Interstellar Tweaks - Revision history

Cholmondely: Corrected to include UKEliters comments from the BB

2021-07-06T15:07:00Z

Corrected to include UKEliters comments from the BB

Cholmondely: Corrected to include UKEliters comments from the BB

2021-07-06T13:40:52Z

Corrected to include UKEliters comments from the BB

Cholmondely: Added an overview. Removed Electronic Thumb from the OXP list. More links.

2021-07-06T09:26:40Z

Added an overview. Removed Electronic Thumb from the OXP list. More links.

Cholmondely: Links!

2021-05-31T01:09:32Z

Links!

Cholmondely: /* GENERAL NOTES */ Fixed links (all but the inexistent Extra Thargoids)

2021-01-25T17:03:34Z

‎GENERAL NOTES: Fixed links (all but the inexistent Extra Thargoids)

Cholmondely: Structure/Links

2020-11-25T09:47:28Z

Structure/Links

Phkb: /* LICENSE */

2016-06-28T23:18:33Z

‎LICENSE

Phkb: /* REQUIREMENTS */

2016-06-28T23:18:09Z

‎REQUIREMENTS

Phkb: /* GENERAL NOTES */

2016-06-28T23:17:47Z

‎GENERAL NOTES

Makarius: wikification

2015-07-27T06:18:22Z

wikification

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 It provides a chance that your escape pod will be rescued in interstellar space/witch space.
-Note that it also provides updates for a number of un-licensed OXPs (to whit: Fuel Collector & Missionaries), but does not require them in order to run.
+Note that it also provides an update for the unlicensed OXP [[Fuel Collector]] as well as vigorously expanding the [[Missionaries OXP]], but does not require either in order to run.
 ==Requirements==
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 ==General Notes==
-* This expansion pack makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, modifies what happens when one misjumps. One can encounter only the navy, or only thargoids, or empty witchspace or ... various other things. The expansion pack also gives you a chance of having your escape pod rescued in interstellar space by any nearby behemoths or leviathans (presuming you have such ships installed). That chance increases if you have bought the 'electronic thumb' equipment.
+:This expansion pack makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, modifies what happens when one misjumps. One can encounter only the navy, or only thargoids, or empty witchspace or ... various other things. The expansion pack also gives you a chance of having your escape pod rescued in interstellar space by any nearby behemoths or leviathans (presuming you have such ships installed). That chance increases if you have bought the 'electronic thumb' equipment.
-Interstellar Tweaks expansion pack by [[User:Uk Eliter|Uk Eliter]]
+=== Interstellar Tweaks expansion pack by [[User:Uk Eliter|Uk Eliter]] ===
 * This expansion pack makes various uses of numerous other expansion packs, when they are installed. Most of those expansion packs are listed below. The ones marked '*' are especially recommended for use with Interstellar Tweaks.

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 Rather more excitement in interstellar space!
 ==Overview==
 This OXP makes much more of interstellar space/witch space, providing a wide range of encounters/adventures.
-It introduces the Electronic Thumb equipment for refuelling - and also provides a chance that your escape pod will be rescued in interstellar space/witch space.
+It provides a chance that your escape pod will be rescued in interstellar space/witch space.
 Note that it also provides updates for a number of un-licensed OXPs (to whit: Fuel Collector & Missionaries), but does not require them in order to run.
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 ==General Notes==
-* This expansion pack makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, modifies what happens when one misjumps. One can encounter only the navy, or only thargoids, or empty witchspace or . . various other things. The expansion pack also gives you a chance of having your escape pod rescued in interstellar space by any nearby behemoths or leviathans (presuming you have such ships installed). That chance increases if you have bought the 'electronic thumb' equipment.
+* This expansion pack makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, modifies what happens when one misjumps. One can encounter only the navy, or only thargoids, or empty witchspace or ... various other things. The expansion pack also gives you a chance of having your escape pod rescued in interstellar space by any nearby behemoths or leviathans (presuming you have such ships installed). That chance increases if you have bought the 'electronic thumb' equipment.
 Interstellar Tweaks expansion pack by [[User:Uk Eliter|Uk Eliter]]
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 ** [[Generation Ships]] (note: the present expansion pack will - for one thing - make generation ships rarer);
 ** [[User:Griff|Griff's]] shipset expansion packs (for, especially, nice looking thargoids!);
-** [[Interstellar help OXP]]
+** *[[Interstellar help OXP]]* with its ''Electronic Thumb''
 ** [[Military Fiasco]]
 ** [[Misjump Analyser]]

