Realistic Shipyards

2008-10-15T10:55:10Z

Lestradae:

This is a complete overhaul of Oolite's shipyards, ships and ship roles system.

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More diversity added to the core game:

* Consistent ship prices & tech levels for ALL ships available in Oolite (strict and oxps)
* Game balance & strategic elements concerning ships enhanced
* Includes 85 merged ship oxps and the Fuel Tank oxp (made by other authors than me)
* Eight player ships for veteran players and a new high-tech equipment & shipyards facility not available in any other oxp
* In total, 190 playable ships & about 500 NPC ships
* Ship roles have been altered for more diversity - and provide a much harder Ooniverse, with de facto whole new classes of ships!
* Contains a complete ship stats databank for ALL buyable ships of strict mode and ALL oxp ships available in the game!

More diversity in the possible game careers:

* Various alternate career beginnings for mostly harmless Jamesons: Sell your Cobra MkIII for a cheaper ship at Lave or Zaonce - and have the cash to buy some equipment & get going faster ...
* Enhanced gameplay for medium range (Poor to Dangerous) players: An Iron Ass (fully kitted Cobra MkIII) is no longer enough - now there is always a bigger fish, and you will really need those scanners to know what`s coming for you before it`s too late ...
* Creative solution to the uber-ship problem for the deadly veteran players: Now you can earn one, and with the challenges waiting for you, you will need it. Because so can the others ...
* It`s not over when you reach ELITE: Only now can you play with the really big boys, and spectacular spacebattles await!

I think this is the final version of the Realistic Shipyards, bugfixes and updates to contributions of third parties nonwithstanding. As everything was created under the Creative Commons License, I would feel honoured if someone wants to base their own oxps on this one or use stuff from it - be my guest, the game can only get better!

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[http://www.box.net/shared/static/ftp50ziqdb.zip Download Realistic Shipyards V3.02b here] (85.6 MB)

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Important Note: If you are using the Realistic Shipyards V3.02, you should not install the OXPs below in addition to it, because the complete contents of those OXPs have been completely merged into this OXP here:

Aegidian-Special, All-Stars, AphidV2, att1, A-Wing, bandersnatch, Boyracers, B-Wing, Cobra3Njx, Cobra35, CobraClipperPC, Condor, Dragon, Dreams01Beta, Dredger, DWCobra3, Eagle2, Executive Spaceways V2.2, Far Star, Ferdelance_NG, Ferdepai, Firewasp, Fuel Tank, fsr, Grass_Snake, Greekshipset1, Griffin2, Herald, Icarus, Illicit_Unlock_FIX1.56, Impcourier (Navy), Impcourier2 (Civilian), Interceptor, Isisinterstellar, Ixianfreighter, Ixianships, Jabberwocky, Kestrel&Falcon, Lambda, Lane_Legal, liberator, Llama, Longshot, Manta, Marett_Vol1, Merlin, Missionaries, Morrigan, MPakRedux, Murgh_XShips, NavyStarships, Newships, nuvipers, Oldships, Outrider, Pallas, Pelamis, Phoenix, PTI, PythonClassCruiserV2.6, Racers, Renegade_Viper, RoC, SalezaV2, Shield-Tail, Shreddies, snark, Spearhead_1, Stingray, Stingray_Mk_II, s-ships, Supercobra, Swift, Terrapin, Tesoura, TIE, Tiger, Tribant, Urutu_IV, UrutuMkIII, Velocity, WolfMk2, Wolfwoods_Variants, X-Ships, X-Wing & Y-Wing.

You should by all means install the following OXPs alongside to this one because Realistic Shipyards V3.02 is dependent on them: Assassins, Commies, Hotrods, Ionics-1.2.1, Amen Brick's Pirate Clan One: The Blitzspears, Vector & Zz-Oo-Haul.

