Here's another issue: I'm running v.1.88 on a Windows machine (with your older version of Weapon Laws). Started a new Jameson, sold the laser as I now usually do - and then realised that I'd made a big mistake - as buying a new one is no longer quite so simple!
Fair enough! All good and realistic.
But after having restarted, and then having made a bit of dosh - and whilst sitting prettily in Tionisla, I decided that I'd better move the
front pulse laser to the
aft (as that would make rather more sense).
I used the
Laser Arrangement facility under the F4 ship-station interface. Do you know, the blighters in the chandlery jolly well nabbed it and would not give it back - either for my rear end - or anywhere else. No money back either! Luckily I had a recent save - but my new Jameson could hardly have afforded a 400cr loss!
I presume that this arises due to an infelicity of communication between
Weapon Laws.oxp &
Laser Arrangement.oxp - but alas, a mere denizen of Digebiti such as myself is quite incapable of sorting this one out. Just mentioning it in case you did not nobble it in your newer version of Weapon Laws.
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Am I correct in presuming that the TL16 anarchy which has suddenly popped up is all yours? What is the backstory to it? Was it always an anarchy (populated by incredible technological individualists) - or was it a high TL system which has just become an anarchy?
And, just pondering on all this, as a fortunate subject of Her Most Britannic Majesty, I have noticed
(i) how restrictions on weapons have burgeoned with the increased level of technology. And, of course,
(ii) in the halcyon days of Feudal Paradise, only those of blue blood were allowed access to the better weapons. These developments are of course also evident on the other side of the channel, in Europe. But then
(iii) there is the
peculiar case of the United States of America, where anyone can just sidle into a supermarket and stock up on machine guns.
It would seem that there ought to be a whole raft of exceptions and bizarre countercases spread throughout the eight galaxies! As the introduction on the Oolite website says:
The two thousand star systems of the Cooperative once enjoyed a golden age of peace and prosperity, and perhaps the wealthiest of them can still pretend to. The trade ships that once safely travelled between planets now have to be well armed and escorted to fend off pirate attacks, from small-time criminals desperate for their next meal, to powerful robber barons extracting tithes from everyone who passes through their space.
The Cooperative's police force, concentrated near a few influential planets, can no longer maintain order. The mercenaries they hire for a few credits a kill are too few, too unreliable to do so either. And in the darkness between the stars, an old enemy lurks, fearless, perhaps waiting for order to collapse entirely.
I
do think that your .oxp adds a most welcome complexity to the Ooniverse. But is it complex enough? Just a thought!
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equipment.plist
(...if installed 
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