mgu in smr

N.ator · Post by **N.ator** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:35 pm

what my idea is, is to create an mgu finder inside the smr plot corce screen,

we would have like a tree branch off

for example, you need a weapon, so the main list would be

weapons
ships
bars
banks
goverments
technology

if you wanted weapons, you would click on wapons and it would be setu up just like mgu were it either goes under it, or even goes out toe the right.

with these new maps, and new games mgu probabaly wont beable to read them, so we would almost need something like this in..

currently we just have a plain and simple one, to find the closest weapon shop and stuff, those are good but we should make it so if we want it more specific like a holy hand granade somone is able to search it.

i will attempt to create a picture of my idea.

N.ator · Post by **N.ator** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:59 pm

Post by **Baalzamon** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:33 pm

to quote what i just said in chat..

Jon, I love it.

Post by **Jester-** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:54 pm

I would rather have no program at all and make everyone write stuff down! xD

Anyhow this is exactly like ME (merchant empires). They had everything from the plot course screen.

Post by **Baalzamon** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:12 pm

they also have a playerbase the size of TDZK, if not bigger

I think it could only help us to impliment something like this

LotuS · Post by **LotuS** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:17 pm

i think its a good idea, levels the playing field.

Post by **Jester-** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:25 pm

If we did have this on plot screen I would also like an automatic compilation of locations accessible from the trader screen. It would be like "Personal Database" for the link. There you can access anything your ships computers have come across (works with sharing maps as well). This way you can look up all locations and even sort ports by level, race and possibly distance modifiers.

LotuS · Post by **LotuS** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:03 pm

We dont want to kill MGU/SMC
we jsut want to level the playing field for the majority of newbies. this wont help me or you much jester but it will help the new guy tremendously.

I like the shared maps database of locations but ports and routes should be left out.

N.ator · Post by **N.ator** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:07 am

LotuS wrote:We dont want to kill MGU/SMC
we jsut want to level the playing field for the majority of newbies. this wont help me or you much jester but it will help the new guy tremendously.

I like the shared maps database of locations but ports and routes should be left out.

i think we should do away with mgu and smu

lets make it so we have to find the best routes looking at GALAXY MAP

newbs should have the same advantage as the vets..

and if anything, news are allmost better, because they actually look for there routes instead of having a little tool do it for them..

Post by **Baalzamon** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:40 am

i agree with poca here....

MGU/SMC won't work with 1.5 as it is, a new program would have to be created to run with it. So i say screw it, save someone the coding time, and lets impliment what poca's got going here...we can tweak it, but let people have to figure out their own routes for a while.

But maybe thats just me and poca being crazy galwanians.