[SCRIPT] Auto Prep Ships v1.3 [2010-09-24]

[paulhamm]

Nicoman35

I have been doing a bit of testing on your version 1.3a. The repair ship function does not seem to work. Used a Magnetar with4 repair lasers installed.
There is also a problem when upgrading larger class ships that can not dock with the auto prep ship. Failed to upgrade tunings. It did transfer cargo Mosquito Missiles. Did not purchase upgrades. Used a Chokaro with 4 Fujin ships as buyers as needed. The 10 Mistral Super Freighters should have docked at local EQ dock in Light of Heart and purchased Tunings and upgrades like CLS1 and 2.

Reverted to previous version and seems to be working again.

Not sure if you are aware but there is a CTD issue with the older version 1.3 that seems to be associated with the loss of a template ship. My work around was to not use the affect auto prep ship again. Crude but worked.

Thanks for taking a look at this script. I like how it works and hope you continue to improve it.

[Nicoman35]

Nicoman35

I have been doing a bit of testing on your version 1.3a. The repair ship function does not seem to work. Used a Magnetar with4 repair lasers installed.
There is also a problem when upgrading larger class ships that can not dock with the auto prep ship. Failed to upgrade tunings. It did transfer cargo Mosquito Missiles. Did not purchase upgrades. Used a Chokaro with 4 Fujin ships as buyers as needed. The 10 Mistral Super Freighters should have docked at local EQ dock in Light of Heart and purchased Tunings and upgrades like CLS1 and 2.

Reverted to previous version and seems to be working again.

Not sure if you are aware but there is a CTD issue with the older version 1.3 that seems to be associated with the loss of a template ship. My work around was to not use the affect auto prep ship again. Crude but worked.

Thanks for taking a look at this script. I like how it works and hope you continue to improve it.

I only made it working for upgrading and equipping groups of ships docked at carriers. Then give the carrier the command to auto prep. I did not touch any other aspect, but my changes may well affect repair job....
I did not use any supplyer ships, so it's untested so far.
I'll have a look at this for shure, but not right now. I want to play a bit first. I don't know when I'll continue work on this....maybe you would like to have a look?

[Phier]

I've been playing with this in AP and thanks! Just getting the upgrades alone, enmass, is fantastic.

[albazeus]

Is there a way to use this script for TSs or other ships that cannot dock at carriers?
I'd like to tune/buy thech upgrades/buy shield-lasers. Is it possible?
Or do you know any other script/mod/way to do this?

TIA

[foszae]

A live version of this is still available Autumn 2015 on a site in french:
http://www.3enfamille.net/vb/showthread ... hisIsHarsh

[TechSY730]

Actually, I don't think the cause of the crash is the template getting destroyed. I have edited my local version to be more paranoid about making sure ships exist before trying to display anything about them, but I can still get the crash.

I am now currently suspecting that this crash can happen if you pull up the menu after you interrupted a prior Auto Prep ships task with some other task. But I can't think what could cause this; without knowing which types of scripting errors can cause a full on game crash, this is hard for me to debug...

EDIT: Progress update; so I have managed to track down the issue to something "bad" in the custom menu that is shown to configure the command before the command is run.
Once I figure out what, I will add a check to workaround it, then file a bug report as scripts should not be able to cause a crash

[TechSY730]

Auto Prep Ships v1.4b

This builds off the work of Nicoman35 in his unofficial 1.3a.

Changes:

• * Fixed a crash related to displaying the prep-log (X3 will crash if a string of a too large a size is put into a custom menu). The plugin will now truncate the log to 4000 characters before trying to display it (which may mean it gets cut off mid word!)
  * You can still get the unabridged log written to a log file using the new "Write log to disk" command
  * To prevent unrestricted growth of a string that is in the save file, the full prep log is now capped at 40960 characters. This should be FAR more then enough, this is just to stop unrestricted growth
  * Fixed an issue where ships that could not dock with the prepping ship would be ignored for repairing
  * You can now specify a (player owned) station as the source to fetch equipment from, in addition to the existing ship option, in case you have a factory or equipment dock you would like to fetch supplies from

In 1.4b

• * Fixed a bug where when gathering equipment from a station, the ship wouldn't actually dock at the station.

Auto_Prep_Ships_v1.4b_TechSY730_hack.zip:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B80_E ... 2h0VlVZQ2c

[Rotite]

Auto Prep Ships v1.4b

This builds off the work of Nicoman35 in his unofficial 1.3a.

Changes:

• * Fixed a crash related to displaying the prep-log (X3 will crash if a string of a too large a size is put into a custom menu). The plugin will now truncate the log to 4000 characters before trying to display it (which may mean it gets cut off mid word!)
  * You can still get the unabridged log written to a log file using the new "Write log to disk" command
  * To prevent unrestricted growth of a string that is in the save file, the full prep log is now capped at 40960 characters. This should be FAR more then enough, this is just to stop unrestricted growth
  * Fixed an issue where ships that could not dock with the prepping ship would be ignored for repairing
  * You can now specify a (player owned) station as the source to fetch equipment from, in addition to the existing ship option, in case you have a factory or equipment dock you would like to fetch supplies from

In 1.4b

• * Fixed a bug where when gathering equipment from a station, the ship wouldn't actually dock at the station.

Auto_Prep_Ships_v1.4b_TechSY730_hack.zip:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B80_E ... 2h0VlVZQ2c

Sorry for a necro.
Unable to access the file, not even archive.org has a record.