Oolite Bulletins

ralph_hh wrote:

The point remains unsolved: If I own a Million, what should docking fees of 7 credits be good for?
100Cr. would be sensible, but joung Jamesons can not afford it.

Oolite Economy is a stupid thing. In reality, you would be raised on the planet, get your pocket money as a child, later with your first joy you get some real money. The expenses grow with the income, so does your understanding, how the money business works. Imagine a potential pilot. He would raise a fortune of 100.000 Cr. to pay for a beginners ship. I would imagine, that by the time he was able to earn that much, he knows a lot more about economy. He would add up to his resources until he owns 150.000Cr, to be able to a) equip his ship with some cheap but important gadgets and b) earn money by traing. No one sensible would start a trading career with just 1000Cr in the purse, just to learn that he is not able to buy vital thinks like an injector no be able to earn any money.

This said, I would not miss the early phase of the game.

Wildeblood wrote:

WTH?

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this.shipDockedWithStation = function (station) {
    ...
    }

Wildeblood wrote:

ralph_hh wrote:

The point remains unsolved: If I own a Million, what should docking fees of 7 credits be good for?
100Cr. would be sensible, but joung Jamesons can not afford it.

Which is why I suggested a 5% wealth tax, rather than a fixed fee.

		var fee = player.credits * 0.05;
		if (fee > 5000) fee = 5000; // limit the fee to 5000 

		var fee = 1;
		if (player.credits >= 100) fee = 5;
		if (player.credits >= 500) fee = 10;
		if (player.credits >= 1000) fee = 50;
		if (player.credits >= 5000) fee = 100;

phkb wrote:

I love this idea!

A couple of suggestions in the following code. (1) Check the player credit balance before deducting something. If the player doesn't have enough to cover the fee we can assume that the station has a lenient attitude to taking the fee. (2) Have some variation in the fee at different stations. I've put a few in, but there are probably others that could be included, and what happens to the fee can be adjusted as well.

You could also change the voice of the station by storing different message texts in a descriptions.plist file. That way, a mining outpost can sound different to a rockhermit or a space bar.

Disembodied wrote:

To add a bit more depth, the fees could be graded by how rich the system is, and how much trade it receives. A distant port of call at the tail-end of the line will be glad to see anybody, and would probably have minimal fees. A busy hub, where there's always a queue of ships waiting to get in and docking is at a premium, would probably charge a lot more.

Layne wrote:

As this is my first OXP I've tried to assemble it according to the standard conventions for add-on format.
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This download includes both an oxp and oxz version of the mod-- needless to say, please only install one or the other but not both!

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=063 ... 0283942510