[UPDATED] Console Dockscreen

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MOD DESCRIPTION:

A console build into a dockscreen, to serve as a replacement for the build in debug console Transcendence.
The console is accessed via a ROM which automatically spawns into your ship's cargo hold.

PLEASE NOTE: This mod is only available for games started in /debug mode.

Latest version: Console Dockscreen

Version 1.00
- made console rom virtual
- Updated for Transcendence 1.7.
- Updated some UNIDs

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Last edited by pixelfck on Sun Apr 10, 2016 8:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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 I have a few quick suggestions:
» Change item mass to 0.
 True, the item doesn’t take up much space, but better for what’s supposed to be a utility like this if it doesn’t take up any space at all.
» Make item virtual.
 This will ensure you don’t accidentally jettison it.
» Replace “Consumable” attribute with “ID” attribute.
 It isn’t actually consumable, and making it behave like an ID will keep it from getting melted by abandoned cargo crates full of acid.

 I may have more suggestions after I’ve actually, you know, used it, but those struck me just by taking a quick peek at the XML. …I am such an unrepentant source-diver… ^.^;
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Thanks for the feedback. I expected lots of things could receive comments, yet the ROM item was not one of them :-)

I was amazed that a virtual item would show up in the 'use-item' list (maybe it should be reported as a bug, although it may serve as a feature).
Having it as a virtual item would also exclude it from the list of items-to-be-possibly-destroyed-by-a-cargo-crate-full-of-industrial-solvent.

Anyhow, thanks for the feedback, I'm hoping for more!

Cheers,
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This is really cool. I had been thinking about something similar!
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