Mission bit documentation

[Lindley]

b1000 - 1100: Main storyline bits

b2000: Player works for Chang Shipping.
b2001: Player is offered Sealed Crate missions.
b2002: Player is offered Jaguar Freelance missions.

b200 - 203: Capshaw initial arc.
b400: Prevent multiple occurances of "Pilgramage to Sturges".
b401: Prevent multiple occurances of "Claim Valuables".
b402: Prevent multiple occurances of "Bypass Customs".
b500: Player has completed first "Mandatory Rescue Mission".
b600: Trasker's End String available to player.
b700: ? Set after Capshaw arc completes. Might use this range for other Capshaw missions.
b899: Mutex for "Salvage Run".
b900 - 905: Renshaw initial arc
b3000: Player works for GalPost.
b2999: Mutex for "Galpost Recruitment".

[Lindley]

I think I'm going to use b100 for "Player is carrying illegal cargo", and use that to make it dangerous to land on Core Worlds under those circumstances.

[Lindley]

b1019 is used out-of-sequence in the storyline.
b100: Player has failed/aborted a Chang mission.
b101: Player has failed/aborted a Tarring mission.

[Lindley]

b102: Player refuses Redmer's initial request for aid.
b200-203: Initial Capshaw arc (CHANGED)
b2002: Player is offered Jaguar Freelance missions
b2003-2005: No use.

[Lindley]

b99: Player is carrying illegal cargo.
b2003: Player is suspicious of Tarring (set after Tarring 3)
b800: Prevent multiple occurances of "Tarring: Bystry Buisness"

[Lindley]

b801-802: North initial misns.
b803: Tarring: Rounder Rollout interjection bit.

[Lindley]

b50: Player has access to Reaver tech. No real use for this, it's just there.

[Lindley]

b810: Player has completed all missions requiring Tarring to like player. Currently set after North 2 completes; this could be pushed back if we add more Tarring missions.

b501-504: Computer search bits for Jaguars 12.

[Lindley]

b98: Player is carrying slightly illegal cargo (misdemeanor if caught).

[Lindley]

b103: Bernadette acts like a Jaguar base.

[Lindley]

In order to allow maximum flexibility with regards to side missions, each mission will test bits corresponding to the availability of the characters in them. Furthermore, for the duration of a character's involvement in a side story, another bit will be set; no mission making that character unavailable may begin during that time. This mutex will also be taken by missions making them unavailable.

Unfortunately, this may require us to allow no more than 1 side story involving a given character to be active at one time, since Nova has no notion of a non-mutex semaphor. Naturally exceptions will be made for "central" missions, so that side stories may happen concurrently if appropriate.

Convention: Odd bit clear = available. Even bit set = currently involved in a non-central mission.

b1,2: Zoe
b3,4: Fritz
b5,6: Mytych
b7,8: Ji
b9,10: Xiao
b11,12: Laralee
b13,14: Chang
b15,16: Tarring
b17,18: Monty
b19,20: Capshaw
b21,22: Renshaw
b23,24: Merrill Oslan

bits 25-90: Reserved for future characters.

[Lindley]

b300-b315 reserved for Pegana side string + Mr. Universe follow-on.
b300: String entry point, set if entered.

[Lindley]

b320 - b329: Barnum & Bailey strings
b320: Entry point. Both strings are available if cleared.
b321: Second mission of Bailey string available.
b325: Second mission of Barnum string available.
b324: Zoe/Fritz disambiguator for Barnum 2b. Set = Zoe, cleared = Fritz.

[krugeruwsp]

I'd like to reserve 1200-1300 for the spare parts outfits. I'll post whatever of that I don't use when I'm finished with it.

[Lindley]

Sure.