The Governor

Updated the plugin, because it was crashing a bit too often.

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​@Arariel: You can just drag & drop the zip file into the modifications section of the launcher

Hey there.

When I load up the Berlin map and request a Heavy Rescue Vehicle, the game crashes  I can only assume it's something with your mod, as I didn't have this issue beforehand.

So what is the status of the mod so far?

Not sure, sadly.

I've been working on a plugin on the German forums for a while now, and I think it's good enough now to post it here too.

In essence it provides players with a few new commands to control their vehicles:

• Turn warning-, blue- and headlights on and off
• Turn siren on and off (sadly it plays only once)
• If you send a vehicle back to the base, all personnell it spawned with will first enter the vehicle (if possible). Patients and/or criminals get put in the vehicle too. Only when all units are inside the vehicle (unless they're injured or similar) will it return to the base.
• When a new vehicle gets ordered from the menu and a vehicle of the same type is already on the map and returning to the base, that one will get ordered instead and no new vehicle will spawn. To make sure this works as intended, vehicles returning to the base are unselectable.
• If you hold CTRL while pressing the HQ button, all units will enter the vehicle, but it will not return to the base.

There is also a list of all units on the map available, accessible with a new button on the minimap.

I had to disable all automatisms because some don't work well with the new return to base command, to keep that in mind while playing.

 

Another new feature but useless without a custom map:

You can define parking spaces for certain vehicles (or groups of vehicles) on the map. Instead of directly despawning, a returning vehicle will first try to find a free parking space and if it finds one park there. There's a test map included in the testmod below, so take a look at that to see how exactly it works. There are also special parking spaces for hospitals or prisons to drop off "passengers" there, if necessary.

 

This plugin is inteded to be used by other mod authors for the added functionality, but the attached testmod can also be used by players to use the new commands.

The sourcecode is attached too, for people interested in that.

Where exactly do we put the mod?  I mean, which EM5 folder?

So, the new peole to the EM series who started with EM5 have to suffer because the modders are familiar with EM4 and don't wanna move to 5?  It's too late to get a refund on EM5, and I prefer it over EM4 (tried it, really wasn't impressed with the controls and how things worked. on my first free-play run I had an annoying glitch where vehicles at the stations wouldn't respond to right click and go anywhere).  Am I, and the others who play and prefer EM5 just going to be screwed over with a severe lack of mods?  If so, that is highly unfair to us.  Thus far, the mods I find most helpful have already been made, but it would be nice to get out of the UK/EU and go to America/Canada's apparatus.

Really lame.

There is a section for support. The section at the top of the forum with the title Website Support is for this purpose.

 

Secondly, we don't all have PM box disabled. What is happening in this case is that your new account didn't yet have the ability to PM. When a new account is created, it goes into a 'new member' category after the account has been activated. This group can't PM other users, or initially make public posts. One of the staff team has to approve the first post made by new users, which then moves the account into the standard 'Members' group.

 

After the first post has been approved, and the account is in the standard group, you can then access the PM function.

 

Which account name would you like to keep? We can reset the password for you, merge the accounts etc.

The section with support does not show for me on the main page.  Screenshot, which is why I didn't know that section existed.

I'd prefer to keep my first account, Bossanova.  If you could reset the password on that one, it'd be appreciated.  I don't know why, but the captcha is just bugged for password recovery.  Tried in two browsers, and it still rejected every single one.

 The admin has his messages disabled, as does the mod  I tried logging into my other account, but was told my password was wrong.  Okay, so tried requesting another password.  The security check for password recovery is bugged.  No matter what it told me the captcha was wrong, which it wasn't.  So, I made a new account to message the staff about it.  I get it, the staff get a lot of messages, but it'd be nice if there was a 'forum support/questions' section for issues like this.