[Script] SatelliteDeploy v1.12 (18/01/2006)

[Bhruic]

Well, almost done. At this point I'm just looking for bugs. I'm not going to include the 'race limiter' in this version, because I haven't finalized how it will work. But the rest of it is working decently.

Hopefully, barring any major bugs, I can release something in a few hours time.

Bh

[CO. Dragon Corp]

Well, almost done. At this point I'm just looking for bugs. I'm not going to include the 'race limiter' in this version, because I haven't finalized how it will work. But the rest of it is working decently.

Hopefully, barring any major bugs, I can release something in a few hours time.

Bh

Great, I'm looking forward to it...

[Bhruic]

I had to go and mention bugs, didn't I.

Functionally it works right now, but there are a couple bugs to track down. May take a little longer to catch, as the debugging system is somewhat less than robust.

I'm still solid on 'soon' however.

Bh

[EidolonsFury]

I hate all those itchy, crawly bugs. Especially the ones that show up when you think everything is cool, and it's time to relax. I remember this one time, years ago, I'm sitting on the couch, watching some TV. Sitting there, relaxing, drinking a nice glass of tea. Then, out the corner of my eye, I think I see something, so I turn my head, and spend a minute or two to focus my attention. There, a couple feet away from me, on top of the back part of the couch, is this HUGE cockroach.

Nasty lil bugger, surprised me a bit it did. It was so big, I wasn't right sure if I wanted to kill it, or just slap it silly til it went elsewhere. I forget what I decided to grab to smash that sucka with. I just remember I wanted something solid, as those things can be quite fast. It's a horrid feeling to seem to stun the creature, only to have it dart off in a panic and run up your shoulder...then gets onto your neck....eww

Creepy, nasty lil buggers. Hate those unexpected bugs. Bugs in code can be just as annoying too.

[Bhruic]

Yeah, the creepy, crawly kind are annoying as well. I really hate it when I'm going to the bathroom at night, turn on the washroom light, and something starts crawling away. I really don't want to know what it is, but the fact that something is there freaks me out.

On the coding front (;)), I just need to get the darn 'ship.sync' to work properly. Well, it works properly (it's the function that prevents 2 ships from trying to place satellites in the same sector, or go to the same station to get satellites). But for some reason it seems to 'drop' ships under some indetermined circumstance. So basically the ship.sync function doesn't know the ship exists, so ships go back to going to the same spot.

Once I can nail that one down, I should be good.

Bh

[CO. Dragon Corp]

Yeah, the creepy, crawly kind are annoying as well. I really hate it when I'm going to the bathroom at night, turn on the washroom light, and something starts crawling away. I really don't want to know what it is, but the fact that something is there freaks me out.

On the coding front (;)), I just need to get the darn 'ship.sync' to work properly. Well, it works properly (it's the function that prevents 2 ships from trying to place satellites in the same sector, or go to the same station to get satellites). But for some reason it seems to 'drop' ships under some indetermined circumstance. So basically the ship.sync function doesn't know the ship exists, so ships go back to going to the same spot.

Once I can nail that one down, I should be good.

Bh

Take your time, good things mostly need patience .

It was not earlier than today that I realized that I finally are in need of a sattelite deploying script. Everyone knows that from time to time station get destroyed, or they just disappear and you read this in a BBS news report. In the past my universe lost only unimportant stations - at least they were unimportant for me. But today a "pbc factory" was whipped from the map and I used to buy at that station .

I know that there will be a replacment station....SOMEWHERE. And this is were your sattelite deployer jumps in and does the job for me. I need to constantly update the whereabouts of factories I need to equip my ships!

PS: About the things that used to crawl in the bathroom....I thank god every day for not living in a country with....dangerous snakes, scorpions, frogs and so on. There's maybe one dangerous snake in this country (germany) and I've never met one in my life (though I use to wander trough nature quite often).

[Bhruic]

Ok, finally got the new version released. I'd appreciate if someone out there can host it as well, as the machine it's on now is somewhat flakey at times, and I'm going to away and unable to reboot it if it crashes.

Hopefully this release is bug-free (ha!), but if you run into any abnormalities, let me know.

Bh

[TycHouse]

I am hosting the file here, any updates please let me know.

cheers

[X-it]

Nice! Thank you very much. Small question:

"Continue" - This determines how the ship will act when it is required to resupply (purchase more satellites). If this is set to '1', the ship will return to the sector it was at previously, and choose a new destination from there. If this is set to '0', the ship will not return, and will begin deploying from its new location.

If set to 0, it will start deploying sats at or close to where it bought the new sats, while set to 1 will make it return to the sector it was in when it ran out of sats?

If it is set to deploy 8 sats per sector, will it deploy its current hold of for example 5 sats, and then go and buy new ones, or will it only start the deployment if it has at least 8 sats in the hold?