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 Rather more excitement in interstellar space!
 * This expansion pack requires Oolite version *1.82* or above.
 * Various expansion packs are recommended (but not necessary) to complement this one. See the 'General notes' section below.
-==GENERAL NOTES==
+==General Notes==
-* This expansion pack makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, modifies what happens when one misjumps. One can encounter only the navy, or only thargoids, or empty witchspace or . . various other things. The expansion pack also gives you a chance of having your escape pod rescued in interstellar space by any nearby behemoths or leviathans (presuming you have such ships installed). That chance increased if you have the 'electronic thumb' equipment.
+* This expansion pack makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, modifies what happens when one misjumps. One can encounter only the navy, or only thargoids, or empty witchspace or . . various other things. The expansion pack also gives you a chance of having your escape pod rescued in interstellar space by any nearby behemoths or leviathans (presuming you have such ships installed). That chance increases if you have bought the 'electronic thumb' equipment.
 Interstellar Tweaks expansion pack by [[User:Uk Eliter|Uk Eliter]]
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 ** [[Behemoth]]
 ** [[Breakable 'Standard' Equipment OXPs|Breakable WitchDrive]]
 ** [[BGS]]
 ** [[Escape Pod Locator OXP]]
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 ** [[Misjump Analyser]]
 ** [[Missionaries OXP]]
-** *mPakRedux (a.k.a. 'Rusties');*
+** *mPakRedux (a.k.a. 'Rusties');* - see [[Second-hand ships]] for download details
 ** [[Staer9 Spectre]]
 ** [[TCAT OXP|To Catch a Thargoid]]
-** Thargoid Carrier (this will considerably increase the thargoid threat - though it can be offset somewhat via my Fer-de-Lance 3G expansion pack);
+** [[Thargoid Carrier]] (this will considerably increase the thargoid threat - though it can be offset somewhat via my Fer-de-Lance 3G expansion pack);
 ** [[Thargorn Threat]]
 ** [[Wormhole restoration OXP]]
 This expansion pack is released under the Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike 3.0 license. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
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 Your fair use right and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
 My thanks to the following (from some of whom I have adapted code): Another Commander; Arexack Heretic; Capt. Murphy; cim; Commander McLane; Draco_Caeles; Duggan; Dr Nil and other contributors to the 'Your Ad Here' expansion pack; Eric Walch; Gimi; Norby; phkb; SirAdrian; Thargoid; Solonar; Switeck - and probably others that I fear I have forgotten.

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 * This expansion pack makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, modifies what happens when one misjumps. One can encounter only the navy, or only thargoids, or empty witchspace or . . various other things. The expansion pack also gives you a chance of having your escape pod rescued in interstellar space by any nearby behemoths or leviathans (presuming you have such ships installed). That chance increased if you have the 'electronic thumb' equipment.
 * This expansion pack makes various uses of numerous other expansion packs, when they are installed. Most of those expansion packs are listed below. The ones marked '*' are especially recommended for use with Interstellar Tweaks.
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 * The load that Interstellar Tweaks will place on your computer will be, for the most part, light to moderate (and, mostly, via CPU much more than RAM and graphics card). But if you have many of the expansion packs recommended below installed, then that will increase the load.
-* The difficulty of this expansion pack varies automatically, in various ways, with the player score.
+* The difficulty of this expansion pack varies automatically, in various ways, with the player's [[Elite Rating]].
 {{Infobox OXPb| title = Interstellar Tweaks
-|version =
+|version = 1.82
-|release =
+|release = 6.67
 |license = CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
-|features =
+|features = surprises!
 |category = Mechanics OXPs
 |author = [[User:Uk Eliter|Uk Eliter]]
 }}

