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Posted: **Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:20 pm**

Doc lurks - but posts very infrequently - doing in real life what he discovered through doing YAH he was naturally good at!!

Welcome back BTW - Ark - good to "see" you again.

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:54 am**

Just for the record I have created a unified page for this oxp in the wiki.
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Your_Ad_Here%21
I think it deserves it!!!

From this unified page new users can download both the old (ver 3) and the new version (ver 4) of this oxp. Right now there are not many things for someone to see in this page but I am willing to put more stuff in the future (screenshots of the new constores, background stories ect)
I have also rerouted all the links in other oxps pages in order to lead the users to this unified page instead of the download page of the old version in Dr Nil’s site. I hope I didn’t miss something.

Again every contribution or error correction to this newly created page from the contributors of your ad here will be more than welcomed.
Now where is that marvelous background story about this oxp written by disembodied?

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:26 am**

Is this the one?

It all started with the Budget Crisis of 3119, when the Co-operative finally realised the scale of the overspend on the project to upgrade the old Faraway wormhole navigation system to the new Witchspace Beacon network. Gross financial mismanagement is hardly new to the Co-operative, or even (sadly) uncommon, but the Faraway fiasco was of an entirely different order of magnitude. This hole wasn't going to be filled with some budgetary offset and a bit of creative accountancy; somehow, the Witchspace Beacon network would have to start generating income.

The idea of charging a levy on all ships using Witchspace was briefly considered, then discarded as a) unpopular and, sadly, b) impossible. Fortunately, a solution was found: the Ad-X Corporation was prepared to pay handsomely for the right to station giant TeraScreen advertisements at the Witchpoint (and, in some larger systems, outside the main station itself).

It seemed like the problem had been solved. Unfortunately, the only systems prepared to accept unrestricted TeraScreen advertising were the Corporate States, the Democracies and the Confederacies. Dictatorships wanted to use the screens for their own purposes (usually, giant pictures of one Glorious Leader or another); the Communist worlds would have nothing but propaganda (and, indeed, have been working on a system of propaganda screens of their own); and the Multi-Government, Feudal and Anarchy worlds wanted a slice of the pie for themselves – one far bigger than their downmarket demographic warranted.

In desperation, the Co-operative cast around for other possible revenue streams. The various member worlds of the wealthy Corporate State voting bloc had always bridled at Co-op restrictions on the classes and quantities of commodities exchanged at main system stations, demanding "Free Trade" instead. Other planets in the Co-operative, fearful that their own domestic economies would be overwhelmed by an arrangement that inherently favoured the rich and powerful, had always resisted such demands. But faced with the possible bankruptcy of the entire stellar trading network, a compromise was reached: in return for a regular rent on the local Witchpoint volume, the Co-operative would allow a number of independent trading posts to be set up in systems with sufficiently high levels of economic, cultural and political cohesion – or, as some cynics have suggested, those systems with a big enough population to make the venture worthwhile.

Thus the Convenience Stores were born: franchise stations, based near the Witchpoint, offering goods and services to passing ships. Exempt from Co-op trade regulations, the Convenience Stores set about making money from every possible source. They are encrusted with advertising, and even the stations' defence craft – cheap ex-Navy Sidewinders – are plastered with logos and corporate sponsorship. Most controversially, controlled commodities – slaves, narcotics and firearms – are offered freely, and legally, for sale.

Within a Convenience Store, commerce moves at a rapid pace, and prices of even the most basic goods can fluctuate wildly. Some merchants, for commercial or ideological reasons, have abandoned the main system stations altogether; but cannier Commanders, balancing the reliable price index of the Co-operative against speculative capitalist bubble-blowing, can often exploit the feverish atmosphere of a Convenience Store to obtain impressive profits on relatively small quantities of goods.

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:30 am**

Yes!!!

and also that:

Possible backstory for the Convenience Stores:

The various member worlds of the influential Corporate State voting bloc, predominantly wealthy and with high levels of technology, have always bridled at Co-op restrictions on the classes and quantities of commodities exchanged at main system stations, demanding "Free Trade" instead. Other planets in the Co-operative, fearful that their own domestic economies would be overwhelmed by an arrangement that inherently favoured the rich and powerful, have always resisted such demands. Recently, a compromise was reached: the Co-operative allowed a number of independent trading posts to be set up in systems with sufficiently high levels of economic and political cohesion. The Convenience Stores were born: franchise stations, based near the Witchpoint, offering goods and services to passing ships. Unchecked by Co-op trade regulations, controlled commodities – slaves, narcotics and firearms – are offered freely, and legally, for sale.

