=Wingman 5.1= A companion for Discovery Freelancer

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Version 5.0 has been released. This major release has several improvements and bug fixes. The main ones are summarised below:

• Changed to Firefox-style versioning because semantic was unwieldy
  
• Fixed a crash with the latest patch (see below)
  
• Database now shows hardpoint information for ships
  
• Database now includes base nicknames in all Availability tables
  
• Database now shows ship package price rather than hull price
  
• Navmap will now save images to the ~/Pictures directory
  
• Fixed Navmap resetting to New York on relaunch (see below)
  

➤ wingman-5.0-setup.exe (51.8 MB)
➤ wingman-5.0-portable.zip (54.5 MB)

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The latest Discovery patch seems to have borked up Wingman. Upon launch, it gets stuck at loading equipment, 60%.

Fixed. It was a one-line change but I took months to become aware of the problem (thanks @Toaster and @Swallow for messaging me on Discord). This means that whoever was using Wingman has probably moved back to FLC etc. If more than about two people out there are still interested in using Wingman, please let me know and I will continue providing bugfixes and maybe even (very slowly) getting through the feature backlog.

Download link for portable version in the OP leads to:

Fixed, thanks.

Hello. This is not a bug report but rather asking for adjustment: can you please disable opening New York every time when Wingman is the launch? I would prefer to stay on the galactic map instead, and it seems to be more friendly to performance as well.

Fixed. The intended behaviour for the navmap was to "remember" the last system or base you looked at and return to this when reopened. Due to an oversight (base solar nicknames being different to base names), if you last selected a base, this would not be restored, and would default back to New York instead.

Can we have multiple NavMap tabs? 2-3 would be nice.
I usually have one tab with galactic map, one with current sytem, one with the system I'm going into.

Interesting idea. Right now you can open the universe map in a separate window (obviously) but it's application modal which means you can't interact with the navmap tab (it will still update if you are using "Follow" mode). The easiest improvement would be to try making this not modal, I suppose.

Thanks for updating this. Its great!

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