Seth's system tutorial

[jammi]

Just thought I'd give this a quick poke. It's actually the only tutorial I've seen that explains how to do bars properly. Also means I didn't have to waste as much of Dab or Xoria's time as may have been required otherwise. :P

Might as well pitch in with something to be helpful. I think this is correct:

[MVendor]
num_offers = 2, 4

MVendor means mission vendor - it's for the job board in bars.

The first number is the number of missions the job board will offer at once.

The second number is how many players can be running missions before the 'board is busy' screen appears.

The factions that will offer missions is decided by the [BaseFaction] entry just below. Because the entry is a guard system, it doesn't have that part. I'll add an example:

[BaseFaction]
faction = li_n_grp
weight = 13
offers_missions = true
mission_type = DestroyMission, 0.000000, 0.112387, 30
npc = li0101_lnavy_001_f
npc = li0101_lnavy_002_m
npc = li0101_lnavy_003_f

That's Manhattan's faction entry for the Liberty Navy. It means there's three Liberty Navy NPCs on the base, and they offer missions - see "offers_missions = true".

Contrary to what the name says, "mission_type = DestroyMission, 0.000000, 0.112387, 30" seems to allow for all the mission types, not just the destroy ship ones.

EDIT: Just to clarify, adding offers_mission = true doesn't mean missions will appear on their own. You have to add them yourself through messing with population and mission zones, I believe. That's a bit beyond me at the moment, so I'm not going to confuse people with completely misleading info. :P

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