SothisTC

SoThisTC station

This page currently covers 2 different .oxps: Sothis.oxp & SothisTC.oxp.

Overview

Long ago a business magnate Donald Troomp placed Sothis stations in high tech corporate systems to act as trade centers. To the big public Troomp is better remembered by his intergalactic competition, which he called "The Apprentice." The idea was to find the most suitable person to run one of his companies. Mr Troomp is long gone, but his Sothis Trade Centers are live and kicking.

Features

SothisTC.oxp (by Spara) modifies the Sothis.oxp (by KillerWolf): All Sothis stations are now converted into trading stations and relocated to high TL corporate systems.

If you have New Cargoes OXP by Cim installed, you can read TradeNet for free when visiting a Sothis station. You will also find that there are more special cargo opportunities than there are in the main station.

The 2013 version of SothisTC does not allow game saving, nor does it appear in the Market Inquirer database unless one is docked there. The 2021 tweaking thread addresses these issues.

KillerWolf's SoThis buoy is a thing of beauty

Sothis.oxp by itself provides a secondary station at most systems, usually on the witchpoint side of the main planet. Changes in game coding mean since 2010 mean that KillerWolf's original version no longer has a market.

Sothis was the name of an ancient Egyptian goddess (KillerWolf's Nuit station is also named after an Egyptian sky goddess). Sopdet, known to the Greeks as Sothis, was an important goddess of the annual flood and a psychopomp guiding deceased pharaohs through the Egyptian underworld. She was also identified with the star Sirius, which was important in recording the flooding of the Nile. She ended up becoming an aspect of Isis.

Credits

• Backgrounds are made from vectormaps by G. Presti & C. Angus.

Requirements

Oolite version 1.76.1.

Requirements

• Sothis.oxp is required (mirror)

or Download a newer unnumbered version (2017) - with new station markets added by Diziet Sma using Spara's Basic market fix for old oxps - which is on Box here.

• New Cargoes is recommended

Download

• Download SothisTC.oxp version 1.0.3 from the box. (Mirror)

Install the OXP by copying SothisTC.oxp (& Sothis.oxp if not already there) to your AddOns-folder.

Tweaks

• How to tweak OXZ's - see section on OXPs

For Sothis.oxp alone

• To include Sothis's market on the Market Inquirer database look here and read to the end of the page.

For SothisTC.oxp

• Updating SothisTC (2021): Masterclass in Tweaking by Spara: updates spawning mechanism to comply with LittleBear's upcoming Station Names OXP, allows game saves at the station, tweaks the regular market, etc. etc.

Other Links

• Oolite BB (2013)
• related Market Observer discussion - see middle of first page
• Troomp.oxp (2012-3) - forerunner of SothisTC & of MarketObserver
• RELEASE ~ Isis Interstellar's Sothis Stations - original launch (2010-11).

Quick Facts

Sothis:

Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
various	2010	none	Dockables	Dockables OXPs	KillerWolf	Oolite BB

KillerWolf was chased away (why?) from the Oolite community in 2012 - the BB thread is thus a tad rusty!

SothisTC:

Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.0.3	2013-05-16	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	Dockables	Dockables OXPs	Spara	Oolite BB

Gameplay and Balance Indicator

• Adding an extra station (Sothis.oxp) increases the market supply and capacity.
• Adding SothisTC.oxp also gives an additional leg-up for NewCargoes advocates.