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4. FAQ
Ed’s Didn’t Rebuy plugin ;) ED Recon is the original meaning.
Cobra Kai is a group of cmdrs whose goal is to protect non-combatants and disrupt the players who are on the "wrong side" of the law. Our main focus is on Community Goals, but we perform our duties at other places in the Galaxy as well.
EDR is composed of a plugin and a server.
The EDR plugin relies on the events sent by EDMC whenever an update is made to the Player Journal. This allows EDR to understand where you are and what is happening.
The EDR server provides insights to bounty hunters and law enforcers: where the action is, who committed a crime, where wanted cmdrs are, etc. It also provides the evidence required to adjust a cmdr’s karma and warn other players accordingly.
Windows at the moment. On Mac OS X, the overlay will not work.
EDR only works when you play in Open. It does not send anything when you play in Solo or Private. As a consequence, it will not warn you when you play in Private (and Solo but that would be ridicule in itself ;D).
Currently, the following information is collected:
- traffic information: EDR sends a blip whenever you meet another cmdr, or when a cmdr signals their presence through comms.
- scan information: EDR sends scan info (i.e. wanted, enemy, bounty).
- crimes information: EDR sends a crime report for interdictions and death.
- fight information: EDR sends fight reports if you activate the feature.
- player status: EDR sends a blip whenever your location changes.
- requests: when you send a request to EDR central (e.g. fuel, repair, etc.), your ship status and location are also sent for facilitating a dispatch.
EDR relies on EDMCOverlay to show you information in-game. It's an overlay made for EDMC plugins. I've fixed an issue with scaling, you can check the code if you want. I also got it scanned by popular antivirus engines and none of them found it to be a threat. Recommendations:
- Scan EDMCOverlay.exe and file a bug if it's flagged as a threat by your antivirus software.
- Run EDMCOverlay.exe once, and if your antivirus complains, tell it that the file is fine.
- Relaunch EDMC.
Yes. You can change the layout by editing the igm_config.ini file in config/ and test with the !overlay command (after re-launching EDR). Read the instructions in config/igm_config.ini.
Yes. You have 2 options.
- With EDMC, in File > settings, click on EDR and disable the audio feedback option.
- With the in-game comms, send the following commands:
- !audiocue off : to disable the audio feedback
- !audiocue on : to enable the audio feedback
Send !audiocue soft on local/wing/... chat to pick a softer set of sound. To revert: !audiocue loud.
The server gives EDR a cmdr profile which contains a karma value. The karma value has been set for a small set of cmdr who have been known to behave as outlaws. Otherwise, it's dynamic and based on scans submitted by other EDR users.
Dynamic karma is still a work in progress. Early take is that there isn't enough information in the player journal. In the meantime, mark them as outlaws (#! cmdrname) if they attacked you for no legal reason, i.e. you weren't wanted nor pledged to an enemy power.
Mark them as neutral with #= cmdrname.
No. The plugin only keeps track of your friends locally. This information is used to determine if a direct message is to one of your friend or a stranger. In the latter case, the plugin can infer that the stranger is in the same location as you are and can report a blip. In the former case, your friend could be anywhere in space so the plugin does not report a blip.
No. EDR has no interest in the content of text comms. It would also be a lot of data to deal with.
No. It doesn't include the configuration info (e.g. API keys, hosts).
The audio cue implementation is a bit simplistic. It shouldn’t occur too often though.