[SCR] Dockware Manager [9th April 2010 X³:TC 3.1.05]

jlehtone · Post by **jlehtone** » Fri, 25. Feb 11, 19:41

EST is Economy and Supply Trader, another script by Lucike and listed in the [url=http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=216690]TC Download Library[/url]. It is an alternative to the Trade Mk3 (aka Universal Trader).

builder680 · Post by **builder680** » Fri, 25. Feb 11, 20:41

If I download that, will I have to restart all my Universe Traders?

Nevermind. Found the answer.

Ingame, nothing needs restarting. All ships and stations should run the new scripts automatically, any ships set to notify you when orders are complete will send you a message.

So, apparently not. Cool script!

Edit: Apparently I will have to restart them, according to the post after this one. Still neat looking script though.

Saetan · Post by **Saetan** » Fri, 25. Feb 11, 20:59

EST is not the Universe Trader, sorry, my mistake.

If you want to change from UT to EST you have to stop the UT commands and start the EST commands of course. Only existing EST will re-start themselves after an EST-update.

But, I'm not sure, but at least it has been discussed ... trained UT pilots may be converted to trained EST pilots. Again, not sure about that implemention into the script and I never tested by myself.

Without these scripts installed, also these commands don't exist of course. And these commands won't affect regular UT's, but only CAG & EST.

After installation, you find these two there:

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Another way would be to blacklist any player owned stations of the HQ class for the traders. I don't know if the UT has a blacklist feature too, but EST (and any other commercial scripts by Lucike) has it surely. But for the last, a global setting like the station command is much more comfortable.

builder680 · Post by **builder680** » Fri, 25. Feb 11, 21:15

Ok, thanks for trying to help Saetan. That is a very cool looking mod but all the documentation and instructions are a bit intimidating! Though I'm sure it was a heck of a lot of work to write all that.

It looks like the UT ranks (1-25) are replaced with CAG ranks (1-6)... that should make it easier to fully train traders at least. I'm interested in how the conversion works from a 25 ranked UT as well. I'll have to dig around some time.

Also it looks like I'll have to reconfigure all my current CAG's too?

I'll look into it further maybe later (and after buying a pack of Red Bull)!

NOTE: Sorry if I got this off topic over the last few posts (talking about other scripts). My original thought was that what I needed to handle might be somewhere inside Dockware manager. Apparently it isn't.

Saetan · Post by **Saetan** » Fri, 25. Feb 11, 21:45

I'm sure all your EST have Trade Command Software Mk III?

If this software is installed, EST is a kind of fire & forget ... just make sure, MK III is activated for EST and hit start.

If this software is missing, or you deactivate it ... you must/are able to set all settings by yourself just as you like.

For the beginnig of the usage of this script, just let it do all by it's own. Later as you get used to, you can start to explore all the settings it does offer.

Also, once you have found a set of settings you like, you can save them in the data storage pool, so you can easily use them later for new traders. And with the global commands (you have to set a hotkey first, if no hotkey setting in the game options found, it eventually got split into an own script in the meantime) you also can transfer existing data storage entries (all settings or predefined parts of it) to a group of other existing traders too.

EST has a lot of features too explore, that's true. But don't get affraid of it, as there are also very easy ways to get started with.

No need to reconfigure CAG, as CAG is completly independent from CAG/UT ... why do you think so?

builder680 · Post by **builder680** » Fri, 25. Feb 11, 22:13

Saetan wrote:I'm sure all your EST have Trade Command Software Mk III?

If this software is installed, EST is a kind of fire & forget ... just make sure, MK III is activated for EST and hit start.

If this software is missing, or you deactivate it ... you must/are able to set all settings by yourself just as you like.

For the beginnig of the usage of this script, just let it do all by it's own. Later as you get used to, you can start to explore all the settings it does offer.

Also, once you have found a set of settings you like, you can save them in the data storage pool, so you can easily use them later for new traders. And with the global commands (you have to set a hotkey first, if no hotkey setting in the game options found, it eventually got split into an own script in the meantime) you also can transfer existing data storage entries (all settings or predefined parts of it) to a group of other existing traders too.

EST has a lot of features too explore, that's true. But don't get affraid of it, as there are also very easy ways to get started with.

No need to reconfigure CAG, as CAG is completly independent from CAG/UT ... why do you think so?

Ok, I thought it had something to do with CAG since it uses CAG ranks. I thought the script would mess up any of my ships that are using UT or CAG already. Guess not. I will try it soon

Also, yes, all my UT right now have Trade Mk III, it is the only way I could have them do UT.

Saetan · Post by **Saetan** » Fri, 25. Feb 11, 22:33

builder680 wrote:Ok, I thought it had something to do with CAG since it uses CAG ranks. I thought the script would mess up any of my ships that are using UT or CAG already. Guess not. I will try it soon

All scripts by Lucike use the same, or at least similar, ranks yes. But they all are independet from each others. Also existing commands of any ships don't get affected, you have to start them manually.

So, no existing traders will be affected or interrupted.

Good luck, hope you'll enjoy your tryings.

builder680 · Post by **builder680** » Sat, 26. Feb 11, 00:05

Ok, I'm having problems, but going to move my questions about it to the EST thread. It's probably my own mistake... ugh.

See the link if you can help and want to help.

vizerei · Post by **vizerei** » Sat, 2. Apr 11, 13:34

Hey Saetan...I'm attempting to modify another script (CDS) to create a more real life style logistics chain in my universe and I'm trying to figure out how to make these traders respect the Dockware Manager limits... The CDS script supposedly can do that but it didn't seem to be working.

I'm a bit of a newbie to scripting but it seems that
$var.dwm = 'dockware.manager.cargo.'

is what's being used in respecting DWM's max settings. Any chance you can point me in the right direction of the variables that store the DWM max limit?

Saetan · Post by **Saetan** » Sat, 2. Apr 11, 16:00

vizerei wrote:Any chance you can point me in the right direction of the variables that store the DWM max limit?

Sorry, I'm not able to help you as I'm not used to the script code itself.
I suggest to ask Lucike himself by sending him a personal message. You even don't need to be afraid of writing it in English.

webba84 · Post by **webba84** » Tue, 9. Aug 11, 18:36

You guys aware that all of these dl links are broken? For any mod by Lucike, basically.

Lian · Post by **Lian** » Fri, 20. Jan 12, 10:41

Go here and download the whole script collection, it includes dockware manager and the whole pack is only 2.6 mb so there's no fuss.[/url]