I mostly blathered about this on xelerus, but I just saw TheProphet mention the thrusters and wanted to say to make sure you check them over planets and near the sun, and if it looks odd check your masks. I think it did, but I've had a crazy day

Here are a couple of spreadsheets I made to get a feel for how weapon damage types and manufacturers are distributed along levels in the core games. The manufacturer sheet isn't as pretty and I'm not sure how much I like the formatting in the conversion but I thought I should throw them out here be...

Decimal Shifting for Floating Point Strings ; This is a little function I cooked up for displaying all those values ; that are stored in smaller units than they're displayed in -- like ; maneuver and maxSpeed -- as if they were floating point values. Works ; out a division by 10^shift using string f...

Especially given that NPC sihps know how to do it already, especially IAVs.

I want their solar energy > fuel cell converter! It could be a deployable that you could leave on the sun for a while and come back for bounty

Wolfy: I didn't notice it until I was skimming through ItemsMisc.xml. It also turns up as one of the vanilla examples of OverlayType, esp. if you're inclined to use grep to find such things :D. Digdug: Wow, that would be really annoying. I'll just throw it on a wreck and explode the wreck like I do ...

I took the liberty of rewriting your function using lists as an example here: (setq wvrGetMaxArmor (lambda (theShip) (block (maxMass) (setq maxMass 0) (itmEnumTypes "a" anArmor (block (mass) (setq mass (itmGetMass anArmor)) (if (and (gr mass maxMass) (shpCanInstallArmor theShip anArmor)) (setq maxM...

what if the current functions could accept both magic numbers and strings ? They would remain backward compatible. In the future, when eventually more strings will be added, the numbers could be removed from the functions. ... But it is pretty easy to have a function accept both ints and string. I ...

There's also an example in Transcendence.xml; near <AdventureDesc

Cool, thank you. I believe wxPythonDemo or some similar API example I have laying around will dump the keycodes you mention, too, so I should be set one way or the other now .

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Hi! A list of the names we can use for keys in the MAP tags in Settings.xml would be really useful, as some of them aren't (to me, anyway) very obvious. Specifically, I could really use the names for the numpad / * + - and Enter keys, and the 5 key with numlock off (which i've seen called all kinds ...

I lost my first just-post-St-K pilot to unpausedness too. Went to work in the kitchen thinking whatever I had up on the screen paused it, and a while later my SO said there was an explosion on the screen, which turned out to be the "you have died" crawl text background. (I think this was the same ga...

*tinker tinker* Aha! I have found a decent method to obtain the max relevant armor weight for a ship; that is, the mass of the largest armor piece currently existing in the game that the ship can support: (setq wvrGetMaxArmor (lambda (theShip) (block (armorSamples anArmor aMass maxMass) (setq armors...

Oh wow, a listing on Xelerus I've never seen before. I thought I went through all the listings :D. .... Wait, I did see that, because I remember the tale of two cities comment. I guess I just didnt' realize what it was :D. And yeah, i've heard of the DSF (for one thing, it comes up in the Captains' ...

Hi! I'm looking to make a more informative Ship Configuration dockscreen, as I often can't remember what various ship capabilites are, and because I'm sick of referring to xml files to see what my (UG) wingmen can do/use. I seem to be finding that there isn't any way, however, to get these pieces of...