S.I.R.F.

System Independent Repair Facility

Original OXP by "milinks", released 9th August 2006

This station is a part of the mission OXP Spylarn which is a 15MB mission OXP. I have submitted this part in order to gauge if people think it worthy to submit the entire mission OXP due to its size. People can always indicate either way here or on the main Oolite site. The station is a repair facility for ships in the systems. For ease I have placed this station near to each system's main station for viewing purposes etc. The mission station does a lot more, but this is the visual side of it, to see if people like it.

Special Interstellar Repair Facility

Updated by Tinker, July 2010

Background.

As is the way with entrepreneurs a few people saw an opportunity to make money.

Each systems main station had the monopoly on ship sales and upgrades and they had very little interest in repairing old crates. "Much better to buy this shiny new ship Commander."

They formed a company SIRFCorp to build System Independent Repair Facilities in most systems, where they would offer an alternative to the main stations.

The project had a few technical and political problems. Repairing blast damaged ships was dangerous work and highly skilled and trained engineers were in short supply, staff losses were quite high to begin with. A decision was made to use untrained slave labour for initial work on making wrecks safe leaving the engineers to to do the more technical and safer work.

The use of slave labour became an increasing problem in some systems and the drop in sales of new ships and equipment from main stations was another problem.

Galcop was quite happy with the SIRF system as they reduced their repair bills by about 30% as well as providing a way to get rid of slave surplices, they could tolerate SIRF more than Free Trade Zones.

SIRFCorp made a decision to move their facilities away from the main stations, to places far beyond witchspace beacons, they renamed the facilities Special Interstellar Repair Facilities and reduced their plans of having a yard in every system.

SIRF's are only to be found in medium to high Tech level systems and only then if the government is reasonably safe, they do provide some alternative trading strategies as they need to import everything, though certain items are restricted for safety reasons. As the stations can afford to pay for high quality engineers to oversee the work they do offer a better quality service than most of the main stations in the systems where they operate, at a price, especially as the repairs for Galcop are subsidised by other sales.

In the past few years trade has increased significantly, this has not gone unnoticed by the less legal pilots, one consequence is the station has introduced a traffic control system that requires pilots to request permission before docking.

Version History

The original oxp was created by milinks in 2006.

A slightly tweaked version of it appeared in Realistic Shipyards.oxp by Lestrade.

Version 2.0 July 2010. Tinkered with by tinker. Station moved beyond witchspace beacon, commodity prices tweaked, altered frequency of appearance and added traffic.

Version 2.1 December 2012. (Internal test release only) Converted to javascript, corrected some texture anomalies, removed some unneeded parts of the model, adjusted various spins and tweaked traffic.

Version 2.2 1st January 2013. Release version of 2.1 with a few minor tweaks noticed in testing.

Version 2.3 1st January 2013. Removed one last subentity, created read me file as rtf.

Version 2.4 2nd January 2013. New traffic cloud spawning routine, minor fixes to shipdata.

To Do

Release Version 2.2, expected January 2013. Minor corrections to 2.1.

Need to find out how to randomise equipment prices and tech level, There are plans for at least one mission to be added.

Requirements

• This OXP has no specific requirements and does not appear to conflict with any other OXP's.

Download

• SIRF2-4.oxp.zip (4.1Mb) Current version.

• SIRF20.oxp.zip (3.9 MB) - Old version 2010-07-11.

Alternative download

• S.I.R.F. OXP (old version)