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help - they fitted my beam laser to starboard not aft!

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:40 pm
by lfnfan
I upgraded my front laser to military :) but somehow the existing front beam laser destined for aft ended up starboard. not sure how to instruct the guys at the space station to sort it out....

any help appreciated!

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:23 pm
by overmage
Hack the savefile :wink:

other than that, there's no way to recover it, unless you have an older savefile to backup from and try again

or is this reproducible?

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:06 am
by lfnfan
I think I just messed up when specifying where to put the beam laser.

I've had a look at the save file - it's an xml-type document, so I should just be able to edit it in wordpad or similar?

When upgrading weaponry, does the game credit you back the price of the weapon being replaced, or is that just a sunk cost? In my case, when I'm updating the save file, should I be adding Cr400 to my pot for 'selling' the aft pulse laser (one careful owner)?

Thanks!

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:15 am
by another_commander
You get a full refund for the laser you replace, so you should just edit the position of the weapon in the save file and you are good to go.

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:14 am
by lfnfan
great. Many thanks overmage, Sub-Admiral