with its own rulesets but they wouldn't apply here no matter how popular it could become.

3 hours ago, Charon said:
  • Dr Ethan doesnt accept the highest authority on this forum. Be nice to Chris. If Chris says X its X and not Y.
  • Now this is kinda a big point, but it is objectively subjective. When people read A, Dr Ethan reads B. Ill give a few examples
       1. Chris says linking to another peoples assets is against the rules, which is meat with the reply of "But i just wanna link to it", for which Chris has to reply with that it doesnt matter what he wants, which gets the reply of "But he did bad stuff too". I think you can see where this is going. An argumentation on, objectively, a childrens level.
       2. When i say datacores are missing, i mean that datacores are missing. Not "Im pretty sure they are there".
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As i said before i tried to remove it but i couldn't figure it out so i just waited for him to do it. Secondly he asked for what you did and i told him, and lastly, i don't know what the last point means because you were wrong and i figured that out by actually working with the submaps.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

People who work with me need the right kind of attitude. "Ill do the rest when i feel like it" is not the right kind of attitude.

yeah as i have seen this means bowing to your every whim and assuming you know everything about anything so when you say something i have to write it down and study it.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

To de-escalate the situation. It didnt need more fire than it already had.

And because he didnt care enough about what i was doing so even after i said i would stop like half a month ago he still ignored me.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

I said i will only let pass work on an X-Division quality standard through but ... its honestly a joke.

Oh yes he is never rude or mean to anyone, he wouldn't hurt a fly. (this is honestly giving me tons of rudeness material to work with XD)

3 hours ago, Charon said:

The mod assets dont have a single working code line. The only things in there are either X-Division layouts with no holes, or XNT layouts, with no datacores. Im not even sure if a single line of code has seen work beyond a copy and paste.

You don't need lines of code to make a mod for xenonauts (even though arguably xml formats is a program formatting language and i did edit the base build file, i don't know why he said this), like i said half of the layouts aren't finished yet so the ones that are there are straight from x division waiting to be made into the fire in the hole versions.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

Okay, this is a big. Im not joking. ( Clears throat ). Dr Ethan has made holes into the wrong art assets. The mod doesnt have any original X-Division art. I assume it was unintentional. Or maybe it was another copy and paste.

First of i have no idea what you are talking about, i used all of the art from x-division as a starting point, secondly, technically your assets are copy-pastes of the original xenonauts ones recolored and a hex grid on it sometimes.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

I think this ties together with the hard to communicate part above, but Dr Ethan needs the competence to find the right art assets. I literally cant do that for him. The point is that he needs to see for himself that the UFOs in X-Division actually look different, and then he needs to connect the dots.

Another instance of him being rude XD, once again i still just use the assets from X-Division.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

So we have not a single working code line, and we dont have any art. Now i sweeped the rest of the assets and there seems to be other files which may or may not work, but for the heart of the matter there has been zero work done. Zero.

Yup zero definitely. which is why i posted those invisible art samples a while ago.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

Apart from that

  • Datacores are missing which means blocked research paths and no new aircraft ( try building aircraft without datacores ).
  • Research incompability breaks save games.

The mod is more than just a blank file, it actually blocks people from progressing through the game. Guess who has to give support for that.

actually, most of the later game layouts either have the straight up X-Division layouts which means they won't have holes but they will have datacores or they have mine, and almost all of the first half has the correct datacore.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

here was this thing on another page about using X-Division assets. Im not blocking anybody from making their own mod ontop of X-Division, even if it contains X-Division assets, unless i expressly forbid it. The general rules for using X-Division assets are layed out here under "Permissions and credits":
https://www.nexusmods.com/xenonauts/mods/34

STOP LINKING TO NEXUS IT IS NOT THIS WEBSITE!!!

3 hours ago, Charon said:

At this point i would have said that Dr Ethan has wasted my time, wasted Max´s time to investigate, and wasted Chris´s time to intervene,  but i think all of this has a silver lining. Through this incident there have been a number of weakpoints in the administrative routine exposed, which may lead to an improved terms of service and code of conduct as well as improved protection of modding assets and harassed users on this forum, without installing mind control machines in everybodys brain ;)

First rude, second you got Max and Chris to intervene even though if you had just asked nicely and had not flipped out and insulted me i would have taken them down, third i don't see any weak points, lastly, i haven't harassed anyone but you and i had my reasons as seen above.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

I will briefly speak about uploading assets on steam.

