Inventory Management

i like your idee of a L.C.B and have to build 1 per grid and have to build upgrade's on to it (like refinery and assemblers have in se1) or have to build more L.C.B.'s and gif them a pacific task...... in order to make things move faster. if it das not become part of the game it self i could work as i mod i think.

Yep Isys Inventory is a basic mod in every game.

Also, assembler production quota, Whiplash radar, rotating skybox, MES, Weaponcore ... and several others that should be in the core of the game.

Oh almost forgot: camera livefeed display on LCD... (plugin on SE1, would be cool on SE2)

Isy's is great, i use it also in nearly every save, but it re-scans the grid too often, which is a massive waste of cpu every tick. Think of it: how often does a grid change vs how often iim runs? Maybe what we need is a 'grid changed' time & date stamp, so scripts can check and compare to when they last rescanned the grid.

I would be very happy if refineries and assemblers would stop storing their products in connectors, rather than cargo containers.

In SE1 i get all my connectors filled first, even if there are tens of large cargo containers free.

And it is exactly that "alot easier" that directly let me think about it. Managing your inventory can be also a part of the game. Automating too much can also quickly come at the expense of the fun of the game, because then you lose another aspect that you have to deal with from time to time. Some players may have fun and lean back and watch how the game play itself, I'm not so much an fan of that.

That didn't mean that I'm against it, but it need to be handled very careful to find the right balance.

I agree. It should be a specialized block that provides the functionality, or a module added to another block. Almost think we need a mainframe block that once placed allows modules to be placed adding features to your grid. Another idea I might need to flesh out and recommend.

ISY's got one aspect that bothers me: it rescans the grid too much, looking for new components. This is a very costly step. Isy's runs every 10 ticks and during that run it scans every block on every attached grid, including the ones connected *through* connected grids, and then every item in every cargo block it finds. Even if a human is changing the grid a lot, compared to the update frequency just how often is the grid actually changing? Imo, it'd be better if we had to issue a 'rebuild' or 'rescan' command when the grid has actually changed. Also, some defaults ought to be different. Currently, it defaults to auto-renaming cargos, which it will do to grids you connect to. So if you forget and dock to your faction-mate's grid suddenly stuff is being shifted all over, things renamed, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria.

Isy's is a product of the way mods function with the game engine, it is by no means a perfect solution but the base functionality is what we are looking for. An inbuilt inventory system would/should be implemented in a way that is less overhead-intensive while being more flexible.