[Bhruic]

If set to 0, it will start deploying sats at or close to where it bought the new sats, while set to 1 will make it return to the sector it was in when it ran out of sats?

Basically, yes.

If it is set to deploy 8 sats per sector, will it deploy its current hold of for example 5 sats, and then go and buy new ones, or will it only start the deployment if it has at least 8 sats in the hold?

The former. As long as it has a satellite in cargo, it will try and use it - it will only buy more when it completely runs out.

Bh

[X-it]

Thanks! Brilliant work on this. Lots of 'intelligent' features in it. Well done for completing something that others have had to give up on. Is this added to the community scripts sticky?

[Bhruic]

Not yet, I'm waiting to see if I get any "This completely hosed my game!" comments first.

Bh

[Anoik]

Can this script replace a destroyed sat if needed, withoutme commanding the ship to do it?.

For example, i want to have one ship in my capital ship assigned to a home sector. Then i want it to deploy sats in all the sectors that are one jump away of the home sector, then return to the capital ship and go out away again only if one or more sats are destroyed and replace those. It's possible

[ajw2255]

hey there

Love the script very useful,

However iv been using two ships to drop the sats and they have duplicated them in a couple of sectors. Just to let u know.

[X-it]

Not yet, I'm waiting to see if I get any "This completely hosed my game!" comments first.

Bh

Well I'm not sure if THIS hosed my game, but I just had to resest my PC after a 'sound-loop freeze'... Never had that happening before. I've installed several other script updates though, so I couldn't tell if it's this or something else.

Anyway, I did notice something:

I've had a Disco doing the deployment so far. When I started the game just now after installing this update, I tried to set the order to deploy advanced sats again. I immediately got the 'command accepted' message, without the new input options.

I tried to set its order to 'None', and then 'Re-init script caches' in the script editor. Then I gave it the command again, but the same thing happened; no extra options.

I haven't checked, but does this update completely overwrite the earlier version, or do I need to remove some files from the old version?

[CO. Dragon Corp]

Ok, finally got the new version released. I'd appreciate if someone out there can host it as well, as the machine it's on now is somewhat flakey at times, and I'm going to away and unable to reboot it if it crashes.

Hopefully this release is bug-free (ha!), but if you run into any abnormalities, let me know.

Bh

Great. I guess there's something new that needs translation....I'll do it right now .

[Bhruic]

Can this script replace a destroyed sat if needed, withoutme commanding the ship to do it?.

For example, i want to have one ship in my capital ship assigned to a home sector. Then i want it to deploy sats in all the sectors that are one jump away of the home sector, then return to the capital ship and go out away again only if one or more sats are destroyed and replace those. It's possible

Right now it will do everything but the "return to the capital ship" part. Hopefully I can get that working in the next release.

However iv been using two ships to drop the sats and they have duplicated them in a couple of sectors. Just to let u know.

With the latest version? That should be impossible. Even if the sync system breaks, there's no way they should drop a second satellite. I wonder if you're having the same problem as X-it. Did you get the multiple options when you started the script up?

I've had a Disco doing the deployment so far. When I started the game just now after installing this update, I tried to set the order to deploy advanced sats again. I immediately got the 'command accepted' message, without the new input options.

I tried to set its order to 'None', and then 'Re-init script caches' in the script editor. Then I gave it the command again, but the same thing happened; no extra options.

I haven't checked, but does this update completely overwrite the earlier version, or do I need to remove some files from the old version?

I changed some of the names and such, but that shouldn't matter. Still, probably the best idea is to completely remove all script files, start the game, and make sure no ships are running the script. Then save it again, and install the new version.

Bh

[Anoik]

Right now it will do everything but the "return to the capital ship" part. Hopefully I can get that working in the next release.

Thanks for your reply Bhruic. It will be nice to have the ship to return to a capital ship or station when his job is done, and await there for new orders or for destroyed sats to replace.

[Bhruic]

I've updated to v1.11 with a proper German translation (thanks CO. Dragon Corp!). That's really the only change, so if you are playing in English, you don't need to upgrade.

Bh

[X-it]

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I changed some of the names and such, but that shouldn't matter. Still, probably the best idea is to completely remove all script files, start the game, and make sure no ships are running the script. Then save it again, and install the new version.

Thanks, I went through the list of 'bh'-files in my scripts folder, and there were many more than in your latest version. Also the init-file was different. I removed them all and reinstalled.

Actually the ship I was using got destroyed during my last game session, so when I reload the game now afterwards there are definitely no ships running your script.

And regarding the freeze, I think we have nailed that down to another script (Myros TerraCorp Combat Pilots addon). He's reproduced the freeze, and is going to look into it tomorrow.

Cheers!