Its a bad idea. Not only does Steam have a lot of problems with deep directories, it also has problems with images, especially with aircraft images. Fruthermore "updating" new versions is what Steam isnt great at either. You will get lucky if the "update" button even works. New versions can take up to 2 hours to actually get taken by steam, and then redirected to the user. And this is just scratching the surface.
So if @Dr. Ethanactually wants to get people to get their hands on his latest version i suggest uploading it to reliable sites. Like MEGA, but any other site that can share files is an option too, maybe google drive or whatever. Just constructive criticism though

Ok, not doing steam is just a personal preference, Secondly MEGA has had a few large security leaks and i don't find it very reliable, thirdly updating a steam mod with xenonauts isnt that hard, however because of how X-Division works to install you have to push update close the launcher and then open it again. This is a way easier stream of instructions to follow than copy and pasting yourself for most users.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

For security reasons i will not answer anything provided by Dr Ethan for the next month. Today is the 14.3.2019. Just for de-escalation reasons.

Security reasons? What XD. plus you have already not been answering me for the last 2.5 weeks.

3 hours ago, Charon said:

With this i consider the whole matter closed.
Charon

First off i said that first XD, secondly you dont have to sign your name it is put at the bottom when you submit a comment.

Well in conclusion i was sorry because i thought maybe i made a mountain out of a molehill out of Charon's comments and he really was trying to be nice (and failing at it in my opinion), but now i see he really is that jerk who just tries to spread falsehoods about me and misattribute things as well. So I am no longer sorry XD, I won't edit my previous comments like a scrub *cough editing the comment after I linked to the 1.0.10 version cough* and i am open to any comments on my port. I still haven't gotten any specific evidence of what is wrong just Charon saying "He is bad and he should feel bad because he used the wrong assets" that doesn't tell me anything.

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3 hours ago, Charon said:

now that the investigation is over i can finally present the

Oh and also the 'investigation' ended like 2 weeks ago (btw it wasn't really an investigation more of chris coming in and removing the assets, it wasn't a crime scene there was no homicide,he deleted the assets and left)

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While I can agree that your points here are correct, Ethan (calling it a investigation reeks of Snobbery on Charon's part), I don't think that correcting his poor English skills is going to do anything, bar further poison the well here.

 

Still, it's a shame things headed in this direction. It would have been nice to see fire in the hole be adapted for X-Division. Regardless, hopefully the mod can continue onward.

 

While I can understand being annoyed at how Charon has replied and treated you, being repeatedly snarky, rude and nippy in return hasn't done you any favors, alas.

 

Unrelated but: As someone who never really noticed the 'phases' before (since ...well, they weren't as important. Yes aliens got tougher, but it wasn't as in your face as it is here), how many phases of alien assault is there?

 

Also: Does the 'resistance to weapons' continue into the later stages? For example, I have my elite squad using X-Division ballistics and lasers, due to enemies that are resistant to both. Once I move onto the next level of weapons development, would they replace lasers, or also need to be included in the group armament? 

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57 minutes ago, Changeling_wil said:

While I can agree that your points here are correct, Ethan (calling it a investigation reeks of Snobbery on Charon's part), I don't think that correcting his poor English skills is going to do anything, bar further poison the well here.

 

Still, it's a shame things headed in this direction. It would have been nice to see fire in the hole be adapted for X-Division. Regardless, hopefully the mod can continue onward.

 

While I can understand being annoyed at how Charon has replied and treated you, being repeatedly snarky, rude and nippy in return hasn't done you any favors, alas.

 

Unrelated but: As someone who never really noticed the 'phases' before (since ...well, they weren't as important. Yes aliens got tougher, but it wasn't as in your face as it is here), how many phases of alien assault is there?

 

Also: Does the 'resistance to weapons' continue into the later stages? For example, I have my elite squad using X-Division ballistics and lasers, due to enemies that are resistant to both. Once I move onto the next level of weapons development, would they replace lasers, or also need to be included in the group armament? 

@Changeling_wil I mostly do that English stuff to blow off steam, secondly there are 4, lastly I am pretty sure it replaces the lasers.

 

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1 hour ago, Dr. Ethan said:

@Changeling_wil I mostly do that English stuff to blow off steam, secondly there are 4, lastly I am pretty sure it replaces the lasers.

