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Browser_ice 9 Aug, 2016 @ 5:44pm
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Hi, I thought this would fit better in the forum section rather then in the comment section.

I had YAT2 but removed it because it was getting in the way of your MOD and I felt less in control, plus it was rendering yours less efficient.

So why haven't you looked into extending this trading to offer the following levels ?
1- player station to player station (lets call it internal trading)
2- player station to NPC stations (lets call it normal trading)
3- NPC stations to NPC stations (lets call it auto trading)

I think the internal trading should be done quietly in the background without having to notify us of the trades.

Normal trading, I think normal notifications should be kept.

Auto trading should have some kind of options to give us the choice on the level of notifications we want : none, brief, normal. Idealy, if there was a window where we could see all the auto traders performance or stats, it might be a good idea. But overall I would rather have a global view on them then any special individual views. Of course I could always use the normal Property windows to look a tthem.

What do you think ?

[added comments]
Don't think this is already present but how about a black list or gray list of zones ?
Black list=zones to not visit (updated automatically or manually)
Gray List=be carefull list because of frequent attacks (choise of getting turned into black list by the player)
Last edited by Browser_ice; 9 Aug, 2016 @ 5:59pm
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jth  [developer] 10 Aug, 2016 @ 5:06am 
I think that you are asking here for a complete replacement for the vanilla trading script(s) which is a major undertaking and there are already alternatives out there.

This mod is meant to work with the exisiting vanilla scripts to add a feature that I felt should have been in there as standard. So its been added into the standard script but the rest of the Egosoft created rules are still in there and do execute

I have read lots of posts from people who felt this feature was available in previous games via station to station connectors but had been left out of X Rebirth and they missed it. I missed it too and decided to do something about it.
Last edited by jth; 10 Aug, 2016 @ 5:06am
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Browser_ice 10 Aug, 2016 @ 8:26am 
thx for the answer

I am just not feelign that this game is not up to what I need out of a space sim. I have the capacity to MOD it all. I just have to start disecting the game code and do it. Unfortunetly, as I grow older, I am having less patience to do anything that would take weeks to do. I am not sure I am willing to spend a whole year on this (especially if another game should come out that would like better, from Egosoft or anyone else). If I knew in advance that there won't be anyhing better for me in the next year, then maybe I would do it.
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jth  [developer] 11 Aug, 2016 @ 5:09am 
I can't comment on when other games will come out but as far as X Rebirth modding is concerned

I try and pick a particular issue that is annoying me and is

    A reasonable size
    Is unlikely to clash with another mod
    Solves a problem that other people also want fixing
    Can be hooked into the game with minimal side effects or fights with other mods
    Is unlikely to be broken by the next service pack

My first attempt the Station Recycle took about two months at 30+ hours/pw to get to a releasable state

I have pretty abysmal timing of when to release a new mod and keep doing it just after Egosoft releases a service pack rather than just before.

I think that Egosoft will be a while before they release the next game in the series, the content takes a lot of work. I also think that we have probably seen the last service pack for X Rebirth and I will be surprised if 4.1 appears. So in that respect you do have time to develop but the number of people playing obviously peaks when they release a new game and also when a service pack comes out. After that there are just less people playing the game.

They could release another DLC but my money would be on a new game with the same engine as X Rebirth for Christmas 2017. And when they do, they will probably get my money :steamhappy:
Last edited by jth; 11 Aug, 2016 @ 5:14am
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