steam engine hassle

Does anyone know if the code given for steam engines here:

http://users.senet.com.au/~dbschah/reso ... iption.htm

is acurate? I've tryed to put steam engines into some stores and increase the frequency in others but it doesn't seem to have worked. I did this by editing Invensorce1.mes (I think that's the file, got it from Tinkerer's workshop, it's suposed to make some things that aren't normaly for sale available in shops) in my rules folder. Do I have it in the wrong folder? Was i suposed to keep the one marked Invensorce2.mes as well? I didn't want the effct that one was suposed to give.

 

RE

I would LOVE to say that I know EXACTLY what is going on . But I dont :???: . Sorry :cry: . [/u][/i]

 

well YOURE very helpful, tree!

 

re

i know

 

well, it's good that you know, that but maybe you could try HELPING

 

RE, I'm not completly dumb

I think that there is something on making steam engines on darkunderlord's site, in AMTUT.

 

IFF you are using 15090 for a small steam engine, you should be having no trouble putting it in inventories for stores. I currently have it in my Inventor and Multi-Inventor inventories in the InvenSource.mes file. You should only have one file named InvenSource.mes in your Sierra\Arcanum\Data\Rules directory. If it's named anything else or put anywhere else, it will be ignored. Also, if the first number in the number pair of Percent,ID is too low, then it may not appear in the inventory. A number pair like 2000,15090 should ensure that the small steam engine will always show up in the inventory, but it may not be there the first time you go to the store. The way that hack works, you have to leave the store and the city and be gone for a day, including a night's sleep, for the hack to take effect. When you return to the city the next time, you have access to the complete inventory of that store. Every time you edit InvenSource, you reset the cycle so you have to do that all over again.

 

oh, so THAT"S hoe the inventory stuff works...

i guess i have just never cared...

 

RE

hey! thanks Sinbad. I've always wanted to know that. But does that only work if you have the Invensource hack?

 

no, tree. you just have to undat the file or download it from somewhere and put it in the 'rules' directory and you can make any changes you want. the hack just comes with that file.

 

Thank you. This was very helpfull, and no actualy the number had was either 15177 or 15155 (don't remember which was listed on the site as dwarven steel and which was listed as a steam engine), I may have coppied incorectly however. As for Invensource.mes I got it off Tinkerers workshop and must have missed the instruction to delete the 1 or 2 after the name (it gave two diferent versions of an edited Invensource.mes file). I'm very glad someone actualy CONTRIBUTED to my post instead of contributing to my anoyance . . .

 

duh

Well, now I see. I wrote down the code for minute steam works instead of Small steam engine (which begs the question, why didn't I get a minute steam works?)

 

hmmmm..... maybe it's a bug.

 

RE

so you still have to download arcanun. :x . I hate downloading things. My comp has like 94 viriuses. and it bugs me.

 

What percentage did you put with it, redwulf25_ci? That's the most probable reason for not getting it.

Also, if it doesn't like a pair for some reason, it will empty the entire inventory, so be careful not to create an invalid pair.

 

well tre i could send arcanun to you if you really want...

and i wont send any (bad) viruses

 

RE

okie. you do that.

 

well just tell me if you want it, or if you have already downloaded it or whatever

 

RE

SEND IT TO ME!!!!! NOW!!!!

 

this is the link:

http://darkunderlord.freeyellow.com/dow ... nun_v1.zip

hope your happy