[RE-RELEASE]Buyable map OXP

[Eric Walch]

You can store that quite compactly if you need to: a string of 2048 characters either 0 or 1 will only be 2k in the save file

I thought we were dealing with the off-spring of Elite. Than you can't call it compact. A true eliteer would use bits like in this piece of code

(and you could compact it by more than that by using more than 0 and 1, of course, at the cost of simplicity)

Ah, I reacted to soon. At least you don't have to re-create the code. Some handlers are renamed though since this was published.

[Wildeblood]

You can store that quite compactly if you need to: a string of 2048 characters either 0 or 1 will only be 2k in the save file

I thought we were dealing with the off-spring of Elite. Then you can't call it compact. A true eliteer would use bits like in this piece of code

Ahruman or Eric have posted that code several times, but I've yet to see anyone use it in a public OXP. More recent versions can be found somewhere in the scripters' cove thread, and somewhere in the discussion forum, when I first enquired about the possibility of Explorers' Club, several months before Commodore Murphy implemented it the bloated way.

(and you could compact it by more than that by using more than 0 and 1, of course, at the cost of simplicity)

Ah, I reacted too soon. At least you don't have to re-create the code. Some handlers are renamed though since this was published.

Such as this:-

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this.willEnterWitchSpace = function(cause)
{
    // Hmm, this is silly. There should be a "playerEnteredNewGalaxy" message.
    if (cause == "galactic jump")
    {
        this.loadBits()
    }
}

[spara]

Hello.

I think i have corrected the major flaws that made me very unhappy . The first post is updated with a revised story and a new version of the oxp.

In a nutshell:
- Unknown systems are marked to be TL1 anarchy hi-tech.
- For 30 cr you can update the short range map (<7LY) on main stations.
- For 1000 cr you can buy the full map (only in >TL11 main stations). You'll need a map per galaxy.
- If you try to view the info screen of an unknown system, you will get a mission screen saying you can't.

I didn't implement that cool savegame copression suggested. I might come back to that later.

Cheers.

Update. A small bugfix. Apparently launch from station does not trigger viewchange, so full map restore was not done. Fixed in version 0.3.1.

[Cholmondely]

Wiki page now up: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Buyable_map

This seems to be broken with the newest versions of Oolite. Works fine with v.0.77.1 though...