Anopheles

Log in is necessary.  It doesn't build up and is 24 hors from login.

Weird is the NQ way...

Aye, I love everything about Elite Dangerous, except playing it.    Gameplay designed by engineers in a thousand shades of grind.

*** This version now works without the screen glitch where everything blinks.
 
 Here is a quick video tutorial on how to install and some basic usage for this version.
 ➡️Video Tutorial⬅️
 
This is the databank version of this script. It's for monitoring machines only. Eventually I'll add more features to this, but I don't want to overwhelm the simplicity in its intent. It's meant for larger industries, so you can have a central monitor that shows you which machines are running and which need attending.

 
There was a problem pasting the JSON into the spoiler, so I have made it available to download. Right click and Save as, or click the link and copy the entire page of the new window.
 
Here is the JSON code. Just copy/paste it to the programming board that will be hooked up to the screen and databank.
 
 ➡️ Main PB⬅️
 
Here is the JSON code. Just copy/paste it to the programming board that will be hooked up to the databank and the industry machines.
 ➡️ Mach PB⬅️  *Updated 9-29-2020
 
**note: If you need to remove machines from the machine PB's, you need to do 1 of 2 things.
1: Edit LUA on the PB you removed the link from. On the left you will see the names of everything connected. db and mach1 - mach9. The mach# must start at 1 and can't skip any numbers. So if you have 3 machines and you remove mach2, you must rename mach3 to mach2.
2: (The easiest method) Repaste the JSON code to the PB. This will rename everything for you.
 
***You also need to clear the databank. Turn off all the PB's then, edit LUA on the main PB. Click System and the very top start. Change --db.clear() to db.clear and click apply. Turn the PB on then off then change db.clear() back to --db.clear(). Finally, turn all the machine PB's on first, then the main PB.
I'm working on a fix to make this easier.

It's *probably* just a coincidence that that mountain range looks like a cat's head.

My irony meter just broke..... you owe me a new one

Still confused why we are arguing over a pvp zone which is completely optional for players to enter, in a game where the main pvp mechanics have not even been properly outlined, let alone confirmed.

Start an org, talent up Org cores and watch your core limit soar to a max of 500.

Derp, forgot the tu.  They are about 180k to 200k at time of writing

People will always complain.  Everyone over uses the word toxic. Things are hyperbole these days.  But people who post/whine about pvp dont get a free pass. PvP is here to stay and is in continued development.  Imagine if the roles were reversed and I want to the forums of a PVE game and did nothing but complain why there isnt pvp or open world pvp?  That's what is happening here a decent amount.  I'm not talking about balancing pvp issues, but the fact some are against the open world pvp aspect.

Also makes it a locus of conflict with pirates, private and org security, salvagers, etc.

Vertical boosters
- Work without atmosphere (on moons)
- Have more thrust for their size
- Use space fuel
- Comes in 4 sizes (xs size)
 
Hovers
- Only work in atmo
- Uses atmo fuel which is cheaper, no need for space fuel tanks
- Weigh less compared to vertical boosters
- 3 sizes (no xs)

Definitely agree. The asteroids also give reason for people to go in deeper random parts of space.  Maybe make a valuable ore that only spawns on asteroids and it's rare too. 

Thank you for coming in, not reading up enough about a game you paid money for and then wasting your and everyone's else's time weeping into your pillow and sobbing that the game will not change direction for you.

Or they ran a bunch of competitions and contests and got the most competitive people as the winners. Or it was a conspiracy to ship all the sociopaths out to a new world: there was no imminent extinction event and that's how humanity achieved a peaceful society on Earth.
 
The lore behind the game is as holey as my granny's crocheted antimacassars. We have nanotech, but no Internet. We can teleport solid matter, and levitate potentially millions of ton of spaceship with our suit but there are no tractor/pressor beams on spaceships or long distance teleport pads. There exists a scanning and recording mechanism sufficiently precise to be able to send a spec to a fabricator that is capable of printing a new body, its mind, memory and personalities in the space of a few seconds. But it's impossible to get a lock on to a quarter kilometer ship more than 160km away. A territory unit can stop anyone digging the ground for half a click round it, but ships don't have protective shields.
 
Gold makes good armour.
 
Don't lean on the lore. It will fall over.

