Download Shopping List v0.1 HERE
This script was written by 'Jon' and edited and maintained by AalaarDB
What the script does is allow you to create a "shopping list" of items, then tell a ship to go out and buy the items. The ship will figure out the shortest route to get all the items, run around the universe and buy them, and then head to whatever final destination you designate.
For example, let's say you've just bought a new M3. You want to outfit it with some AHEPTs, APACs, BIREs, Mass Drivers, some ammo, missiles, and make sure it has a triplex scanner. Here's what you do:
- 1. Purchase ship!
- 2. In the ship's CUSTOM COMMANDS menu, there's a new command called ADD TO SHOPPING LIST. Selecting it lets you pick a ware and specify the amount you'd like to buy.
- 3. You can keep adding wares to the shopping list - as many as you like.
- 4. Once you've added at least one item to the shopping list, another command becomes available: SET SHOPPING FINAL DESTINATION. You use this to tell the ship where to go when its finished shopping, and whether it should dump all the items onto its destination.
- 5. Once you've set a final destination, you can then tell the ship to BEGIN SHOPPING.
- 6. The script will figure out the most efficient route to take in order to buy all the items, fly around and buy them, and then go to its final destination, where it will optionally dump all the items. If the ship is bigger than an M3 and has a jump drive, the script will try to use the jump drive, buying energy as needed, or if it doesn't have one it will buy the jumpdrive first.
Finally, any ship with a shopping list can also issue the INCLUDE ANOTHER SHIP command. What this does is essentially clones the shopping list to another ship. Let's say you buy 5 nice new M5s (for example, you're using Myros' Terracorps Combat Pilots script and want a new batch of ships for it). You can create a shopping list for one of the M5s, and then use the INCLUDE ANOTHER SHIP command to use that shopping list with the other 4 ships. Then you send the 1st M5 on its way shopping, and the other four will do their shopping too.