I wanted to create a new misn resource that would appear when one of my pilots has completed all the sidestrings, but not started any of the main plots, so that I would know when to move on to one of the plots. The mission, misn 927, is called "Done with Side Missions" and is currently at the defaults for a new mission except for the Available Bits field, which reads thus:

b7 & b16 & b24 & b32 & b49 & b818 & b7779 & b7781 & b7785 & b7880 & !b511

Unfortunately, I have tried saving the misn resource in a REZ file in the Nova Plug-ins folder and starting EV Nova.exe, but the mission is shown in the mission computer everywhere even though the pilot has not satisfied all of the bits I've listed. I have created other misn resources before, and they've always worked even without the "&" boolean operator. I have also tried:

(b7 & b16 & b24 & b32 & b49 & b818 & b7779 & b7781 & b7785 & b7880) & !b511
and
b7 b16 b24 b32 b49 b818 b7779 b7781 b7785 b7880 !b511

Anyone have any ideas how I can get this mission to work? I have a registered copy of EV: Nova, and am using a PC with Windows XP and EVNEW. Any help would be appreciated!

-FlAd

Try:
(((((((((b7 & b16) & b24) & b32) & b49) & b818) & b7779) & b7781) & b7785) & b7880) & !b511

Nova really doesn't like trying to deal with more than two terms at once, and attempting to handle 11 is really pushing too far. Basically, follow the instructions in the Nova Bible:

Note that since the Nova evaluator is fairly primitive, it may do unpredictable
things if you give it an expression like b1 & b2 | b3 ... instead, use proper
parentheses to make it b1 & (b2 | b3) or (b1 & b2) | b3, as appropriate.

Pure & s are apparently no exception.

Edwards

Good -- now the mission isn't showing up in the mission computer. I'll have to satisfy all the bits and make sure that did the trick. (That should only take a couple of hours!) ^_^ Thanks for the prompt reply, Edwards!

-FlAd