Oolite Bulletins

• This OXP 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 OXP 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 OXP also provides some risky ways - which you will have to discover - of clearing your legal status.

• The load that this OXP will place on your computer will be, for the most part, light to moderate (and via CPU much more than RAM and graphics card). But if you have many of the OXPs recommended below installed, then that will increase the load.

• The difficulty of the OXP varies automatically, in various ways, with the player score. But what will continue to *mainly* determine the difficulty of witchspace encounters will be the combination of thargoid and navy OXPs you have installed. HOWEVER: deliberate forrays into interstellar space are extremely risky for the ill-prepared. So if you have a combat rating of less than deadly - or, perhaps more to the point, if do not have, at the minimum, a highly iron-arsed Cobra Mk III - then I advice caution!

• This OXP makes various uses of various other OXPs, when they are installed. Most of those OXPs are listed below. The ones marked '*' are especially recommended for use with Interstellar Tweaks.

- Armoury;
- Behemoth;*
- Breakable WitchDrive;
- Electronic Thumb;*
- Enhanced MisJump (which changes the 'tunnel' effect when one misjumps);*
- Escape Pod Locator;*
- Extra Thargoids (use version >= 2.01);*
- Fer-de-Lance 3G (use version >= 4.01);*
- Fuel Collector (but you will need to PATCH this - see below);
- Galactic Navy;*
- Generation Ships (note: the present OXP will - for one thing - make generation ships rarer);
- Griff's shipset OXPs (for, especially, nice looking thargoids!);
- Interstellar Help;
- Military Fiasco;*
- Misjump Analyzer;
- Missionaries;
- mPakRedux (a.k.a. 'Rusties');*
- Spectre (but via a PATCH - see below);
- TCAT (= 'To Catch a Thargoid');
- Thargoid Carrier (this will considerably increase the thargoid threat - though it can be offset somewhat via the Fer-de-Lance 3G OXP);
- Thargorn_Threat (preferably version 1.5.2 or above);*
- Wormwhole Restoration.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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This OXP was somewhat inspired by the 'Enhanced MisJump' OXP by 'cim'.

This OXP makes use of some code from Thargoid's 'TCAT' OXP (but does not require that OXP - and, indeed, sometimes overrides it). The same goes for some code in the Thargorn Threat OXP by Arexack Heretic and Eric Walch.

I have adapted materials from an OXP that was produced by Draco_Caeles and Another Commander.

My thanks to all those people just mentioned. Thanks also to Capt. Murphy, Commander McLane, Gimi, Solonar, Switeck, and to the authors of all the OXPs that mine makes use of.

UK_Eliter wrote:

• This OXP makes various uses of various other OXPs, when they are installed. Most of those OXPs are listed below. The ones marked '*' are especially recommended for use with Interstellar Tweaks.

- Armoury;
- Behemoth;*
- Breakable WitchDrive;
- Electronic Thumb;*
- Enhanced MisJump (which changes the 'tunnel' effect when one misjumps);*
- Escape Pod Locator;*
- Extra Thargoids (use version >= 2.01);*
- Fer-de-Lance 3G (use version >= 4.01);*
- Fuel Collector (but you will need to PATCH this - see below);
- Galactic Navy;*
- Generation Ships (note: the present OXP will - for one thing - make generation ships rarer);
- Griff's shipset OXPs (for, especially, nice looking thargoids!);
- Interstellar Help;
- Military Fiasco;*
- Misjump Analyzer;
- Missionaries;
- mPakRedux (a.k.a. 'Rusties');*
- Spectre (but via a PATCH - see below);
- TCAT (= 'To Catch a Thargoid');
- Thargoid Carrier (this will considerably increase the thargoid threat - though it can be offset somewhat via the Fer-de-Lance 3G OXP);
- Thargorn_Threat (preferably version 1.5.2 or above);*
- Wormwhole Restoration.

Solonar wrote:

I am no longer spontaneously exploding in the midst of the wormhole chain.

Solonar wrote:

I installed InterstellarTweaks 1.1-test. I made several normal jumps and several 'illegal' Thargoid jumps. I no longer have an issue with losing the missile spoof. This seems to work correctly and with no problems for me. It also seems to work with the Thargoid drive now in that I am no longer spontaneously exploding in the midst of the wormhole chain. Everything seems to be in order now. I will run this OXP a few days and let you know if anything changes.