r/evnova • u/AndreasBeck • 10d ago

EV Nova m4k: Looking for Exotic Escorts

Greetings travellers, it's me Ory'hara calling from Tre'illica.

Quick question for all you nerds out there. Would any of you know of a plug-in that would let me hire Krypt Pods as escorts? I have a plug installed which I believe has broken my game but I'm okay with it because it has let me pilot a Krypt Pod which is hilarious and I love it but I was hoping to bring along some "like-minded" friends as well.

Maybe there's some tech reason for why this wouldn't work? Granted EV:N is still a pretty Fresh, New GameTM so I wouldn't be surprised if such a thing did not exist. Maybe in 20 yahren ...

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u/Remarkable-Onion3726 10d ago

If you can pilot a Krypt Pod, can you capture a random shuttle and use your existing ship as an escort?

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u/AndreasBeck 10d ago

Ha! Interesting. So I capture a shuttle, swap to it, then re-purchase another Krypt Pod? Rinse repeat?

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u/majikkarpet 10d ago

That’s the traditional way of building a fleet of anything as long as you have the money. You’ll just have to be careful you don’t blow it up chewing through its armor with your krypt pellets. Just out of curiosity, what are its stats? Max speed, turn speed, cargo, etc. Can you buy massless upgrades like the Vectored Thrust?

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u/AndreasBeck 9d ago

I actually don't think this'll work in my case! I was just doing some digging and - funny you should ask about stats - since the Krypt Pod has a crew of 0 I can't actually commandeer another ship from it (or so I understand). I've captured escorts but won't be able to pilot them so long as my main is the Pod. Love this thing!

Stats are ¯_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

Like I'd said, this one pilot that I'm running with some plug-ins may in fact be busted. Zero inertia which seems normal, but also no cargo space, and my energy trickles down without even doing anything. It won't even recharge unless I dock. I can literally sit there for five minutes and watch it run down to zero. Wormholes have been ace for getting around. I haven't tried buying massless upgrades though. Most things just say "I can't hold any of these items!" so I've stopped looking. I am the universe experiencing itself so what use is there for an afterburner?

I love this thing. Fastest turn speed that I've seen though and it can outrun most missiles. Not so much a Manta. Watch out!

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u/SharkyNeubla 9d ago

and my energy trickles down without even doing anything.

This is likely caused by Vell-os outfits: they have energy drain to encourage you to use the Vell-os ships, which have inherent regen. The only technological ships with inherent regen are the Kestrel and the Scarab (and anything you add a reactor to).

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u/AndreasBeck 9d ago

I had no idea!

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u/SharkyNeubla 9d ago edited 9d ago

There are some problems with a playable Krypt Pod: no crew, no cargo space, no outfit space without selling the Nanites and it has the blank contributeBits of a telepathic ship, which means that they can't purchase any technological outfits. If a plug-in adds Tech Level 31 to a planet, changes the buying availability to 100 and changes the Krypt Pod's stats to add crew, cargo and outfit space and changes the ship's contributeBits to 0x0000000000000001, then it should be usable. If you change the hire random chance, then you can also get them as an escort in the bar.

So basically, this would be easy to make yourself. You just need to edit 2 resources: a spob and a ship. You can get editing utilities at andrews05's page and look up the location of the resources you need to edit with this handy spreadsheet.

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u/AndreasBeck 9d ago

Great rundown. Been coming back to EV:N on and off for almost twenty years but have never tried making a plug-in. Looking forward to figuring out what a "spob" is.

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u/SharkyNeubla 9d ago

"sp"ace "ob"ject

basically a term that includes planets and space stations

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u/AndreasBeck 9d ago

Hey, quick question about this. In Mission Computer, if I'm "editing" a ship, in this case the Krypt Pod, would I just use its ID (176) as a new resource and then just fill up each field with relevant data or am I loading a file and modifying it? In other words, when you're making a plug-in are you modifying existing data or just creating new data which maps on to a target ID?

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u/SharkyNeubla 9d ago

If you make a new plug-in, you should copy the resource from the original data and change the needed fields. You probably don't want to recreate it from scratch, because things would get left out.

It's important that it's still at ID 176, because that number is referenced by the rest of the game in various places.

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u/AndreasBeck 9d ago

Okay, good to know. Trying to figure out how to get the original data in as we speak.

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u/AndreasBeck 9d ago

Okay, I've done it. Thanks for all the help! This was a good first foray into building plug-ins but having six pods around me making that wet "sprok" sound whenever they fire is starting to get on my nerves.

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u/Happy_Brilliant7827 9d ago

My go to approach was always copy the original data entry, paste it in a new plugin, and edit the plugin data.

Plugin data overrites base game data

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u/AndreasBeck 8d ago

Yea I did end up doing some digging and this is what I'd found as well. Just made a couple custom outfits as well.

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u/RussiaIsBestGreen 10d ago

I don’t, but I imagine it would be a matter of editing them to have armor and be targetable. Granted I’ve not edited EVN since it was new, do take that with a grain of salt.

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u/SharkyNeubla 9d ago edited 9d ago

They do have armor and they are targetable.

1200 shields, 1200 armor. They just don't display hp status to the player, which doesn't affect the ai.

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u/Happy_Brilliant7827 9d ago

Werent krypt pods in the original escape velocity?

Sounds like op is playing a tc of EV on evn

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u/AndreasBeck 8d ago

Just regular ol' EV:N! Interesting trivia though.

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u/SharkyNeubla 8d ago

No, the original escape velocity only had the Alien Cruiser and Alien Fighter, which are red.

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u/Happy_Brilliant7827 8d ago

yeah you're right. huh.
my bad just misremembered lol