Fuel for the Hubologists?? (tech help needed again)

[Magellan]

Hi

According to Per's Fallout 2 Guide, it is possible to get the fuel for the tanker and for the hubologist spaceship, in various different ways.

I am running the game with Killap's latest patch (no mods).

Basically what I did first was to get the fuel for the TANKER, the method which I chose was by giving some Hardened Power Armor to the Shi guy (forgot his chinese name) in exchange. He then said that "the fuel's depleted". Note that to get the Hardened Power Armor I bluffed to Crockett that the Hubologists "would get some fuel" (the option were either lying like this or paying $10,000).

Per's guide says it's still possible to get fuel for the Hubologists, by hacking the Shi workstations and accessing the Chemistry database. However, this does not work for me. I DO NOT have the option to "route fuel to the hubologists". I don't think Per's guide is wrong - I guess it's Killap's patch that prevents the routing of fuel more than once. However I would like to do that before I kill AHS-9... I wanna get that fuel!

Does anyone know how I can reset that option in the Shi workstations? I've already tried fidling with some variables so as to make the option availble, but nothing seems to be working.

I've even tried resetting the Hardened Power Armor quest and re-doing it, but when I try to get the quest again by telling the Shi guy "I need some fuel for the Hobologists" he just says something along the lines of "well that's impossible, even if I wanted to help the Hubologists, which I don't, the fuel is depleted" instead of asking me for Hardened Power Armor as he had done before when I asked him for tanker fuel.

So how do I "refill" the Shi's fuel reserves using F2se.exe, or something like that? I wanna get fuel for the Hubo's!!

Thanks!

 

[Magellan]

Ok I've managed to figure it out on my own.

I had to set the variables:

363:GVAR_SAN_FRAN_TANKER from =15 to =0 temporarialy

and

532:GVAR_SAN_FRAN_FUEL_TANK_QST from =2 to =0 temporarily.

This "refilled" the Shi's fuel stocks.




It was kinda complicated to figure it out. First I looked at the dialogue file for the Chemistry Database of the Shi, "fschesta.msg", which is located in the Fallout 2 game folder /data/Text/English/Dialog. I opened the file using a text editor and saw the line Ive been looking for:

{121}{}{Direct fuel to Hubologists.}

I made a note of the number "121".

Then I had to install the official Fallout 2 mapper and look at the file "FCCHEMST.SSL" located inside its Scripts/SANFRAN folder using a text editor. This file had the following code:

procedure Node005 begin
   Reply(120);
   if (tanker_flag(TANK_KNOWN) and not tanker_flag(TANK_FUEL)) then
      NOption(121, Node96a, 4);
   NOption(122, Node007, 4);
   if (GASBEGUN and not san_fran_flag(SF_GAS_ELRONS)) then
      NOption(123, Node108a, 4);
   NOption(124, Node999, 4);
end

I noticed the number 121 and that the condition is NOT TANK FUEL, so I knew that fueling the tanker had something to do with it. So I reset the variables that had to do with the tanker. Voila!

Some of you may think I'm stupid for explaining how I figured it out but I'm quite proud of it, for someone with very little programming experience I think should give myself a pat in the back. Plus I hope this helps others figure other stuff out.