[MOD] The Sparrow - Concordiat Courier Boat - Insanely Hard

[NewAgeOfPower]

This mod is intended for masochists.

Name: The Sparrow
Class: [Corvette Hull] Marathon Class Courier Boat
Role: Communications



A Concordiat Courier Boat is little more than an life support system and shields wrapped around a powerful FTL drive.

When you play with this ship, the objective is not to kill the Rebel Flagship. The objective is to deliver the message to Federation HQ. Doing so is brutally difficult, given this vessel's lack of weapons, drones, or teleporter.

Props to anyone who finds & uses (and screenshots) the Easter Egg without digging into the files of my mod <3

A more brutal difficulty, Impossible Difficulty version is available for super hardcore masochists.

Download link here: http://depositfiles.com/files/pg8reyofh

Dropbox link here to my mod folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r77fki4e3tqu5r4/s6FXUuQWnP

Bug reports/complaints/comments are welcome.

Update September 23rd, 2013: Black Box issue should be fixed by now. Rooms should be re-ordered by now as well. Link updated. Dropbox link added.

Update September 24th, 2013: Gibs added. Dropbox link updated, check R2.

[aaaaaa50]

It might just be on my end, but I'm getting the black box error on both your ships. The real bug, though, is that an enemy somehow put a bomb in the sensors system, so you might want to get help fixing that.

Also, "A more brutal difficulty, Impossible Difficulty version is available for super hardcore masochists." indicates that there are two versions of the ship, but I only see one. And that website you have hosting your files kinda scares me a little bit.

[kartoFlane]

Been going quite smoothly, but then I made a mistake and decided to take 4 extra beacons to get to a distress call, which turned out to be a trap... Which resulted in me running out of fuel in sector 6, where Rebels caught up to me :/

Other than that, it's pretty neat. Scored both pacifism run and no upgrades achievements with it Oddly enough, no black box bug for me.

[Kieve]

Yeah, hosting sites like rapidshare, depositfiles, etc are kinda discouraged if you can help it. Mediafire or Dropbox are much better options.

As for the ship, it's a fascinating little design and a unique take on the purpose of the mission.
"Thank you for delivering this data. Now go destroy that Flagship, it's our only hope!"
"Are you outta your f****ing mind?!"

[fireclaw2006]

I have the black box bug as well.

[NewAgeOfPower]

Strange. I'm not getting the black box bug, and neither did karto/Kieve/

I... have something against Mediafire. I'll try dropbox soon.

Did you guys use the Slipstream Mod Manager?

Did anyone get the easter egg?

I have exams coming up (already! wtf?), so next week I'll put in some gibs and clean up the Engineering Frigate for both my submitted mods...

Impossible Difficulty: No Shields, 1 Engi Crew. Good luck?

About the bomb into sensors room... Karto, did I do my 0x0 rooms wrong?

[fireclaw2006]

Strange. I'm not getting the black box bug, and neither did karto/Kieve/

I... have something against Mediafire. I'll try dropbox soon.

Did you guys use the Slipstream Mod Manager?

Did anyone get the easter egg?

I have exams coming up, so next week I'll put in some gibs and clean up the Engineering Frigate for both my submitted mods...

Impossible Difficulty: No Shields, 1 Engi Crew. Good luck?

About the bomb into sensors room... Karto, did I do my 0x0 rooms wrong?

I was using Grognak's Mod Manager.

[kartoFlane]

Looking at the mod's files, you haven't included the floor image. Just slap a completely transparent image of any size (or just copy the hull image), and it should fix the black box bug.

Regarding the 0x0 rooms, my sensors room got bombed too... Strangely enough, oxygen didn't.

Huh, I have a theory. Looking at the txt layout, the sensors room has ID 0, meaning, it's the topmost room (first in the list). That might explain why it got bombed.
You may be able to fix this by modifying the .txt layout to put the 0x0 rooms at the bottom of the room "list" (right before doors).
Alternatively, in the editor, you may try to redo the rooms. Delete them all, place the "normal" rooms first, and 0x0 after.

edit:
Haven't seen the easter egg :(

[aaaaaa50]

Haven't seen the easter egg

It's a bit easy to miss even when looking at the files.

Super small text spoiler: There's a cloaking image in the files, therefore you can purchase a cloak for the ship.

[UltraMantis]

I was using Grognak's Mod Manager.

Switch to Slipstream. Read this post before changing from GMM to SMM.