Ships database

kcallis · Post by **kcallis** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:45 pm

What would be real cool would be a database of ships accessible, either at the Station or on-line (inside of the cockpit), the would provide for all ship types along with the full specs. For some reason, if I remember correctly, that was a feature of the original Elite... Or I may have confused that with another game.

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:13 pm

I remember Amiga Elite had a catalog on the second disk which contained ship information. Was available through one of the F-keys.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:22 pm

Bit difficult to do with all the available ships in OXPs. Especially as they aren't all on the wiki....

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:14 pm

Yeh, it wouldn't be a simple matter of someone knocking up an OXP to do it. They could be read from shipdata.plist, but that would probably require a short description to be added as one of the shipdata fields. Plus there would need to be a new page designed, and allocation of the new function key to bring it up. Maybe one of the devs could do it, if they wanted to.

CheeseRedux · Post by **CheeseRedux** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:28 pm

This post deals with some of the same issues, though looking at it from a slightly different angle.

AFAIK no one has come up with anything better than rip-the-data-from-plist-and-display.

No matter how it's done, we're looking at post-MNSR.

Cmd. Cheyd · Post by **Cmd. Cheyd** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:42 pm

You'd also need a way for OXP author's to hide stats of ships they don't want discovered in this method.