Why do people buy into games that offer gameplay they do not want and then start complaining about it afterwards?
 
"This great new type of bread has a distinct vanilla flavour"
"Great, I will take two"
"Here you go"
"I don't like the vanilla flavour, can you make bread without it?"
 
If you do not want PVP be a part of games you play that's fine but do not buy in to games which clearly and openly show PVP is an integral part of said games.
 
If you feel PVP currently is not balanced that's different, be constructive and bring arguments to the table as well as idea on how it can be better for everyone.

Oh, who will think of the pixels?

Thanks guys. Worked like a charm

Only it's really bad business to make promises to people and then break them. The people who backed this game, you know, the people who spent 60-plus dollars on something that might never have seen the light of day, did so, in very large part, on the back of the USPs of the game, one of which was pervasive, FFA PvP. They would be right to feel betrayed and quit the game entirely if that promise was reneged upon.
 
How hard is it to realise that the thing that sells this game is the vision of its producers, mostly in the person of JC Baillie? He wants to make a game that encourages societies to form and govern the space they putatively control. He doesn't want the game to do the governing for them. If PvP is restricted, there will be no need for society in the endless space that is non-PvP-enabled, since anyone will be able to have what they want off their own bat, eventually. Because if it's a half-and-half game, the new territory they open up has to have "room for non-PvP" too, else the non-PvPers will eventually exhaust the starting areas and legitimately (because they've been sold a non-PvP game) complain there's nothing in the game for them.
 
The fact that JC's vision encompasses more than just PvP is attractive to some, it would seem, but it's important to know that you can't have "part of" a vision. Everything is linked in JC's head, and if you try and take away a part of it, you might not get anything at all. That's the way visionaries are.
 
Right now, no one has been sold a non-PvP game. It's as obvious as the nose on Kenneth Williams' face that this game has a strong PvP focus, and only a very little bit of research would tell you that PvP will, in the fullness of time, be very nearly everywhere. If you've bought the game without knowing that, you only have yourself to blame. Or maybe you can blame NQ for making you buy the game before you could ask this question here and be set right as to NQ's vision, aims and goal.
 
I'd suggest that you'll find that less than half the people are happy with the outcome in any democracy.

New players at that stage will be greeted with a wealth of opportunities from the civilisation that we have built, if they choose to ignore it and go try and hermit, that is up to them.

There are no bad talents.
 
Merely suboptimal or unnecessary ones for a given situation or goal.

It's not about NQ characters owning tiles, I have no problem with that.  It's about having them doing god like things in the game (when not offering support or moderating), that no other player can do. The next logical step is that soon there will be something placed on those tiles. And judging from the number of tiles it will be something no player or even org would be able to do, in the time frame we are talking about.

Cool that is great to know, actually gives you opinion more validity than mine in a lot of respects (I like as much pvp as possible, then avoid it lol).  Also love the tone of the message, PvP is very much a placeholder at the moment but a core part of the game moving forward, any objective opinion from people interested in improving it is always appreciated.   As long as the end result is risk vrs rewards with good opportunities for both defenders and attackers to be victorious then I am good.

Please note that the majority of people pirates meet in pvp zones are NOT experienced players , they are noobs who do not know better.  Experienced players wouldnt be in pvp zone without good reason, there is ZERO reason to go in there once you have a WD.

Then leave. NQ made it clear it's a player run universe.  You keep name dropping eve like it's a putdown, yet NQ will be lucky if they can last as long as eve and be profitable every single year. And I'm not absolving CCP of making shitty decisions, but a lot of CCPs shitty decisions in eve were because of people just like you, whining on forums instead of doing what you should have done. Leave. It's ok if a game isn't for you. How can any game possibly cater to everyone.  Blizzard will never get a dollar from me, but that's ok they will do just fine without me. DU will do just fine without you.

"No, no  sweeping generalizations are FINE when I do it."

This is 100% eve online. It's bad when you arent even surprised by people there anymore.  18 years after release, you will still see an occasional new person get ganked, then go on a rant about how its poor mechanics and ganking is the reason eve is dying.  And this may be anecdotal, as I know salt comes from anywhere, but after playing for 10 years of eve, I've been called the N word on more than one occasion in eve. And it was only when I ganked a miner in "High Security" space. Coincidence? You be the judge.