A tool to manage characters?

I've seen threads where people asked about transfering funds from one character to another, and that the only way it could be done was by asking an Admin to do it for you.

Since the admins already have enough to take care of at the moment, I thought: Why not propose to create a tool to manage the characters?

It would be compatible with JoeBoomz's IONCross server manager (maybe we could ask him too) and it could be used on the Client-side to manage characters.

So for example, I have 2 accounts. One is for trading, the other is for fighting, racing, whatever... What I would like to do is be able to transfer credits earned through trading to my other account to buy equipment and such.

Also, it would be nice to transfer looted weapons across characters. Say I recuperated a bunch of MK2 weapons: I open the tool, decide which ones to swap, and bam! I don't need to be afraid of having to hold on to the weapons and the server crashing: they are saved with my other character!

Another neat feature would be to implement some kind of data transfer. Like if you explore with one character a lot and know a lot of places, and at the same time you discover interesting trade routes, you could be able to transfer your nav map and update the one on your other character. I think it is possible since you can buy information from NPCs...

Finally, a traderoute calculator would be nice. Based on your ship and commodities to trade (and on the bases known by the player), it calculates the profit made and the length of the trade route. Also, the route's "riskiness" could be measured (based on the friendliness with other factions and where they are through the systems), so that daring players can make high-risk, high-profit dealing, whilst new players can calculate good trade routes with less risk of getting killed.

I know this tool is doable, everything in Freelancer is coded or written down somewhere in a file, so the program would just need to be told how to interpret the data. I think it actually even exists for non-modded servers running the IONCross manager. Now we'd just need to make the necessary changes to have the tool work with CF 1.57.

So how does this idea sound to you guys?

Comments, constructive criticism and ideas are welcome. Go ahead: post!

Hmm, perhaps you are right, MarcBomber. Maybe that idea could be useful for later though... Who knows...

Anyways, I guess we'll just have to use JTAK's method...

Anyone else has something to say?

Well, I thought that each copy of Freelancer was assigned a special internet key, which is how we don't end up with others' character, but yes you are right considering the fact that the tool would need to access special files, it could cause a great security fault.

True, true... Ok well you can delete this thread now...

Ok so what have we learned?

Eh?

Eh?

Well, we better ask OP to change our name if we really need it, and ask help from other players to transfer credits/equipment/weapons.

I think it can be locked now.

Ok on that point I think I'll have to go in depth because I didn't make myself clear.

By trade calculator, I mean a tool which uses the information that you have gathered from your explorations to calculate the best route. Like when you buy commodities, if you look in your cargo hold and click on "Trade Routes", the best price is always shown on the top of the list.

The tool could use this info to calculate the best route, but doing so offline, so that players can plan in advance where they are going to go. I know someone did it before, but it only covered the default commodities of FL. In this case it could cover CF's commodities too.