[EDITED, heavily, in 2025 - partly so as to replace the README excerpt below with material from the current README. -- UK_Eliter]
It's finally here (for it has had some teething troubles!).
Here is some of the 'README' file that is buried within the expansion pack.
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REQUIREMENTS
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• This expansion pack requires Oolite version *1.82* or above.
• One installs the pack via the in-game expansion pack manager.
• Various expansion packs are recommended (but not necessary) to complement this one - see the next section of this document.
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GENERAL NOTES
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• This expansion pack makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, modifies what happens when one misjumps. One can encounter only the navy, or only thargoids, or empty witchspace or . . various other things. The expansion pack also gives you a chance of having your escape pod rescued in interstellar space by any nearby behemoths or leviathans (presuming you have such ships installed). That chance increased if you have the 'electronic thumb' equipment.
• The load that Interstellar Tweaks will place on your computer will be, for the most part, light to moderate (and, mostly, via CPU much more than RAM and graphics card). But if you have many of the expansion packs recommended below installed, then that will increase the load.
• The difficulty of this expansion pack varies automatically, in various ways, with the player score.
• This expansion pack makes various uses of numerous other expansion packs, when they are installed. Most of those expansion packs are listed below. The ones marked '*' are especially recommended for use with Interstellar Tweaks.
- Armoury;
- *Behemoth;*
- Breakable WitchDrive (preferably version 1.3 or above);
- *Electronic Thumb;*
- Enhanced MisJump (which changes the 'tunnel' effect when one misjumps);*
- *Escape Pod Locator;*
- *Extra Thargoids (use version >= 3.0 );*
- *Fer-de-Lance 3G (use version >= 5.01 [NB the version!] );*
- *Fuel Collector* [patching no longer necessary with this version of Interstellar Tweaks]
- *Galactic Navy;*
- *Generation Ships* (note: the present expansion pack will - for one thing - make generation ships rarer);
- Griff's shipset expansion packs (for, especially, nice looking thargoids!);
- Interstellar Help;
- *Military Fiasco;*
- Misjump Analyzer;
- Missionaries;
- *mPakRedux (a.k.a. 'Rusties');*
- Spectre [patch no longer necessary];
- Star Destroyer (use version >= 1.5);
- Tionisla Orbital Graveyeard (>= 2.4; needs its 'Shipwrecks' supplement)
- TCAT (= 'To Catch a Thargoid');
- Thargoid Carrier (this will considerably increase the thargoid threat - though it can be offset somewhat via my Fer-de-Lance 3G expansion pack);
- *Thargorn_Threat (preferably version 1.5.2 or above);*
- Wormhole Restoration.
(And Interstellar Tweaks is _compatible_ with: THARGOID WITCHSPACE DRIVE; WORMWHOLE DRONE; GALACTIC MISJUMP.)
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LICENSE
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This expansion pack is released under the Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike 3.0 license. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
You are free:
• to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work;
• to make derivative works.
But only under the following conditions.
• Attribution: you must give the original author credit.
• Non-commercial use: you may not use this work for commercial purposes.
• Share Alike: if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license materially identical to this one.
Your fair use right and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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I thank the following (from some of whom I have adapted code):
Another Commander; Arexack Heretic; Capt. Murphy; Cholmondely; cim; Commander McLane; Draco_Caeles; Duggan; Dr Nil and other contributors to the 'Your Ad Here' expansion pack; Eric Walch; Gimi; Norby; phkb; Rustem; SirAdrian; Thargoid; Solonar; Switeck. Other OOliters have contributed in smaller ways and I am grateful to them too.
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NOTE FOR EXPANSION PACK MAKERS
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This expansion pack takes over Oolite's populator and re-populator functions for interstellar space. Sometimes, though, it will run Oolite's inbuilt populator together with populators from other expansion packs.
Also, and partly because of the old way in which Oolite used to do population, my expansion pack populates and depopulates interstellar space in other, more hack-ish ways.
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Perhaps I should add the following. Unless you force 'misjumps' - by climbing as sharply as you can just before the witchspace countdown ends - then, in most circumstances, this OXP will not much change your game.
[Here is a postscript from the original version - or at least a much older version - of this message: Things might go wrong with this OXP. For (1) it is rather overambitious and (2) just how its internal timings work might depend on the computer setup you run it on. Still, I've been testing it and fiddling with it for weeks, and (i) it seems to work at the moment, and (ii) I feel I've got to get it out into the world.]
