Take a step back and breathe.
The Event Editors is not that hard. Any event basically boils down to:
when <- "If this happens..."
do-nothing <- "... do everything listed here."
You right-click and replace the "when" with whatever "if" conditions you want. When a ship has arrived, when its waypoints are done, when it has undocked, etc. Use operators like and/or/not the same way you'd use &&, || and ! when making an if statement.
Then, you right-click and replace the "do-nothing" with whatever you want to do as a result of the above conditions. Send some messages, give some AI orders, change the waypoint speed, etc. You can right-click "Add Operator" to do more than one thing.
The actual right-click menu is an exhaustive list of sexps. Not everything is relevant, which is why it grays out what isn't. As with programming language conditionals, you wouldn't put an assignment in the "when" statement. For example, it makes no sense to say "if (sendmessage("hello world")) {i++;}"
Thanks. I get the concept of how it's supposed to work, I just don't know what exactly to enter to make things happen the way I want. So here goes the FRED noob asking for how make proper statements that FRED can understand.
So when I create a new event in the Event Viewer it gives me:
New Event
when
true
do-nothing
So I should replace that with:
New Event
when
Sathanas reaches Jump Node 0
Jump out
It can't be that simple. The trouble is, I don't see those as choices anywhere in the right click menus. Just a lot a various operand choices.
The problem here is I don't know how to tell the Event Editor what I want it to do because I don't speak it's language. This is what I need help with. Once I learn this relatively simple task from this first try, it'll probably come easier next time. The first time is always going to be a leaning curve.
So to reiterate, what I'm trying to accomplish in this simple exercise is:
1) Have the Sathanas (which is already in system) travel to the jump node (waypoint) and jump out.
2) Reduce the speed of the Sathanas to 10 (because it defaults to 25)
So what selections do I make in the Event Editor and what exactly to I type in the data fields to make this work?