I'll pass on work arounds.

I am almost done with mining crystal changing in belt btw.

It does take some set up for your miner but once done, it is pretty easy.

1. make settings for each roid type you want to mine. Export each one under its ore name, pyroxeres, veldpsar, arkonor and so on.
I made settings for every roid, just so anyone can use it on any roid.
2. stock a few crystals of each type you want to mine in your cargo hold.
3. if it senses NOTHING FOUND in the overview, it switches to primary, then secondary, then tertiary until the overview is not empty. if it goes all 3, it stops. should i do 4 or more?

need to finish up the part where it changes the crystal in the strip miners.

also need to figure out where to place it. probably before the laser check.

Wow, cool!!

Yeah that is the right place to put it.

Minesalot wrote:
I just downloaded yEd Graph editor so i can make the Visual algorithm plan thing.

Stuff to do: If anyone feels like chipping in and helping let me know what you want to work on.
A. Come up with a cool name for this project. OnGridBooster and OnGridMiner is what I have in mind.
B. Graphml of the algorithms for booster and miner
C. AHK scripts for the following
1. scanning and counting personal bookmarks for belt bm's in booster's pnp. Then writing results to "EP Shared Variables\EpVars.ini" Use section OnGrid, and each BM should have a 0 for unknown roid status, and 1 for known empty. That way the ini read can randomly pick a BM and if it is a 1, pick another, if it is a 0, alls good.
2. script for miners to read corpbm and warp to it. not sure if algorithm can do this internally correctly
3. script for miners to do crystal swapping, and overview swapping. need to edit and save the overview setting "asteroids" for each of the roid types. "veldspar" "plagioclase" "scordite" "pyroxeres"... so the the ahk script can change tab 3 to what ever roid we want on the fly.
4. script for unloading mining crystal to cargohold, and loading the next one, via the hotkey for the stripminer module right click method, should be easy.
5. not sure what else is needed just yet.

For C.1., note that you can select-all and copy the contents of the PnP Window to the clipboard. It will show you each bookmark that is displayed on screen (not any in collapsed folders). You could use this to take each row, find the name in the row (I believe the entries are tab separated, and AHK will let you transform a string into an array, StrSplit I believe), and then set a key in EPVars.ini with whatever default value you want with IniWrite.

AbbadonDespoiler wrote:

For C.1., note that you can select-all and copy the contents of the PnP Window to the clipboard. It will show you each bookmark that is displayed on screen (not any in collapsed folders). You could use this to take each row, find the name in the row (I believe the entries are tab separated, and AHK will let you transform a string into an array, StrSplit I believe), and then set a key in EPVars.ini with whatever default value you want with IniWrite.

I'll look into that. Thanks

Update:

Done with On-Grid crystal changer. Just need to polish it up some. Take out the robotyness. Is that a word? Yup just used it so it is now.

Trying to find a good spot to put OGCrystalCheck.ahk

I do not like before the GetLaserData. Because it does this just outside the station or the POS. but the 460 only checks it after looting after FM.

I want it to run it after it first arrives to a BM after warping. And again if it finds the overview asteroid tab empty, before warping to the next bm.