Xai Corporation needs testers.

[moggy2]

I've been bouncing a few ideas around for a Factory Manager System for a few weeks now. I've been trying out a few new things that I haven't seen done before so I'd like some feed back on how it's all fitting together.

You can download the latest beta here. Some of the commands aren't fully functional yet but there should be enough there to give you an idea of what we're trying to achieve. The readme is a bit out of date but should give you a general idea of what's going on.

If yout try it could you please post your impressions of it along with any suggestions on how to make it better or for other functions to be included.

*As with any beta release caution is recomended when trying this. We recomend keeping a back up of your latest save before you try this, just incase.

Xai Corporation Factory Manager System
Version: 1.0.beta2
Online Documentation
Requires: Xai Corporation Advanced Navigation Libraries

Command List

• Xai Corporation Factory Manager Program
  Activate Alert System
  Deactivate Alert System
  Activate Dynamic Pricing
  Deactivate Dynamic Pricing
  Activate Smart Storage
  Deactivate Smart Storage
  Activate Ship Branding
  Deactivate Ship Branding
  Put station up for sale
  remove station from property market
  arm self destruct
  execute self destruct
  Report: Inbound ships
  Report: Hull damage (ships and station)
  Report: average pricing and curent capital
  Set as homebase for landed ships
  Unset as homebase for landed ships
  Start all supply ships
  Stop all supply ships
  Assign Target to station fighter groups.

[nuclear_eclipse]

I tried the link you gave and I'm getting a 404 not found error. I would love to test this though.

[moggy2]

Seems to be working for me.

[DeadlyDa]

Looks good so far. I'll shake it out some over the next few days (may not get much time until the weekend), and let you know what I find.

[handzon]

hi there moggy good work as always, though one thing i have found so far is the lack of general options in station defence. so im wondering if these couple of ideas could be implemented in your mod here.

1. auto/launch fighter drones; maybe linked with alert incoming fighters,
2. auto/launch lazor towers; maybe linked with alert incoming fighters;
& or as secondary defence in case first layer of tower defence has
been taken down.
3. auto/launch active 4 squashmines from towers.as per % of sheilds
remaining strength.

i know the latter was possible on towers back in extension by adding extra cargo cap. and i would remote eject cargo when sheilds were near on diminshed. though ran risk of killing nearby own ships.(better then losing station). just an thought.

[DeadlyDa]

Hmmm...is the ship branding working for everyone else? I run a lot of scripts (including most of the Xai stuff). Before I start ripping things apart, I want to make sure that at least one other person has the branding working from the current beta.

[moggy2]

Not everthing's working yet. I did say.

However I thought that was. My guess is it's just that nothing explains that you need to run the Manager Program, and the 'activate/deactivate' commands are nothing more than switches.

does that help?

[DeadlyDa]

More on ship branding...

Yes, I'm running the FMS Manager. I get the alert messages fine.

After playing around, I see that the ship branding works OK, with a few small issues:

1. Sometimes the command takes effect immediately, and sometimes ships need to return to the station.
2. On one occaision, I reassigned a ship between factories in the same sector. The reassigned ship kept it's old name...even after a couple of trade runs. By deactivating and reactivating the ship branding, it immediately picked up the new name.

I'll play around some more, and let you know what I find.