X3RPM - Remote Property Management - v0.7 - New Download Link

[nuclear_eclipse]

Hello,

This is a great idea, and can't wait to get it to work, but unfortunatly, I'm having a problem. When the property or universe buttons are clicked, sometimes they work, and sometimes they come up with this error message:

Warning: unlink(C:/X3REUNION/log07999.txt) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in C:\X3REUNION\x3rpm\htdocs\inc\func.php on line 86

The statistics page thought works just fine, and I haven't had any problems with it.

Thanks!

Yes, this is a known issue due to how windows file-protection works and the lack of the ability to properly tell when a file is in/out of use. A temporary fix is to edit the php.ini file and disable error messages. In the meantime between now and when the next version will be released (hopefully tomorrow), I will fix the problem as best as I can.

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Release of v0.7 is scheduled for tomorrow, reliant on my ability to get ship details finished.

So far, the universe and sector maps are unchanged, but viewing ship/station details allows you to see all information on player and npc ships and stations, and also allows the player to set details for their own stations such as name, cash, product/resource prices, and such.

The ability to alter ship details and send commands to ships is the current item being completed. After that, I will be redoing the stylesheet to look and act nicer, then releasing the results.

Later features that are definately planned include a statistics signature image a la Logaan, and trading wares at stations with your ships.

Later features I may or may not add in would be the ability to purchase/trade ships/stations at shipyards, manage ware lists at trade/equipment docks, manage multiple ships at one time, and possibly more.

[Vedaran]

Ahh, alright.

Thanks for the answer, much appreciated!

[neaput]

Well done nuclear_eclipse, this rocks! I've installed the x3rpm php pages on my linux server and with a little bit of Samba magic, I can see X3 running on my Windoze games machine. Now I can watch TV downstairs and still keep one eye on my fledgling empire!

Keep up the good work

[PapaTong]

nuclear_eclipse

[nuclear_eclipse]

Well done nuclear_eclipse, this rocks! I've installed the x3rpm php pages on my linux server and with a little bit of Samba magic, I can see X3 running on my Windoze games machine. Now I can watch TV downstairs and still keep one eye on my fledgling empire!

Keep up the good work

Good going: you will absolutely be loving the next release, which has a very minor delay due to additional features I've added in, but should be out in the next day or so.

In this next release, I will also be offering a smaller 'update' version and an even smaller 'php-only' release aimed at those of you who have their own webservers running in their house, and simply want the PHP/scripts to plug into your existing system.

I think you will all be duly impressed with the capabilites offered in this release...

[aetchell]

no X3_RPM_HOST command on ships or stations

followed the installation exactly, the service is installed and running, but the RPM Host command doesnt appear in any ship or station command slot

the webserver service is running fine but cant get the command to run in the game

anyone else had this problem yet? if so, how can i fix it

cheers
Ash

[nuclear_eclipse]

no X3_RPM_HOST command on ships or stations

followed the installation exactly, the service is installed and running, but the RPM Host command doesnt appear in any ship or station command slot

the webserver service is running fine but cant get the command to run in the game

anyone else had this problem yet? if so, how can i fix it

cheers
Ash

First, make sure you have the script editor enabled in X3. It must be enabled for you to use the RPM Host. If it is enabled, then check to make sure all of the scripts were extracted correctly. You should find all the nuke.rpm.* and setup.nuke.rpm scripts in the x3reunion\scripts directory, and the 447850.xml and 447851.xml files extracted in the x3reunion\t directory.

[carran]

Here's another thought...

Assuming it's not a problem to pass commands to ships within the game, is there any reason why a game cannot be set up with multiple player ships?

I appreciate money is the obvious one, but if each player started out with their own station with a script running which stored their credits then that could allow the player to buy / sell

Yes, there would be some limitations but it's worth thinking about

[nuclear_eclipse]

Here's another thought...

Assuming it's not a problem to pass commands to ships within the game, is there any reason why a game cannot be set up with multiple player ships?

