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[Darloth]

If for example I add a new faction, can I tell them to be hostile to everyone (including new mod factions in the future that I currently know nothing about) by setting some sort of default standings?

Edit: Okay, I poked around a bit more with the actual definition of the FactionAPI, and it looks like the answer is no.
Alex - if you read this and don't mind answering, how difficult would it be to add this, or alternatively a function that gets all of the relationships for a given faction in a big list please?

Edit2: Hmm... I wonder if doing a single getFleets() call shortly after the system startup, then iterating through and doing getFaction() on every fleet would be a workaround to get all factions... It's not that elegant, but it might work.  I'll have a go at making a faction that -everyone- in Uomoz's mod hates, without them having to be specifically told

[xenoargh]

Great idea, that

[Trylobot]

@Darloth I second your request for a "getFactions()" API method; using the existing fleets to get this is less than ideal because you won't get relationships for factions that don't have any fleets spawned at the time you make the call (obviously). I'll put up a formal suggestion if one doesn't already exist.

[Alex]

If I may answer in general terms: the current faction system isn't robust or full featured, and I don't think building on top of incrementally is a good idea. It'll probably be gutted and replaced wholesale with a better system in a future build.

[Darloth]

Okay, that sounds fair enough

In the meantime I'm making progress with scraping the fleet list, and I would be done by now except JANINO doesn't like foreach loops or generics.

I'm having it check every time a new fleet is spawned - it remains to be seen whether this will cause hilarious performance problems, but if not that should over time get every faction, since it will remember the relations for previous ones.

[Darloth]

Finally got it working - had a moment there when I thought I'd found something odd with JANINO but (as is usually the case) it turned out it was me being stupid.  The scary bytecode level error message didn't help though! (For anyone that saw my previous post before I deleted it, it's up to you if you want to reveal to the world just how much of an idiot I was being)

Attached to this is the zip of the mod - it contains no new toys, so it's really only useful for anyone else trying to make mods.  Given what Alex has stated about the faction system, I doubt it will prove reliable in the future either, but here you go! It was fun!

(PS: I meant to make them orange, but apparently I can't do RGB codes off the top of my head, and so they're salmon pink!)

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[arcibalde]

Nice, this i got to see

Damn don't understand a bit   Back to JAVA tutorials

[xenoargh]

Nice, thanks for sharing the code

[Alex]

In the meantime I'm making progress with scraping the fleet list, and I would be done by now except JANINO doesn't like foreach loops or generics.

Yeah, I wish it supported that, but it's just not in the cards since it's pretty much not actively developed anymore.

I'm seriously considering hacking in a regex (or rudimentary parser) to "support" generics by preprocessing them away, though - if I can come up with at least a relatively foolproof one. It gets messy when you start looking at a List of Maps (of Maps, etc) and such.

Btw - it doesn't support annotations either, but @Override and @SuppressWarnings are actually parsed out by the game before it tries to compile...

[Verrius]

Darloth, my current version of Fleet Control makes use of this code and it works like a bloody charm.