Oolite Bulletins

DGill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:32 am

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 11:09 pm

Any chance of your publishing your variant on the Expansions Manager?

Unfortunately it is not a single oxp; its a bit of a mess-up of multiple oxps! One mission uses 'towbar' to haul in a captured thargoid ship, I've altered 'planetary rings' to put the ring around outer planets where I rendezvous with a Thargoid carrier, I've modified fuel station and many other oxps to suit mission gameplay, etc.

The hud is very specific to the feudal states missions and not viable as a stand alone hud. During missions various prompts are displayed, e.g. number of wingmen remaining, whether approaching a hostile or friendly feudal state, etc.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:17 am

DGill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:32 am

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 11:09 pm

Any chance of your publishing your variant on the Expansions Manager?

Unfortunately it is not a single oxp; its a bit of a mess-up of multiple oxps! One mission uses 'towbar' to haul in a captured thargoid ship, I've altered 'planetary rings' to put the ring around outer planets where I rendezvous with a Thargoid carrier, I've modified fuel station and many other oxps to suit mission gameplay, etc.

The hud is very specific to the feudal states missions and not viable as a stand alone hud. During missions various prompts are displayed, e.g. number of wingmen remaining, whether approaching a hostile or friendly feudal state, etc.

Goodness! So how many OXPs have you actually modified then? (I believe that you can gauge this by seeing how many come up red in the Expansion Manager's list)

By the way, have you seen the new verbiage at
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Royal_Hunting_Lodge
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Sector1/Digebiti
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Tibecea_(Rough_Guide)
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Qutiri_(Rough_Guide)
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Church ... he_Creator
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Eborts ... ucky_charm
your tastes may just run to that sort of thing...

DGill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:55 am

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:17 am

DGill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:32 am

Unfortunately it is not a single oxp; its a bit of a mess-up of multiple oxps! One mission uses 'towbar' to haul in a captured thargoid ship, I've altered 'planetary rings' to put the ring around outer planets where I rendezvous with a Thargoid carrier, I've modified fuel station and many other oxps to suit mission gameplay, etc.

The hud is very specific to the feudal states missions and not viable as a stand alone hud. During missions various prompts are displayed, e.g. number of wingmen remaining, whether approaching a hostile or friendly feudal state, etc.

Goodness! So how many OXPs have you actually modified then? (I believe that you can gauge this by seeing how many come up red in the Expansion Manager's list)

By the way, have you seen the new verbiage at
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Royal_Hunting_Lodge
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Sector1/Digebiti
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Tibecea_(Rough_Guide)
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Qutiri_(Rough_Guide)
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Church ... he_Creator
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Eborts ... ucky_charm
your tastes may just run to that sort of thing...

Hmm - too many to remember! including Black monks - becomes banker of the feudal states; Moonshine distillery - becomes hoopy casino; Thargoid wars - becomes incorporated as a mini mission; Random Hits; Towbar; Troomp - incorporated to provide trading information in one of the missions; plus various stations, ships and any other nice bits of code I found interesting.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:05 pm

DGill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:55 am

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:17 am

Goodness! So how many OXPs have you actually modified then? (I believe that you can gauge this by seeing how many come up red in the Expansion Manager's list)

By the way, have you seen the new verbiage at
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Royal_Hunting_Lodge
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Sector1/Digebiti
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Tibecea_(Rough_Guide)
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Qutiri_(Rough_Guide)
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Church ... he_Creator
•http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Eborts ... ucky_charm
your tastes may just run to that sort of thing...

Hmm - too many to remember! including Black monks - becomes banker of the feudal states; Moonshine distillery - becomes hoopy casino; Thargoid wars - becomes incorporated as a mini mission; Random Hits; Towbar; Troomp - incorporated to provide trading information in one of the missions; plus various stations, ships and any other nice bits of code I found interesting.

So how did you start all this?

Was it with filling in the missing galaxies from Ramirez's original (ie 3 & 5), or the crucial need for a suitably emblazoned HUD, or was it just with finding the Royal Hunting Lodges were a bit on the small and pokey side?

And did you change any of the other Systems OXPs? Dictators/Commies/Anarchies etc?

