(Incidentally, I’d appreciate any suggestions for OXPs with big or buggy script.plists, apart from Anarchies, Assassins, Asteroid Storm and Ionics.)
Large scripts.plist are also in: "Galactic_Navy.oxp", "Deposed.oxp" and "Trident_Down". Also in the current UPS-Courier.oxp I still keep the old script.plist for compatibility with Oolite 1.65.
These four are the longest legacy scripts I know of, besides the one you mention.
UPS probably has some stuff that the translator will stumble over:
do = ("/** nothing, you are at destination **/"); It's wrong but harmless. It generates an error message in the log but I used it at several places because the mac plist editor removes valid comments on saving. I should have removed it by now.
"addSystemShips: trader 2 0.[d100_number]" No clean programming but it works because oolite first expands the complete line and only than starts evaluating the commands. This is the bad situation you mentioned yesterday. But this is the only (easy) way to generate random decimal numbers. (multiplication's aren't possible in legacy)
do = ("/** nothing, you are at destination **/"); It's wrong but harmless. It generates an error message in the log but I used it at several places because the mac plist editor removes valid comments on saving. I should have removed it by now.
That’ll break, yes. I suppose I could special-case it.
"addSystemShips: trader 2 0.[d100_number]" No clean programming but it works because oolite first expands the complete line and only than starts evaluating the commands. This is the bad situation you mentioned yesterday. But this is the only (easy) way to generate random decimal numbers. (multiplication's aren't possible in legacy)
That works fine (it expands to this.parseFloatOrZero(expandDescription("0.[d100_number]")) now, probably this.parseFloatOrZero("0." + Math.floor(Math.random() * 100)) at some point in the future). The potential problem is when things like that generate semantically meaningful spaces.
(Incidentally, I’d appreciate any suggestions for OXPs with big or buggy script.plists, apart from Anarchies...
Was it big or buggy?
Incidentally, in JS it's a lot shorter, although not everything can be translated yet (may I use this opportunity to remind you of a scripting request: pseudoFixedDnnn_numbers in JavaScript).
(Incidentally, I’d appreciate any suggestions for OXPs with big or buggy script.plists, apart from Anarchies...
Was it big or buggy?
It was a two-in-one bonus.
Incidentally, in JS it's a lot shorter, although not everything can be translated yet (may I use this opportunity to remind you of a scripting request: pseudoFixedDnnn_numbers in JavaScript).
Incidentally, in JS it's a lot shorter, although not everything can be translated yet (may I use this opportunity to remind you of a scripting request: pseudoFixedDnnn_numbers in JavaScript).
Yep should do. On your first docking at any Main Station with 200+ kills you should get a message from the Guild. Have tested on 1.71.2 and was working.
OXPS : The Assassins Guild, Asteroid Storm, The Bank of the Black Monks, Random Hits, The Galactic Almanac, Renegade Pirates can be downloaded from the Elite Wiki here.
Yep should do. On your first docking at any Main Station with 200+ kills you should get a message from the Guild. Have tested on 1.71.2 and was working.
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS, AND NEBLIN TRYING TO COMMUNICATE
Do you dare go any further reading this spoiler-infested post? I had done the nova bomb part of the mission, and finaly escaped, but when I go back to that system, the planet is still there, and the sun is not all nova-ee. And does this mean the sisters will stop trying to kill me?
Yep that mission is over when you kill their Big Brother (and escape without being Novaed!). As Mambas don't have Hyperdrives, the last of the sisters were caught in the blast and you are safe from the Soin Clan. The fact that the System where you encountered him is not permenatey Novaed is a bit of a continuity problem, but it was the only way to go really. I have to reset the system to non-noved once the Nova Bomb mission is over because I don't know where you are when you triggered it. If I allowed the OXP to permenatley destroy the system, this could make a mission by someone else impossible to complete (if they happened to set it in the system where you encountered Big Brother). Or it could make Assassins impossible to complete if you happened to meet B.B. in a system where a later Assassins mission is set. Its a bit of a plot cheat to re-set the Noved System, but necessary to avoid this.
OXPS : The Assassins Guild, Asteroid Storm, The Bank of the Black Monks, Random Hits, The Galactic Almanac, Renegade Pirates can be downloaded from the Elite Wiki here.
My quota should come back on friday 4th Dec. Too many dowloads of Random Hits in 28 days has put my box account over its 25 Gigs a month limit. I'll put up a note on the download page that you'll have to wait until friday. Normally my box account will take about 250 downloads of the oxps I've put up there in a 28 day peroid and I've not had this happen before.
OXPS : The Assassins Guild, Asteroid Storm, The Bank of the Black Monks, Random Hits, The Galactic Almanac, Renegade Pirates can be downloaded from the Elite Wiki here.
I'm not sure why its not showing up on your F5 screen, but it won't effect how the OXP plays as the equipment doesn't actually do anything in code (it's just for show), as its the shipdata file that actually allows you to indentify your victims.
OXPS : The Assassins Guild, Asteroid Storm, The Bank of the Black Monks, Random Hits, The Galactic Almanac, Renegade Pirates can be downloaded from the Elite Wiki here.