 

I'd suggest not 'blowing off steam' in public. It makes you look like an ass. Don't get me wrong, the other guy comes off as an ass too. But the nitpicking and 'see see see he's insulting me!!!' really underminds your efforts.

There are advantages to being the bigger man and all that. :3

And thank you for the information! It'll be useful to not have to lug one of everything around.

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@Changeling_wil Each phase provides tougher aliens as well as better equipment. The thing called "mitigation" is armor penetration and counters armor (=resistance). In addition, kinetic and energy armor is ablated/worn away by taking damage (armor penetration does not wear away armor, it just ignores up to that amount of armor, but "regular" damage that has to push through armor does wear it away slowly [by 15% of the damage stopped]. It's possible to destroy an Andron with Division rifles alone, but it took about 30 hits when I tried it out, and the first damage happened on hit 22 or so, which means even with save scumming to ensure a 100% hit rate, you can't carry enough ammo to use that tech exclusively against Androns, unless using an exploit).

Something that's useful to know is that the kinetic/energy weapons of each phase aren't straight better replacement for the corresponding weapons of the previous phase technology (the Mk-1, Mk-2, Mk-3 versions within a technology are essentially better replacements within a technology, though). Each phase's weapon technology has its own profile (typically a theme applied to all weapon types using that technology), which forces you to adapt to how the new weapons behave.

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I am at work right now, so I cannot currently give this thread the attention it deserves. However, I can see that people are still fighting. I'm not having this any more. Dr Ethan. Please can you open a thread for your Fire in The Hole port on the modding discussion subforum and continue your port and all discussion on that port on that thread. Can everyone who is interested in Dr., Ethan's port please continue discussion on that thread. I also require everyone to immediately cease this disruptive argument between Dr. Ethan and Charon as of this post. Further sanctions WILL be implemented if anyone disobeys this post. 

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4 hours ago, Max_Caine said:

I am at work right now, so I cannot currently give this thread the attention it deserves. However, I can see that people are still fighting. I'm not having this any more. Dr Ethan. Please can you open a thread for your Fire in The Hole port on the modding discussion subforum and continue your port and all discussion on that port on that thread. Can everyone who is interested in Dr., Ethan's port please continue discussion on that thread. I also require everyone to immediately cease this disruptive argument between Dr. Ethan and Charon as of this post. Further sanctions WILL be implemented if anyone disobeys this post. 

@Max_Caine sounds A ok to me

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Has the difficulty been increased in recent versions of this mod? Reason I'm asking is I had a terror mission at the start of month 2 and it's basically impossible. I have watched youtube vids of players experienced with the mod and they are not using any tactics I don't. I don't see any way I could 'improve' to have a chance at a terror mission at this stage. Massive escorted ufo that can't be shot down with starting tech, hordes of ballistic resistant regenerating sebillians and reapers with fat hp. I took out a few with mass grenades and flamers before one of my guys went down and the entire remainder of the team panicked. Not that it would have made a difference, but it was pretty funny.

I don't save scum but I doubt this mission would be doable even if I did. So am I supposed to ignore these missions and just lose the continent?

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9 hours ago, Borak said:

Has the difficulty been increased in recent versions of this mod? Reason I'm asking is I had a terror mission at the start of month 2 and it's basically impossible. I have watched youtube vids of players experienced with the mod and they are not using any tactics I don't. I don't see any way I could 'improve' to have a chance at a terror mission at this stage. Massive escorted ufo that can't be shot down with starting tech, hordes of ballistic resistant regenerating sebillians and reapers with fat hp. I took out a few with mass grenades and flamers before one of my guys went down and the entire remainder of the team panicked. Not that it would have made a difference, but it was pretty funny.

I don't save scum but I doubt this mission would be doable even if I did. So am I supposed to ignore these missions and just lose the continent?

I think difficulty is not dramatically increased. Ground combat is basically combination of two things: tactic and equipment. If you cannot improve tactic, then improve equipment. For first terror mission player should have following non-starting equipment available, as opponents may be Androns:

- Hunter/defender with at least Division machinegun

- Chemical, Incendiary and Alenium grenades

- Laser pistol, perhaps carbine/rifle, minigun and precision

- Alenium rocket

- Jackal/Fox armour

Missing one of those will make mission more difficult. And with those available, it should be doable with good enough tactics. Sebillians have good ballistic resistance so use lasers...

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