Singularity, I have continued trying to add features to your nearest-port trader skeleton, with mixed results. It worked great until my last attempt. It seems like following Vid Kid's suggestions caused permanent problems with my script, which completely confuses me. Anyway, I have been trying to understand your script better in order to figure out what I did wrong.

I have seventy-two ports in my list. Your code includes:


Are you making sure that each entry is valid? $ports_file and $ports_count both return 72.

I was just curious. Thank you for posting that and for all of your support since!

Grey Gamer, please use the "Code" tag when posting code - it makes reading the code much less difficult. PM me if you need help with the tag.

Now to your question. Yes, it's a verification that the list entries were indeed numerical, and that each number was within the range 11 - SECTORS.

The Quest went down about two weeks ago, so I went looking for a quiet place to jury rig my scripts. I also went back to college for summer school, so I really did not not have much attention to spare when someone blew me up, so now I am running a game on my old computer, feeling like the champion of the cupboard under the stairs.

I did not feel that I had time to work on my terribly atrocious world trade script, so I just used SWATH's, but then something would happen and it always irritated me that it would happily jettison my cargo on its own, but did not want me starting the script with anything in my holds. Instead of finding the nearest BBB port or one specific to my cargo, I made a nearest unknown script. Here it is:



It took me hours. So sad!

I do not like how it displays five lines of sectors, but everything else caused an endless loop.

Cheers.

First thing to remeber when doing While loops is the format , without it you end up in an endless loop maxing your cpu.



I hope this helps , or maybe contact me on Team Speak for further help.

Thanks Vid Kid!

Each time that I had an endless loop I had my script display numbers between each line of code and my screen would fill with the numbers, so it was going through the loop way too fast to get input. Right now I get:

You have NOT explored the following sectors:

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 32
33 34 35 39 40 43 44 46 47 48 49
50 51 52 53 54 55
21

Script terminated: scripts\9qu.ts

58 59 60 61 62
64 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76
78 79 81 82 86 88 89 90 92 93 94

Computer command [TL=00:00:00]:[7828] (?=Help)? Q

I just wish that I could reduce the output text.

Have a great weekend!