With the heavily-armed aliens in my current game, I wanted to be careful exploring. I have found and taken two homeworlds, but there should be one more out there, and then I hope that the aliens spawn less, although it seems like they are barely bothering me anymore.

I decided to write a script that would send a probe from Stardock and then warp out as far as the probe got before returning to SD and starting over. It does not sound efficient, but it should have been safe. I should post that, maybe someone can figure out where my mind should have been going. Meanwhile, I ran across a quick script that I shared in another post, so I elaborated on it. This merely travels to the first unknown sector listed in the computer, travels out, and lays a fighter. Without a ZTM, it cannot do anything as intelligent as exploring the furthest sectors first, thereby exploring more intermediate sectors.

SWATH automatically takes out fighters, but I will incorporate that into this script at some point, among other things. It does automatically kill Ferrengi. That is kind of entertaining. You are just flying along, some short guy with big ears starts a prepared speech, and you hardly slow down as you blow him to pieces.

The one thing that I need to do is make it loop. I ran it a few dozen times to explore the first hundred sectors.

It just express-warps and then lays a fighter. I could have it catch the trip length and have it spam a macro, but that needs to wait.

Well, how ugly is this?