I appreciate money is the obvious one, but if each player started out with their own station with a script running which stored their credits then that could allow the player to buy / sell

Yes, there would be some limitations but it's worth thinking about

This is an idea to think about, but with the delays and overhead involved with simply dealing with a single player's property, trying to synchronize that type of information between many systems would be VERY delayed and would not allow any real interaction anyways...

[carran]

Not thinking about synchronising between systems, am wondering if a single system with multiple players controlling ships would work, effectively each player would control a Universe Trader (for want of better analogy)

Appreciate it would not be hugely interactive and combat would be largely OOS driven depending upon where the sector focus is

Make more sense?

[nuclear_eclipse]

Not thinking about synchronising between systems, am wondering if a single system with multiple players controlling ships would work, effectively each player would control a Universe Trader (for want of better analogy)

Appreciate it would not be hugely interactive and combat would be largely OOS driven depending upon where the sector focus is

Make more sense?

Hmm, that could be an interesting feature. In RPM's current form, this could actually be quite viable as long as the player's all had stations to represent themselves and they all agreed to be civil and abide by some basic rules. Perhaps I could include a basic shoutbox feature at the header or footer to facilitate communication. I like this idea actually, and may investigate it further for future releases...

[nuclear_eclipse]

X3RPM Version 0.7 Released!

X3RPM now allows you to remotely monitor and manage your empire while you are away from your computer. Check your game's status from work, school, or anywhere with an Internet connection, and send commands, modify settings, or tweak your ships and stations without even being at home!

This latest version offers you the ability to view detailed statistics about your empire, see a propety listing with all of your stations and ships, view a version of the galaxy map and interactively select sectors and see what's in them, all from the comfort of your favorite web browser.

However, this is still a PRERELEASE version, and not all of the planned features are implemented yet. Read more about this in the readme file. Also of note is that with the current implementation, you MAY receive 'RPM Host Offline' results even though the RPM Host is indeed running. The cause of this can be ship moving out of sector without updates from the RPM Host, delays in script or code execution, log files not being cleaned up properly, etc. These will be top-priority fixes for the final release version, but for now, can simply be ignored by returning to the property or universe pages and continuuing from there so that caches refresh and such.

*Version Note* - X3RPM is now released in three different flavors:

X3RPM Full Version (6.4 MB) - This release includes every file necessary to run X3RPM without any major tweaking or management from the user. Simply extract files to the proper directories and install the X3RPM service (See the Readme) and you should be ready to go.

X3RPM Update Version (83 kB) - This release only includes files updated since the previous version of X3RPM. If you have a working installation of the last version (currently v0.2), you can safely install this over top the old version, restart the X3RPM service, restart the X3RPM Host ingame, and you should be set to go.

X3RPM Admin Version (63 kB) - Designed for those who already have running webservers (Apache, IIS, etc). Extract the script and t files into X3 and the htdocs files into the appropriate directory of the webserver, and everything should work. *NOTE* - You MUST be using PHP version 5.0.5 or newer, or else X3RPM *WILL NOT* function properly.

Download (all versions):
http://x.leetcode.net/x3/x3rpm.php

[Simon029]

Thats Great. I will download it and install it remotly via VNC at home and start the game, so i can test it right now at work.

Maybe i have to call someone at home, to load my savegame.

[liquidx]

Amazing work, 0.7 is a gigantic improvement on 0.2, I love it!

I do have one suggestion but I don't know how "possible" it is..

You can go to a sector and select a station and view it's wares and prices, would it be possible to have another page designed to view sector-wide pricing? Like the best buys utility.. Or better yet, universe-wide pricing? =D

Again, great work! And thanks for helping me get mods working in the first place ^^;

[nuclear_eclipse]

Amazing work, 0.7 is a gigantic improvement on 0.2, I love it!

I do have one suggestion but I don't know how "possible" it is..

