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Ok, I've started work on The Guild of Intergalactic Spam Assassins OXP. If you would like to help, let me know. I would like it if somebody would help me with mission coding. Also, if you'd like to submit a texture for Spam or Spam Assassin ships, I'll add the best ones to the OXP. Anyone who helps will get credit in the OXP. The OXP, and any textures, will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-Noncommercial License.

Also, please post your ideas for spam messages, such as, "Visit spam.com for great deals on the soon-to-be-illegal Energy Bomb!" These messages will appear on spam YAH-type adverts in-game as well as being transmitted across the Ooniverse by spammers.

Original post:
I have an idea for a cool OXP I would like to try. The Guild of Intergalactic Spam Assassins OXP would add an organization that would hunt down spam in the spacelanes, sort of like the Black Monks. They would have a base in each galaxy, and you could go there for spam-hunting missions. Any ideas are welcome. I am thinking about retexturing ships to add the Guild's Katana & Oolite logo on the Guild's ships.

Just got an idea. As mentioned in another thread, I could use names of spammers in the OXP, but what if repeat offenders get a better ship, and are harder to defeat?

What would "spam" be in this context?

Commander McLane wrote:

What would "spam" be in this context?

'Deleting' YAH billboards

Commander McLane wrote:

What would "spam" be in this context?

This kind perhaps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

Commander McLane wrote:

What would "spam" be in this context?

I was thinking about two types of spam. Number one would be YAH-like adverts that would say spammy things, and the second would be brightly painted ships that would run around spamming people with messages like, "Learn what your spaceship insurer doesn't want you to know. Save millions!" or, "Visit spam.com for great deals on Q-Bombs!" I was also thinking about Spam Assassin stations where you can get missions to kill spammers using the names of old spammers.

Commander McLane wrote:

What would "spam" be in this context?

Why, of course:
http://www.box.net/shared/hnr5m8q71y

This would be my idea of a Spam Cobra:



Kinda gets your attention, huh? At least spam-killing will be easy in the Ooniverse.

Work has started on the OXP! I'm working on texturing now. If you'd like to submit a texture for ether a spam ship or a Spam Assassin ship, just let me know.

RyanHoots wrote:

Work has started on the OXP! I'm working on texturing now. If you'd like to submit a texture for ether a spam ship or a Spam Assassin ship, just let me know.

Hey Ryan... ...your personal base is bright red, isn't it? How gaudy does a ship or station have to be to become a legitimate target?

Wildeblood wrote:

RyanHoots wrote:

Work has started on the OXP! I'm working on texturing now. If you'd like to submit a texture for ether a spam ship or a Spam Assassin ship, just let me know.

Hey Ryan... ...your personal base is bright red, isn't it? How gaudy does a ship or station have to be to become a legitimate target?

My villa is red, but I took care to edit the saturation level so it's not to be confused with spam. Killing spam is rewarding, but attacking me or my base is... not advised. Also my station doesn't have "SPAM" painted on the side.

RyanHoots wrote:

Also my station doesn't have "SPAM" painted on the side.

...and so started the 'sport' of Station-tagging.

Smivs wrote:

RyanHoots wrote:

Also my station doesn't have "SPAM" painted on the side.

...and so started the 'sport' of Station-tagging.

"But officer, it had 'SPAM' painted on it. What's wrong with killing SPAM ruthlessly?"

RyanHoots wrote:

This would be my idea of a Spam Cobra:



Kinda gets your attention, huh? At least spam-killing will be easy in the Ooniverse.

Another cobramk3, me like.

"I like spam!!!" Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

If a cobra mk3 has a giant hotdog or ice cream cone on top of it is that considered spam as well?

Saw something like that in a thread I read from (years?)ago.

Check these out:

Ice cream cone cobra 3
http://www.box.net/shared/097dywq4o4

Hotdog cobra 3 picture and page 2 has an old yah with advertising cobras
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f= ... t&start=45

Destroying billboards yeilds minerals
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f= ... ert#p46199


Hope that helps you out!

CommonSenseOTB wrote:

Another cobramk3, me like.

"I like spam!!!" Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

If a cobra mk3 has a giant hotdog or ice cream cone on top of it is that considered spam as well?

Saw something like that in a thread I read from (years?)ago.

Check these out:

Ice cream cone cobra 3
http://www.box.net/shared/097dywq4o4

Hotdog cobra 3 picture and page 2 has an old yah with advertising cobras
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f= ... t&start=45

Destroying billboards yeilds minerals
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f= ... ert#p46199


Hope that helps you out!

Thanks, looks good! I'm also going to make standard ships without model or texture changes that also are spam. In a few days I'll be ready to start work on the Spam Assassins part!