Help with event graph

anon16009780 · September 22, 2015, 9:13pm

Sench;384608:

Auto-crafted recipes work almost like manual ones, except they are triggered as soon as the required materials are present and the structure is turned on. If you want your structure to work w/o needing power or fuel, just set “activation requires power” to false, leave the “active requires fuel item” blank and set “can toggle activation” to true. It will have an option to turn on and off (you can call it trade and stop trade) w/o requiring anything. You could not set the ability to toggle activation and instead set “auto-activate” to true, to have the structure go active upon placement and never turn off, but it might increase CPU load a little (insignificantly per object, but it could add up on a server).

Auto-crafted recipes work in parallel, but only one item per entry in the default engrams. That’s why a campfire will only cook one piece of meat at a time, regardless of how many stacks are inside it, and why a grill will cook many pieces at once even with a single raw stack (because its “default inventory items” lists cooked meat many times in a row).

To set up buying, create child items for the items you want to be buy-able. You can set their cost by editing the recipe to be X of your currency and the “item quantity”, which controls how many items are returned per crafting operation (in this case, per trade). As child items, they will be eligible in any recipes that use their parent materials (like chitin and keratin are child to a hidden “ChitinOrKeratin” item which you see in most recipes, but some recipes require chitin specifically and neither keratin nor their parent will work).

The problem is selling.
One solution would be to set up a fuel burner structure and make it use items you want to be sell-able as fuel for a very short time, returning your currency (just like wood is converted to charcoal). Unfortunately, it will only return one item per unit of “fuel”, so if you want to exchange (for example) 1 polymer for 5 coins, you’ll have to create a separate “5 coins” item and make it convertible to your basic coin item via another recipe.
Another solution would be to once again use auto-craft recipes. Create a child currency item for each item you want to be sell-able and adjust their recipes and “item quantity”.

If you set the crafting/burning time of each of these recipes to 0.1, it will be very fast without overloading your computer with checks or crafting ticks.

This is a roundabout solution, but I feel like it will work better with the current state of things.

I did all of this, didn’t have fuel cost because it’s a shop that would be silly. but I did the child currency also the issue I ran into is child won’t stack with main so if I sold wood/thatch they were two separate child objects and though they both could be used to buy stuff they wouldn’t stack… which in turn meant everything I sell would be a different stack (not good). so I made a craft of a currency that used the newly created sell item and it’s children and made 1 new currency.

basically this is what I did:
masterblack - everything that didn’t sell for a full gold was a child of this.
mastergold - everything that sold for gold was a child of this.
GOLD - crafted from 1 mastergold(so all child would be used also)
BLACK - crafted from 1 masterblack(and all it’s children)
But then I had to make blacks become gold … so
100 black is crafted into a child of mastergold
and to save some time I made 100 masterblack(and children) become 1 master gold (this would skip the black convert and then gold).

Unfortunately this makes a lot of conversions that seem pointless but there wasn’t a way to have Children stack with master so would make litterally 128 separate piles of “gold” pearls that wouldn’t stack. So I was trying to find a solution to create the items using programming instead of crafting so I could avoid the extra steps needed to make everything stack correctly, at first I tried spoiling the item but that made lag even worse. The mod I’m working on is called shopping mod.

and though it’s working great I would love to be able to clean it up so that it works more efficient while still being able to sell small and large quantities of things without lagging out the clients.