a simple question of numbers

[phonebook]

hello everyone again- i'm sure this has been done to death, but it would be nice to know

when i add ships - say like the oldships, does oolite create the same-ish number of ships for the system, but increase the veriety, or will i see more actual ships?

[Kaks]

It just increases the variety, but it's a bit of a complex thing: if you've already got 3 different types of traders, adding a new ship with a weighted role of trader(1) will give it a 1 in 4 chance to appear. For a 50/50 chance you'd need to have trader(3). This assumes that the other 3 traders have got a (1) probability each.

Of course, The more trader ships you have, the more complex the situation!

[Micha]

However, this raises the question of whether or not Oolite should dynamically increase (or decrease) the number of ships in a system depending on your machine's RAM/CPU (and possibly system stats).

[JensAyton]

However, this raises the question of whether or not Oolite should dynamically increase (or decrease) the number of ships in a system depending on your machine's RAM/CPU (and possibly system stats).

Answer: no, it shouldn’t.

[Cmdr James]

No way man, it would make it unplayable on Roadrunner!

[Eric Walch]

hello everyone again- i'm sure this has been done to death, but it would be nice to know

when i add ships - say like the oldships, does oolite create the same-ish number of ships for the system, but increase the veriety, or will i see more actual ships?

Answer is: it depends...

95% of the ships added as replacement ships. They don't increase the number but only the variation.
5% of the ships are added as extra. Those oxp's contain special addition scripts.

Somehow it should be mentioned in a readme to what category an oxp belongs. Special the second group you can better not install on low end computers. For example: "transports, commies and dictators" do add extra ships.