posted on November 5th, 2010, 5:49 pm
By my calculations, changing the tooltips, icons, and swapping the costs for each resource should be relatively easier than creating a dll that physically renames the resources and/or changes what resource will be used for trade. Here's what's going on in the program.
Dilithium, Latinum, and Biomatter are the resources being used in fleet-ops to build a ship or station. During a trade process, you would gain Latinum with each cargo vessel that unloads at your station. But, the Latinum resource has been renamed on the user interface to be a type of metal. Because it's still Latinum on the coding level, that is what is increased in a trade process. Since Biomatter appears on the interface as supply, but doesn't increase with trade, if Biomatter is displayed on the interface as Tritanium, then you would not get free metal to build your ships. Since Latinum would now appear on the interface as Supply, Supply would now be what is increased with trade.
So on the coding level, Latinum and Biomatter would not be changed, but when viewed by the user, the resource that is used in trade would appear to be supply instead Latinum. Did all of that make since?
Oh, and if it's easier to build a DLL to do this, then do it. I'm speaking from my VERY limited experience in C++. Because of this limit, it seems easier to me to just reprogram the interface. using those text files instead of compiling a new DLL.
