Plugins from features included in '88 Flak's FLHook

@w0dk4:

Granted you forge access

Made new releases for my plugins and updated the links

@w0dk4:

Concerning the plugin version, currently Im short on time, but consider your requests noted

Thanks. I may just make a special version of the plugin version that exports the variable I want so I can at least finish up the plugin and test it.

@JONG:

About dock_restict, if you can change it to only same time can hold one dock_restict of item, that will be good.

Sorry, but I don’t understand what you want changed. Could you perhaps explain it a little better?

Ah, I get it now.

As far as I can tell, there’s three ways to achieve what you want:

• Make an option for each restriction entry that requires the item to be mounted in order for it to work (you’d make the item like the operative tokens in 88 Flak). This would be easiest for me to implement but might not work well for what you were thinking of since you could easily mount another item.

• Make an option for each restriction entry that requires the player to only have that item. Basically sets it as an exclusive restriction and would check the cargo to make sure there’s no other items set as exclusive in there. This would also be pretty easy for me to implement.

• Have an exclusive option like above, except make it so the player actually can’t buy an exclusive item if they already have an exclusive item. This is like what you suggested but could be a bit messy…it’s been a while since I looked into controlling item buying server-side and I don’t exactly remember how Freelancer liked it. I’ll look into how feasible this is…

@JONG:

I was change your dock restriction to equipment like scanner, as you know the scanner can only equip one, but guess I find what ?

I set the base A must have dock restriction A to dock, and set the base B must have dock restriction B to dock.

When I equip a dock restriction A, and in my ship cargo has the dock restriction B, I can dock to base A and base B.

So I think only change it to equipment item may not be work like I want.

Oh, another suggestion is :

May you can add the equipment restriction of function in your next FLHook version. ;D

Uhh, I haven’t implemented the docking restrictions so you have to have the item mounted yet ;).

Also, for the equipment restriction, you’re talking about expanding the existing restriction feature to work with all equipment, right? Or am I not understanding you again…

@JONG:

May you can add a equipment loadout limit like your FLHook [InternalMountRestrictions] function.

That’s what I thought you meant. ;D
I’ll look into it.

No, they are for the plugin version. How do the plugins fail? Do they crash FLServer? Or does FLHook just fail to load them? They seem to work fine for me with the plugin version 1.6.0.

Okay, sorry about the long wait but the cloak plugin is finally done, you can find it in the original post.

Sorry, but I’m not sure what your problem is, jase240. I’ve only experienced random load failures of the dock_restrict plugin, which I’ll be looking into.

I’ll also likely be releasing a new version of dock_restrict soon with features suggested by JONG and some changes to the way the configuration is done.

Anybody else having issues with the flak_common plugin? I’m running Windows XP, so I can’t really determine if Vista is the problem.

@F!R: having multiple items for each restriction wouldn’t be hard to implement. I’ll consider it for the next version. Unfortunately, I don’t have any timeframe for when the new version would be released due to time constraints.