Goner Gatherer Mod
by Apricotslice
This mod is for those who dislike
combat or have a pacifist outlook,
and prefer to play the game for the trading and other aspects it offers.
This mod deliberately restricts you to unarmed ships.
While very well shielded, you must be very careful where you go and
what you do !
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Location
: Goner Temple, Cloudbase Southwest.
Ah. Brother
Kalvin, come in, have a seat.
We have been discussing you of late, and until this morning we had no
idea what to do with you.
As a Goner, you are quite hopeless ! While there is no doubt at all
that you have complete faith, your ability to convert anyone to our
faith is completely lacking. I'm not sure you even try hard. You seem
to spend most of your time tinkering with our ships, and while crossing
a
Xenon sector successfully is no mean feat, its not exactly what we do
here.
Most of us have given up on ever getting you to be a useful Goner.
However, this morning as we said, that changed. We know what use you
are now, and we have a task for you brother.
As you know, the Apricot Mapping Service lent us the blueprints of some
of their ships and you have sucessfully modified these to our
requirements. Good work that by the way.
We have commissioned the building of 3 of these ships. Two of them are
the new Gatherer class of M6, and the 3rd is a TL.
These ships are now yours. They are now waiting for you near the Temple.
Sakurato, we are entrusting you with a sacred duty. You will do what no
Goner has done before.
In these days of increased pirate attacks, in the wake of the Khaak
attacks that weakened the hold of the races have over their territory,
our ships have become more vulnerable, our people dying more often in
their attempts to spread our message.
Its becoming more and more difficult to replace these ships because
donations to our cause have gone down as the costs of sector defense
have dramatically risen.
We must now look to our own credit making endevours. And this is where
you come in brother.
We want you to become our gatherer. Go forth and find ways of making
money that do not involve violence. We know you have been talking about
such schemes for years now, so the time for action is now.
Go forth and make the credits the Gonor cause now needs. You will pave
the way for the Goner future.
Good luck brother !
Download Mod : http://circleofatlantis.com/games/X3/Goner_Gatherer_Mod_V1.zip
Instructions :
Unzip into your X3 directory. The mod
will appear in the mods directory. Extra scripts will appear in the
scripts directory.
X00.sav will appear in the X3 directory.
Please manually copy it to your My Documents, Egosoft, X3, saves
directory (or to wherever your save games are being kept if different).
10.cat and 10.dat will appear in the X3
mods directory. This contains an amended PHQ definition only. These
need to be moved into the X3 directory. If you already
have a set of '10' files (for example for EMP), then rename the 10.cat
and 10.dat in mods to the next available number, and
then manually update X3.
Start the X3 loader. Select the mod
called Goner_Gatherer_v1. Start the game. Select Continue, and then
the save game in position Zero.
The game will then begin in
Cloudbase Southwest near the Goner Temple.
WARNING :
This mod is NOT compatible with any other
mod. Extensive changes are made to many 'types' directory files. As
such, any mods such as emp, will be overwritten by this mod.
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The save game bypases the Goner Witness
alternate start, and places you in a TL ship in Cloudbase Southwest. In
the docking bays, you will find 2 Gatherer ships and a Goner Ranger.
You are unable to buy any ships in this game. You are also unable to
buy any guns.
You are a pacifist, and prohibited from using weapons.
All other features of the game are intact.
Suggested tactics :
Mk3 Traders.
Collect dropped wares and sell them. The bolder you are, the more you
can collect !
Find abandonned ships and sell them.
Find abandonned ships and scrap them to build your own ships once you
have a PHQ.
Build a trading empire and supply the universe all the non-violent
products.
Finance your own custom built fleet.
This game is going to be a challenge. You are going to be a target, and
you cant fight back. If you build stations, they also may be a target
and you cant fight back. You can only repair your stations and ships,
or rebuild them if destroyed.
To add more abandoned ships to the game, each time the game is started,
12 random ships will be created in random locations in the universe.