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Basically, right now the utility generates "words":

- you have been given command of a valiant class ship! select valiant and press start... .
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- your ship is equipped with... basic laser (weapon) breach bomb ii (weapon) automated reloader (augmentation) .

Words according to a plan, but just words. It would be cool if it generated a FTL file for this Valiant ship.

Your second step is to make it less human readable and make it more machine readable.

So once you have blueprinted the lego's you want to use - or rather, making a master Blueprint.xml file containing all that information; you'd need to select valid blueprint entries (thru randomization) and generate a valid blueprint for say, kestrel_a.

in other words, i suggest streamlining your "words" into "keywords" that can be used to construct a working kestrel_a XML document that can be pasted into a file and ran with GMM. once you get there, we can start talking about generating the whole thing and replacing this manual labor with a few buttons clicked.

Today that I have time, I will see what I can do using php or another plot editor to generate an .xml file.

Now I am working on a PHP version of the utility to generate a file that's readable by Superluminal. Work in progress:

http://ftl.orgfree.com/kestrel_randomiz ... izer_t.php