This quote from Mauiby (on another thread) got me thinking. There are probably all sorts of reasons people write OXPs and I thought it might be interesting to hear some of the stories behind them.Mauiby de Fug wrote:I originally started the oxp as a way of getting to grips with Oolite scripting
Each of mine have a 'history'. For example my largest work by far, Smivs'Shipset, started after I'd finished Boa Clipper, and I just wanted all the other ships in my Ooniverse to have the same general 'look' to them! Some might say that putting what probably amounted to thousands of hours of work into such a simple desire is crazy, but that's what I did.
Some OXPs are not meant to be taken too seriously....Cmd McLane's 'Killit' is perhaps the best example, and my YellOo Cabs is another.
During discussions regarding the Contractor, it was asked why it had a 5T hold when some people thought a ship of this type should either have no hold or just 1-2T. I stated that I had given the Contractor a 5T hold to allow it to pick-up escape capsules or fit a passenger berth to allow the owner to take on passenger contracts. Now of course using a Contractor as a Taxi is a crazy idea....or is it? I got to thinking what an excellent Taxi a toned-down version of the Contractor would be, and this eventually led to the development and release of the YellOo Cabs. It started as a throw-away comment, and was really done almost as a jokey 'proof-of-concept'. This hasn't stopped over 70 people downloading it! And why not....it's a pretty little thing.
So come on OXP-ers, let's hear how some of your OXP ideas came about, and what made you create them.