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 ** [[Extra Thargoids]]
 ** [[Fer-de-Lance 3G OXP]]
-** [[Fuel Collector]]
+** [[Fuel Collector OXP]]
 ** [[Galactic Navy]]
 ** [[Generation Ships]] (note: the present expansion pack will - for one thing - make generation ships rarer);
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 ** [[Missionaries OXP]]
 ** *mPakRedux (a.k.a. 'Rusties');*
-** [[Spectre]]
+** [[Staer9 Spectre]]
 ** [[TCAT OXP|To Catch a Thargoid]]
 ** Thargoid Carrier (this will considerably increase the thargoid threat - though it can be offset somewhat via my Fer-de-Lance 3G expansion pack);
 ** [[Thargorn Threat]]
-** [[Wormhole Restoration OXP]]
+** [[Wormhole restoration OXP]]
 * Interstellar Tweaks is compatible with THARGOID WITCHSPACE DRIVE. Moreover, Interstellar Tweaks seems to work with the WORMWHOLE DRONE expansion pack (that latter being, at the time of writing, a work-in-progress). Interstellar Tweaks should be compatible with cim's 'Galactic Misjump', too.

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 You are free:
 But only under the following conditions.
 Your fair use right and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
 ==ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS==

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	==REQUIREMENTS==		==REQUIREMENTS==
−
		+	* This expansion pack requires Oolite version 1.82 or above.
−	• This expansion pack requires Oolite version 1.82 or above.
		+	* Various expansion packs are recommended (but not necessary) to complement this one. See the 'General notes' section below.
−	• Various expansion packs are recommended (but not necessary) to complement this one. See the 'General notes' section below.
−

	==GENERAL NOTES==		==GENERAL NOTES==

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:17, 28 June 2016
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	==GENERAL NOTES==		==GENERAL NOTES==
		+	* This expansion pack makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, modifies what happens when one misjumps. One can encounter only the navy, or only thargoids, or empty witchspace or . . various other things. The expansion pack also gives you a chance of having your escape pod rescued in interstellar space by any nearby behemoths or leviathans (presuming you have such ships installed). That chance increased if you have the 'electronic thumb' equipment.

−	• This expansion pack makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, modifies what happens when one misjumps. One can encounter only the navy, or only thargoids, or empty witchspace or . . various other things. The expansion pack also gives you a chance of having your escape pod rescued in interstellar space by any nearby behemoths or leviathans (presuming you have such ships installed). That chance increased if you have the 'electronic thumb' equipment.
		+	* The load that Interstellar Tweaks will place on your computer will be, for the most part, light to moderate (and, mostly, via CPU much more than RAM and graphics card). But if you have many of the expansion packs recommended below installed, then that will increase the load.

