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Cholmondely: /* OXPs */ Rejigged order to be more comprehensible

2021-11-10T01:12:41Z

‎OXPs: Rejigged order to be more comprehensible

Cholmondely: /* OXPs */ Split off the experimental oxp's to try and prevent confusion!

2021-11-09T21:34:39Z

‎OXPs: Split off the experimental oxp's to try and prevent confusion!

Cholmondely: Added link to fiction. Tweaks.

2021-10-23T20:05:02Z

Added link to fiction. Tweaks.

Cholmondely: /* Concluding Unscientific Postscript */ Updated links

2021-10-20T09:09:16Z

‎Concluding Unscientific Postscript: Updated links

Cholmondely: More editing of the essay

2021-09-30T19:48:31Z

More editing of the essay

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Cholmondely: /* Concluding Unscientific Postscript */ Formating

2021-09-30T17:46:28Z

‎Concluding Unscientific Postscript: Formating

Cholmondely: Fixed link. Edited down to "That's all for now,"

2021-09-30T17:44:47Z

Fixed link. Edited down to "That's all for now,"

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Cholmondely: Finished the light edit of Stranger's Essay

2021-08-29T20:10:26Z

Finished the light edit of Stranger's Essay

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Cholmondely: Edited more of Stranger's lo-o-ong essay!

2021-08-15T01:35:37Z

Edited more of Stranger's lo-o-ong essay!

Cholmondely: Added Stranger's Essay. Half edited.

2021-08-12T23:49:19Z

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 ==OXPs==
 New versions are available from within the expansions manager.
-=== Activities ===
+=== Careers ===
-* [[In-System Cargo Delivery]] opens an in-system mission interface in the F4 screen for local cargo delivery
+* [[Start Choices Addenda]] adds 2 extra choices: '''expeditor''' start (Planetary Landing equipped ''Transporter'') & advanced '''miner''' start (fuel scoop & mining laser equipped ''Bushmaster'')
+* [[In-System Cargo Delivery]] opens an in-system mission interface in the F4 screen for local cargo delivery (for expeditors).
-=== Ambience ===
+* [[Mineral Store Reset]] facilitates asteroid mining by preventing saturation of the main system market (for miners).
-* [[DarkRay|Dark Ray]] turns off all laser beam glows - they are not scientifically justifiable in the vacuum of space!
+* [[Here be Dragons]] a Discovery .oxp: deletes all information on distant & unvisited systems from the F6 galaxy map & F7 screen (for explorers).
 * [[FPO Lave]] Famous Planets Overhaul (Lave): gives a more lore-based look to [[Sector1/Lave|Lave]], using the new graphics of Oolite v.1.90.
 * [[FPO Zaonce]] Famous Planets Overhaul (Zaonce): gives a more lore-based look to [[Sector1/Zaonce|Zaonce]], using the new graphics of Oolite v.1.90.
 * [[Habitable Main Planets]] redefines planets' radii to realistic values for advanced eco-systems and colonisation
 * [[Moons|Moons]] simulates psuedo-dynamic moon configurations
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 * [[Planetary Systems|Planetary Systems Texture Pack H]] textures for the above - Mercury, Pluto & Venus analogs - and super-Earths
 * [[Sun Gear]] creates more realistic solar systems with solar winds and with main planets in habitable zones. Requires Habitable Main Planets.oxp
 * [[OrbitalStations|Orbital Stations]] enables orbital stations to dynamically orbit planets!
 * [[SW HUD CAI]]: modernised CB HUD with MFDs and customised SW altimeter for Hard Way.oxp (conflicts with SW HUD DAI)
 * ''Not by Stranger!'' [[Useful MFDs]] has been modified by [[User:Dybal|Dybal]] to include a rating for the all-important [[Solar Wind Flux]] (also downloadable in the Expansions Manager).
 For experimenting with the new planetary depictions in Oolite before updating the older planetary Systems textures (adding clouds & city lights, ''etc'').
 * [[Leesti is Moon 8k|Leesti is Moon 8k]] converts Leesti to the moon using 8k diffuse & normal maps
-* [[Leesti is Moon LSM 8k|Leesti is Moon LSM 8k]] - as above but with all Landing Sites Marked!
+* [[Leesti is Moon LSM 8k|Leesti is Moon LSM 8k]] - as above but with all lunar "Landing Sites" marked!
 ==Concluding Unscientific Postscript==

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 * [[FPO Zaonce]] Famous Planets Overhaul (Zaonce): gives a more lore-based look to [[Sector1/Zaonce|Zaonce]], using the new graphics of Oolite v.1.90.
 * [[Habitable Main Planets]] redefines planets' radii to realistic values for advanced eco-systems and colonisation
 * [[Moons|Moons]] simulates psuedo-dynamic moon configurations
 * [[Moons|Moons Texture Pack]] contains textures for the above
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 * [[SW Economy]] provides a ''much'' more meaningful economy for Oolite, where each commodity (''eg'' textiles) can be valuable and water, oxygen & medicine are added to the mix. Economy and planet sizes are also now relevant.
 * [[Traffic_Lights_OXP|Traffic Lights]] helps with manual docking at the system's only main station & gives priority docking after 15 mins; crucial for fuel-less Hard-Wayers
 ==Concluding Unscientific Postscript==

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 [[File:Stranger's World.jpg|800px|thumb|right|Stranger's World - the complete Russian Roolite version with ''Universal Sky'']]
-==Personal Note==
+== Personal Note on the man himself ==
-Based in Eastern Siberia, active in the [http://Roolite.org| Roolite community] and favours an exploration-style game with more scientific realism - hence many of the ensuing oxps! For a bit more insight see his insightful essay at the bottom of this page or see [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=270658#p270658 here]!
+Based in Eastern Siberia, active in the [http://Roolite.org| Roolite community] and favours an exploration-style game with more scientific realism - hence many of the ensuing oxps!
 == Stranger's World ==

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	Select the second ('''Oolite - questions and answers (stranger)''') - there is a long and insightful essay by Stranger on both the good and bad points of Oolite.		Select the second ('''Oolite - questions and answers (stranger)''') - there is a long and insightful essay by Stranger on both the good and bad points of Oolite.