You can go to a sector and select a station and view it's wares and prices, would it be possible to have another page designed to view sector-wide pricing? Like the best buys utility.. Or better yet, universe-wide pricing? =D

Again, great work! And thanks for helping me get mods working in the first place ^^;

First off, thank you. I'm glad all my hard work isn't being used just by me. =]

Secondly, suggestions are always welcome, and I will look into the ability to use them. In this particular case, I believe it would definately be possible. The limiting factor for RPM is alwasy performance, so I will have to experiment with it to see how quickly it performs and decide whether or not it can be done properly.

[neaput]

Congrats nuclear_eclipse on another fine production. 0.7 working great although it took a while to get rid of a "Permission denied" PHP warning unlinking the text files. Conned Samba to think it had correct permissions on the Windoze box and it's fine now.

Even when I'm playing at the Win box, X3rpm is great for finding ships or checking on factory using my laptop - it's much easier searching a page in Firefox than scrolling the X3 property list!

I guess it might not be possible, but perhaps a suggestion for the future is to have a function to display the contents of the player's message log?

[nuclear_eclipse]

Congrats nuclear_eclipse on another fine production. 0.7 working great although it took a while to get rid of a "Permission denied" PHP warning unlinking the text files. Conned Samba to think it had correct permissions on the Windoze box and it's fine now.

Yes, unfortunately, RPM was designed for windows, so you have to forgive any issues with linux compatibility. =\

Even when I'm playing at the Win box, X3rpm is great for finding ships or checking on factory using my laptop - it's much easier searching a page in Firefox than scrolling the X3 property list!

I've found that too. While I was developing RPM, I had my desktop running X3, and my laptop viewing it, and it was quite enjoyable. It definately adds more to the overall experience, feels more like I'm in the actual cockpit with a bunch of info displays all around me =]

I guess it might not be possible, but perhaps a suggestion for the future is to have a function to display the contents of the player's message log?

Unfortunately, that is not possible (cry) - I've been looking into ways to do that since X2.

However, on a similar note, I am looking into the ability to have custom alerts and messages sent from X3 to the user through email or SMS/text messages. Alerts may include events such as attacked ships/stations, stations out of money/resources, or even just regular updates.

Just might be an interesting feature... =]

[Malakie]

could you imagine the complexs of an X3 online if a few players put their minds to it

I think right now the devs should just concentrate on fixing X3 and not worry about what if's in terms of online play. I personally prefer X3 as is. I am not into playing online all the time. Solitare play I prefer.


Malakie
- * Do one thing - do it well, do it right * -

[liquidx]

I believe a game like x3 needs to entire be fully offline or fully online.
In other words, an MMO like eve online, or a single player like .. x3 =)

Personally I love x3 as is, I stumbled upon it when a friend sent me a screenshot, I'd never heard of the x/x2 games before.. And this is exactly the type of game I really love.. But there is very few like it out there.

I agree with Malakie, I would prefer the devs spend time improving x3 as it is.. Making the UI easier to use, improving gameplay, etc, not working on online play, because if you try and have it both ways, you'll just make a piece of crap like Freelancer (which I also extensively played, it doesn't come close to x3.)

How did this topic get so derailed? =)

[nuclear_eclipse]

How did this topic get so derailed? =)

Not quite sure, but anyways...


I'm trying to decide what extra features should and should not be a part of the final release. I will most certainly include ship-to-ship and ship-to-station trading functionality, online documentation and customization, as well as compatibility with drop-in css styles and themes.

However, I'm looking into more features on top of the base X3RPM code, either as a primal 'plugin' setup, or as an integrated part of the program. I would like to get responses from you as to what you think would be a good addition and what would be a waste of my time. Also, if you have ANY ideas for additions, I would be more than happy to listen and see what I can do to get that feature added in.

Anyways, if you could let me know what you think about these features, I'd greatly appreciate it:

- E-Mail or cellphone SMS messages sent from X3RPM when certain events happen (ship/station attacked, station out of money/resources, etc)
- Shoutbox for communication between viewers of an RPM site
- Group ship management (send command to multiple ships, etc)
- Anything else I've missed (let me know)

Cheers