Unofficial Roguetech Vehicle Reduction and VTOL removal

IMPORTANT:

DO NOT attempt to get official help for this script from the RogueTech team

DO NOT report any bugs related to this script or your game after using this script to the RogueTech team

This simple script will massively reduce the number of vehicles that RogueTech spawns as part of lances. It does this by removing all possible Vehicle spawns from the "Combined Arms" Lance definition files, leaving only Mechs as viable spawn choices. As a result, the difficulty of missions may be slightly higher. Mechs are harder to bring down than a vehicle after all!

It should work on all versions of RogueTech though I have only tested it on the latest. There will still be vehicle spawns in the game, but will only be on missions with a "special" lance type, like a convoy, or hard coded vehicles.

Version 1. 3 changes how vehicles are removed from the spawn pool, which in turn removes even more vehicles! We now add a basic mech definition with low restrictions that should always be a valid spawn target. We also check to make sure there is at least one valid Mech in each lance, and if there isnt, a default one is added. This fixes some bugs where a vehicle lance is requested by the contract, but there are no valid choices in the lance file. Convoys will still be composed entirely of vehicles.

As of version 1. 2, you can now optionally remove VTOLs from the spawn pool!

VTOLs will be replaced with a (hopefully) equivalent vehicle. This will undoubtedly increase the difficulty as ground vehicles are harder to kill than VTOLs. On the plus side, no more waiting 30 seconds for a VTOL to take its turn!

Usage:

[]Install RogueTech! https://www.nexusmods.com/battletech/mods/79

[]Download Ruby https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ . I recommend version 2. 7 but version 3. 0+ and version 2. 6 should work. You can download the normal user version or the developer version, whichever you prefer.

[]Download this script, unzip the files rtUnVehicle.rb and DefaultMechs.rb from the archive and place them in their own directory. Try to avoid directories with special characters, and do not put it in a special system directory like "Program Files" or your User folder. I recommend something like C:\RTUnVehicle

[]Go to your BattleTech installation folder that you have already installed RogueTech into, and copy the \Mods\RogueTech Core\Lances  folder (and all its subfolders and files!) into the same directory