Oolite Bulletins

What's the greatest number of cargo canisters you've ever scooped from someone who, *cough* just happened to explode in front of you?

An Anaconda released at least 41 of them (my cargo load went from 9t to 50t but I'm sure a few were gems/gold/platinum) for me earlier today...

Its set by variables for each ship (either OXP or native), but there is a random chance. In code its set (I think) by the likley_cargo variable, but the dice are also rolled, so the cannisters spawned each time are random but within a range depending on the ship. Basically you'll tend to get more cargo canisters from destoying a ship with a big cargo capasity than a ship with a small one. Although the Annaconda might have a max capacity of 750 tones, thats more than will be offered for sale at any station and manny of the canisters aboard won't survive the *ahmeh* violent method you chose to extract them!

my record is 12 atm becuase I'm poor and only have a Cobra MKII-X!

I do like scoping up escape pods though and getting the bounty on their stupid inhabitants!

LB wrote:

In code its set (I think) by the likley_cargo variable, but the dice are also rolled, so the cannisters spawned each time are random but within a range depending on the ship.

It is random, but system generated ships will never have more than 15 pods on them. Likely_cargo is only used with pirate ships and 10% of max_cargo is used for other ships. But if the resulting value is higher than 15, a random value between 0 and 15 is chosen.

All this above is neglected however if a ship scoops up the first pod. In this case is only bears the actual number of scooped pods.

As an anaconda is a trader that does not scoop and therefor can not have more than 15 barrels. Your anaconda must have been added by a script. I know that e.g. the ups-courier.oxp adds an anaconda with 25 scripted containers inside him. But I think the normal max of 15 is added to this value to give your 40. This anaconda has a 10% chance of appearing relative to normal anacondas. Only during a certain part of a mission there are more around.

odd... I wasn't doing a UPs mission at the time (I was in the middle of deposed). Maybe pirate coves created it? I was having fun killing pirates and docking at the rock hermit for more fuel when i caught the anaconda.

Oo-Hauls are pretty good at dispensing.