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Made by:

An addon for Oolite by Giles Williams & Jens Ayton

Based on "Elite" by Ian Bell and David Braben

Merged & Compiled by Lestradae

Special thanks go to:
* Svengali (For his patient bug-hunting, solution-advicing and loads of practical help)
* Sung (For the complete hi-res retexturing of all strict mode ships)
* Giles Williams (Oolite itself + Model & textures for the Navy Juggernaut)
* LittleBear & Griff (Models & textures for the now playable Black Monk Gunship)
* Charlie (Who`s reworked Condor OXP provided the basis for the playable Condor Flagship)
* Sabre (Models & textures for the now playable Deep Space Dredger)
* Harald.ist.org (Who helped me create the stolen Thargoid Warship)
* Murgh (Model & textures for the Interstellar Explorer under the Creative Commons License)
* Milinks (Models & textures for the SIRFYards)
* Ahruman (For the really patient anti-bug support nescessary due to my hack-and-slay scripting style)
* Selezen (For telling me when to stop)

Many very special thanks go to the authors of the (86) OXPs that were merged into the Realistic Shipyards V3.02 under the Creative Commons License:

Giles Williams (Aegidian-Special, Cobra35, Newships & Pelamis); Craig Crump (All-Stars); ??? (AphidV2); Azzameen (A-Wing, B-Wing, Lambda, TIE, Interceptor, X-Wing & Y-Wing); daniel@kettonlane.me.uk (Bandersnatch); Murgh (Boyracers, CobraClipperPC, fsr, MPakRedux, Murgh_XShips, nuvipers & Oldships); Selezen (Cobra3Njx, Dreams01Beta, Eagle2, Icarus, Impcourier (Old & New) & s-ships); Charlie (Condor, DWCobra3, Merlin, NavyStarships, Pallas & Swift); Charlie & Kaks (Kestrel&Falcon); Cmdr Wyvern (Dragon, PTI, Phoenix & Terrapin); Sabre (Dredger, Liberator & Velocity); Ramirez (Executive Spaceways V2.2, Fuel Tank & SalezaV2); ??? (Far Star); ??? (Ferdelance_NG); ??? (Ferdepai); ??? (Firewasp); ??? (Grass_Snake); 8-Bit Apocalypse (Greekshipset1, Ixianfreighter, Ixianships & Supercobra); ??? (Griffin2); Captain Hesperus (Illicit_Unlock_FIX1.56); Killer Wolf (Isisinterstellar); Flying_Circus (Herald, Jabberwocky, Llama & Morrigan); Dr.Nil, Arexack_Heretic & Murgh (att1); Arexack_Heretic, jonnycuba, Murgh & co. (Lane_Legal); ??? (Longshot); ??? (Manta); ramon (Marett_Vol1); Dr Nil (Missionaries); Roberto (Outrider); ??? (PythonClassCruiserV2.6); ??? (Racers); ??? (Renegade_Viper); ??? (RoC); Dr. Nil (Shield-Tail); ??? (Shreddies); ??? (Snark); ??? (Spearhead_1); CaptKev (Stingray & Stingray_Mk_II); randallTesoura (Tesoura); cybertiger (Tiger); ??? (Tribant); ??? (Urutu_IV & UrutuMkIII); Wolfwood (WolfMk2 & Wolfwoods_Variants) & ??? (X-Ships)

PS: Many OXP creators have not designated any kind of author`s name in their OXPs, on a forum or on the OXP wiki page. If I am informed of the authorship to some or all of those OXPs I will add their names ASAP in on the "special thanks" section here - otherwise, those authors have to be collectively designated as "???" ...

V3.02 - compatible with Oolite 1.71 and above - 26th June 2008.

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Improvements on game mechanics & overall atmosphere:

Consistent ship prices & tech levels for ALL ships available in Oolite (strict and oxps)
The prices that ships have and the tech levels as of which they are available are now completely consistent within the game. The more a ship can do the more expensive it is and the higher the tech level nescessary to have a chance of it appearing in the shipyard. What tech level a world has can now directly be experienced in its shipyard as well, not only in the equipment dock. The kind of ships that appear at a given tech level have a certain feel to them of being in the same league - the reason being, that they actually are.

The revised tech level spans for ship availabilities are as follows:

29.999 Cr or less: TL 1-4 
30.000 to 49.999 Cr: TL 2-5 
50.000 to 74.999 Cr: TL 3-6 
75.000 to 99.999 Cr: TL 4-7 
100.000 to 149.999 Cr: TL 5-8 
150.000 to 199.999 Cr: TL 6-9 
200.000 to 299.999 Cr: TL 7-10 
300.000 to 399.999 Cr: TL 8-11 
400.000 to 499.999 Cr: TL 9-12 
500.000 to 599.999 Cr: TL 10-13 
600.000 to 699.999 Cr: TL 11-14 
700.000 to 799.999 Cr: TL 12+ 
800.000 to 999.999 Cr: TL 13+ 
1 to 3 Million Cr: TL 14+ 
3 Million Cr or more: TL 15

