Add-on communication to website outside the game?

[Palamedes]

So I have an add-on in mind that I'd like to create, but before I bother I want to know if it would be possible for an add-on to push/pull data from a website? Either via open socket connection, standard ajax calls..whatever..

I want to create a market.. sorta "eve-online" like.. creating a lot of the fun economic stuff from Eve without the PVP open world stuff.

Crafting.. Buying/Selling.. Mining..etc..

The site would simply house minute by minute prices, jobs, etc..

It sorta depends on being able to communicate out of the game client. I dont know how / if the plugins are sandboxed to such a degree to prevent this..

Thoughts?

[a__gun]

I would assume the source code for Telemachus has want you want

[Palamedes]

Oh awesome.. thank you.

So my second question then is, does such an add-on exist already?

I want to create or participate in an add-on that adds "more" to the game with regards to mining and collection of materials.. sort of to give more purpose to the game.. Missions and markets..etc.

We need 100 tons of Jaspet (heh) which can only be gotten out of the polar region of Duna.. go. etc..

I think the Kethane mod is brilliant.. Just need to expand on it in some ways to get extra stuff to mine..

[Faark]

Can't say whether such a plugin exist, but how exactly do you want to realize it? A public market for everyone? That's kinda difficult, since a digital market does only make sense if someone the market trusts has actually control about the digital goods. CPP has, since they host the EVE servers. But KSP is a pure client game and you cannot trust the client to not cheat. So you either have to create lots of private markets that work via invite / authorization or you can only provide and somehow simulate prices without the possibility for clients to change data.

Kethane might be a problem since it has a pretty restricted license.

[ahd1601]

I think the Kethane mod is brilliant.. Just need to expand on it in some ways to get extra stuff to mine..

It's easy to add new resources. Just edit the resource file that comes with kethane or make your own. None of it is hard coded in.