x4mods

Crew with Character mod

Status - incomplete

Overview

This mod is an attempt to make the crew element of X4 more interactive with some fun and potential rewards along the way.

Attempt 1:

Proposed Dev Stages

In progress

  1. Can we get debug output listing available crew on a docked ship?
    • Debug output so far includes actors, see note 2. for next steps below.

Todo

  1. Can we then randomly assign an interactive mission requring a trip to the local Brig for release of this crew?
    • Randomize cost
    • Minor reward of +1 morale to ship.
    • If ignored, zero effect for now apart from a loss of said crew member.

Notes

  1. Struggling with which area crew is stored. So far it appears this may be stored as a ware based on the information held in menu_playerinfo.lua which seems to iterate over ship wares to identify crew.
  2. Crew can be actors, but only crew within the player’s active room appear to be active - which makes sense from an efficiency standpoint.