AUTO-LINKING YOUR THIRD PLANET
by Hazed
After he finished the final code for ship fighting, Alan spent a while doing background maintenance on the game, which resulted in absolutely nothing visible to the players.
But now he’s started work on something you will be able to see, and will find very useful – code to let you auto-link more planets into the game, without our intervention.
Right now you can use the ‘CLAIM’ command to create your first planet using our stock files, and ‘COLONIZE’ for the second one. But any further planets have to be added manually – you have to make the files yourself, or ask me to prepare them, then Alan has to put them in the right place on the game server and create the data files that tell the game to load the planet in.
Hard work all round!
So he’s writing the code to allow auto-linking of the third planet. You might think this would be a simple matter, since surely it’s not that different from linking the second planet, but he assures me that with each new planet there is an extra layer of complexity, more things to check, and so on, and who am I to argue?
At this stage I don’t know how long it’s going to take – two weeks or by Christmas, maybe!
