Oolite Bulletins

Is there any chance of making it possible to tell how long a given equipment purchase will take before proceeding with the purchase? This can be critical if say for example a Maintenance Overhaul comes due half-way through a cross-sector contract run. Maybe you can afford to take the time out, maybe you can't. Maybe you'll have time once you make the next deadline 2 systems away.

The trouble is there's no way of knowing how long a transaction will take until you complete it. I got lucky on my last run... I noticed that the equipment I'd just purchased had put me over my contract deadline before I saved my game.

On a somewhat related note I also have a query - is the time taken for a Maintenance Overhaul constant, or does it vary?

- Neelix

The time taken to install a piece of equipment is currently 5 minutes plus one second per decicredit.

As the maintenance overhaul varies in price depending on your ship, equipment and service level, it'll also vary in time taken.

There's more than enough room in the f3-screen for time estimates. Maybe that's something to consider for the next version of Oolite?

That, and potentially allowing equipment.plist entries to specify a hard-coded installation time.

spara wrote:

There's more than enough room in the f3-screen for time estimates. Maybe that's something to consider for the next version of Oolite?

In the meantime, is it possible to OXP/Z this?

on a slightly tangential note...
i havent looked but does game time pass while i phaff about looking at star charts and buying in the market and looking at ships for sale etc?

The shipclock is always ticking!

cheers cody.. so no more window shopping while on a parcel delivery contract then? lol

Diziet Sma wrote:

spara wrote:

There's more than enough room in the f3-screen for time estimates. Maybe that's something to consider for the next version of Oolite?

In the meantime, is it possible to OXP/Z this?

That's a very good question!

Can't see from a script what's on the screen or better yet what's selected, but a simple overlay might do the trick here. At least it would give you some idea how long the operation is going to last. Like this:

That might have to do.. the leading zero could be dropped, as the longest time shown on there is under 3 hours.

Diziet Sma wrote:

That might have to do.. the leading zero could be dropped, as the longest time shown on there is under 3 hours.

Those times are out....
At 5 minutes + 1 second per decicredit:
5 mins = 300 seconds
3000CR = 30000 seconds
30300 seconds = 505 minutes = 8:25:00


- Neelix

Neelix wrote:

Diziet Sma wrote:

That might have to do.. the leading zero could be dropped, as the longest time shown on there is under 3 hours.

Those times are out....
At 5 minutes + 1 second per decicredit:
5 mins = 300 seconds
3000CR = 30000 seconds
30300 seconds = 505 minutes = 8:25:00


- Neelix

Hah. I divided, when I should have multiplied . Shame on me .

Here's the one with correct prices.

Here's a quick'n dirty oxp for those interested. Looks like this:



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