OK I have had a problem with the ck_shipcap script that requires you to run ck_shipstats file. People have had workarounds to add alien ships to same file. But I ran into a problem tonight while testing out an edit for a corpie.

First I manually added the ship stats to the file and kept getting a message I have no information on that ship. Then I went into tedit and made ships show up on CC screen, still had same problem. I originally thought that it might be some ansi codes that were interfering with the ship cap, but that was not the problem. The problem was that these particular ships had full names that were 4 words. I took off the last word while leaving everything else the same and lo and behold I ran script successfully.

Before I start a flamewar let me preface this with the only reason I am posting is if anyone else has had this same kind of problem here is a workaround when we can't fix the original script.

The ship you're in... the c;q info, has to be listed in the shipstat file. Are you getting the name of the ship from the c;q or the I?

Thanks Maniac. If I remember correctly I had the same problem with the ascian boat.... slept a couple of hours since then tho.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

bah... depends on how their named
example for SZ here... works fine except Redrum pods
just rename file
SHIP CLASS         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;          OF DF WAVE SHIELDS
*** Life Source ***         &nb sp;         &nb sp;         &nb sp;         &nb sp;  08 40 100   1000
Standard Issue         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;       10 15 750   4000
Scout         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;      20 20 250   1000
Missile Barrage          ;           ;           ;           ;       13 33 2000 12000
BattleStar        &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp; 20 25 3000 16000
Corporate BattleStation         ;           ;           ;           ;12 27 6000 16000
Colonial Trader                                                  06 22 250   1000
CargoTran        &nb sp;         &nb sp;         &nb sp;         &nb sp;         &nb sp;   08 08 125   4000
Merchant Freighter        &nb sp;         &nb sp;         &nb sp;         &nb sp;    08 12 100   1000
Imperial StarTrader        &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;   20 27 15000 12000
Havoc GunStar          ;           ;           ;           ;         12 12 1500 4500
StarMaster        &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp; 14 14 1000 2000
Constellation         ;           ;           ;           ;           ;14 14 2000 3000
T'Khasi Orion         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;        11 11 250   750
Homeland Defender        &nbs p;         &nbs p;         &nbs p;         &nbs p;    10 80 800   16000
Taurean Mule         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         05 30 125   200
Interdictor Menace                                               17 23 20000 8000
Imperial StarTrader Elite         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;      20 40 1250 15000
Underground Trader                                               13 38 2500 16000
StarSystem X           ;           ;           ;           ;         13 30 250   8000
Mission E-Recon          ;           ;           ;           ;       13 30 500   10000
Last-Request                                                      30 38 25000 16000
RedRum                                                            41 38 25000 16000
Hard Line         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;  10 15 35000 16000
Subterfuge Enterra          ;           ;           ;           ;    31 41 15000 16000
Ascian Boat of Humility        &nbs p;         &nbs p;         &nbs p;         44 15 60000 16000
Subterfuge Mantis                                               27 38 20000 16000
Ascian Troller          ;           ;           ;           ;        45 20 25000 16000
Black Scorpion        &nbs p;         &nbs p;         &nbs p;         &nbs p;        22 29 20000 12000
Dreadnought        & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp; 23 26 5000 16000
Assault Trader                                                   15 25 1000 200
Battle Cruiser          ;           ;           ;           ;        12 26 2000 800
Scorpion        &nbs p;         &nbs p;         &nbs p;         &nbs p;         &nbs p;    15 15 20000 6000

well that didn't come out like I copied... sorry

k, Just to see if this works replace the = sign with space:




I'm not sure why the space is showing up. It isn't in the text I pasted in, but you have to delete it to align up properly to use the info.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."