Oolite Bulletins

pagroove wrote:

New idea

What if you can buy a 'landing gear addaption' from within the shipyard at the cost of cargo room. I that case engineers make some gears, add shielding and brakes. Available at level 10 higher?

Downside. More equipment

I think it would also make things 1.72 only (as it'd need the new requires_cargo_space key probably to take up the cargo room.

But yes, I was avoiding adding any more equipment without good reason, or I'll get moaned at again

Thargoid wrote:

Wouldn't isGasGiant be a better name for it? I presume you're referring to the hasOwnProperty command within BountyScanner as the method of adding it in.

try
{
    myPlanet.isGasGiant = true;
}
catch (error)
{
    // Either ignore error or turn of your scripts and clean up,
    // depending on what the ramifications of a failure would be.
}

Thargoid wrote:

Frame wrote:

I´d like you to include a feature check of property...

namely

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planet.gasgiant

Ofcourse you cannot set down on gasgaints, and there will be some in the Solar System OXP

If you are unsure of how todo this, look into the bounty scanner that checks if the ship has an old bounty....

Wouldn't isGasGiant be a better name for it? I presume you're referring to the hasOwnProperty command within BountyScanner as the method of adding it in.

I'm more than happy to add it in though. How far advanced are you with Solar System.OXP? I'm not going to be doing anything with PlanetFall until at least New Year, so we can perhaps look at it then.

pagroove wrote:

Some more (stupid ) ideas running through my head.

Random Inter-system taxi missions

If a commander has a cabin. Random passengers can ask passage from the surface to the station. Offered via a mission screen?

Random transport missions

Altrabin Moon wants to have documents delivered to the main station.
The station wants ...tons of to be shipped to Altrabin Prime. Payment on delivery 26 credits

Those kind of things I'd already thought of, and am planning to do. Not as part of Planetfall itself, but as a little "extra" OXP as an example of how PF can be used as a "foundation OXP" for other ones to create mission locations etc.

I'm not going to add missions directly into PF, they're better as expansion packs. But a small "demo example" mission OXP is on the to-do list already

Similar for the other idea, but I'm not a fan of stolen ships, or any "random game-ending events" that the player can do little about. Also dividing up the planet won't easily work, especially if clever people like you come along and re-texture the thing

But the commies example is perfectly do-able via the expansion stub I already coded in, or something like that could be added in to vary things by system economy (as already happens a little with anarchies). I was just trying not to make things too complex too early in testing.

Thargoid wrote:

This is slightly improved code (it should hopefully reduce the issue with the PCC and other larger craft), plus linking OXPs to allow Black Monks, Hoopy Casino & Random Hits to all offer their mission screens when planet-side. Also the intra-system taxi mission is completed, as a demo of how surface locations can be used within missions.