Expansions Manager Manager/Environment Manager
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:05 pm
Not too sure about the best name for this - maybe an Environment Manager.
It would be absolutely superb to have some way of tying in the various expansions to the various Jamesons saved on my computer.
There was my pre-Stranger suite of oxp's with Redspear & Spara's various additions of additional planets and orbital stations with their own markets.
Now that I'm exploring Stranger's Ooniverse I've had to hoick every single one of those oxps out of my Managed AddOns folder and bung them elsewhere, while I installed Stranger's Planets/Moons/Orbital Stations set.
When I get around to investigating his modifications of the game mechanics I'll need to undergo another such oxz shuffling exercise to remove the oxz's which muck up his Hard Way's changes to the game.
These exercises in shuffling are non-trivial, taking time and effort and often involving mistakes.
It would be truly wonderful to be able to select environments of oxps where I can run one Jameson in Stranger's Ooniverse whilst (almost) simultaneously running another in my pre-Stranger Ooniverse. Either by selecting the environment as well as the Jameson when I start playing or else by the Environment being selected by the Jameson I choose to play.
Of course, I could just buy another 3 or so computers and run different oxp environments on each... Then I really could play them all simultaneously...
It would be absolutely superb to have some way of tying in the various expansions to the various Jamesons saved on my computer.
There was my pre-Stranger suite of oxp's with Redspear & Spara's various additions of additional planets and orbital stations with their own markets.
Now that I'm exploring Stranger's Ooniverse I've had to hoick every single one of those oxps out of my Managed AddOns folder and bung them elsewhere, while I installed Stranger's Planets/Moons/Orbital Stations set.
When I get around to investigating his modifications of the game mechanics I'll need to undergo another such oxz shuffling exercise to remove the oxz's which muck up his Hard Way's changes to the game.
These exercises in shuffling are non-trivial, taking time and effort and often involving mistakes.
It would be truly wonderful to be able to select environments of oxps where I can run one Jameson in Stranger's Ooniverse whilst (almost) simultaneously running another in my pre-Stranger Ooniverse. Either by selecting the environment as well as the Jameson when I start playing or else by the Environment being selected by the Jameson I choose to play.
Of course, I could just buy another 3 or so computers and run different oxp environments on each... Then I really could play them all simultaneously...