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Game balance & strategic elements concerning ships enhanced:

I have spent a lot of time thinking about game mechanics, balance and suggestions from members on the Oolite Boards before creating the prices & TL formulae. Ships now become a real, plannable strategic element of the game, instead of insanely over- or underpriced flavour stuff alone. As the Realistic Shipyards` prices and availabilities have directly to do with the ship's quality - and also their individual combinations of strengths & weaknesses - with the help of the included ship stats FOR ALL THE SHIPS currently available IN ANY OXP (!) you can strategically plan your ascent to Elite.

Think about it - what kind of person do you want to play in Oolite? A pirate? A trader? A law enforcement officer? Space Navy? A courier? A bit of everything or any given combination of the above? Now those are real choices that affect the game. What kind of money can you spend? What might, depending on the aforementioned choices, become your next ship? And the ship after that? And where will you have to go to acquire that kind of ship? All this will now not only happen in your head, but in the game.

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In total, 190 playable ships & about 500 NPC ships, eight player ships for veteran players and a new high-tech equipment & shipyards facility not available in any other oxp:

For example the Deep Space Dredger, legendary biggest mining ship and freighter of the Ooniverse, is now buyable for Commanders with REALLY deep pockets (say, 8 million credits). Flies like a mountain on wheels and adds a whole new dimension to the docking experience. But the trading opportunities ...

Then the Interstellar Explorer: does just that. Scratch the light barrier without stepping on the gas pedal with the fastest ship in the Ooniverse. Sadly, everything but the drive had to be removed to construct this ship that lets even Benulobiweeds finest have a good view into its jet exhaust ...

Or the Navy Juggernaut, an allmighty Behemoth Mothership, becomes available for Commanders with a Rating of Deadly. And the saying with the bigger fish still applies! Because sometimes one of those falls into the hands of pirates ...
Ship roles have been altered for more diversity - and provide a much harder Ooniverse, with de facto whole new classes of ships!

The space lanes have never been so dangerous. You live in the shadows of other, much bigger and deadlier creatures than you, looking up to them and yearning for the day when you are going to be one of them. Now you really need those scanners to see what`s coming at you. To know that when it`s still maximum scanner range away becomes a question of survival, and those Fuel Injectors and Fuel Tanks are no longer just luxurious medicine against boring spacelane queueing, but become nescessary equipment.

Whether you are a pirate or anarchist on the run from the police, or a trader, courier or reconaissance specialist for the Galactic Navy - an Iron Ass ship is no longer enough. Take care!

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Various alternate career beginnings for mostly harmless Jamesons:

Newbies to Oolite were often complaining about the too-difficult starting conditions. The question was, how-to make the game more easy to access at the beginning without implementing "get-rich-fast" schemes. This oxp solves that problem. With many ships cheaper than the Cobra MkIII available from the Lave shipyard onwards, which are characterised by specific strengths but also major weaknesses compared to the Jameson`s Cobra, the beginner`s path becomes more diverse. New, interesting options become available from the very start of the game without tipping the game balance or the implementation of get-rich schemes!

The game`s beginning is much more complex. Any Jameson can now sell the Cobra MkIII for a transporter which has 100 tons of Cargo Space but no Lasers and no missiles and start trading in earnest; or buy a ship with 0.4 LS and do UPS-Courier runs; or buy a Fighter Ship with good shields and the like and do some beginner`s random hits mission. But this comes at the price of exclusion of any other career path - until the very first trading/courier/fighter scheme enables the beginner to re-buy a ship with more options - or just more of the same.

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Enhanced gameplay for medium range (Poor to Dangerous) players - A fully equipped Cobra MkIII is no longer enough:

Have a little look at the ships that you might meet on the space lanes. You have to take the ships that were modelled after millenium-old antique art media serious: Back then they were only fiction ... but now they were given those ancient names for a reason: They are the real thing!

