Oolite Bulletins

I would like to make my own OXPs. So Im thinking start small. change some numbers in a OXP something like the price on a ship. So I opened cober3njx.oxp/config/shipyard.PLIST with notepad++ changed the line <real>0.4</real> to <real>1</real> this as I understand will make it 100% to come up at the ship yard. Then the price of the ship <integer>274000</integer> to <integer>4000</integer> . This will make the ship 4000 credits and always available at a ship yard of the appropriate tech level. So I saved the file and launched the game only to find that there is no change?? Where am I going wrong?? Do I need to do some sort of encoding??

Hi bagman and welcome.

When you restarted the game, did you hold 'shift' down until the spinning Cobra appears?
If you edit a plist, you need to do this to clear the cache.

Just tried starting game with shift held down but still no change?

Ah… then you’ll have to wait for one of our experts to come along… I’m just a player.

Welcome onboard, bagman.

It would be pretty useful to know about your OS and Oolite version and the location of Oolite (e.g. C:\Oolite). And if you have a logfile (stderr.txt or Latest.log) this could also be a winner .-)

...But strange enough - VirtualStore springs to my mind...

bagman wrote:

... I opened cober3njx.oxp/config/shipyard.PLIST with notepad++ changed the line <real>0.4</real> to <real>1</real> this as I understand will make it 100% to come up at the ship yard. ... So I saved the file and launched the game only to find that there is no change?? Where am I going wrong?? ...

There's another thing that might go wrong, how many ship oxps do you have installed?

Because if you have lots of them, the "<real>1</real>" part does not automatically translate into "100% to come up at the ship yard"!

After which method the game then chooses which ships to offer and which not and how/where it stops offering is something probably only one of the devs can answer.

Hope that helps.

You may have to jump out and back into the high-tech system to see shipyard changes (which are saved in your savegames).