User talk:Murgh/Racing league

For consideration:

Given this:

The two thousand star systems of the Cooperative once enjoyed a golden age of peace and prosperity, and perhaps the wealthiest of them can still pretend to. The trade ships that once safely travelled between planets now have to be well armed and escorted to fend off pirate attacks, from small-time criminals desperate for their next meal, to powerful robber barons extracting tithes from everyone who passes through their space.

The Cooperative's police force, concentrated near a few influential planets, can no longer maintain order. The mercenaries they hire for a few credits a kill are too few, too unreliable to do so either. And in the darkness between the stars, an old enemy lurks, fearless, perhaps waiting for order to collapse entirely. (from Oolite.org)

Presumably such racing only happens at the most well-policed systems with the police out in force... Cholmondely, 10:33, 20 December 2021‎

I think this stands to reason. To arrange luxury sport where there is chaos is bad business. This is escapism for the affluent. There would definitely be need for police presence, and in the event they are too restrained by the letter of the law, private security companies such as Pinkerton Galactic Security or Backwater Galaxy would not hesitate to take the job. OLDMURGH ^talk 11:42, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Furthermore, it gives an opportunity to make some of the systems more distinctive. Ads for Cosmorossi in the three systems where they are active. Ads in space, ads on the orbital and stuff inside the orbital too. I'd love to make more of the Life in the Frontier OXP: to have different things going on at different stations. Such as Lave, the Tionisla cemetery station etc.

So if say two of the sponsors had business in Lave, one could weave relevant stuff into your Lave.oxp. The other thing would be links. Friends from one's days at the Academy: one of the lecturers, a technician or two (who might give slight discounts in the shipyards), one or two chums on the orbital station who eschewed a life of piloting, a chum from the bar, etc., etc.

And given the plethora of stations created for Oolite, one could easily add copy another 3 or 4 orbitals into Lave (if it did not look too bad from outer space...).

As regards racing (I hope I'm correct in my surmise that you have your beady eye set on it...) there could be some new news bulletins for GNN and maybe one or two relevant missions (picking up equipment from the far side of the galaxy, trying out a new fuel compound, etc). Maybe one of the ace racers is a chum from the Lave Academy, or a chum of one's sister...

Cholmondeley 12:56, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Yes absolutely, the possibilities of scope are huge. There should certainly be enough wide context to corroborate that this spectacle actually is a big deal, and help generate excitement. The connections to the big finance participants that pull the strings should be evident and lead somewhere. There are many big and cool aspects of "colour" that could and possibly should be pursued.

I'm still not sure what I have my beady eye on yet. I'm still in the housekeeping phase of loafing about in my bathrobe the morning after the party, looking at and lifting up things, sometimes holding it close to my nose to get a clear idea of what it is. I tend to sniff around and poke a while, maybe I see something easy to polish, maybe I try a little experiment, and if suddenly something falls into place and a vision for a completable project fixes to my mind, I could get busy, like work-ethic-wise. But you never really know before it may happen. OLDMURGH ^talk 16:31, 20 December 2021 (UTC)