Cody wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2015 3:34 pm
As I've said many times before, I don't favour this type of meta-package - but there you go!
Smivs wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2015 3:47 pm
... although my personal view is that these lists are not a good idea...
spara wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2015 5:29 pm
I'm not too hot about compilations either... For clarity, I think we should have a new category for these: "Compilations".
Just wanted to make the point that with over 750 oxp's in the in-game Expansions Manager (+400 elsewhere) a new player is unlikely to devote the necessary hours/days of research to decide what makes most sense for his/her game.
Alliant wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2017 12:22 pm
I, for one, thank you, Norby, for your great work in putting together and maintaining this valuable metapackage. I almost consider it canon.
This is coming from someone who has played on vanilla, as well as downloaded gigabytes worth of OXPs, way back when the in-game expansion pack manager didn't exist yet, and had to sift through scores of OXPs, unzipping, copy-pasting, determining dependencies and conflicts between them, etc. etc.
What drudgery!
This metapackage is a godsend for someone like me, who just wants to sit back, relax, and update a very dated, almost 90s-era game (in gameplay and graphics terms) to 21st-century levels of playability in just one press of an Enter key.
Believe it or not, there are many filthy casuals like me who cannot, or are not willing to, spare the time to go through all the trouble of forum-reading, wiki-browsing, documentation-reading and all that which building your own OXP/OXZ list entails, just to get a game of Oolite running with a decent enough amount of content to be fun and entertaining for hours on end.
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It takes a lot of time to learn how to play - even with the in-game tutorial. Too much to learn will kill off our target audience.
We currently have six of these meta-oxp's:
Four by Norby:
Addons for Beginners
Addons for Competent Commanders
Ambience Collection
Ambiences recommended by Norby
Two by your humble servant:
Addons for Beginners (Vital Statistics)
Lore Collection (Classic Elite)
I think that we need at least another three of these:
Strangers World Collection - to download the 30-odd SW addons
Elite Trader Collection - to download the 7 ET add ons (and possibly Market Observer, Market Inquirer & Torus to Sun drive too)
Breakable equipment - to download Capt Murphy's 6 addons (HUD, shield generators, witchdrive, torus drive, engine, energy unit), Spara's Breakable Life Support System and possibly BattleDamage (hull damage from combat) too
I also think that we should remove the targeting/combat/docking oxp's from Norby's AddOns for Beginners and start two new collections:
Addons for Beginners (Help with combat) with Paddling Pool, Barrel Roll, SniperLock, SniperLock Fix, SniperLock Plus, Fast Target Selector & Target System Plugins
Addons for Beginners (Help with docking) with ILS, Autodock, Traffic Control OXP & Traffic Lights OXP
An
Addons for Beginners (Help with masslock) would be a good idea - but I don't know what should go in.
Redspear?
And again, a new category for the Expansions Manager:
Collections (ideally with a space first, so that it is the first thing a new player sees, and a caveat about using someone else's selection based on their ooniverse)
