Default Loadouts for newbies

DasSmiter · Post by **DasSmiter** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:30 am

Phantom032 wrote:QUOTE (Phantom032 @ Jan 17 2012, 11:06 AM) I have a slightly different suggestion.

We already have a feature that allows us to save and load full loadouts. We could just use loadout nr 11 (currently there is only 10, but it looked easy to add another when i checked the code) to save a 'default loadout' for certain ships and distribute it together with the core files.

That allows specific ship customizations without core change instead of running into issues like fighters loading the cargo full with minepacks.

Edit: One would need a tool to create these files, or we can just use an existing slot and create them with allegiance but that is time-intensive and allows overwriting by accident and destroying the default.

Don't see that option in ICE, is that an R6 thing?

Spunkmeyer · Post by **Spunkmeyer** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:07 am

DasSmiter wrote:QUOTE (DasSmiter @ Jan 17 2012, 07:30 PM) Don't see that option in ICE, is that an R6 thing?

Not ICE... R6 had built in option to save loadouts for 10 slots. He's saying use that system, by adding an extra "default" slot and distribute loadout definition files for that slot, essentially disabling the current default loadout system.

ThePhantom032 · Post by **ThePhantom032** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:30 am

Spunkmeyer wrote:QUOTE (Spunkmeyer @ Jan 18 2012, 03:07 AM) Not ICE... R6 had built in option to save loadouts for 10 slots. He's saying use that system, by adding an extra "default" slot and distribute loadout definition files for that slot, essentially disabling the current default loadout system.

not really disabling - if theres no loadoud saved for that ship in the "default" slot, the code default would be used.
Basically an extra layer overriding the code default on certain ships it is defined for.

DasSmiter · Post by **DasSmiter** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:40 pm

Oh well that can certainly be managed, but it's an R6 thing. Hit me up again whenever it's released and we'll talk, but it should be fairly easy so long as the code exists. I'll need to talk to Kage about perhaps allowing us this option in ICE before R6 is released so as soon as it gets out we'll have decent default loadouts. I imagine that the default loadouts could be stored in the core file instead of having to be appended to the end of anyone else's custom loadouts when I suggest that, but if it's some other way then please let me know now. I never actually looked at Imago's cloud loadout code, which I imagined to be an integral part of the custom loadouts that was tossed with the bathwater, so I don't know for sure how it's done.

MrChaos · Post by **MrChaos** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:16 pm

Stupid is as stupid posts but...

Did pkk make a joke? I believe he did... never mind my head is spinning

Bunnywabbit · Post by **Bunnywabbit** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:30 pm

when head is spinning
don't try to shave