Oolite Bulletins

Is it possible to let the traffic per system to be generated by the hub count parameter of a system so that systems with a high hub count also get the highest amount of traffic? That would be a nice feature and it is also natural I think.

BTW I got this idea this weekend by standing on the arc the triumph in Paris.

pagroove wrote:

standing on the arc the triumph in Paris.

The wind nearly blew me off when I did that

Nice idea, by the way.

Stupid question: what is hub count, and how is it a parameter of Oolite systems?

General answer: if it is a property which has different values for different systems, you can of course add more or less additional ships, depending on the value of that property in any given system.

I think it's the number of other systems you can reach from where you are.

Smivs wrote:

I think it's the number of other systems you can reach from where you are.

Ah!

Okay, in JS-terms this would be system.info.systemsInRange().length, ranging from 0 to whatever the most systems in range in Oolite are, preferably in a dense cluster of systems.

So a very straightforward way would be to have your script add one additional trader per system in range. Or you could add two per system, or five, or even 1.3 (the end result would be rounded, of course). Still fairly straightforward would be a quadratic, cubic, or even exponential increase.

Mandatory derailment (well, sortof):
If the game can be made to recognize hub count, it could also affect the likelihood of cargo/passenger contracts.
Logic dictates it's harder to get stuff to & fro a low-hub system, resulting in them being more likely candidates for special runs.

CheeseRedux wrote:

Mandatory derailment (well, sortof):
If the game can be made to recognize hub count, it could also affect the likelihood of cargo/passenger contracts.
Logic dictates it's harder to get stuff to & fro a low-hub system, resulting in them being more likely candidates for special runs.

I like that (and the idea which spawned this idea...)

DaddyHoggy wrote:

CheeseRedux wrote:

Mandatory derailment (well, sortof):
If the game can be made to recognize hub count, it could also affect the likelihood of cargo/passenger contracts.
Logic dictates it's harder to get stuff to & fro a low-hub system, resulting in them being more likely candidates for special runs.

I like that (and the idea which spawned this idea...)

Like I said. I got this idea while standing on top of the Arc the Triumph which is of course in the center of Place de L'Etoile http://maps.google.nl/maps?q=map&oe=utf ... 9&t=h&z=17 You can compare this place to a system with a high hub count (for example ingame Xexedi is such a place). Also what CheeseRedux says makes sense. With such a system in place backwater of the Ooniverse (end of line systems) become more lonely while systems with a high hub count are (over)crowded.

CheeseRedux wrote:

Mandatory derailment (well, sortof):
If the game can be made to recognize hub count, it could also affect the likelihood of cargo/passenger contracts.
Logic dictates it's harder to get stuff to & fro a low-hub system, resulting in them being more likely candidates for special runs.

it could also affect pirate possibility - if it's harder to get to, it should mean the price for scavenged goods is better.

I was a while back looking at changing the weightings on what systems ships jump too when leaving the current system. This was to be able to make systems out of bounds for reasons such as war or disease quarantine. Currently the weightings are even.

High TL worlds with stable governments should draw considerable trader traffic even if not a hub...though if they have 0 connected systems they should have very low trader traffic -- assumed to come in either by Gal. Hyper. or misjump tricks.