Something Lurking in the Dark - Oxp idea

[Amen Brick]

An off shoot of the 'why no ships in deep space?' thread. Could someone please design an(or is there already an) OXP where a new alien threat lurks outside the shipping lanes, picking off the curious for vile experiments/shooting practice/vile reasons unknown?

[LittleBear]

Its fairly do-able. One of the missions in Assassins requires you to take a trip out of the space lanes. . But your target is marked on the Compass so you know where to go. In Oolite (as in Elite) space is infinate (as it effectively would be at sub-light travel in RL). The real difficulty of putting anything outside the space lanes is that extreem unliklihood of the player bumping into it! A random chance of somthing nasty being spawned in the player's location (only when outside the main lane) would be doable though.

[Eric Walch]

Its fairly do-able. ..... A random chance of somthing nasty being spawned in the player's location (only when outside the main lane) would be doable though.

Next line will add a ship with role "nasty_alien" 50 000 meters in front of the flightdirection of the player.

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system.legacy_addShipsAtPrecisely("nasty_alien", 1, "abs", player.position.add(player.heading.multiply(50000)))

It can be added with an timer. It just needs an oxp-er that can incorporate this in an greater story.

EDIT: After testing it didn't work. Heading is always correct for NPC ships, but the w-coordinate is inverted for the player orientation. Next code does work and places ships in front of the player:

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let orientation = player.orientation; orientation.w = -orientation.w
system.legacy_addShipsAtPrecisely("pirate", 3, "abs", player.position.add(orientation.vectorForward().multiply(50000)))

[JensAyton]

EDIT: After testing it didn't work. Heading is always correct for NPC ships, but the w-coordinate is inverted for the player orientation.

I thought this was fixed, but it seems it isn’t. Fixing for 1.72.

[nijineko]

as long as the so-called "nasty_aliens" don't have tentacles and/or the "sense schoolgirl (su): 60ly radius" ability, i can applaud this. ^^ gee, any guesses as to what kind of cultural media i won't watch?

[Commander McLane]

My suggestion in another thread where we discussed this was to use the Orb as aliens.

Of course they could be made nastier...

But they're definitely alien.