Firefly: 1.073.400 Cr 14 
Incom T-65 X-Wing: 1.079.600 Cr 14 
Tiger Mark I: 1.147.600 Cr 14 
Penelope Class Freighter: 1.271.000 Cr 14 
TIE-Interceptor: 1.303.000 Cr 14 
A-Wing: 1.542.000 Cr 14 
Super Cobra: 1.622.000 Cr 14 
The Liberator: 1.742.000 Cr 14 
B-Wing: 2.070.000 Cr 14 
Tepiu: 2.299.000 Cr 14 
Navy Escort: 2.375.850 Cr 14 
Navy Interceptor: 2.375.850 Cr 14 
Pallas: 2.677.000 Cr 14 
Imperial Courier (Navy): 2.850.000 Cr 14 
Falcon: 3.384.000 Cr 15 
The Morrigan: 4.820.000 Cr 15 
Interstellar Explorer: 7.050.900 Cr 15 
Deep Space Dredger: 8.000.000 Cr 15 
Condor Flagship: 15.417.000 Cr 15 
Navy Juggernaut: 41.000.000 Cr 15 
Navy Constitution: 140.280.000 Cr 15

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Creative solution to the uber-ship problem for the deadly veteran players:

There are no more Uber ship problems, as there are no more Uber ships. That doesn`t mean that I`ve changed anything about their stats (I haven`t). But now, Uber ships simply become the High-End ships of the Ooniverse, fitting into the overall game mechanics without breaking the game or getting boring. They are available only in systems with the highest tech levels and have prices that can reach far into the millions-of-Credits range - but that`s only realistic.

No more guilty conscience if you fly the better-at-everything Super Cobra, the mighty (Navy) Imperial Courier or even the interstellar-capable ultrafast Morrigan Beyonder Vessel. Because if you own one of those ships with this oxp in, you`ve fought and traded and did missions long and hard to acquire that much money, and perhaps searched for those vessels a long time in shipyards of the highest supertechnology that the Ooniverse has to offer: You`ve earned it! :)

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How-To switch from your game without Realistic Shipyards to one with this OXP in (without cheating):

The Prices and Availablities of ships in the Realistic Shipyards oxp are often massively different from their original ones. If you are starting a completely new game with Commander Jameson anyways, ignore the following text. But if you no longer own your original Cobra MkIII and don`t want to cheat or loose a fortune when changing from Oolite without to Oolite with the Realistic Shipyards oxp in, I suggest you act as follows:

1. Buy a standard Cobra MkIII. 
2. Think about your new options and with which kind of ship you want to continue your game. 
3. Buy the new ship with the Realistic Shipyards oxp in your AddOns folder. 
4. Enjoy the game including all new options. 

A second possibility could be:

1. Find out what your ship used to cost without the OXP and what it costs with the OXP. 
2. Calculate the difference in the amount of credits so that it fits again. I.e., you fly a Tesoura, which used to cost 270.000 Cr and costs 430.000 Cr now. You own 250.000 Cr. The difference is that you would have 430.000 - 270.000 ~ 160.000 Cr to much. Deduce them from your free cash 250.000 - 160.000 ~ 90.000 Cr. That`s your new cash balance. 
3. Edit your savegame credit stats accordingly. In the above example, you would edit your credits down from 250.000 to 90.000 Cr. From then onwards the Shipyards oxp will play out properly anyways. 

You don`t have to follow the above routine to play Zzzz Realistic Shipyards oxp. You can just put it into your AddOns folder and start playing. But, if you don`t, you might effectively cheat or lose a fortune by doing that. It`s your decision; you have been warned :)

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Known Performance Issues:

* Do not rename this oxp! The Zzzz - Beginning is nescessary so that the revised ship pricing and tech level limits overwrite all other ship price and TL stats, so the Z`s have to stay on or the oxp will not work properly.
* Recommended system specs: At least 2GB RAM, 2GHz dual-core processor and a decent graphics card. Due to its size, Realistic Shipyards V3.02 needs a state-of-the-art system so as not to produce a performance hit.
* The 86 oxps merged into the Realistic Shipyards V3.02 probably shouldn`t be installed in addition to this oxp (double). Note that if the creators of those merged oxps should develop them further that development might not be carried over into the Realistic Shipyards.
* The oxps still supported pricing- and TL-range wise for their buyable ships but not included are: Assassins, Commies, Hotrods, Ionics-1.2.1, Amen Brick's Pirate Clan One: The Blitzspears, Vector & Zz-Oo-Haul. That means the Realistic Shipyards are dependent on them and it would be better to have them included in your Add-Ons folder.
* I will be very grateful if other OXP`ers notify me if they create new oxp`s with shipyard.plists in or change existing one`s. I will attempt to upgrade the Realistic Shipyards oxp so that it covers everything shipwise currently available. Just write to me with the stats of your new/revised ship and I will include the additional information.
* If you find any bugs or performance issues that are not already listed here, feel free to write and I`ll see what I can do about it!

