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CaptSolo has made some really nice textures for some of the stations that Griff and pagroove produced.

Due to the kind permission of all these creative people, we have 3 new station variants available from the download manger.



There's a coriolis (pictured above), a dodec and an ico station.
The coriolis above should only be found in the poorer systems (representing a sort of prototype model or the later coriolis stations).

I should do an update soon because it still has the role probabilities used for testing... but that's not a bad state of afairs in the short term for anyone wanting to try it out.

Thanks to CaptSolo, pagroove and Griff. R.O.Cs.

Wow, looks awesome!

Hi!
I have a doubt about these stations. They are limited to poor economies then if dodecahedron station is supposed to be seen in high-tech systems, where can i find one of them?
As far as i now, poor economies have tech level <=10, i can't remember seeing poor economies with 11,12,13,14 or 15 tech level.
Thanks!!!

There are poor industrial systems out there. Raatbi (which is a revolting little planet), for example, has a TL of 12.

Yes! it's true but that planet seems to have a icosahedron station!
I'll take a look, thanks!

Aye, Raatbi does have an Ico.

maik wrote:

Wow, looks awesome!

All credit to the other guys

javirodriguez wrote:

Hi!
I have a doubt about these stations. They are limited to poor economies then if dodecahedron station is supposed to be seen in high-tech systems, where can i find one of them?
As far as i now, poor economies have tech level <=10, i can't remember seeing poor economies with 11,12,13,14 or 15 tech level.
Thanks!!!

Hi.
Currently only the coriolis is restricted to poor economies (for the very reason that you mention).

I may well do something similar with dodecahedron and icosahedron stations in the future but I might need to look into just how rare that would make them.
I don't mind them being rare but at least one or two per galaxy would be nice...

I think both dodec and ico stations currently have half the probability of appearing as the default ones, while coriolis stations are currently enormously likely to appear in poor systems that would normaly have a coriolis.

I'm currently in galaxy 6, if it helps any, there are only three planets that meet the requirements:
CETITE.............. DODECA
ENTERE...............DODECA
LEORQU...............ICO

javirodriguez wrote:

I'm currently in galaxy 6, if it helps any, there are only three planets that meet the requirements:
CETITE.............. DODECA
ENTERE...............DODECA
LEORQU...............ICO

It does help a bit, thanks

That's a bit rarer than I'd like.
Maybe I can just prevent dodos and icos from appearing in rich systems and give them a chance of appearing in any other.

I shall ponder...

Just tested this out at Edanso (Galaxy 2) and I have to say it's really amazing, thanks a lot for this OXP! I really enjoy having more variety among these stations, and it's so immersive to arrive at a poor system which has this new prototype model of the Coriolis. Really awesome job!

gsagostinho wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2017 1:07 pm

Just tested this out at Edanso (Galaxy 2) and I have to say it's really amazing, thanks a lot for this OXP! I really enjoy having more variety among these stations, and it's so immersive to arrive at a poor system which has this new prototype model of the Coriolis. Really awesome job!

Very late of me but you're very welcome
The idea is mine but the real work is a credit to the other contributers.

Meanwhile...

• v1.1
  • dodo and ico stations now found exclusively in 'alien' systems

Rationale is that non-human systems generally prefer to have as little interference from GalCop as possible.
Higher tech systems are (depending on how you look at it) either less or more likely to be under GalCop influence.

When (if? ) station variation is released this will illustrate the latter, with more conventional stations (by comparison) in the high tech systems.
Without the station variation oxp however, it wil be the high tech stations that display more independence on the part of the system inhabitants.

It's a minor change but (as did the previous version) it adds more distinct stations to themed (rather than random) systems.

Does this still work?

oxz -> library error
oxpd -> no models show up in gallery

1.90 l

cbr wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 9:00 pm

Does this still work?

oxz -> library error
oxpd -> no models show up in gallery

1.90 l

They're showing for me

Tried again, downloaded oxz

Errors... Inside plists this... Only the alt-station dock shows up...

cbr wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 10:15 pm

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description.plist
[strings.expand.warning.unknownExpansion]: ----- WARNING: Unknown expansion key [oolite-ship-library-category-plural-alt_station] in string.



shiplibrary.plist
[shipdata.load.warning]: Unexpected class 'alt_station' in shiplibrary.plist for 'alt-coriolis_station'

Only the alt-station dock shows up...

I'll try putting them in the 'stations' category (I don't suppose they need to have their own one) and instead making their descriptions more unique.

I might need someone like yourself to let me know if that solves the problem please.