Naturally, with the Corporate bloc providing most of the starting capital, Convenience Stores are hotbeds of commercial enterprise. They are encrusted with advertising, and even the stations' defence craft – cheap ex-Navy Sidewinders – are plastered with logos and corporate sponsorship. Within a Convenience Store, commerce moves at a rapid pace, and prices of even the most basic goods can fluctuate wildly. Some merchants, for commercial or ideological reasons, have abandoned the main system stations altogether; but cannier Commanders, balancing the reliable price index of the Co-operative against speculative capitalist bubble-blowing, can often exploit the feverish atmosphere of a Convenience Store to obtain impressive profits on relatively small quantities of goods.

I will include both of them in the wiki page if there is no objection

Posted: **Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:40 am**

No objections from me!

Posted: **Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:13 am**

Credits

Set G (unfinished and unreleased)

Billboard 01, front: DaddyHoggy - Lave Bar
Billboard 01, back: Stromboli - Jameson Safety Escape Pod
Billboard 02, front: Stromboli - Apex Robotics
Billboard 02, back: gogz69 - Castrool
Billboard 03, front: HueijRevisited - Stop the War (MISSING!!!!)
Billboard 03, back: DaddyHoggy - Lave Roover
Billboard 04, front: Disembodied - Gritty Kitty Litter
Billboard 04, back: DaddyHoggy - Stop the War (revamped)
Billboard 05, front: Disembodied - Sentient Milkshakes
Billboard 05, back: DaddyHoggy - Oolite Anonymous
Billboard 06, front: Daddy Hoggy - Oolympic Rings
Billboard 06, back: DaddyHoggy - NooCearso Brown Ale
Billboard 07, front: DaddyHoggy - OokMail
Billboard 07, back: DaddyHoggy - Oodie Stoobart
Billboard 08, front: Stromboli - Vote
Billboard 08, back: Stromboli - Xi'ar Defender 3
Billboard 09, front: Selezen - Balfour Booty
Billboard 09, back: DaddyHoggy - RemLock
Billboard 10, front: DaddyHoggy - Oohay!
Billboard 10, back: DaddyHoggy - Thrumpberry Juice
Billboard 11, front: DaddyHoggy - Natioonal Oxpress
Billboard 11, back: DaddyHoggy - Noormaa
Billboard 12, front: DaddyHoggy - Hoogo Puss
Billboard 12, back: DaddyHoggy - Holdlily
Billboard 13, front: DaddyHoggy - Asteroid
Billboard 13, back: DaddyHoggy - Lerelace Air Force
Billboard 14, front: Disembodied - Blue String Pudding
Billboard 14, back: DaddyHoggy - Oorovision
Billboard 15, front: gogz69 - Goid Away
Billboard 15, back: DaddyHoggy - Oone Account
Billboard 16, front: DaddyHoggy - Coriolis Preservation Society
Billboard 16, back: DaddyHoggy - Blue Oyster
Billboard 17, front: DaddyHoggy - Oobay
Billboard 17, back: gogz69 - Dunloop
Billboard 18, front: 0235 - Soobaru
Billboard 18, back: Disembodied - Typhoh
Billboard 19, front: Captain Hesperus - Ingram Personal Protection
Billboard 19, back: DaddyHoggy - Ooyds
Billboard 20, front: DaddyHoggy - Alliances
Billboard 20, back: DaddyHoggy - RBB
Billboard 21, front: Captain Hesperus - Inera
Billboard 21, back: Captain Hesperus - Turtleshell
Billboard 22, front: gogz69 - Arusati
Billboard 22, back: Captain Hesperus - Docking Trouble
Billboard 23, front: Captain Hesperus - GalNavy
Billboard 23, back: Captain Hesperus - Hesperus' Trumbles (only Cr30!)
Billboard 24, front: Captain Hesperus - GalCop Police
Billboard 24, back: Captain Hesperus - GITS
Billboard 25, front: Captain Hesperus - Fiftamendi
Billboard 25, back: gogz69 - Aruszati Cancelled

Set G really needs some (4) additional ads that'll good in a shady AD-X for the Asteroids

Which takes us into the 'verts already collected for a potential Set H

Set H (unfinished and unreleased)

