I found it was useful to define string substitution tokens on a per-mission basis. So in the mission code I could do something like: (msfAddStringSubs gMission "targetname" "qwerty") Then I can use %targetname% in the Text elements. I believe this can be accomplished as of 1.08e with subst: (subst ...

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giantcabbage wrote:should they really be buying slaves and triggers along with the drugs/bootleg 3dv?

Why not?

The encounter implied you were selling to drug users or a local dealer. As such they wouldn't have much use for slaves, corpses, or weapon parts etc.

I've attached that latest version of the Mission Framework. It comprises two parts, the MissionFramework library which is mostly a set of hacks and functions which allow a virtual ship/station with the mission attribute to behave a bit like the proposed MissionType design type. The second is the Mis...

Normally when the player encounters the brothers at the hotel bar they will have some low level drugs / 3dv. However, the encounter triggers for any illegal item which can seem a little odd when the brothers suddenly ask for a waste cannon or human cadaver. The same applies to the maintenance level ...

Currently only ships have the score attribute so the player can get 20 points for fighting a Centauri Raider, but a heavily armed station gets you no points (although there are usually plenty of ships defending it). Is there any reason not to have scores for stations too?

It starts you out in a ship collecting items. Eventually you find out that you need to go to an area where you need a better drive to reach it and a cloaking device so they don't blow you up. You then find out that you are being held in a force field by aliens and find a way to escape. The game end...

Thanks for the suggestion. I don’t have much free time to work on the framework at the moment, but when I get back to it I’ll try and add what you want. At the moment you can do some of what you want with a few separate function calls e.g.: (setq mission (msfCreateMission missionUNID parentStation))...

Mission framework has been updated again and is intended for v1.08. Most of the changes are to the framework to make it easier to create missions, rather than adding new missions. 1) <OnSystemCreated> missions now work (the Centauri occupation is now an example of this) 2) Most text strings are now ...

Does the wiki have the Structured Data Plugin installed? http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:data (alternatively the Tags plugin could probably be used too). Something like that would allow the pages to be organised into categories etc. and index tables/lists generated automatically similar to the functi...

Structures defined in a lambda block behave as static local variables - i.e. the same structure reference is used every time the function is called. Is this the intended behaviour? This feature could be useful, but seems surprising as lists do not do this (setq struct (lambda (key value) (block (the...

Thanks - I think setItem is all I need, I'll add tickets for the others if I find a need for them.

I see now that it was all in the 1.07 announcement post (must learn to use the search page)

Am I missing something, or are structures effectively a static datatype - i.e. once created it is not possible to modify the contents of a structure. Is this intentional, or just because they are a new addition to the engine? I would like to be able to use lnkAppend, lnkRemove, lnkReplace (or simila...

Hi - I like those ideas. I do have vague plans to use my mission framework mod to add a few missions based around the Centauri and the Corporate Hierarchy broadly similar to the Freeworlds idea, except the Centauri would be capturing ships and annoying isolated stations rather than managing to destr...

Thanks alterecco. I think you sent me something similar and I very nearly ended up using it ;o) There are a few reasons I’ve not done it yet (if I get around to a major rewrite though...) With the current approach the xml for the missions looks similar to built-in missions tied to individual station...

That is what I assumed at first, but aGateObj is not the exit gate and does not appear to be a valid objref. But I'm not sure what the scope is for the a* variables. Do they behave like function arguments, or are they just global variables which the engine sets before calling the event - i.e. was aG...