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hort_wort
02-25-2011, 11:00 AM
Well, it turns out that the last two parts for the Cloaking and Time devices in the game are unfindable because they don't show up on the radar by default. :mad: Also, after actually getting the time device, it wasn't mapped to the right key! The game has my minus and slash keys mixed up.

There is a support topic that fixes this on the game's site:
http://www.spaceforce2.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1103&PN=2
They said they'd fix it in the next patch, but apparently they forgot. You just have to edit the files in the game directory yourself.

So this adds to my list of major complaints about this game. I signed up for this forum just for this, so I'm gonna whine and list them! :p


Terrible documentation. I forgave this initially, thinking that the devs wanted us to learn as we went.
No apparent benefit to leveling up. In fact, prices of certain items seems to go up with level without increasing in effectiveness. :confused:
Player leveling seems very slow. At 25 hours in, I'm still at level 6, but enemy ships in the random quests I'm doing are level 30. With enemy ships, the level goes pretty well with how many upgrades they have on their ship. This is probably good, though, since I probably wouldn't be able to afford anything if I was level 30. :rolleyes:
Difficulty of the main quest stays pretty even for the whole game. The first few missions are amazingly difficult with the weak ship you start with, but are too easy once upgraded. This forced me to roam around doing random side quests for a dozen hours to get tough enough to breeze through the main quest all at once. I had forgotten what was going on by the time I got back to it.
Main side quest doesn't work without editing a couple files, as mentioned above. Of all the quests, this is the one that *should* work!

graspee
01-17-2012, 10:36 AM
Was this ever fixed?

hexaae
01-23-2013, 01:51 AM
It's fine when users find a solution for something, post here a link (that inevitably expires after some time) and then disappear.... :(

Please, next time post the solution directly here if you can.

hexaae
01-23-2013, 02:02 AM
FOUND IT & FINALLY FIXED!
You have to edit just a pair of files in "SpaceForce Rogue Universe\Maps\" with WordPad (don't use NotePad).

This is how to fix the bug (link: http://www.spaceforce-game.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1103&PID=18273#18273 )

Everything is explained now.
First, BACK UP ANY FILES YOU EDIT.
in the map file PyxisA.sfm
down at the bottom, as veki said, class 22
there is a line, attack ID, this corresponds to the part number.
the line says attackID 2, but we already have part 2
so it isn't showing up.
the part we're missing is part 6
so change 2 to 6
so now you have

AddEntity
{
Pos: 48319.703125 1010.443604 -58656.851563
Rot: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
Vel: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
Scale: 10.000000 10.000000 10.000000
Class: 22
Type: 0
UniqueID: -1
QuestID: -1
ChaseID: 1
AttackID: 6
ImportantForQuest: 0
AliveForQuest: 0
Tag: 6
String:
ModelFile: Empty
PhysicsSphereRadius: 0.000000
ChanceToAppear: 100
}

I did this, went in game, and went to the system.
I was very happy to see the little blip.

Now for the missing Cloaking piece:
It is in Andromeda
But you have to edit the Andromeda map file.
This system also has a duplicate part 5 of the time device, which explains why someone could not find it in SolarA, they already found it in Andromeda, so SolarA didn't have it active.
so open Andromeda.sfm:
Since there are two pieces in this system, there will be two entities with class 22.
Look for the one that has a chaseID of -1, and change it to 0, so it looks like this:

AddEntity
{
Pos: 519.946655 0.000000 9849.278320
Rot: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
Vel: 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
Scale: 10.000000 10.000000 10.000000
Class: 22
Type: 0
UniqueID: -1
QuestID: -1
ChaseID: 0
AttackID: 1
ImportantForQuest: 0
AliveForQuest: 0
Tag: 6
String:
ModelFile: Empty
PhysicsSphereRadius: 0.000000
ChanceToAppear: 100
}

And that's that. Mystery solved, end of story.
These fixes should be added to the upcoming patch if they aren't already.