Day 111: Working for a Living

I pulled a 12-hour work day today, and still managed to code something up. I am super-programmer!

#148 was closed today. I meant to do it yesterday but forgot - given that you can do pretty much everything random mission related at this point, it's pretty much done.

#150 was a bit more work. The bug where the ship claimed to have twice as much cargo space as it ought to was due to the fact that it claimed to have twice as much everything! I had been wondering why my jumps between sectors were taking 6 seconds instead of 3. This I found was a math error on my part, which I fixed.

I was repeating myself in the ship cargo code - there were separate arrays for mission and non-mission related items. This was stupid. Now there is one, and the ship is smart enough not to lump mission cargo and non-mission cargo into one entity even if they are otherwise similar.

My game file format is pretty backwards compatible. If I add an extra field on in a newer version and then load up a scenario made in an older version, whatever extra field I added just gets its default value (which instantly makes my homebrew XML-based solution preferable over YAML, which sets it to nil). It had a problem doing the opposite, however: if I removed a field and loaded a file which still had it, it would complain loudly and then die. Now it complains loudly in a warning message duly logged, which you can then change the log level of if you're tired of hearing it.

Super-programmer, away!