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Offline Fugazza

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4095 on: December 24, 2024, 06:08:49 pm »
Years of playing but I have to ask: Which level is Third Iron Skull in the Commendations? Kinda hard to tell from the commendation image by itself....

PS: Is it a fixed numeric level or it varies for each commendation?
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Offline Delian

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4096 on: December 24, 2024, 06:48:29 pm »
4th

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4097 on: December 24, 2024, 09:08:28 pm »
4th

4th level? Oh dang! I went overboard on a LOT of trainings!

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4098 on: December 27, 2024, 10:04:44 pm »
How do I get the next rank past racketeer? The flavor text seems to imply taking on a mutant pogrom — I did that last month AND got 14k score — obviously feeling a little progression-blocked.

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4099 on: December 27, 2024, 10:11:19 pm »
It says you gotta be feared in the newspaper.

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4100 on: December 27, 2024, 10:59:07 pm »
How do I get the next rank past racketeer? The flavor text seems to imply taking on a mutant pogrom — I did that last month AND got 14k score — obviously feeling a little progression-blocked.

You must research The Solar Courier that you gain from the Mutant Pogrom.

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4101 on: December 28, 2024, 06:25:48 am »
You must research The Solar Courier that you gain from the Mutant Pogrom.

I didn’t get one  :-X :-X :-X

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4102 on: December 28, 2024, 01:18:19 pm »
You mean, you accidentally exploded it.

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4103 on: December 28, 2024, 03:05:15 pm »
I didn’t get one  :-X :-X :-X
Yeah, it's very easy to accidentally destroy the newspaper item. It will always be held in the inventory of one of the enemy leader units (i.e. humanist leader, ratman lieutenant, spartan lieutenant etc.), so try to avoid using explosives against them or around their corpses. Although, only humans will have a copy, Deep Ones and Dark Ones aren't very interested in reading I guess.

The newspaper is, understandably, extremely fragile to the point where even a molotov cocktail can destroy it, and if you don't know in advance where it is and the risk of destroying it, you can easily end up without the necessary progression item.

You can edit your save to get one if you want the full reward, or you can wait until the next pogrom appears and use the experience to try and save the newspaper. I'll put the instructions for save-editing in a spoiler below if you want to go that route.

Spoiler:
First, locate your save game folder. With the default XPiratez install, that will be in the main game folder, in the 'user' folder, then in the 'piratez' folder. This done, open up the game on your most recent save, and buy a kitchen knife on the black market. This done, make a new save with whatever name you like.

Go to the save game folder, and open up that new save file with any text editor. Search in the file for the following line:
itemId: STR_KITCHEN_KNIFE

Then, replace that line with this one:
itemId: STR_NEWSPAPER

Save the file, and load it in-game. It should load without issue and after 24 hours a new copy of the Solar Courier will arrive at your base! This method works by just replacing what item you ordered with a different one, keeps things simple with minimal chance of error.

Offline boss300

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4104 on: December 28, 2024, 06:15:27 pm »
Although, only humans will have a copy, Deep Ones and Dark Ones aren't very interested in reading I guess.


This was my issue. And also that this rank requirement is fucking stupid. Hopeful I don’t have to come back and learn more stupid convoluted shit about the next rank.

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4105 on: December 29, 2024, 04:12:22 pm »
What am I missing for buying the OICW "zeerust carbine"?
Tech viewer has ZEERUST CARBINE (i) as unlocked, but I can't find it in the store.

Offline Delian

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4106 on: December 29, 2024, 05:53:04 pm »
It's not a purchasable item. Which makes sense because it would break balance if it was.

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4107 on: December 29, 2024, 05:55:07 pm »
What am I missing for buying the OICW "zeerust carbine"?
Tech viewer has ZEERUST CARBINE (i) as unlocked, but I can't find it in the store.
It can't be purchased at all.
Purchasing them would require a seller with a reliable supply who is willing to sell to you, and since they were only made for a short time hundreds of years (and one interplanetary invasion/conquest) ago there just aren't enough of them in existence for that. So they can only be found in caches of rare weapons from the Old Earth era, or from Crazy Hassan who seems to have some quantity of just about everything (not that you can choose what you're buying).

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4108 on: December 30, 2024, 03:07:43 am »
Weird, I thought that's what the suffix was for.

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Re: A thread for little questions
« Reply #4109 on: December 31, 2024, 01:13:32 am »
I just noticed that my geoscape is missing all the map data - countries, cities, etcetera.

I recently upgraded from n.9 to n.10 (ongoing campaign) and thought that I fucked up the install somehow.. But I went back to my previous piratez install and it was the same there.

Reloaded saves, rebooted the game, etc, nada.

What do?

EDIT: I am stupid, carry on  :-X
« Last Edit: December 31, 2024, 01:20:02 am by Armitage451 »