[Wild_Bill]

Hey Jump, what about a widget that would tell you
1) where each item of equipment is produced
1a) CP, SF, on station, etc
2) if there is current production
2a) if there is no current production, what needs to be done to restart production.
2ai) GM intervention or
2aii) haul *X* commodity or
2aiii) mine *y* amt of *z* 'roid
2b) if there is current production, amt in stock


You've got a great production lister, but you have to have a rough idea of what is made where (JOSSH?). The Item lister is also awesome. Just seems like you need a third leg (equipment lister) on that there milking stool.

[Jump]

As soon as you figure out all the answers to those questions let me know.

[Flowbar]

I'd say something where you say "I need 10 FeatherFires, 100 FlashFires, 18 Abattis and 8 Alpaa", you enter your current location and cargo capacity, then it says "go to SC and bring 10 chems, 100 silicon, ..." on and on until you're sorted. But the road to there is looong...

[JoeStraz]

Originally Posted by Flowbar

I'd say something where you say "I need 10 FeatherFires, 100 FlashFires, 18 Abattis and 8 Alpaa", you enter your current location and cargo capacity, then it says "go to SC and bring 10 chems, 100 silicon, ..." on and on until you're sorted. But the road to there is looong...

To be honest, this can already be done by using the production lister. The only thing that it doesn't have is the "recipe". 1 Feather consumes X Cobalt, Y Copper, etc. However, those recipes aren't very well known so this might not be possible.

However, if you wanted to run with this idea, I think the more realistic request would be "I need 10 FeatherFires". It would then check all of the Oct stations for stock. If it didn't find any, it would then check the rest of the galaxy and/or POSs. If it finds any, it'll list where and it's price. At the bottom of that screen would be a button "show me how to produce them". This button would then show you a list of what it would need to get production going at each Oct Station (this screen would also come up automatically if there are no Feathers in the galaxy). Again, since I don't think the recipe for equip is well known, it wouldn't show quantities of the commods needed. It would just list out "OP needs carbon and cobalt".

[Flowbar]

I've taken the opposite approach from the Production Lister, starting with what I want to make and made the following python CGI-script:

http://olga.mine.nu/jumpgate/cgi-bin/production.py

It only has support for the stuff I've produced so far (and their ingredients), and it doesn't show what is produced by a station and what is produced by a CP in that sector (for example, Proximity Fuses at Cornea), it also does a check if the inventory.txt file has updated on JOSSH before presenting its result, so it akes a while sometimes, but I find it very useful for my own production.

What it really lacks is what else a station will use the ingredients for. Making Synthetics at Corridor, for example, is a disaster unless you are there to pick them up, since synths and chems will be consumed to make rubber (huge loads of antimony and barium present).