Offering free code/modding help

[RPC]

Okay, so RL is picking up earlier than I expected so I decided to throw up what I have of the mothership mod just in case anybody wants to pick up where I left off:
http://pastebin.com/9cFvebh9

[shanejfilomena]

Interesting.. too much typing for me, but as usual I know your stuff is always awesome

what I am trying to do is get an item to be given a destination that is random.....ie: you have a military weapon, it has to be delivered to a csc.....but (possible) you get the weapon long before you meet a csc , so how to get the item and csc to communicate to tell the item where the csc ( or any csc ) might be.....mmmm

See: the Black Market Container Mission is EASY, stk is not a random thing....but to get the player to have a delivery mission to a randomly spawning station in other systems....

try THAT in your magickal code book LOL

AS USual : my ideas never really work for me... LOL so it is an on-going project.

[shanejfilomena]

ok- almost gave up on the communicating item / csc : almost : I was looking at just having the item choose a random csc......

THEN i CAME TO THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION THAT i WAS DOWN THAT ROAD BEFORE IN A DIFFERENT CODE IDEA ( THAT CRASHED THE GAME SEVERAL TIMES )

oo cap lock - my bad.

is it possible for items to differentiate themselves from other items of the same type / unid ?

see, my " problem" all along was that the item is the same item , even if there are 342 of them : they all think they are one item.

Soo : IF you took 10 slaves to a Slave Furnace and throw one in : they all scream because they do not have the ability to differentiate themselves from the other 9 slaves.

see?

THAT is what has been driving me nuts : sure, making 20+ of the same item w/ different names is ok.....but WHY must we go down that path?

there HAS to be a way to make the items ( even a weapon ) aware that it is an individual of the group.

[FourFire]

@shane

would it be possible to enhance your quest item with a custom "+quest item" enhancement and thus differentiate it from other items ingame?

[shanejfilomena]

@shane

would it be possible to enhance your quest item with a custom "+quest item" enhancement and thus differentiate it from other items ingame?

YES!!!!!!!!
However, you must keep in mind - My ideas are terrible
LOL

BUT I got the items working - mostly - as suggested by RPC and TVR - the only main problem I have is my own dock screens not wanting to play nice.

As for the REST of the idea that the item separates itself from the others of it's kind....I had the answer from the "start" of my project -

As for your Idea of +Quest Item...... I have that but not in that term....However, since you suggested it - I will work on that =
I will NOW want one of the Items to select something that will make them More important then the others - 'dead or 'alive.