Truth be told, I need to do a significant rework of this mod. It works, but it needs user configs and, as you noted, some new blocks added. I'll put that in the queue for when things slow down again in the real world.

just as a suggestion, i think it would be very fitting to add the AI blocks, i feel like it makes sence since they control the ship (when not playing against modded content that use remote control blocks)

Of course.

save game compatible?

That is a pretty large file. My guess is you don't restart all that often. The logs should wipe on reboot.

I do have comment notifications turned on. Just sometimes steam doesn't actually alert me.

just realized easy block renaming is allso yours :D :D :D and my next server will allso run with awwscrap :D :D :D

keep up the good work m8, love your mods, even more than i knew haha

on a seperate note, is it normal for Hostile Takeover to have 475mb log files?? or is something wrong on my current server?

on yet another note, there is a "subscribe to thread" i think you should click to get updates from these comments? :)

mod.io? please

When I tried to grind an enemy station using this, it was totally invulnerable to all grinding. I shot some blocks and they were damaged by that. I disabled the mod then the station let me build onto it and grind on it. Before hand it wouldn't let me build on it either which was bizarre.

I really wish Steam would do better with giving me notifications for messages. I'll have that fixed in the next few days. Apologies.

well.... sounds like im not the only one with the tradestation issue :P

allso, when meeting the planetary stations, the ones that usually contain a prototech part of 2, the mod seems to not react at all, so far i have no ideer why...

all in all thou, this is a great mod to play with, makes capturing enemy ships an options, rather than blowing them up or spending hours grinding them down :)

I have the same problem, my connector (in trading mode) transferred ownership to the trader station

Unsure if stated here, had a look thorugh comments but can't see my issue. I have some problem with NPC stations taking ownership of my connectors when I dock with them. Pretty annoying theres no timer or way to pay for undocking or anything and if they are in a safe zone other than using admin tools theres no way to undock as ownership of my connector on my ship becomes owned by the npc station

the blocks seem to stay lit for a really long time, too long i think

Thank you for the detailed explanation! Reloading the save did fix this "issue" for me!

Long explanation short, you're "doing it wrong", but that's likely due to a bug, and not due to you. When you finish grinding down all highlighted blocks, the ship should disown itself (owner = nobody). In some cases it isn't right now. This is when the mod stops monitoring the ship. Since you claimed it, the ship was still being monitored by the mod, so it was basically just doing its job by highlighting things for you. Restarting the game should fix that whenever it happens.

I'm going to be looking into that bug though, so hopefully it won't be an issue for much longer.

I really like the mod and it was super fun to play with it, thanks to the author for the hard work!
I have one minor issue with LG NPC ship that I took over. I hacked(grinded down to 20-30% integrity) all groups of blocks to take over the ship until I was able to transfer all the blocks to me. After that I was the owner of the NPC ship, but as soon as I fix/reweld any of the (previous)highlighted blocks when I take my grinder out I still see the highlight around the blocks, even tho I own them and can interact with them. It is just visually bugging me while I have my grinder out, so nothing ruining the experience tbh, but I was wondering if this can be fixed, or am I doing something wrong ?

Beds shouldn't be appearing either, I'll make sure that's sorted as well.

One unfortunate side effect of SE and their faction system is a NPC can consider you red even if you appear white to them. It's kind of garbage really, but it's a faction vs personal reputation issue that's existed since the Economy update a few years ago.

Deeply appreciated. That should help fix some of the problems we've been having on my server with supposedly "neutral" AI still being a menace to players.

Also, while we're on the subject, beds are a block that is appearing as required but this seems like a silly choice to me, as they are not control blocks or cryo blocks, but I don't know if that can be fixed so easily depending how the code works.

@Ace yep, I do still take care of the mod. Once I finish fixing EEM I plan on giving this one a new shine, which will include settings so you can tailor it to your liking.

I didn't know the new AI blocks weren't counting already though - that'll also be fixed for sure. The idea with the mod (which is why I included turrets in the requirements) was that anything possibly controlled by AI would need to be disabled / destroyed to take over a grid.

I may be able to hotfix that bit in this weekend. Thanks for alerting me to the issue!

This mod adds no content. Vanilla and modded blocks all need to be hacked if they have a computer in them. Life / npc wise though, vanilla does have some things. In general though, with or without this mod, I'd say you need other mods to add real content. EEM and MES are basically the go-to's.

Well I meant more are there things *to* hack or do I need mods that add ships and bases to capture and stuff

Is this still being updated? It's useful, but a little too useful since the Contact update. It sucks the fun out of some aspects of these new encounters because of how your grinder highlights important blocks. I'd like to suggest some alterations or alternatives if the mod is still being updated, such as a config option to turn off highlighting.

Furthermore, AI and event handler blocks present on a grid should be included toward the Control category for takeover, as I've been shot at by "neutral" grids run by an AI block, or had other events trigger despite the grid being neutral. If nothing else, I would deeply appreciate that fix because it's causing a lot of unexpected and unintended behavior right now.

