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Problems(?) in thing_vehicles.dat file

G

Gumbytie

Well-known member
Firstly, not every vehicle is:
Code: 
<tag group="Equipment" tag="Standard"/>

Why would that be? It means some vehicles are not precluded when you:
Code: 
<tag group="Hero" tag="NoStdGear"/>

Now I know under "Configure Hero" I can just not check the Vehicle box, and no longer a problem.

But this is why I noticed. I am working on Ragnarok, a game set just after WWII. Obviously like other source-books it has its own list of gear, weapons, and vehicles. But it is a small list.

I thought it would be cool for a GM to have the option to check the Vehicle box and some how filter out ALL vehicles except those marked as:
Code: 
<tag group="VehEra" tag="WWII"/>

But since not every vehicle has the Standard Equipment tag, if you check the Vehicle box, you already see Vehicles you may not want.

This leads me further to suggest that HeroLab does not make very good use of filters regarding Savage Worlds. Even if every vehicle had the Standard Equipment tag added, there is no current way to load vehicles and then filter by something else, aka VehEra (well, at least not with a cool check-box).

I already made a duplicate of thing.vehicles.dat for myself to do a little clean-up and make it a bit more consistent. But seeing as how it is a main file, the next update would just blow away my work. So I am bringing it up here because I am not sure who 'owns' and 'maintains' that datafile. I don't mind cleaning it up and handing it off to proper authorities :)

Cheers.
 
Point out which ones are not. I usually put it into a thread with "[Bug]" in the title and they're pretty good about fixing them in the next release. The only one I remember seeing that wasn't set as a Standard Gear, though, was for the Black Coach from the Fantasy Companion (which is either fixed or to be fixed in the next release). Usually they are all set to standard and if they are not then it's usually because it just got overlooked is all.

As for having extra filters for things, suggest it in the suggestion thread! I've been feeling lonely (and like a thread hog) making all the suggestions up there myself. ;)
 
Well that's because your making most of the files. LOL I have suggested a few, when I run into something I think we need, but lately what I need you have already suggested - so I don't need to. LOL
 
Heh, very good suggestions. I will look through the Vehicle file again and note each missing 'Standard' tag and post as BUG.

I will also separate out my suggestions and post that to the sticky suggestion thread. Doh :)

Actually, I have several ideas, need to look through and make sure Zarlor hasn't thought of all of mine yet :)
 
Feel free to repeat anything, if you want. It may just be a way of saying more than one of us likes the idea. :)
 
The reason it's like that is because I goofed. Funny thing is I noticed it this last week when I was reviewing Space 1889. I've got it fixed here, and it'll be included in the next update.
 
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