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2008-05-12T22:08:49Z

Lestradae:

Current most common roles encountered in Oolite:

trader, hunter, pirate, thargoid, police, wingman, interceptor, escort, station, astroid, missile, cargopod, etc

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Disclaimer: The text below is an impromptu explanation from LittleBear, and he makes a point of noting that he will want to "tidy up" this article in the not-so-far future. As this is as yet the only exhaustive article about this topic on the wiki, however, it might be added that perhaps he is being overly critical about himself here :)

The explanations about scan class and its relation to the roles of police, wingman and interceptor are from Ahruman.

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The Role given will determine the ships behaviour and when the game adds it. Oolite will give a ship called as an escort the correct bounty if the bounty key is left out, but will over-ride if one is added. In an entry for a ship with a role “escort” don’t put in any bounty key at all. If the ship is called as a pirate escort then it will be an offender. If called as a clean trader’s escort it will be clean, provided it has no bounty key set in ship data. If you give it a bounty it always has this one. So if you gave a Longshot bounty zero then it will still be clean when escorting a pirate. Escorts really therefore need a separate entry with no bounty key set and only the role escort set for that entry. This is why you really need a sepeare entry for each type of ship. Just adding roles to the same ship data entry means you get Clean pirates and Offender police ships if the bounty key is included. This is a summary of what the various in-built roles do:

TRADER: The game adds traders to the system space lanes. They also witch into systems and then fly to the station. Space Stations (including OXP ones) also launch traders every so often. The ships get either exiting trader or entering trader AI. Exiting traders launch from the station and witch-out (once out of the stations mass-locking effect). Entering traders fly to the station. Traders are basically cowards however. Dice are rolled when a ship is attacked. But basically traders are likely to run away from a single shot and will flee (not using weapons – just deploying escorts) if hurt. They also plead for their lives and send distress calls at the drop of a hat. This is so however well armed or powerful the ship. If its called as a trader it has a trader’s personality. Although not a bug in terms of crashing the game, it causes strange behaviour to give powerful ships the role trader. Although simply adding the role “trader” to the Imperial Courier, Tiger does not crash the game, it introduces strange behaviour. A Condor with the role trader attacked by a single pirate Adder is quite likely to flee and plead for its life rather than swat the irriting ship with its multiple plasma cannons! I would suggest not giving any decent ships the role trader. Better to use these as hunters or pirates. You also shoudn’t give big ships this role. They’ll hit the station and the station is sent whizzing off into deep space by the impact. They’re also too big to be launched and can get stuck.

SCAVENGER: Scavengers are only ever launched by Stations (including rock hermits, Space Bars and the like) when cargo is detected nearby. Scavengers never appear in the space lanes generally. If you are going to make a ship a scavenger it must have a separate entry with only the role scavenger. It must have fuel scoops and must also be a ship with cargo capacity. Its AI will tell to scoop up the loot (remember it will not have appeared unless loot is about) and then go back to the station which launched it. If the ship does not have both scoops a cargo bay, nasty AI bugs happen. The ship is being ordered to do something that it just cannot do. It’s AI will hang, causing the ship to freeze and chew up a lot of run time slowing the game down. Scavengers are also cowards. Because they appear near a safe haven, they always run away from attack. Again giving powerful ships this role causes wired behaviour. If Commander Jameson with his pulse laser takes a pot shot at a Tiger Scavenger the Tiger is very likely to flee! Personally I wouldn’t give any powerful ship the role Scavenger and big ships given this role are likely to crash on launch.

MINER: When the game adds asteroids there is a random chance that it will also add some miners nearby to the cluster. The Ship will scan for asteroids, shoot them, scan for rocks then scoop the rocks. It must therefore have a separate entry with a Forward Mining Laser (NPCs cannot use left or right guns and rarely use a rear gun) and fuel scoops. Without this its AI will hang as it cannot do what its been told to. It also must be a ship that has a cargo bay. Because a mining laser is total pants as a weapon, miners will always flee attack (they are effectively unarmed). Again giving powerful ships this role will cause unrealistic results. Better to save it for the medium and low level ships.

