Diplomancy OXP
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[hide]Overview
The Star Wars screens (need ANA installed)
Toggles between Wars Map/Diplomancy Map/Warring Systems Map.
This one is the Warring Systems Map: red cross means that the system is at war with somebody, no idea who!
Toggles between Wars Map/Diplomancy Map/Warring Systems Map.
This one is the Warring Systems Map: red cross means that the system is at war with somebody, no idea who!
This OXP effects three major changes in the game:
- It creates an inter-galactic politics with systems declaring war on each other, forming alliances and signing peace deals.
- It allows purchase of citizenship of a system (with resulting tax liabilities & refugee status in systems at war with one's own)
- It requires visas for travel to some government types. Not all surrounding systems will sell them (depending on wars or on being anarchies)!
Not to be confused with Home System OXP which allows investment in systems.
Citizenships
The player may acquire, or renounce, a system citizenship when visiting this system, for the right price. They may choose which one of their citizenships is announced as the flag of their ship.
- The player is considered fugitive when in systems warring with their flag.
- Anarchies provide no citizenship. They also have no embassy district (for buying visas for neighbouring systems).
- The player may buy several days of visa in the Embassy district in a neighbouring state, which is not an enemy to the destination system.
- Corporate systems, dictatorships and communists refuse docking to players when stateless and visaless.
- Citizenship leads to Income Tax!
Systems' alliances, wars
- GNN news: GNN news is now displayed when an alliance is formed or broken between two systems, or when a war starts or ends between two systems, and the player is in one of those systems.
- Strategic maps showing the warring systems, and the diplomatic relationships!
- These need the ANA to be installed to show on the F4 station-interface screen.
- Two systems within 7ly of each other may now form an alliance, if they like each other enough.
- They may break their alliance, too!
- They may wage war to each other, and make peace too!
- New F4 Interface screens: the Embassy District & the System's History!
Systems' treasury
- Wars require money, and countries are defeated either by battles or by bankruptcy, sometimes the latter producing the former.
- The Treasury and Tax levels are displayed in the F7 system information.
- Each system treasury is increased through taxation each player jump, depending on the time past since the last jump.
What's currently implemented technically?
The oxp contains Engines which may be use by developers to implement interesting galaxy-spanning events:
- (main) Engine,
- War,
- History,
- Systems,
- Economy,
- Citizenships.
Effects on game
Effects on game difficulty
- The player is considered fugitive when in systems warring with their flag.
- The player is refused docking in some stations when they have not the requisite visa or passport.
- Some new ways to spend money: passports, visas.
Effects on game performance
- This .oxp works only when the player is docked, so there is no impact during the flight time. During the docking, it works once every ten frames, the effect on player experience should be negligible.
If it isn't negligible, tell me and I'll put in the ability to choose the number of frames.
- Even if the effect is negligible on the player, it uses lots of CPU, so it might not be negligible on the battery.
Tips
One now need to keep abreast of developments in the systems one is about to visit. This can be done using the new F4 choices. And it can also be done using the F7 screen - and if one's route has been plotted using the ANA, one can view the different systems along the route in F7 using the left/right arrow keys.
Instructions
- For OXZ's, the Expansions Manager download is fine.
- For OXPs, do not unzip the .oxz file, just move into the AddOns folder of your Oolite installation.
Dependencies
Known bugs
None.
License
- Diplomancy was written by Commander Day, from the home of diplomancy (think of Talleyrand & Richelieu!).
- This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License version 4.0.
- If you are re-using any piece of this OXP, please let me know by sending an e-mail to david at pradier dot info
Versions history
- v.0.16
- Improvement, flavor: the player is considered fugitive when in systems warring with their flag.
- Improvement, flavor: no "Embassy district" in anarchies, no citizenship in an Anarchy
- Improvement, flavor: the player may buy days of visa (cost: productivity / population / 365 per day) in the embassy district in a neighbouring, non-enemy from the destination system.
- Improvement, flavor: the first time the Diplomacy OXP is used, if a visa is needed in the current system, we give the player a 1-day visa.
- Improvement, flavor: a GNN news introduces the Visa Law.
- Improvement, flavor: when stateless, docking is refused in corporates, dictatorships and communists without having a visa.
- Improvement, flavor: maps are centered and zoomed. Possibility to center on the target system, or on the whole trajectory. Possibility to display the short/quick trajectory, or no trajectory at all.
- Improvement, performance: the API are removed in favor of JsDoc.
- Improvement, code quality: the Snoopers dependency, which is deprecated, is replaced by the GNN dependency. Oolite minimal required version is now 1.88, because of this.
- Improvement, code quality: moved the GNN connection to external script.
- Improvement, code quality: tax level and treasury are now displayed through mission.addMessageText rather than through a modification of the system description.
- Improvement, tweaking: the alliance threshold between systems is lowered.
- Bugfix: the initActions wasn't set as it should be. In particular, initActionsByType wasn't set when adding an initAction, and initActions was set with an ActorType as key instead of an ActionId.
- v.0.15
- Improvement, flavor: the player may acquire or renounce the citizenship of the system they are in.
- Improvement, flavor: the player may display one of their citizenships as the flag of their ship.
- Improvement, dev func: other scripts may subscribe to be informed of a citizenship change of the player.
- Improvement, dev func: citizenships prices are dynamic and available to other scripts.
- Improvement, dev func: other scripts may inquire if the player has a particular citizenship.
- Improvement, code quality: introduced JsDoc comments, including some allowing to document the Oolite javascript hooks!
Extra OXP
- RexebeCitizen.oxz grants citizenship of Rexebe for users of Diplomancy who want to play Hermitage (Phkb, 2021)
Links
- Discussion
- Tax OXP? thread (2012)
- Wars discussion (2021)
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