Making a new dialog

Only version of a dynamic economy i’ve seen properly working is the one FLAC uses which is serverside. The client has a special dll included in the mod which updates in realtime so no need to do it on a website, and works on supply and demand.

Obviously you need FLAC for that, there was another mod that had one working but i can’t for the life of me remember which one it was. I run FLAC on my server and the dynamic economy works a treat.

is it possible to support dynamic economy with FLHook, too? hints adoxa for if not yet

Does the FLAC solution use customized in-game dialogs?

Thats not needed, cause the buy/sell prices are shown directly on the commodities like you know that from a normal Game. The only difference is that when you buy/sell them undock/dock again they change.So why create an extra Dialog ?(if you have FLAC)

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For a lot of things. You could want to have a summary showing what has changed on the overall markets (“Gold prices explode as mine collapses in California Minor!” or “Houses cut down military budgets, MOX fuel and armament prices plummet!”).

It’s definitely possible to make a new dialog because we do it in discovery.

The way we do it relies on the dynamic infocard thing we use. This is built into dsace (which is a plugin for flhook) and is publicly available from the forge but I need to release the latest version of the plugin, to add a hook so that another plugin can change the infocard text.

Once we’ve sent the infocard text we call the following.

#define POPUPDIALOG_BUTTONS_LEFT_YES 1
#define POPUPDIALOG_BUTTONS_CENTER_NO 2
#define POPUPDIALOG_BUTTONS_RIGHT_LATER 4
#define POPUPDIALOG_BUTTONS_CENTER_OK 8

// Add the infocard ID to the dialog thing
FmtStr caption(0, 0);
caption.begin_mad_lib(RSRCID_PLAYERINFO_TITLE);
caption.end_mad_lib();

// Add the infocard ID to the dialog thing
FmtStr message(0, 0);
message.begin_mad_lib(RSRCID_PLAYERINFO_TEXT);
message.end_mad_lib();

pub::Player::PopUpDialog(iClientID, caption, message, POPUPDIALOG_BUTTONS_CENTER_OK);

For an example see: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69891

Incidentally, although we don’t use it (often) there’s a dynamic economy thing in dsace too.

Gibbon wrote:
… there was another mod that had one working but i can’t for the life of me remember which one it was…

Crossfire, if I remember right. Didn’t play there for long time!

I thought this thread is going to be about dialogs in missions.