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I'm sorry, but what does this do? I may be intelligent, but I have no idea what this mod does just from reading the description.

Well, it doesn't really do anything by itself -- it's a framework for other people to use in their own mods.

Sometimes, you might want your mod to have an event happen at the very start of the game, right after the player exits the hangar. You can do this in the original game already, but the problem is, the event would also happen every time you entered a new sector.
Another problem is that if you had installed two mods that had such starting events, the latter mod would override the former, and only one starting event would happen instead of two.

This mod prevents that by providing a new starting event that only happens once during the entire run, at the very beginning of it. It also provides a workaround to allow multiple mods to have their starting events executed.

Heyya!
Ok, this is brilliant, and exactly what I need, however I'm having some difficulty.
I want one event at 'game start', and then a seperate event that happens on every 'sector start' (excluding the game start).

I can't find any code that points to the latter, and using 'START_BEACON' seems to only work for the first one...

You could try giving each sector other than the starting sector a specific starting event, and then modifying those to suit your idea.

I know the opening post says that START_BEACON is triggered every time a player enters any sector, but that is incorrect. START_BEACON only applies to civilian sectors. Other sector types have their own starting beacons. You have to go into other event files for things like START_BEACON_ENGI and START_BEACON_ROCK.

@RAD-82
Gah, I must've stumbled upon a civillian sector when I tested that then, and didn't bother to test it for other sectors... Corrected the original post to reflect that.

Oops! I should've made this bug report back in January when I was working on a USB-Infinite Space compatibility patch. I just worked around it back then instead of reporting it, maybe because I didn't actually realize what the issue was at the time. I only remembered it because I was about to do some testing on my update for Frankenstein.

Bug: Event START_GAME_BEACON doesn't have any text. As the first event, the game just overwrites that non-existant text with the START_GAME text, and the event can continue to load START_GAME_CHOICES. However, when it is chain-loaded, it is no longer the first event and it doesn't receive that START_GAME text, and since there is no text, the game ends the event chain rather than giving the choice to load START_GAME_CHOICES.

Whoopsy daisy, nice one RAD, haven't noticed that Already got it fixed, just gotta come up with some decent flavor text...

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Done. Download USB 1.2 here.

The link to the mod doesn't seem to be working any more (404). Is there anywhere I could get a copy of this from?

(There are some things I want to test about the way that FTL works, and Universal Starting Beacon seems like the easiest way to make a small test event that I can guarantee to run. I can't just change the tutorial events because I want to be able to test them with multiple ships, rather than just the Kestrel.)

Done, updated the download link.