I liked the idea of a time-progression on a fuel efficiency, and to the fact to make engineers more valuable I've had a mod that returns old hyperspace travelling fuel cost as well. So I want a mod to return the old crew engineer's mechanics. The problem: It's not enough to simply mod/patch "npcs/crew/crewmemberengineer.npctype" file, because the script of crew benefits itself has been changed ("scripts/companions/crewbenefits.lua"). In older versions of Starbound there was a "PeriodicMultiplier" type of "benefits", now there's "ShipUpgradeBenefit" instead (upd: which seemingly doesn't support a "Period" field). I want to preserve both types of ship benefits if possible. I have all old files on my hand, but I can't combine old and new crewbenefits in an one .lua file because I don't know how to write code. If allowed, I can send them in this thread. Of course, copy-paste of missing code from 1.2 version leads to errors, but not quite as expected: old crew benefits won't work, but it would not affect any other crew; also engineers wouldn't be able to combat on ground anymore, they would instantly die on any planet with this error: [19:17:46.646] [Error] Exception while invoking lua message handler for message 'recruit.status'. (LuaException) Error code 2, [string "/scripts/udrecruitablecompat.lua"]:200: attempt to index a nil value (field 'itemSlots') stack traceback: [C]: in metamethod '__index' [string "/scripts/udrecruitablecompat.lua"]:200: in function <[string "/scripts/udrecruitablecompat.lua"]:157> (...tail calls...) ...I'll continue on experimenting, but if someone knows... what should I do? Is it even possible to roll back to old mechanics at least, and if so, to combine all of them?
if it's possible to restore the old functionality completely, then it's possible to combine both. by that I mean you should focus on attempting to restore the ship benefits that existed previously. if you can get it to work, it's possible to combine them and then i can help you further with that. if you are not able to get the old benefits working completely then they probably changed stuff C++ side, and that will be much harder to mod in than simply restoring the old Lua files
