get station commodities list w/o docking?

no
that info is added to the savegames everytime you visit a station

i dont think so

Not that much call for it, ubnless in an online mod with some sort of dynamic economy, once you visit a station, it's buying abd selling prices can be viewed via the cargo screen on your ship, traderoutes wil show you which known stations pay what for the goods in question...

Well, theres something you can do using FLMM script or manually editing the INIs: in every system, add to every base the entry "Visit = 1" (or set it to 1 if it already exists. This way you'll be able to view every base's info before docking it, but it ruins the fun of exploring, since you see the bases in the navmap as soon as you enter the system.

The visit values are 0, 1, and 128. 0 is neutral, 1 means the player can always see this object, and 128 means that the object is hidden from the navmap and will never appear, even if you dock with them.
You got the right INI file, now let me explain: Zones (souch as population zones or jump zones) will always have the 128 value. Bases (which appear under a specific nickname e.g rh01_01) will either have no visit entry, or have a 1 value. What you need to do is to add a visit value of 1 to every base.

Glad I could help

well, your code is currec. you can enshort the section to the nickname only, without the "[object] nickname = " if you use FLMM 1.31. Sorry, no way to reduce spam. its a pretty hard work but its worth it.

I recommand you to first check it with one base if it works, because theres another possibility if it doesn't which is shorter. If this one works, the other one doesn't work and vice versa.

Did you break the section and source lines into 3, if I recall correctly, the flmm docs say only 1 tag per line so...

...might not work, try...

...instead.

You say it didn't append, so you opened the ini file after activating the mod, and the new values were not in the file? Check for typos in the brackets, if one is missing it all goes pearshaped but still might activate.

Also, did you start a new game after activating, or load an existing pre edit savegame?

Options tag?

It's used to ask you questions when you activate a mod, open sp yes/no, how much starting cash, what system to start a new player in, etc...

any "data file=" code block in the mod with the options="x,y" bit after the ini file name will only trigger if your choice for activation question x was answer y

If you are not using that feature, you shouldn't need the [options] block in the header at all.

My suggestion for you: use FLMM 1.31, nothing ealse. 1.44 is a beta and 1.5 isn't even the same FLMM we know and love. Make sure its made by IGx89. As I noticed the scripts in ver 1.5 are absolutely different from those in 1.31 or 1.44. I use 1.44, but I recommand you to use 1.31 and not risk a beta for script features you won't use.

You should make it simple, since its just a minor addon, but do as you wish...
Sorry, I can't help you with 1.5...

*sigh* for a simple scripted mod, 1.5 works pretty good, and the new features include stuff that makes your code shorter and simpler, the main problem with 1.5 is it sometimes causes problems with very large ini copy mods originally written for 1.3 back in the stone age...

For a small change like this 1.5 will work just fine, it's not the flmm version thats causing problems here.

Seems like you'll have to edit Universe.ini (located at data/universe). just do the same with the [Base] entries.

In theory, since you're using flmm 1.5 this *should* work...

The numntimes="-1" *should* tell flmm 1.5 to repeat the change for EVERY [base] section in the file, without you having to do each one separately.

Let us know if it works ;D