Ah, so the parameter naming makes sense after all. Thanks for clearing that up!

I am a bit surprised to see a lower lawlessness in scarcely populated adjacent systems, in this case. Oh well, I guess smaller communities with tight seuritie would have less crime...

Smaller communities have less crime, period. Compare the inner city to any small village in the country. Crime becomes sustainable as a career option only when there's more opportunity (such as more potential victims).

hmmm... 12 Ophuchi has NO_CENTRAL_GOVERNANCE, but still gets a lawlessness of 0.04... Even with a few modifiers, that seems to be weird if it has a base value of 1.

maxLawlessness would be a more accurate name than baseLawlessness. On Polit.cpp:225 a system's lawlessness is a random number between 0 and base.

It might make sense for that human_infestedness to be used to determine a minimum lawlessness.

And/or less chance of being caught (more places to hide). Risk vs reward, as always.

At this time you shouldn't put much stock in anything related to politics, crime, economy or trade. Those are the "big four" that are intertwined in complex ways and haven't really been touched yet. They will change. You should still try things out and think about how it might work (we need insight in this area). Just don't get too hung up on any particular detail.

I'm taking my code appart, putting the Infobrokers into their seperate LUA file, because otherwise things get a bit crowded. It'll also be easier to use InfoBrokers with other mission types should it become necessary in the future.

Anyways, that leaves me with the problem that I can't get direct access to the players mission list. There's Player:GetMission(), but how do I iterate through them without knowing how many there are? Does the function return nil when it's out of bound?

You cannot. If you don't track your missions yourself, you're pretty much stuffed. I cover the mission list from almost exactly half way down this wiki page.

So there is no way for a LUA module to interact with missions created by another? Well, I guess I have to merge my InfoBrokers back into the same LUA file again, then... 🙁

There's one way... abuse the global scope. )-:

Expanding on that last:

The only Lua scripts that currently create globally scoped objects are the ones in data/libs, and that should probably remain the case. Scripts in that directory are executed before those in data/modules. Ideally, they should provide an API for module scripts to use. That API should be documented by means of the Codedoc system already used by those existing already.

The only ones that exist so far are Translate.lua and Characters.lua, the bulk of both of which I wrote myself. Neither of them do anything directly visible to the player. They each provide a class, with methods which the module scripts use.

Stuff under libs/ is considered part of the "core" API, just like Body, Ship, StarSystem and all those other things. The only difference is that they're written in Lua instead of C++.

If you have functionality that you think will be genuinely useful to multiple scripts, then its likely it belongs in libs/. Don't overthink it though. If you're only implementing one module then just do it there. We can split out that functionality later if its going to be useful.

Sounds like it's really the smartest thing to put them together again. I'm not comfortable enough yet with LUA for messing around with core functionality. Thanks for the help.