Script Summary: Allows easy access to all stores without equipment switching.
Installs a simple shopping basket link in the upper left corner of the top menu. When this link is clicked, the main pane will show a list of all available stores (not all stores and functions are supported...specifically, the brewery and chez snootee are excluded, as well as Doc Galactik's hp/mp service (but his items are still available for purchase and use, and you can click his picture to go to his store).
With a single click, you can buy any item you see in quantities of 1, 2, 5 or 10. Once purchased, the item appears on the "Recent Purchases" list and you can use the item from there as well. You can also mark any item you like as a "favorite" and it will appear in the "Favorites" list.
If you can't recall exactly what the item does, a tooltip is available that describes every item in detail...just hover over the item in the store.
You can change the order stores appear by dragging the title bar around.
The script attempts to keep background page requests to a minimum. It needs to look at various pages to determine shop availability, but once it has that data, it will keep it until the next time you log in or refresh the entire page. If you wish to force the script to re-evaluate your situation, click the "Refresh Access" link at the top of the page. This is handy if you just got the second piece of the filthy hippy disguise and are jonesing for some herb (for example).
If for some reason the store doesn't show up but you are certain you have met all the conditions for opening that store, check the "All Stores" checkbox. Normally-hidden stores will show up in bright red and you can choose to buy those items. This is also a useful feature if you just want to see the description and/or meat cost of an item that you can't yet access.
If you do not like the pictures appearing, click "Hide Images" at the top.
To resume normal game function, click the red X button in the upper left corner, or just click the shopping cart icon in the top pane again.
Note that when Plaza is opened, it is drawn over the top of whatever page you were on at the time. This means that when you close it, you will see the same page you were on again.
TODO:
- Add support for custom quantities (in case you don't like 1, 2, 5 and 10)
- Add support for Doc Galactik's hp and mp service. The problem is calculating the meat cost accurately without pinging the completed quests page (adding even MORE server load to the 2 other pages I already hit). Although if I did hit that page, I could more accurately get restrict the hippy store (and add the war fruits/booze items!) as well as come up with a better filter for the Black Market besides just level 11. What other restrictions would the completed quests page solve?
UPDATED 2010-01-25
Recent Changes:
- Fix to work with all the changes made to the user interface of the game over the last severl months.
- Clicking on shopkeep images will now work and will now automatically equip any necessary outfits (Lab and Hippy Store) before putting you in to that store (where you would only see "you shouldn't be here").
- Fix to showing and storing the correct access. Store window positions and access are saved correctly.
- Restoring an outfit after buying lab or fruit items now actually works.
Update 2010-10-06
- Minor fixes over the months, wanted to make sure the most recent version was available publicly.
Update 2010-10-07
- Tweaks to allow the USE links for MP restorers to work with the latest changes to the charpane HTML.
- Added a drop down list to the top menu pane (similar to the older BuyPitaCrap script) to allow easy access to your favorites menu without opening plaza proper. The busy indicator makes the top menu jiggle a bit, should probably work on that but its not a show stopper.
Update 2010-10-12
- Added progress message to top pane (so you can see the script's progress without opening the main plaza window). If plaza is open, the main plaza message will show instead. Opening plaza while a top-pane action is still in progress might cause the top message to stick around until you close plaza again.
- There is now an option to always refresh the character pane every time any purchase is made. Previously, the char pane was only refreshed when you used an item.
- Using a single chewing-gum-on-a-string will now show you the item you got. Using multiple chewing-gums-on-a-string will only show you the first item you got. If you want to see the results of each gum, use them separately. You should probably be doing this anyway :)
- Thanks go to ertest1/Lord Enzo for his excellent ideas and testing efforts!
