I'd like to introduce the new Automated SCAR Shop Transaction System. It is currently capable of selling you Ultra Charge Batteries, High-Density Mining Beams, and Axia Accelerated Positron Blasters without requiring a shop owner to be present. To use it, go to Pyronis D13 and say "Make a Purchase" over sector chat. Keep in mind that you must be careful when requesting something; it's case sensitive. After typing that phrase, type "Purchase <itemtag>" The itemtag can be found next to the item's full name. Include the < >'s. When you access one of those subdirectories, to make a purchase, type "Purchase <itemtag> Quantity #" (eg. Purchase <uc> Quantity 3) It is important to include Quantity in that message, seeing that most people tend to forget about it. Then it will tell you the amount, and you must pay the bank (/givemoney "SCAR Bank" amount). If all goes well, the bank will launch in an ec89, drop the cargo, and then explode.

At the moment transactions are limited to the cu of the ec89. That means you can only buy up to 6 UCs, 18 HDs, or 18 AAPs at a time. Also, please report any bugs with the system here.

More weapons are soon to come. Enjoy!

-Nautargos

(PS. I encourage the devs to try it. I'd like to know what yall think.)

this is one of the cooler things someone has done! awesome!

Mugen

cool one question though, why bother dropping the cargo? exploding will do that for you.

So the customer doesn't have to wait on the ship to explode. Just a heads up by the way, if you bump into the ec89 after it undocks and it cancels the self-destruct sequence, it will break the system. So... avoid doing that.

-Nautargos

yea i kinda already did that, sorry

the way to fix that seems fairley simple, when sombody enters "make a purchase" have it try to /explode wont hurt when it's in station but if its drifting into the abyss it wont wait a few seconds, jettison nothing, and explode

oh it didnt break the system totally all i had to do was try and purchase again

I did a little incursion into serco space to see this script in action. I must say I'm a little surprised that the SCAR bank is selling discounted products to us Itani, maybe there is hope for peace after all =) I was even more surprised to find that I got a free PK with every purchase. For the low low price of 5000c I get a UC and a PK =D Too bad a very luck SF seeker ran off it's navigational course and grazed my hull, sending us both to where ever it is we go when our ships explode. I could have gotten very use to getting this wonderful deal over and over and over again =)

This is pretty cool, nice job nauty

Very, very cool:)

Nice job Nautargos. You are right i would never script something like that. I hate programing.

When you have more items on the list with greater quantities I think you will finally be in competition with my shop. Also to make it more universal and easier for serco u should move the shop to Grey space. That way people don't have to go out of there way to use it. I do most of my selling at Latos C2, easily accessible to all the inhabitance of Grey.

Again congrats.

hey that's nifty

I agree that this is totally awesome.
However, I think the choice of what to sell is a little off. I mean, it sort of cheapens the whole concept of the UC.

Granted, the UC isn't exactly über, but it's supposed to be reserved for sanctioned personell.

Completely separate from WHAT you are selling, the fact that you ARE selling is very awesome indeed!

Thanks all for the feedback. I've already gotten to work on the /explode issue. As for drazed harvesting UCs and PKs off the bank, it's interesting that you managed to do so, but don't make a habit of it. That's all I ask.

As for the shop merchandise, next up: LENBs

-Nautargos

I told Naut about it last night, but for anyone else who is writing stuff in lua, here's an example function demonstrating how to make your script/bot case-insensitive:

function Example.CLInterface(args)
 if not args then
  print("\127ffffffUsage: --[[ print how to use the command here ]]--")
 elseif string.lower(args[1]) == "foo" then
  if string.lower(args[2]) then
   Example.foo(args[2])
  end
 elseif string.lower(args[1]) == "bar" then
  Example.bar()
 elseif string.lower(args[1]) == "foobar" then
  Example.foobar()
 end
end

naut it dosent really matter if he harvests pks off the bot,its just going to /explode anyway

lol nice!

The stunt I want to see is however, the SCAR bank killing people by /exploding....

Nautargos,

Very creative use of what's available. My hat is off to you.

--Harpo

He forgot to say what else he added. :(

And that "else" has been removed until I can figure out a better way to do it.

-Nautargos

Can you set up one of those automated EC's in grey space, so I can work on getting Adv. rails on some of my alts? KTHXBAI!111

Ha, the "Corvus Bus As Skeet Service", You give it money and it sends a bus out of a Corvus station for you to destroy :)

[cuz I thougt of it I'd like the code from the person who writes it please!]