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Looks like there are stations which seem to have an equipment_price_factor < 1... (at least that's what I found for the Kiota Research Station from Wildships OXP). Now it is easy to abuse this to buy equipment and sell it again at a higher price, because the selling of equipment seems not to use thi...

Sorry I should have been more precise. At all times, when I prime Towbar and activate it, it seems to work as expected ("No ship on towbar, Laser Reductor is ON/OFF"). However, it does not trigger whenever I shoot at a ship. My laser always destroys it. After I sell the Laser Reductor, reb...

I have a problem with Towbar: my Laser Reductor only works directly after being bought. When I load a game, it does not work. I need to sell the Laser Reductor, then rebuy it, and it works until I load a game the next time. I have quite a few OXPs installed, and I suspect some incompatibility with o...

Being harassed by pirates in your low-tech ship and just want to avoid the fight, but they are getting closer instead? Fear no longer: Quirium Tech Heavy Industries (QTHI) presents a new device in preview/alpha state. It is a weapon, but it is not a weapon. It is an AntiWeapon: QTHI AntiZap! A power...

Thanks Norby

I didn't find this information anywhere, now it is written here for everyone to see.

When I install this OXP via ingame manager, Oolite 1.84 says it is not compatible. Is there a specific reason or has just nobody updated it somehow?

Just out of interest, what primable equipment might NPCs use (in a way that the player could notice)? I was thinking about QTHI_Auxiliary_Energy_Generators_OXP . The light equipment variant interferes with other equipment (Witchspace drive), so does not do anything as default and needs some priming...

Hi, NPCs seem to buy equipment "available_to_NPCs", that's at least what I get from reading. But somehow I can't get my head around NPCs and primable equipment. What do NPCs do with it? I would guess that they buy it but if the equipment needs priming to work at all, they can not use it. R...

Thanks Norby,

that answer gives me the general idea how to do it, and opens my mind for a class of solutions I did not think about before.

Hi, I am tinkering around with an equipment/mechanics idea (not decided yet). For that I ideally would need to know not only who attacked me (which ship), but also with which weapon, and on which shield (if there was a shield, that is :-D). For this, the event handlers I found in the reference (ship...

Zireael wrote:

Norby, I'm loving these. Thanks for expanding on my idea - and now, does anyone know how do I remove my OXP from the manager completely?

I guess in the manager at http://www.oolite.org/admin/ you can set the status to your manifest to "Deleted".

Question to those who have one of the devices installed (or are otherwise inclined to have an opinion :-D) Currently the devices do not "remember" their setting, you need to activate it everytime you leave a dock. This is to prevent accidental spending of fuel, and in case of the Light var...

Hi Norby, I would like to propose another feature for the EscortDeck. My ship is equipped with the additional heat shielding. It seems that NPC ships do not have this. So when I want to linger around a Space Pizza I have to leave the Star's orbit earlier than my ship needs it. Sunskimming is also qu...

Minor issue: the trails do not disappear when a ship enters a witchspace wormhole. Why would you expect a trail to disappear just because the ship had? Because they disappear when the ship enters a station, when the ship docks at my Escort Deck, when the ship dissolves in a cloud illuminated by my ...

Minor issue: the trails do not disappear when a ship enters a witchspace wormhole.