Some exciting things happening in v6.0.0
First, all navigation fixes and supermarks now have seconds in their timestamp:
Second, you can now save your navigation fixes and supermarks to your Ship's journal
They will be imported at game start and placed on the map just as you left them when you last exited the game. Your current sub's position will be the last navigation fix unless the current game date and time is greater than any of the fixes then a new fix will be plotted.
Ship's Journal changes:
When saving a journal in game you now have the options to:
- save only the journal entries
- save only the navigation fixes
- save only the supermarks
By checking all 3 you save everything to the journal selected. If you do not check one of them then it will not be saved to the journal. This means you can make journals of just supermarks, navigation fixes, or journal entries or any combination of them:
When importing a journal you now have the options to:
- import only the entries
- import only the navigation fixes
- import only the supermarks
By checking all 3 you import everything into your current journal.
Now we need to explain what happens when you import navigation fixes. If you import navigation fixes then your current position on the map will be the navigation fix of all navigation fixes that has the latest timestamp (makes sense doesn't it?).
and finally when you exit your mission and your current journal has changed you can now select whether to:
- save new journal entries made
- save navigation fixes
- save supermarks
If you uncheck the new journal entries made then all new journal entries made will be discarded (vice any in game current journal saves you did). If you uncheck navigation fixes or supermarks then they will not be written to the journal
All of these options (save supermarks, save navigation fixes, etc.) are available whether you are using real navigation or not. Note: you can not be using real navigation and your current journal has navigation fixes. In order to preserve the navigation fixes you need to ensure save navigation fixes is checked. By default all the options are checked.
As you have probably guessed this means a new format for the ship's journal. I have coded in the ability to automatically convert old style journals to the new style
You'll never know it happened
I have to update the Ship's Journal app now with the changes made. After that v6.0.0 will be ready for release.
@ Trevally - it's ok to use local time now for the Automation command Wait_for_time in v6.0.0.
