Re: Galactic Almanac OXP - Beta 1
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 9:31 pm
Very much enjoying the Hesperus legal saga! You have a wicked sense of humour, sir!
I'm a bit short of Oolite time atm, but would you mind just testing something for me with the Stranger stations which are currently unamed.
Bear with me as I'll just have to give a quick summary of what these two OXZs are doing and how the Galactic Almanac works with either OXZ installed.
The two OXZ are multulaty exclusive so if you have System Redux installed then you can't have Planetary Systems and visa versa.
Each OXZ is doing basically the same thing. Both use a peudo-random number so that each allways adds X planets and Y moons to a given system. For both OXZs this number is the same for all players of the game at any given system. The number of planets and moons present will be different though for a player with Planetary Systems installed than for a player with System Redux installed. For all players with System Redux installed it will be X and Y (and always X and Y) and for all players Planetary Systems installed the number will be A and B (and always A and B).
For example, the Screen Shots on the Wiki Page show Lave with System Redux and Mugh's old (but still fully functional) Lave.oxz installed.
As you can see, System Redux has added 1 Moon and 1 Planet to Lave. This will be true for all players of the game with System Redux installed. If you hike up the settings you can cause system redux to add hundreds of planets if you like. The same planets and moons will be added for all players of the game with the same setting for Maximum Planets and Moons. This shows System Redux running with the Default Settings. Murgh's Lave OXP has added the special moon, which as it's a special planet (and as Mugh's OXP was written before display names could be set) it would normally appear as undefined. I've therefore manually set it to Basta and given it the special class of Nomadic Moon to fit Status Que. Everything else in the system is however being automatically named by the OXZ's script.
With Planetary Systems installed you might (by chance) also have 1 planet and 1 moon added. Or the number might be different and with Planetary Systems it might be 3 planets and 1 moon. But the number is always the same for each OXZ set up.
The way the Galactic Almanac sorts out this rather confusing possibility storm is that it simply assignes the first object of each type to appear in the game from a consitant list in the script file. So for all players the first moon to be added by either System Redux, Planetary Systems (or any future OXZ which adds planets or moons) at Lave will always and for all players be called "Arcadia". The first Planet at Lave will always be called "Imperious". The Almanac will just keep reading from its list of 20,000 odd names in order for each additional moon or planet added. If you add more than 20,000 planets and moons to a system they would all be named but moon 20,001 would have the same name as moon 1.
Planets and Moons are easy to cater for and the Almanac will always name these can be automatically detected for as planets, moons or gas giants. I could do the same thing for stations, by just checking for the role station or the scan class station. But that would be no fun as then all stations would be named in a similar style regarless of whether they are Military Bases, wretched hives of scum and villany, taxi stations or home to mad money lending monks. So the Almamanc check the type of station to assign it a name in a suitable style.
Ok. Now on to how System Redux and Strangers world deal with orbital stations to the planets / moons they add. They do the same thing but again with differnt station types.
If you play with System Redux installed then the companion station adding OXZ is Extra Stations for Extra Planets. Again you can't install this if you have Planetary Systems installed.
Extra Stations for Extra Planets rolls its own peudo-random number each time it detects a planet. Its dice depend on tech level as well, so even with three planets present System Redux might only add 1 station, but the maxium it can add to that particular system would be 3 (as only three planets are present). As it's dice are peudo random for all players, the number of stations added is always the same for all players of the game with system redux and extra stations for extra planets installed. The Almanac contains a list of just over 8,000 names for stations added by System Redux and it assines them in just the same way. It reads though it's list and assines each station the next name in the list. So the names are the same for all players of the game.
The effect therefore is if you are playing with System Redux / Extra Planets installed then your planets, moons and the stations orbiting them are all being named. If you have Strangers World installed your planets and moons are being named, but your stations orbiting OXZ planets are not. However the OXZ already contains a list of 8,000 names which could be assigned to the Strangers World stations (with no conflict as you are on one set up or the other). They are not been seen because I just need to add an OR command to the script assigning them. So my script will read if station type = extra stations for extra planets role OR type each stangers world role to fix that. Players on Strangers World will then see the same names assined to the stations which orbit their planets as players with system redux see. Just need the role!
Could you.
Dock at some of the Strangers World stations and save your game.
Open your save file file and seach for docked_station
You'll see some text like this:-
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<key>docked_station_position</key>
<array>
<real>-47125.27734375</real>
<real>-48630.8828125</real>
<real>381142.640625</real>
</array>
<key>docked_station_role</key>
<string>coriolis</string>
Just in case he's used several roles, could you just fly about a bit and post the names of the roles. If they are all the same then it's just that one role to add to the list in the OXZ's script to fix this.