		+	*He has edited an English translation available here: [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21096 Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics] with an introduction post, the 4 posts of the essay and a concluding post.

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		+	*Stranger has also written a second essay on the economics of Oolite. Unfinished English translation currently available here: [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21094 Stranger's Roolite Essay on Economics & Trade].
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	'''What is Oolite? Why are the rules so strange in this game?'''		'''What is Oolite? Why are the rules so strange in this game?'''

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 Select the second ('''Oolite - questions and answers (stranger)''') - there is a long and insightful essay by Stranger on both the good and bad points of Oolite.
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 Going beyond the default rules of the game, however, is exclusively the area of competence of addon developers: the concern of game developers is to put in the game engine a degree of freedom to implement these possibilities outside the canon, and this degree of freedom grows with each update of the version of the game. The engine's capabilities, of course, are not limitless. However, this is a separate topic.
-'''In a previous post, I briefly outlined the Oolith game world as a whole. Now I want to talk about the features of the game mechanics.'''
+'''In a previous post, I briefly outlined the Oolite game world as a whole. Now I want to talk about the features of the game mechanics.'''
-Populator
+'''Populator'''
 Let's start with the fact that Ooniversum is a 3D world. Now this is not surprising, but in the era of arcade platformers, Elite, even with its wire-like graphics, looked incredibly cool. This degree of freedom, where the gamer does not follow a pre-designed single path, actually poses a difficult task for the game developer: how to fill this vast world with objects?
 In the Elite, the task of filling the game world with objects was solved simply: the ships appeared randomly within the bubble surrounding the gamer and disappeared after being outside it. The radius of this bubble was equal to the radius of the scanner field. Hence, by the way, such a strange mechanism for detecting objects that migrated from the Elite: the scanner sees all objects, including the smallest ones, within a certain radius - and does not see anything outside of it. All events in the game were tied to the gamer and took place around the gamer; outside the bubble, absolutely nothing happened.
-I already said that Oolite with default settings looks like Elite and behaves like Elite. But just the populator in Oolite works differently: the system is seeded by ships at the moment of starting from the station after loading the game or at the moment of exiting the wormhole. And these ships live independent lives: they interact with each other independently of the gamer and switch attention to him only when the gamer is within the scanning range and is classified by AI as a priority target. But since the population size is limited from above, the ships are seeded not randomly throughout space, but within certain zones - this is primarily the vicinity of the main station and the entrance beacon, as well as the vicinity of the line connecting the entrance beacon and the planet.A small population of ships is also seeded in the vicinity of the system's sun and along the rest of the planet-beacon-sun triangle. This feature of the popularist's work opens up a radically new survival tactic for gamers: if in Elite the chance to get stuck in a meat grinder was a pure lottery and did not depend on the actions of a gamer, then in Oolit an observant gamer can at least detect a possible danger ahead of time, or even bypass it and quickly and safely get to the station not in the general traffic flow, but in a roundabout way. Add-ons such as Deep Space Pirats and Deep Space Dredgers close this cheating loophole, here in them the ships, and at the same time small clusters of asteroids, are really sown along the course of the gamer, but not within the scanning radius, but at a distance of several radii.which guarantees interesting meetings even at a great distance from the main planet and the main line along which the main traffic in the game moves.
+I already said that Oolite with default settings looks like Elite and behaves like Elite. But just the populator in Oolite works differently: the system is seeded by ships at the moment of starting from the station after loading the game or at the moment of exiting the wormhole. And these ships live independent lives: they interact with each other independently of the gamer and switch attention to him only when the gamer is within the scanning range and is classified by AI as a priority target. But since the population size is limited from above, the ships are seeded not randomly throughout space, but within certain zones - this is primarily the vicinity of the main station and the entrance beacon, as well as the vicinity of the line connecting the entrance beacon and the planet. A small population of ships is also seeded in the vicinity of the system's sun and along the rest of the planet-beacon-sun triangle. This feature of the popularist's work opens up a radically new survival tactic for gamers: if in Elite the chance to get stuck in a meat grinder was a pure lottery and did not depend on the actions of a gamer, then in Oolite an observant gamer can at least detect a possible danger ahead of time, or even bypass it and quickly and safely get to the station not in the general traffic flow, but in a roundabout way. Add-ons such as Deep Space Pirates and Deep Space Dredgers close this cheating loophole, here in them the ships, and at the same time small clusters of asteroids, are really sown along the course of the gamer, but not within the scanning radius, but at a distance of several radii, which guarantees interesting meetings even at a great distance from the main planet and the main line along which the main traffic in the game moves.
 Weapons and combat mechanics