CruncherListFix

Cruncher List Fix

Fixes for crunchers in Shadows of Doubt:

1. On the cruncher in your own apartment, lists are cut down to a single entry.
2. On the cruncher in a hotel room you rent, there is no account for you, so you can't log in.
3. Nothing tells you which vmails you haven't read yet.

Needs SOD.Common (for keeping read marks with your save).

Lists cut down to one entry

You'd see it as:

• VMail: only one message shows in your inbox, however many you have.
• Login screen: only one user shows, however many people live with you.

In the vanilla game you rarely notice, because nobody sends you mail and you live alone. It shows up as soon as a mod sends you messages or has someone move in with you.

The fix only touches those two lists, only while they are being built, and only on your own cruncher. Everything else works as before.

Details

When a list is built on a cruncher, the game checks whether the computer stands in an apartment you own. If it does, it runs a "player profile" step that deletes every list entry after the first. This mod hides your owned apartments from that one step for the moment the list is built, then puts them straight back.

Hotel room login

The game only puts you on a cruncher's login screen if the computer stands in an apartment you own. A hotel room you rent doesn't count, so its cruncher lists nobody you can log in as.

With this fix, the cruncher in your rented room shows your account first, the same as at home. Pick it and you're logged in; your vmail is there as usual. The check runs every time the login screen opens, so once you check out or lose the room, the account is gone again.

Nothing else changes: the room is not added to the apartments you own, and nobody else's account is touched.

Unread vmail

The game doesn't keep track of which vmails you've opened, so this mod does. On any cruncher you're logged in to as yourself:

• the VMail icon on the desktop gets a small red mark while you have vmails you haven't opened;
• each unopened vmail in the list has the same mark on the right.

A vmail counts as read once you open it. If someone adds a new message to a thread you've read, it's unread again (unless you wrote the last message). Vmails you already had when you installed this count as read. Read marks are saved next to your save game.

Config

• Fixes.HotelRoomLogin: give you an account on the cruncher in a hotel room you rent (default on).
• Mail.UnreadBadge: mark unread vmails on the VMail icon and in the list (default on).
• Debug.DebugLogging: log each time a list is kept whole or your hotel account is added (default off).