@Frission - hacking in SE whether modded or not is awful. HT will always be useful.

Depends how comfortable you are with C#. I'll give a brief here of what you need to change, but any more in depth instruction will need to be in Discord (link in mod description).

In ..Data/Scripts/Thraxus/Models/Construct.cs , around line 499, there is a method called private bool AssignBlock(MyCubeBlock block) -- that's where all collections required for hacking are populated. Find the group you want to get rid of and just comment it out Note that a group may appear more than once, so go through the whole method, don't just stop at the first one you see.

The code is mostly dirty first pass dev nonsense, but is named well enough to navigate around.

Is there a way to modify the mod (just for myself) to disable the weapons block requirement? I.e. so that if I grind down control, medical and trap blocks, I can take over. Thanks!

So if my game is vanilla other than this mod, is the mod useful?

I need to review all of the Keen prefabs. I believe they are skipping the HT setup rules so are being ignored by the mod.

I have a question. If the NPC base is neutral, then the blocks for sawing will not be highlighted?
Because at the new stations from the latest addition, the blocks are not highlighted.
And when I recut the blocks on myself (battery, container), they do not go back under the control of the NPC

Thank's for the reports! I'm going to be looking into these issues tomorrow.

Also this mod doesn't seem to recognize the AI blocks as control blocks, even though they clearly should be.

When there's an NPC grid that does not contain blocks in any of the categories that need to be disabled, it seems that this mod does not do anything and I have to manually grind down and repair every functional block to take ownership of them. It would be nice if there was a way to trigger this mod for such grids to save some effort.

Hey were you still working on that update that'll fix the bug with connector ownership when using the Trade Operators Coalition mod? I saw ya mention it almost a year ago in the comments just wanted to see if that was still a thing

Kindly read the mods description.

Access denied, after hacking blocks down?

Unfunctional = Non-functional, since my brain, and 1st's, were apparently malfunctioning during our last posts.

can we please get an update for this mod?

I've seen similar in a recent game. Once-NPC-Owned blocks are reverting to their original owner and not releasing ownership when disabled (hacked, not destroyed). I think this is a bug with the last update. For now, the workaround should be just making sure any blocks that are not-functional on a captured ship are rebuilt and proper ownership is ensured, or destroyed before the DS reboots. Basically, don't leave unfunctional blocks on a ship you've captured for the time being. Once I know for sure this is the issue, I'll see if it's possible for me to fix or if I need to put in a bug report to Keen.

Hiya, Weird DS issue we have encountered, after taking over a hostile grid and changing ownership to me (or another player) its works as intended, however whenever the server restarts the grid reverts back to NPC ownership. Not sure if its this mod or an issues with MES. Thanks.

lol

its broke

lol

What's also not working is our ability to communicate with one another.

How this is going so far:
You: It's broke.
Me: How?
You: It's broke.

How this should be going:
You: It's broke.
Me: How?
You: Block ownership isn't changing!

How I predict this going:
You: It's broke.
Me: How?
You: It's broke.
Me: ... how?
You: It's broke.

Please prove me wrong; I beg you. My faith in humanity, and my ability to restrain myself from snippy replies relies on it.

I am using your Collection of mods and this is not working.

Define "no longer working" please. You're the first to say anything, and a lot of people use this mod, so I'm going to have to assume what you're seeing may be specific to your setup.

This mod is no longer working.

No offense, but directly from the mod description:

"When you're within a certain distance of a NPC grid and pull out your grinder, the blocks from the current active block category will highlight for a short period of time. So, if you're within range and pull out your grinder and the Control category still has active blocks in it, those blocks will highlight and show you their position wherever they are on the grid."

Does this mod cause cockpits and other stuff to glow blue? I was told that some takeover mods cause that to happen, but I am unsure, recently reinstalled space engineers after 2 years of inactivity, and now I find my cockpits and conveyor junctions to be glowing a bright blue, this causing said issue?

I have a version that's like 90% complete which has a setting that makes this mod a direct copy of Easy NPC Takeovers (so Lucas can retire that one for good). I just haven't had the bandwidth to finish it yet. I have a discord (link in the mod description). If you want to keep poking at me there to finish it that may do some good, lol.

I will happily pay you for a version of this mod that reverts the take over style back to hacking the control station or slapping a control panel on the grid. I happen to really enjoy jet packing at space carriers at 100mps while spinning my character model in circles, while predicting and pulling of a safe place to magnet land on a ship while avoiding turret gunfire. Then taking the ships and crashing them into a giant graveyard of other ships I have stolen and watch the bizarre physics at work.
Contact me please.
Thank you for your time.

Missed here, but did answer on Discord: Not yet, haven't been able to finish the version that has configs in it yet. RL took over my priorities for the time being.