Discussion Player created missions

[dribnairb]

I was looking into a proof of concept idea of a plugin for ED MarketConnector to create basic missions based on certain criteria being met from events.

Does anything like this already exist? It sounds like a relatively simple idea to provide messages to the player based on certain actions they do which leads onto other clues to make up a story. (I'm thinking of this to help a friend of mine who is new to Elite and like story driven mission arcs in other games)

If not, does anyone know of any way for ED MarketConnector (or anything else) to inject messages (chat message, inbox message or even voice messages) into Elite? Or failing that for ED MarketConnector to play some text-basic to-speech messages in the background while Elite Dangerous is running?

Thanks!

 

[dribnairb]

I couldn't get messages to appear in game, but voice messages can play in the background.

It's really basic, but as a proof of concept if works well enough.

GitHub - dribnairb/ed_mission_creator: Testing an idea for creating story/mission things for Elite Dangerous

Testing an idea for creating story/mission things for Elite Dangerous - dribnairb/ed_mission_creator

github.com

If anyone gives it a go please let me know what you think. I'm hoping someone far more creative than me might come up with something far more interesting as a story...

 

[NanoExplorer]

I couldn't get messages to appear in game, but voice messages can play in the background.

It's really basic, but as a proof of concept if works well enough.

GitHub - dribnairb/ed_mission_creator: Testing an idea for creating story/mission things for Elite Dangerous

Testing an idea for creating story/mission things for Elite Dangerous - dribnairb/ed_mission_creator

github.com

If anyone gives it a go please let me know what you think. I'm hoping someone far more creative than me might come up with something far more interesting as a story...

Ooo, nice! I made a similar tool a while ago, but ran into the same problem, I was having trouble thinking of stories to write with it! Feel free to mine my code if you think it could be helpful. (I was delinquent in providing documentation however, so more likely than not it will be unuseful) https://github.com/NanoExplorer/EliteDangerousStories

Ironically, now that I do have a bit of a story idea, I realize that both of our systems work very similarly (missions have discrete stages and you advance through them by completing tasks), but my idea is for a non-linear story XD

 

[dribnairb]

I got messages working (to a point) using EDMC Overlay. Thanks for the help/suggestions.