Oolite Bulletins

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 3:13 am

Here you go, working example: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File: ... _Manor.oxz

I look forward to seeing an illustration of Cousin Digby's pile on Digebiti.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun May 25, 2025 8:32 pm

I look forward to seeing an illustration of Cousin Digby's pile on Digebiti.

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 2:38 pm

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun May 25, 2025 8:32 pm

I look forward to seeing an illustration of Cousin Digby's pile on Digebiti.

Gimme bigga piccy. At least 1024 x 512.

Redspear wrote: ↑Fri Jun 20, 2025 7:33 pm

It's a simple matter to prevent a player buying a commodity at a station (set market quantity to 0) but is there a simple way to prevent a player from selling a commodity at a station?

I'm trying to simulate a no demand situation without just lowering the market price significantly.
I want to not only discourage the player from selling but to actually prevent them from doing so without confiscation.

Redspear wrote: ↑Fri Jun 20, 2025 7:33 pm

It's a simple matter to prevent a player buying a commodity at a station (set market quantity to 0) but is there a simple way to prevent a player from selling a commodity at a station?

I'm trying to simulate a no demand situation without just lowering the market price significantly.
I want to not only discourage the player from selling but to actually prevent them from doing so without confiscation.

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 12:50 pm

Set capacity to 0

phkb wrote: ↑Fri Jun 20, 2025 9:30 pm

I’ve always used the playerSoldCargo world event, and just reversed the effects of the passed parameters. If I remember I’ll post a code snippet doing this later this morning.

Redspear wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:19 pm

That would still be of interest if not inconvenient for you.

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// stop the player from selling cargo (in this case, slaves)
this.playerSoldCargo = function (commodity, units, price) {
    var p = player.ship;
    var stn = p.dockedStation;
    if (commodity === "slaves") {
        var refund = units;
        // take credits off player
        player.credits -= ((price / 10) * refund);
        // give commodity back to player
        p.manifest[commodity] += refund;
        // take commodity away from station
        stn.setMarketQuantity(commodity, stn.market[commodity].quantity - refund);
        // Market Observer interface - make sure this doesn't impact on it's data
        if (worldScripts.market_observer3) {
            this._sale = {
                commodity: commodity,
                units: units,
                price: price
            };
            this._mo_timer = new Timer(this, this.$reverseMOSale, 0.25, 0);
        }
    }
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
this.$reverseMOSale = function $reverseMOSale() {
    var mo = worldScripts.market_observer3;
    mo.playerBoughtCargo(this._sale.commodity, this._sale.units, this._sale.price);
    this._sale = {};
}

phkb wrote: ↑Sat Jun 21, 2025 10:29 pm

...

Redspear wrote: ↑Sun Jul 20, 2025 9:33 am

I wish to restrict a laser to a particular mounting (e.g. fore).

I further wish to test if a mounting is empty and (once a certain item is installed on the player ship) deny access to it.

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sat Aug 09, 2025 10:28 am

what actually happens if one creates a new global object in Oolite's javascript environment? Will it explode? Run slower? Report one to the FBI?

Does the newly-minted object become addressable and modifiable, well, globally? Or is there like um, you know, a whole procedure to follow, lest it just hang around doing nothing but wasting space?

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sat Aug 09, 2025 10:28 am

*BUMP* Redspear's question remains of interest. And now, mine:

phkb wrote: ↑Sat Aug 09, 2025 11:30 am

I think the only way to restrict where a laser can be mounted is to capture the purchase event to an item that is not actually a laser, show a custom mission screen with the limited choices on offer, and then do the install of the actual laser item at that point.