PIRATE: A pirate ship needs a separate entry if you are going to set the bounty. It must have fuel scoops and a cargo bay, as its AI will tell it to scoop cargo lying around. Don’t give the role pirate to Police or Navy Ships obviously! Also don’t give a ship with no cargo bay the role pirate (as it will never do any pirating). The pirate AI checks its hold. If full it switches AI stops hunting and heads foe the station. In this mode it won’t attack unless attacked and usually runs for the station. This makes sense as from a pirates point of view there’s no point fighting if he cannot grab the goodies. If you give a ship with no cargo bay the pirate role, its hold is always full so it doesn’t really behave properly. If its hold it not full, it looks for any cargo pod lying about and grabs them. (Again no scoops will cause an AI hang). If no cargo is about it lurks in the space lanes and attacks the nearest ship it spots with the role trader (or the player).

ESCORT: Escorts always fly on the wing of ships with escorts and follow mum about. They will defend mum against attack and will attack any ship that Mum decides to attack. If mum is a pirate they’ll act as pirates, but only attacking when mum decides to attack. Really only fighters (including powerful ships like ICs and Tigers) should be escorts. Don’t give slow ships like Pythons Escort roles. It doesn’t really make sense for fighters to be escorts. AI problems will also happen with cruisers (Condors etc) being given Escort roles. The Escorts form up with Mum and try to fly on her wing. But if you give a slow ship Escort role, it is likely not to be able to keep up with Mum and you get the escort hanging its AI or just wandering around as its lost its mother ship. In terms of realisim, I’d also make powerful escorts rare. The pilot of a Tiger is one rich commander to have bought the ship. Once in a while a trader might be able hire one, but it should be a rare event. Also it will act as a wingman to a pirate. If an Imperial Courier is a pirate it makes more sense for him to be leading the attack than hanging on the wing of a python.

SHUTTLE: Shuttles are launched by stations and fly to the planet. They also take off from the planet and dock with stations. Big ships will crash into the station or get stuck in the docking bay. They are also total cowards and NEVER fight back if attacked. This makes sense in the native game as only Worms, Shuttles and Transporters have this role. As these ships are all unarmed, they cannot fight back so it makes sense for the AI to tell them to always run. If you give another ship this role (however powerful it is) it will always run. Condors fleeing Adders doesn’t really look good.

HUNTER: These ships cruse the space lanes and attack offenders and ships with bounties (including the player of cause). They are pretty brave in combat only fleeing if really badly hurt and sometimes fight to the death. I’d use powerful ships here.

WINGMAN: ONLY police ships should be given this role. A wingman forms up on the wing of a ship with the role POLICE. Its random whether a police ship has Wingmen (and how many), but this is how the game creates the little squadrons of cops that you sometimes see flying in formation. Really only small police ships should have this role. A Viper flying lead to a Condor doesn’t look that good (the Condor is also likely to get an AI failer as a wingman – as it cannot keep up with the Viper). Its better really not to use powerful ships as wingmen. Use them as police instead. That way a cop Super Cobra or Condor will be the lead ship with a few small ships on his wings.

INTERCEPTOR: Only ever launched by a station to defend itself or to attack criminals in the area. It has a police AI and will say thinks like “Laveian Police order you to lower your shields”. Should only be used for police really.

Carriers should be given a customAI. But really its not a good idea to call carrires by a standard game role (they’ll get launched and get stuck). You’d need to give them a custom AI and it would be better really to place them by script.

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How the police roles (police, wingman, interceptor) & police scan class (police) work:

The only supported configuration for police is scan class police, bounty 0 and one of the roles police, interceptor or wingman. Interceptors are generated in addition to police in high-tech systems, while wingman is used instead of escort for police ships with an escorts property. The primary distinction between wingmen and escorts is that wingmen turn into police with route1patrolAI if their owner dies.

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2008-05-12T21:44:03Z

Lestradae:

Current most common roles encountered in Oolite:

trader, hunter, pirate, thargoid, police, station, astroid, missile, cargopod, etc

How the police roles (police, wingman, interceptor) & police scan class (police) work:

The only supported configuration for police is scan class police, bounty 0 and one of the roles police, interceptor or wingman. Interceptors are generated in addition to police in high-tech systems, while wingman is used instead of escort for police ships with an escorts property. The primary distinction between wingmen and escorts is that wingmen turn into police with route1patrolAI if their owner dies.

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