Billboard 01, front: Disembodied - Catnip
Billboard 01, back: gogz69 - washrooms
Billboard 02, front: Captain Hespersus - SHODAN
Billboard 02, back: DaddyHoggy - Oodles
Billboard 03, front: Disembodied - Cleanliness/Drogliness
Billboard 03, back: Disembodied - Rizala + (MISSING!!!!!!)
Billboard 04, front: Cmd. Cheyd - AOO Solar
Billboard 04, back: Captain Hesperus - Littlebear Legal Service
Billboard 05, front: Captain Hesperus - Roboflex T-2000
Billboard 05, back: Captain Hesperus - Intergalactic Pro Wrestling
Billboard 06, front: Pangloss - Peptoo Bismol
Billboard 06, back: Stromboli - Asteroid Mines
Billboard 07, front: DaddyHoggy - 'Bots
Billboard 07, back: DaddyHoggy - Edible Hermits
Billboard 08, front: Disembodied - Colonists wanted
Billboard 08, back: DaddyHoggy - PNG Directors
Billboard 09, front: Disembodied - Bank of Ensoreus
Billboard 09, back: pleb87 - Taxi Galactica
Billboard 10, front: DaddyHoggy - Oxpham
Billboard 10, back: DaddyHoggy - DHELL
Billboard 11, front: DaddyHoggy - MooCooys (Tibedied)
Billboard 11, back: DaddyHoggy - MooCooys (Biargeian)
Billboard 12, front: DaddyHoggy - MooCooys (Quatorian)
Billboard 12, back: DaddyHoggy - MooCooys (Tereaian)
Billboard 13, front: DaddyHoggy - MooCooys (Ususorian)
Billboard 13, back: DaddyHoggy - IBA
Billboard 14, front: DaddyHoggy - Cadeceus
Billboard 14, back: toconn/nijenko - Oonusol
Billboard 15, front: DaddyHoggy - Mama Wagar
Billboard 15, back: DaddyHoggy - MooCooys (Ermasoian)
Billboard 16, front: Gogz69 - Sat and derr (needs tidying up)
Billboard 16, back: DaddyHoggy - Loonovee
Billboard 17, front: Disembodied - Blerg
Billboard 17, back: DaddyHoggy - Ooklook
Billboard 18, front: Disembodied - Tall Toad
Billboard 18, back: DaddyHoggy - Eraronqu Mud Hockey
Billboard 19, front:
Billboard 19, back:
Billboard 20, front:
Billboard 20, back:
Billboard 21, front:
Billboard 21, back:
Billboard 22, front:
Billboard 22, back:
Billboard 23, front:
Billboard 23, back:
Billboard 24, front:
Billboard 24, back:
Billboard 25, front:
Billboard 25, back:

Note that there are a couple of MIA/broken/missing image links - so unless somebody grabbed them while they were up or original poster would like to re-post.

We're doing well guys!!

@Disembodied - just realised that blerg isn't in 256x128 format...

NOTE: I'm going to start putting set G together for/with Ark - so any ideas for a roof billboard would be much appreciated!!

I'll nudge H_R to see if his image is hosted elsewhere.

Posted: **Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:07 pm**

DaddyHoggy wrote:
so any ideas for a roof billboard would be much appreciated!!

In more explicit words:
Griff help!!!!!!

Posted: **Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:14 pm**

Posted: **Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:39 pm**

256x128 version of a blërg advert:

Posted: **Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:07 pm**

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:19 pm**

A spin off company from Ookmail...

Sometimes I do these and they just make me smile...

Posted: **Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:23 am**

This OXP uses PoliceInterceptorAI.plist instead of policeInterceptorAI.plist causing tescoo(and others) security ships to just launch and wait forever.

Posted: **Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:47 am**

metri wrote:
This OXP uses PoliceInterceptorAI.plist instead of policeInterceptorAI.plist causing tescoo(and others) security ships to just launch and wait forever.

In what version of oolite(version number and platform) and also what version of Yah?

Posted: **Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:53 pm**

Ark wrote:
metri wrote:
This OXP uses PoliceInterceptorAI.plist instead of policeInterceptorAI.plist causing tescoo(and others) security ships to just launch and wait forever.
In what version of oolite(version number and platform) and also what version of Yah?

Everything latest. Platform is case sensitive one. Nor windows, nor os x

Posted: **Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:06 pm**

metri wrote:
Ark wrote:
metri wrote:
This OXP uses PoliceInterceptorAI.plist instead of policeInterceptorAI.plist causing tescoo(and others) security ships to just launch and wait forever.
In what version of oolite(version number and platform) and also what version of Yah?
Everything latest. Platform is case sensitive one. Nor windows, nor os x

Thanks for spoting it!! since i am a windows user i would never have found it

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