−	• The load that Interstellar Tweaks will place on your computer will be, for the most part, light to moderate (and, mostly, via CPU much more than RAM and graphics card). But if you have many of the expansion packs recommended below installed, then that will increase the load.
		+	* The difficulty of this expansion pack varies automatically, in various ways, with the player score.
−
−	• The difficulty of this expansion pack varies automatically, in various ways, with the player score.
−
−	• This expansion pack makes various uses of numerous other expansion packs, when they are installed. Most of those expansion packs are listed below. The ones marked '*' are especially recommended for use with Interstellar Tweaks.
−
−	- Armoury;
−	- Behemoth;
−	- Breakable WitchDrive (preferably version 1.3 or above);
−	- Electronic Thumb;
−	- Enhanced MisJump (which changes the 'tunnel' effect when one misjumps);*
−	- Escape Pod Locator;
−	- Extra Thargoids (use version >= 3.0 );
−	- Fer-de-Lance 3G (use version >= 5.01 [NB the version!] );
−	- Fuel Collector [patching no longer necessary with this version of Interstellar Tweaks]
−	- Galactic Navy;
−	- Generation Ships (note: the present expansion pack will - for one thing - make generation ships rarer);
−	- Griff's shipset expansion packs (for, especially, nice looking thargoids!);
−	- Interstellar Help;
−	- Military Fiasco;
−	- Misjump Analyzer;
−	- Missionaries;
−	- mPakRedux (a.k.a. 'Rusties');
−	- Spectre [patch no longer necessary]
−	- TCAT (= 'To Catch a Thargoid');
−	- Thargoid Carrier (this will considerably increase the thargoid threat - though it can be offset somewhat via my Fer-de-Lance 3G expansion pack);
−	- Thargorn_Threat (preferably version 1.5.2 or above);
−	- Wormwhole Restoration.
−
−	• Interstellar Tweaks is compatible with THARGOID WITCHSPACE DRIVE. Moreover, Interstellar Tweaks seems to work with the WORMWHOLE DRONE expansion pack (that latter being, at the time of writing, a work-in-progress). Interstellar Tweaks should be compatible with cim's 'Galactic Misjump', too.

		+	* This expansion pack makes various uses of numerous other expansion packs, when they are installed. Most of those expansion packs are listed below. The ones marked '*' are especially recommended for use with Interstellar Tweaks.
		+	** Armoury;
		+	** Behemoth;
		+	** Breakable WitchDrive (preferably version 1.3 or above);
		+	** Electronic Thumb;
		+	** Enhanced MisJump (which changes the 'tunnel' effect when one misjumps);*
		+	** Escape Pod Locator;
		+	** Extra Thargoids (use version >= 3.0 );
		+	** Fer-de-Lance 3G (use version >= 5.01 [NB the version!] );
		+	** Fuel Collector [patching no longer necessary with this version of Interstellar Tweaks]
		+	** Galactic Navy;
		+	** Generation Ships (note: the present expansion pack will - for one thing - make generation ships rarer);
		+	** Griff's shipset expansion packs (for, especially, nice looking thargoids!);
		+	** Interstellar Help;
		+	** Military Fiasco;
		+	** Misjump Analyzer;
		+	** Missionaries;
		+	** mPakRedux (a.k.a. 'Rusties');
		+	** Spectre [patch no longer necessary]
		+	** TCAT (= 'To Catch a Thargoid');
		+	** Thargoid Carrier (this will considerably increase the thargoid threat - though it can be offset somewhat via my Fer-de-Lance 3G expansion pack);
		+	** Thargorn_Threat (preferably version 1.5.2 or above);
		+	** Wormwhole Restoration.
		+	* Interstellar Tweaks is compatible with THARGOID WITCHSPACE DRIVE. Moreover, Interstellar Tweaks seems to work with the WORMWHOLE DRONE expansion pack (that latter being, at the time of writing, a work-in-progress). Interstellar Tweaks should be compatible with cim's 'Galactic Misjump', too.

	==LICENSE==		==LICENSE==

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 • This expansion pack requires Oolite version *1.82* or above.
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 • This expansion pack makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, modifies what happens when one misjumps. One can encounter only the navy, or only thargoids, or empty witchspace or . . various other things. The expansion pack also gives you a chance of having your escape pod rescued in interstellar space by any nearby behemoths or leviathans (presuming you have such ships installed). That chance increased if you have the 'electronic thumb' equipment.
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 This expansion pack is released under the Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike 3.0 license. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
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 My thanks to the following (from some of whom I have adapted code): Another Commander; Arexack Heretic; Capt. Murphy; cim; Commander McLane; Draco_Caeles; Duggan; Dr Nil and other contributors to the 'Your Ad Here' expansion pack; Eric Walch; Gimi; Norby; phkb; SirAdrian; Thargoid; Solonar; Switeck - and probably others that I fear I have forgotten.