[SCRIPT] Salvage Command Suite V4.11 (stable beta) [29/12/2012]

[LordGaara]

Wow, impressive changelog TECSG!

[TECSG]

Hi LordGaara,

*Any Ship* (at least, most of them!) Plus a few specials from the SCS scripts.

If a station is abandoned, you can (as of v4.10) claim and then sell, scrap or repair the station. Someone posted a while back that they got a message (from the SCS Network Newsletter) saying an abandoned station had been found as I'd already added the 'detection' routines, now I added the routines to actually claim the found station.

I have not implemented the code to make the 'owners' abandon the station though, I was hoping ThisIsHarsh would add that 'feature' to his NPC Bailing mod!

However, if he doesn't, and I can get the time (and my head around it) I may do it myself at some point.

[Osiris454]

[TECSG]

Hi Osiris454,

Thanks for the reminder!

I can add in a check to see if there's already a satellite within scanner range of the debris you are salvaging and only deploy a new satellite if there isn't one.

You should be able to use the 'Collect Satellite' command to reclaim the marker satellite if it is no longer needed though.

[Osiris454]

Cool. Thank you!

Oh, yeah, I forgot one more thing. When you press 'v' (SCS hotkey for me) on a damaged ship, it sends in the MRS and tells you so via a little message at the bottom of your screen. However, you can cancel the request by pressing 'v' again (before the MRS arrives) but there is no message telling you that the MRS repair has been called off. Also, can the Salvage Hyperion have this ability? As of 4.07 you can only call in a Hyperion but you can't call it off (unless you destroy it ). Pressing the hotkey on the wreckage again after the Hyperion is called in would cause the Hyperion to jump out and call off the salvage. Perhaps even add a little 'fee' for wasting the pilot's time.

[TECSG]

Hi Osiris454,

That's a good point, I'll see if I can squeeze that in to v4.10 before it's released.

I've added in the checks for the satellite already, that's good to go!

Thanks for the suggestion!

UPDATE:

Okay, found a really weird (and annoying) bug in TC...

I modified the Salvage Debris routine so trying to salvage the same debris twice would call a library routine to pop-up a window asking if you want to cancel the first salvager, that worked fine...

Then I added the same call to the hotkey command to salvage the debris... and that sort of worked... a bit...

For some reason, the same routine called from two different scripts (even with the same parameters passed) has different results.

If called from a standard script (ie, running on a ship), the window pops up fine, but if called from a script tied to a hotkey, a menu is opened instead of the pop-up window.

I'll have to write a new 'mini-menu' routine that can replace the built-in command, unless someone knows what the heck is going on (and more importantly, how to solve it)!

[LordGaara]

[TECSG]

Greetings LordGaara,

whilest you are in the same sector as the Salvage Hyperions, their collision detection is deactivated, otherwise they spend ages trying to get a firing line on the debris you have them salvaging.

The 'Jump to Station' and 'Jump to Position' commands are (as it says in the manual) only available under certain conditions:

[LordGaara]

Thanks, TECSG. My bad.
I read the manual long time ago and forgot about the requirements.
Education time.

EDIT: Another question, TECSG.
Yesterday I used the MPW for the 1st time... and they pulled a fast one on me! I think this is unacceptable, you cant cheat a customer on his 1st visit!
From the MPW menu I ordered 30 cyclone missiles, payed about 700K and received a smile and goodbye-wave in return.
Am I missing something? Where is the order delivered to? It wasnt in my cargo bay for sure.

Re-EDIT: Nothing on the manual for this menu either.

[TECSG]

If in doubt... RTFM...

[LordGaara]

[TECSG]

Any orders (of wares) from the MPW will be packaged into containers and dropped in space at/near the location of the ship that places the order, you can then use the 'Collect Ware' commands (I'd recommend the SCS commands as they will prevent wares being destroyed because the ships cargo bay is full) to pick up the container.

Once you gain Remote Access to the MPW, you can place orders from anywhere, in that case, there is a delivery fee, but a transporter will jump in and drop off the container(s) of goods you purchased.

Other orders (ships for example) will jump in to your location once they have been retrieved from the Pirate's (non-mobile) warehouse.

Will update the manual for that!

EDIT:

[TECSG]

Okay, V4.10 is now with the Beta Testers, all going well, the scripts will be released soon!

[jerry7890]

Hi TECSG,

[TECSG]

Hi jerry7890,

I will post a link shortly, but got sooooo much work on at the minute I only get an hour or two a day to work on the scripts.

I don't think *most* people in the S&M forum read the manual, but generally, neither do I!

I can put in an option for the colouring the names of sats, shouldn't be a problem.

The XRM shield/CB Shielding swap was done purely to try to balance the SCS scripts across mods, given that the satellites cost the same, it seems only fair that the additional wares needed do too. The 2 unit limit is also a problem given that it takes (currently) 4 to make a Stealth Satellite, it would take ages to gather enough even to light up just a few sectors and I think I would get quite a few complaints if people had to spend ages gathering CB Shielding before they could place any Stealth Satellites.

The required ware could be added as an option so you can change the ware (from a list of 'appropriate' wares) if requested by several people.