[Space_Sheep]

Great forum you got here.  Since this is my first post please be gentle on me. Anyway onto my problem, every FRED2 mission i start is already 2 mins 20 secs into it so most of my early events have already happened. Anyone know why this may be happening or how to fix it.

[karajorma]

Got a lot of mods installed? That's almost certainly the cause if you do. Too many ships in the ships table cause that kind of behaviour.

[Space_Sheep]

Nope i haven't got any MODs installed at the moment

[vadar_1]

Try the search first. There has been of posts on this before, even one quite resently. Its a bug, usually caused by minor parse errors in your tables. All you can do for now, is change the value back by editing the mission in a text viewer. reload fred, and hope it dosn't act up again. If it does, go back, change it, reload. You have to change the value to >0, if you try 0, it wont like it.

[vyper]

This is another unexplained mystery of freespace. Its like where the heck did Bosch go? What were those comm-nodes for? And why the hell did the shivans do what they did at the end?

Why does Fred2 do strange things with time delays? :wft: I dunno.

Solution:

#1 uninstall and reinstall fs2 - careful to back up any missions! (a friend of mine did this recently and forgot to backup his campaign... ouch)

#2 Or, edit each .fs2 file with a text editor and remove the offending string (can't remember where it is)

[karajorma]

There was a post recently where someone solved the problem by reforming Alpha into another wing and then changing it back. Try a search for player entry delay and you`ll find it.

[Space_Sheep]

Thanks for ypur help everyone i got the problem fixed.I just changed the player entery delay in the team loadout editor in fred2 to 1.

[vadar_1]

Originally posted by Space_Sheep
Thanks for ypur help everyone i got the problem fixed.I just changed the player entery delay in the team loadout editor in fred2 to 1.

really that works? it always snaps back for me, I have to manually change it in notepad.

[Space_Sheep]

Yeah it works for me but maybe you have MODs or something thats stops it working for you.

[Star Dragon]

Yeah I get 3mins into the mission "assualt on Zahadum" I made the alliance jump in beyond the shadow nebula to take the fight to Zahadum! Unfortunately by the time I get in there the fleet has decimated half  the Shivans, opps, I mean shadows... And the effect of the SDF-1 taking out 4 or 5 cap ships with one blow is NOT to be missed...