Oolite Bulletins

Thargoid wrote:

There is planning to depreciate (remove) this.reset in the future and have the scripts reloaded when a save game loading/death occurs, which will mean that this.startUp will trigger instead in those cases.[/color]

// startUp only runs once at startup before the demoscreen shows up, and for a new Jameson.
this.startUp = function()
{
   this.mustPopulate = true;
   /* used for adding ships after a first launch.
   This way you don't have to time consuming check every launch if a ship was already there.
   */
}

// this runs after loading a saved game. Plans are to combine it with this.startUp()
this.reset = function()
{
    this.startUp();
}

Lestradae wrote:

These here should appear in interstellar space:

this.addMissionaryShips();
this.addDredgerShip();
this.addHardPirateShips();
this.addBehemothShips();
this.pimpMySystem();
this.addNavyPatrolShips();

• Dredgers check that the tech level is 9 or more
• Hard Pirates check varying levels of the economy
• Anarchy - 10 ships at 30%, 30%, 20%, 20%, 10%, 10%, 5%, 5%, 4% and 3%
• Feudal - 9 ships at 25%, 20%, 15%, 10%, 10%, 5%, 5%, 3% and 3%
• Multi-Government - 6 ships at 10%, 10%, 8%, 6%, 5% and 3%
• Dictatorship - 5 ships at 10%, 8%, 6%, 5% and 3%
• Communist - 4 ships at 10%, 8%, 6% and 3%
• Confederacy - 4 ships at 10%, 8%, 6% and 3%
• Democracy - 5 ships at 10%, 5%, 4%, 3% and 3%
• Corporate State - 4 ships at 5%, 4%, 3% and 3%

Lestradae wrote:

Perhaps for spawning ships in the interstellar medium, using the "abs" quasi-absolute coordinate system might make sense?

pmw57 wrote:

I would like to suggest an up to the code then, to reflect this plan and prepare it for the eventual retirement of the reset event, by effectively switching the contents of this.startUp and this.reset on
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP_mission_offering

Commander McLane wrote:

EDIT: Or just don't do it, because I've just done it myself with system.legacy_addShipsAtPrecisely("asteroid", 1, "pwu", [1, 1, 1]). And, what shall I tell you, the asteroid was added at precisely "abs", [1 ,1, 1]. Which proves to my satisfaction that the coordinate system entry is completely ignored in interstellar space, and the coordinates are treated as if they were in meters.

Note that this means that ships spawned per "swu" like in your example will appear completely elsewhere from where the script would intend them to be within a system. For instance, one unit of "u" measures hundreds of thousands of meters, so e.g. "swu", [5, 5, 5] will be extremely far away from the origin (the place where the player is). In interstellar space, however, using the same coordinates, the ship will appear right on top of the player, mere meters away from the origin.

On the page about Oolite co-ordinate systems, Eric wrote:

in witchspace (== no sun) coordinates are absolute irrespective of the system used

Thargoid wrote:

Or to quote the relevant wiki page:

On the page about Oolite co-ordinate systems, Eric wrote:

in witchspace (== no sun) coordinates are absolute irrespective of the system used

Lestradae wrote:

Interstellar spawn suggestions/imaginations:

* this.addMissionaryShips(): A single one, on arrival point. This guy is lost, but desperately clings to his mission.
Chance to appear: 5%

this.addMissionaryShips = function () {
	if (player.ship.fuel >= 5 && Math.random() < 0.90) {
		system.legacy_addSystemShips('missionary', 1, 0.3);
		system.legacy_addSystemShips('missionary', 1, 0.7);
	}
};

this.addMissionaryShips = function () {
	if (player.ship.fuel >= 5 && Math.random() < 0.90) {
		system.legacy_addSystemShips('missionary', 1, 0.3);
		system.legacy_addSystemShips('missionary', 1, 0.7);
	}
	if (Math.random() < 0.05) {
		system.legacy_addSystemShips('missionary', 1, 0.5);
	}
};

Lestradae wrote:

I assume that part of the script should say instead:

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this.addInraPatrolShips = function () {
        if (system.techLevel >= 15) {
                system.legacy_addShipsAt('INRA', 1, 'pwu', [0, 0, 0.7]);
                system.legacy_addShipsAt('INRA', 1, 'pwu', [0, 0, 0.3]);
        }
};

Does that look OK to you?