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[Deadmeat1471]

Sounds ok, I need to work on this again. I began to get swamped with stuff I didn't understand. I'm going to go over it piece by piece until I understand every bit.

I do programming in spates, each time I learn more and more. I don't want to leave it too long this time as finally I am capable of creating a completed program/game. Which annoyed me for a long time. Albeit a crude one.

I'm going to work on something similar for a while. A text based adventure game for my girlfriend go north, get sword, etc etc.

[Max White]

Hmm, looks interesting, but as far as code goes, I think you should brush up on your python. See python is object oriented, and that allows you to do some realy cool things a lot easyer then using a prodecual paradime like you have been implmenting.

I know, sometimes you just want to make a game, not learn a language, but OOP will make your game better, trust me.

[Deadmeat1471]

Hmm, looks interesting, but as far as code goes, I think you should brush up on your python. See python is object oriented, and that allows you to do some realy cool things a lot easyer then using a prodecual paradime like you have been implmenting.

I know, sometimes you just want to make a game, not learn a language, but OOP will make your game better, trust me.

5 steps ahead of ya, I've been reading about OOP for the last few days

*and it's not so much brushing up as learning

[Frajic]

So, total rewrite of the game? I'm looking forward to it

[Deadmeat1471]

So, total rewrite of the game? I'm looking forward to it

It looks that way, also if I can get java to work (or my brain to work in java.) properly it may be in java code instead
But thats a big if 

[Deadmeat1471]

I thought of a better way to do recruitment of astronauts:

Give them a hire_weight.

Example.

Vostok 1
mission = (c*2) + En*1#value of capsule is 2, value on endurance is one.

Astronaut Deadmeat
C 4
E 4
L 1
En 4

hire_weight = mission ## 12

I still have to think about how to make the ai 'search' through the records properly though and find the highest hire_weight.

*solved.
using the max() thingy will work.

Having said that, I'm looking into Classes as an alternative to list.

[Frajic]

Do it. The code becomes much easier to manage if you use names instead of numbers.

[Deadmeat1471]

Time to necro my own thread 

Getting back on top of this..... I updated most of the stuff to python 3.2, added a bunch of parentheses on the prints mostly. In preparation for a total overhaul.

Current issue is this bit:

Spoiler: Code (click to show/hide)

print ('Hello, what is your name?')
name = input('Name: ')
time.sleep(1)
print ('Your name is ') + name + ('.')
*print ('Your name is ' + name + ('.'))

Apparently the bold line are incompatible str + nonetype. I'm assuming the nonetype may be due to 3.2 changing raw_input to input? I am unsure. If I don't fix this, I'd appreciate insight

The actual error:
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'
*Fixed this, the parentheses were in the wrong place.



First general focus: Sort out the system for selecting astronauts for missions finally! Whether I use classes or lists or whatever else, it needs sorting. I am thinking on this.

Noob workaround idea:
+Could make the mission_weight based on persons stats and experience be counted as follows:

Code: [Select]

selected = 'no'

while selected = 'no'
    if astronaut(0+1) has (50-1) weight:
        astronautsoandso is allocatedtomissionsuchandsuch
        if another has the same weight:
            randomly pick between them.
        break
    break
I need to test this to see if it works, i believe it should. For this I could use classes and have one of the factors in the class a character number(for code purposes) such as 1, 2, 3 etc

[Virex]

Are the weights different per mission? Because otherwise you could just sort your sequence and whenever you need an astronaut, use the first one and remove him from the sequence. There should be a sorting function in Python to help you.

[Deadmeat1471]

Are the weights different per mission? Because otherwise you could just sort your sequence and whenever you need an astronaut, use the first one and remove him from the sequence. There should be a sorting function in Python to help you.

Yeah I'm currently looking at Python sorting functions, the weights would be their skills added up and compared to the mission.

Example:

Mission needs capsule skills, LEM, EVA

add these skills for the astronauts together = mission selection weight.

Once I sort out the sorting though, the rest should be easy. This is really the only major block ive had to progress, figuring a way to make the program search and pick the best astronaut. If I have much problems, I will revert to my backup plan, which is a fixed rotor for astronaut missions (historic) with a possibility for the player to replace one of the historic nauts.

[Deadmeat1471]

Bumping cos I will fiddle with this again and need to find.

I think due to my utter failure to comprehend sorting, at least thats how I recall this project, I am going to 'hardcode' everything except the player interaction.
*Unless when I have a refresh at python I find a usable sorting function I understand and can use.

Astronaut selection will go as follows:

Historic naut has this skill for this mission; does player have the same or more? if so, player takes mission.


I will restart it from scratch, hopefully it will be slightly more efficient this time.

Before all this, I will brush up on object oriented programming. I really need to get that cracked for python.