User:Norby

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First played Elite on Commodore +4 in 1987. This was the best game in my eyes at that time.

Found Oolite in jan 2013 and enjoy not only the game but OXP programming also as a hobby which can give me the feeling of freedom. I hope the result will entertain my sons and you also. :)


My OXPs

You can download these from my box.

Activities

  • FarPlanets - reach very far planets with fast drives.
  • Gallery - review models of encountered ships and find more in exhibitions.
  • Towbar - make money from derelict ships, earn high salvager rankings.

Equipment

  • Detectors - show your energy on the HUD and more target informations.
  • OMGLaser - player can fit an ultimate laser into his Anaconda-class ship.
  • Telescope - extended targeting and scanning features, auto steering, sniper ring and more.
  • SafetyCatch - prevent accidental Q-Bomb and other mine launches when using missiles.

Mechanics

Misc

  • HudRequests - tech demo and requests to make dynamic HUDs and a mini-game to earn highscores.
  • LogEvents - write messages into Latest.log using all event handlers to help debugging OXPs and review battles.

Ship

  • Andromeda - very large ship with decent cargo capacity and rare extensions.
  • Carriers - build up your personal fleet and take with you on your Carrier.
  • HardBase - one of the biggest playable entity with huge cargo capacity and almost no agility.
  • RocketMiner - can dock without rolling if well centered due to the barrel form (requested by my little son).
  • RocketShips - 8 new ship, can fly faster for some cost, get secondary autofire weapons and malfunctions. ;)

Contributed

My Contributed folder filled with OXPs from others with my bugfixes or extensions. For example:


Documents

My Documents folder filled with Elite-related writings:

  • Board Games
  • Fictions
  • Oolite keys and galaxy maps
  • Paper Models of Oolite ships
  • Quaternion calculator
  • Shader tutorial

Recommended OXPs

Starter kit (look&feel):

Asteroid_Storm
BackGroundSet
BountyStatus_OXP
Cabal_Common_Library
Combat_Simulator_OXP
Commanders_Log_OXP
DeepSpacePirates
Display_reputation_OXP
Escort_Formations
Explorers'_Club_OXP
Famous_Planets_OXP
Flight_Log_OXP
Gallery
Griff_Industries
Icesteroids
Lave_Academy_OXP
LogEvents
MarketObserver
Randomshipnames_OXP
Realistic_Stars
Satellites
Snoopers
Tionisla_Orbital_Graveyard
Tionisla_Reporter
Total_patrol_OXP
Trophy_Collector
Welcome_Mat_OXP

Nice OXPs since 2012:

Additional Planets
Aliens
Anarchies_Facelift
APRIL_OXP
Black_Monk_Monastery
Breakable_Life_Support_System
Bullet Drive
BuoyRepair
Camera_Drones
CustomShields
Distant_Suns
EnergyBomb
Escort_Contracts_OXP
Feudal_States
Friend_or_Foe
Galactic_Navy_Additions
GalTech_Escape_Pods
Hired_Guns_OXP
In-System_Market_Restore
In-System_Taxi
Market_Inquirer
New_Cargoes
NumericHUD
Ore_Processor
Planetfall_OXP
Planetary_Compass_OXP
PovrayPlanets_OXP
Quirium_Cascade_Mine_Detector
Random_Hits_OXP
Rescue Stations
ShieldCycler
Skilled_NPCs_OXP
Sonoran
Start_Choices
Stations_for_Extra_Planets
System_Features_Rings
Taxi_Galactica
Trident_Down
UPS_Courier
Vector_OXP
WildShips_OXP
Xeptatl's_Sword
ZygoCinematicSky&Nebulas

Best of my works based on feedbacks:

Gallery
Telescope
Towbar
ShipVersion


I like more than 300 OXPs in total so I made an OXP Collection. There are many small but good OXP what you probably missed if you do not read through the OXP List, I grouped these to match different player levels.


Enjoy!


Norby