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I was recently awarded in game the Bronze Medallion for defense of civilian lives and property, this got me to wondering, is it possible for a medal and awards page to be created so you can view them again after receiving them?

Rogue7414 wrote:

I was recently awarded in game the Bronze Medallion for defense of civilian lives and property, this got me to wondering, is it possible for a medal and awards page to be created so you can view them again after receiving them?

This is an OXP feature from Thargoid Wars.oxp. So it would be better to post a request in that thread.

It is possible to place text on the F5/F5 screen - I have done this for those who get a special award for visiting all the Pizzas in my Giant Space Pizza OXP.
This can be done by using 'mission.setInstructionsKey' in the relevant script, and having the Text (eg 'Commander Flash has been awarded a free Trumble for services to GalCop') in the missiontext.plist.

So in the script and in missiontext.plist

Fatleaf wrote:

This is an OXP feature from Thargoid Wars.oxp. So it would be better to post a request in that thread.

While that's true, there are quite a few OXPs which award some sort of medal ... which never shows up in-game again. But if it did show up I wouldn't want four or five different interfaces to view medals from various OXP sources. Whether there should there be a general "Medals and Awards" OXP which other OXPs could use - or even a core game feature, if there was that much demand for it - seems a reasonable thing to discuss over here.

Smivs wrote:

It is possible to place text on the F5/F5 screen

F5 F5 starts to get tricky once you're awarding more than one medal from the same OXP and/or want to use its instruction key for actual instructions and/or want all your medal awards (the same could be said for reputations) from different OXPs grouped together.

So perhaps some enhancement to F5 F5's functionality is needed. Hmm... let me think about this one a bit.

cim wrote:

Whether there should there be a general "Medals and Awards" OXP which other OXPs could use - or even a core game feature, if there was that much demand for it - seems a reasonable thing to discuss over here.

I am fine with this as an OXP feature, but I disagree about making medals a core feature. If Oolite were a space navy simulator like Wing Commander then fine, but medals is out of context for an Elite remake for me.

another_commander wrote:

cim wrote:

Whether there should there be a general "Medals and Awards" OXP which other OXPs could use - or even a core game feature, if there was that much demand for it - seems a reasonable thing to discuss over here.

I am fine with this as an OXP feature, but I disagree about making medals a core feature. If Oolite were a space navy simulator like Wing Commander then fine, but medals is out of context for an Elite remake for me.

That's my take on it also - and I don't think there's enough specific demand for it from existing OXPs anyway - but I'm having vague ideas about letting OXPs categorise the instruction text entries so that it's not so much "parcels", "passengers" and "cargo contracts" set apart as special categories, with everything else - including some OXP-led parcel or passenger deliveries - piled under "misc", and if I can think of a sensible way to get that to work then OXPs filing entries under a common "medals" heading would be possible without the core game actually having to define that heading.

Awards and Medals OXP sounds fine.

A "display medals and awards" function via the interface screen (F4) seems doable.

Of course there would be a common format needed how OXPs represent their awards (a mission variable beginning with award_ and containing a text string to be displayed would do). Then a script could extract all these text strings from the save file and put them on a screen, reachable via F4.

On second thoughts, that's not a good implementation. A clearly named mission variable containing an array of text strings would be better. Each OXP that wants to store an award can simply push its text string into the array.

I would like to see "Medals&Awards" OXP too with pictures! I don't know how it's possible to realise and it would be great to have a model...to add some unique awards for example...

Welcome aboard, Orion. Kinda fitting that your name should appear immediately below Commander McLane's avatar - Spaceship Orion.

Welcome Orion in this board!

There are a few OXP where you can gather something:
[wiki]Display_reputation_OXP[/wiki] - your level of trading special contracts,
Explorers'_Club_OXP - visited systems and famous parts of galaxies,
[wiki]Gallery[/wiki] - encountered ships and exhibitions,
[wiki]Trophy_Collector[/wiki] - defeated ships.

G'day Orion, and welcome aboard!

Thank you, dear Commanders, for a warm welcome!
Norby, yes, I know about these excellent OXP, thank you Now I'm using "Display reputation" & "Explorer's Club" but I plan to add "Trophy Collector" & "Gallery" in next campaigns. And I know another else wonderful OXP with ranks: RRS Group

Cody,
it's curiously enough