DGill wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 3:01 pm

You are right first time, I originally extended original missions across all galaxies, then to make it more interesting hid the location of the target so need to visit various feudal states to get assistance or pay bounty hunters for information. That introduced the requirement to get funds quickly so made appropriate changes to Blank Monks oxp. I liked Thargoid Wars and Thargoid Wars, etc so included that idea to have the various Feudal States periodically raid each other. A raid on the home world made the raider an enemy state as did capturing a commander for ransom. Delivering goods to or otherwise assisting in fighting made friendly states. Raids can be by single ships or dozens in mammoth battles. The introduction of other missions developed, particularly changing ships as the mission required (anaconda for cargo, etc).
Failure to complete a mission or submission resulted in lost points and eventually demotion, successful missions led to promotion as per Ramirez's original.
As I'm not good at fancy coding I asked for assistance when needed and the Oolite community readily helped.

phkb wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 4:56 am

OK, v2.1 is now available here: Feudal_States.oxz, which addresses the issues raised by tsoj.

// feudal-challenge.js, systemWillPopulate():
feudal_challenger_buoy = hl[0].position.add(hl[0].heading.multiply(10E3))
system.addShips("feudal-buoy", 1, feudal_challenger_buoy, 0)[0];

// shipWillLaunchFromStation():
var challenger_spawn = feudal_challenger_buoy
challenger_spawn[0] += 100
system.addShips([missionVariables.feudal_challenger_role], 1,  challenger_spawn);

this.defineChallengerOdds = function () {
	var maxOdds = 3; // original was 10
	missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds = this.feudalChallengerRating / (300 * player.ship.maxSpeed * player.ship.maxEnergy * player.ship.thrust * player.ship.missileCapacity);
	if (missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds > maxOdds - 1) {
		missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds = maxOdds - 1 + Math.min(1, Math.log(1 + missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds - (maxOdds - 1))/3);
	}
	missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds = Math.round(10 * missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds)/10
	missionVariables.feudal_challenger_return = Math.round(missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds * 100);
}

tsoj wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:42 am

phkb wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 4:56 am

OK, v2.1 is now available here: Feudal_States.oxz, which addresses the issues raised by tsoj.

I've just tried the feudal challenges again, and I have two minor issues:
- The challenger waits at the exact opposite side of the station he/she is supposed to wait. This could be solved by storing the position of the feudal buoy in a global variable like so:

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// feudal-challenge.js, systemWillPopulate():
feudal_challenger_buoy = hl[0].position.add(hl[0].heading.multiply(10E3))
system.addShips("feudal-buoy", 1, feudal_challenger_buoy, 0)[0];

and then use this position to spawn the challenger near that buoy:

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// shipWillLaunchFromStation():
var challenger_spawn = feudal_challenger_buoy
challenger_spawn[0] += 100
system.addShips([missionVariables.feudal_challenger_role], 1,  challenger_spawn);

- The other issue is that because of the lowered maxOdds (from 10 to 3) most odds are now 3:1. This I solved like this:

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this.defineChallengerOdds = function () {
	var maxOdds = 3; // original was 10
	missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds = this.feudalChallengerRating / (300 * player.ship.maxSpeed * player.ship.maxEnergy * player.ship.thrust * player.ship.missileCapacity);
	if (missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds > maxOdds - 1) {
		missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds = maxOdds - 1 + Math.min(1, Math.log(1 + missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds - (maxOdds - 1))/3);
	}
	missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds = Math.round(10 * missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds)/10
	missionVariables.feudal_challenger_return = Math.round(missionVariables.feudal_challenger_odds * 100);
}

such that the odds are between 0.7:1 to 3:1 (sometimes 1.2:1 or 1:1, a little less often 2.5-ish:1 and also not so often 3:1).

DGill wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:39 pm

I could not get the code to work:

Error in log that feudal_challenger_buoy was not defined - (feudal_challenger_buoy = hl[0].position.add(hl[0].heading.multiply(10E3)))

If I put var feudal_challenger_buoy = hl[0].position.add(hl[0].heading.multiply(10E3))

I get error message that the variable is null

DGill wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 9:21 pm

Do you think there is any merit and adding station logos or would it be a bit over the top to add 60+ station textures?

Balisongdalo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 7:17 am

I decided to do some dueling at the local royal hunting lodge in Aronar system in G1, however once I landed, I cannot access the tournament on the F8 screen where the bets are placed. Is there something I missed, because the previous version before the 2021 update didn't have this issue.

RobsterLeal wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2024 8:59 pm

So there appears to be an unfortunate side effect to the 'no market' oxp. If I had any coding skills whatsoever, i would go look see, but i havent