Just letting you know that i'm doing some work on the 'jump' script you posted about. Q, Do you want to be able to jump any of your ships inc playership? (as long as they have JD installed of course).
The script i'm working on should allow for any of your ships with JD to use it. Getting the sellection parts down to a min of menus is hard, just trying to keep it simple and quick (the hardest type to script by the way).
It will use ecells if avail and shield energy if not (can't come up with a way of justifying it costing credits and still sound plausible )
Shield energy jumps will prob just be to a random location in the target sector, no targeting allowed. It is a emergency jump after all and no time for precise targeting, just "get us to that sector NOW!" or "get us the hell outta here NOW! anywhere in another sector will do, just try not to hit the big station in the middle."
Atm, i've got it so the first menu asks 'player ship' or 'other ship' if playership, it asks for destination location if you have ecells, otherwise you just get to choose the target sector. If 'other ship' you get asked for some letters for a sector name, then some letters from a ship name. Then you get a menu of sectors and ship names from what you put in. Just select the ship you want from those listed, only ships with JD's are listed. If it has enough ecells onboard to jump to that sector you get a sector and location choice as target, otherwise just a sector can be chosen (and bye bye shields).
It's still very much a WIP, but i'm sure i remember you volunteering to be a test bunny for it
.I would like your thoughts on how to access the menu, Hotkey, via MarCon menu, via nav in player ships command menu, etc ...
There are still a lot of details to be worked out too. re, followers ships, do carriers wait for ships to dock or jump without them. Do carrier's emergency transport undocked support craft onboard when req'd to quick jump, and the cost of doing this etc etc .... i think you get the idea.
Don't you just love all the choices you have to make just for a simple 'jump script'
Looking forward to your responce.
BTW, i've had a piece of paper stuck on my computer room wall with 'rewrite Marcon main menu and clean up all code' for some time now. Every time i look at it i go
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