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I don't get this. I use several "real" characters as pilots. Once scooped the always execute their script on docking of the player.

Yes, but it needs one addition you probably thought of yourself. On adding your ship "shuttleone" to the universe, you must also set a variable:

		{
			// CHECK FOR MISSION GOALS DONE
			conditions = ("status_string equal STATUS_IN_FLIGHT");
			do = (
				"checkForShips: harkov_shuttle1",
				{
					conditions = ("shipsFound_number equal 0", "mission_localhero_special equal ESCORT1");
					do = (
						"commsMessage: SHUTTLE HAS REACHED THE STATION.",
						"set: mission_localhero_special RESCUED",
						"subtract: mission_localhero_goal 40",
						"add: mission_localhero_bonus xxx"
					);
				},
				"checkForShips: harkov_shuttle2",
				{
					conditions = ("shipsFound_number equal 0", "mission_localhero_special equal ESCORT2");
					do = (
						"commsMessage: SHUTTLE HAS REACHED THE STATION",
						"set: mission_localhero_special RESCUED",
						"subtract: mission_localhero_goal 40",
						"add: mission_localhero_bonus xxx"
					);
				},
				{
					conditions = ("mission_localhero_special equal FAILED");
					do = ("commsMessage: YOU'VE FAILED TO ESCORT THE SHUTTLE.");
				},
				{
					conditions = ("mission_localhero_status equal CAPTURED", "mission_localhero_goal lessthan 1");
					do = ("commsMessage: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.", "set: mission_localhero_status MESSAGE");
				}
			);
		}

But then, why should only all Confederacy planets get into the same sort of trouble, just all of them, but nobody else?

Commander McLaine wrote:

But then, why should only all Confederacy planets get into the same sort of trouble, just all of them, but nobody else?

Svengalii wrote:

2. Is it possible to change the planet_description temporarly?
- GET planet description (local_variable)
- ADD Currently there is no CONFED MISSION available
- SET new planet description

Svengali wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

But then, why should only all Confederacy planets get into the same sort of trouble, just all of them, but nobody else?

Good question. I don't know. Maybe someone wants to write a small story about this.
Something like: Former General Harkov was a drummer in a Rock'n'Roll Band but his manager...

But... I was looking for some conditions that are met throughout the galaxy
AND they should differ from mostly used conditions in other OXPs (except: Anarchies and Commies for example).

Svengali wrote:

1. There is a special mission to escort a police shuttle safely to the station. When the shuttle has docked some mission_variables should be set to a new state. I first tried to change the variables by script_actions in shipdata.plist. But nothing happened.

• When the player docks with the ship.
• When the ship is scooped (by anyone), if its cargo_type is "CARGO_SCRIPTED_ITEM".

Ahruman wrote:

A note on this: script_actions are checked in two contexts:

• When the player docks with the ship.
• When the ship is scooped (by anyone), if its cargo_type is "CARGO_SCRIPTED_ITEM".

In your case I see problems with the two "raid" AI's.

Disembodied wrote:

It's not unreasonable to suppose that worlds with similar political organisations, e.g. the various Confederacies, might find it useful to band themselves together into a voting bloc within the Galaction Co-Operation (which, in reality, is probably about as co-operative as the United Nations is united). Communists, for example, try to make a more-or-less common cause together: "Unlike other systems, communist planets communicate freely with each other, exchanging technology and resources" (from the Wiki), although no doubt they too have their differences (e.g. Maoist China and Stalinist USSR).

Perhaps Harkov's pirate gang is attempting to sabotage a fraternal association of Confederacies, on behalf of, say, a group of Dictatorship worlds (where does Harkov's rank of General come from?): maybe the Confederacies bloc is threatening sanctions over issues of sentient rights at an upcoming vote of the Galactic Co-Operative. Maybe GalCo-op (as opposed to GalCop) representatives could be in the shuttlecraft you have to protect? The Dictatorships might be trying to argue that the Confederacies should get their own house in order, before interfering in the affairs of other sovereign worlds -- and simultaneously threatening their own form of economic sanctions against the Confederacies...

Maybe GalCo-op (as opposed to GalCop)

Commander McLane wrote:

Just a small point in your line of thought:

Maybe GalCo-op (as opposed to GalCop)

I don't get you here. In all the literature and references we have these two terms are used interchangebly for the Galactic Co-Operative of Worlds (full title). I guess it's just an abbreviational confusion that some sources use GalCop as short form, others use GalCoop, GalCoOp, GalCo-Op or GalCo-op. But it's always been the same thing.

Question to everybody: What would you consider the authoritative abbreviation for "Galactic Co-Operative of Worlds"? Can we get a consensus here?

Disembodied wrote:

Like TGHC, I was trying to differentiate the "Galactic Co-Operative of Worlds" from the police -- presumably the law-enforcement arm of the Co-Operative who keep order above the atmosphere. But then it's unlikely that "GalCop" would be an official designation: it's probably just a joke phrase. There's obviously some crossover between the police and the Navy (Behemoths appear on the scanners as system ships): do we assume that the police and the navy are one and the same, and under the general command of the Co-Operative? The Vipers as system patrol ships, mostly dealing with pirates and smugglers, and the Behemoths more commonly fighting against the Thargoid threat?

I think that makes more sense to me, anyway: GalCop is just a trader's slang term for the Galactic Co-Operative of Worlds, since most of our interaction with them is usually police-based. So I withdraw my differentiation.

What the official designation is, I don't know: we have a sprawling galaxy, with many different cultures and languages... maybe there isn't one.