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An expansion pack by the foolishly named 'UK_Eliter' for the (comically-named) Oolite


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CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
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- Requirements

- General notes [though that section is a placeholder for the online 'wiki']

- License

- Acknowledgements

- Note for expansion pack makers


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REQUIREMENTS
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 This expansion pack requires Oolite version *1.82* or above.
 One installs the pack via the in-game expansion pack manager.
 Various expansion packs are recommended (but not necessary) to complement this one - see the next section of this document.


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GENERAL NOTES
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See <https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Interstellar_Tweaks>.


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LICENSE
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This expansion pack is released under the Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike 3.0 license. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA. 

You are free:

 to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work;
 to make derivative works. 

But only under the following conditions.

 Attribution: you must give the original author credit. 
 Non-commercial use: you may not use this work for commercial purposes. 
 Share Alike: if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license materially identical to this one. 

Your fair use right and other rights are in no way affected by the above.


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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I thank the following (from some of whom I have adapted code):

	Another Commander;
	Arexack Heretic;
	Capt. Murphy;
	Cholmondely;
	cim;
	Commander McLane;
	Dr Nil and other contributors to the 'Your Ad Here' expansion pack;
	Draco_Caeles;
	Duggan;
	Eric Walch; 
	Gimi; 
	Norby;
	phkb;
	Rustem;
	SirAdrian;
	Solonar;
	Switeck;
	Thargoid.

Other OOliters have contributed in smaller ways. I am grateful for that, too.


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NOTE FOR EXPANSION PACK MAKERS
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This expansion pack takes over Oolite's populator and re-populator functions for interstellar space. Sometimes, though, it will run Oolite's inbuilt populator together with populators from other expansion packs.

Also, and partly because of the old way in which Oolite used to do population, my expansion pack populates and depopulates interstellar space in other, more hack-ish ways. And, as of version 8 of this OXP, it should now be humanely possible to actually understand my code. Or at least most of it. It is true that I wrote a few small-ish pieces of the new code with the help of artificial intelligence. Those parts, though, are among the most readable bits of the code! For, where I sought such help was, principally, in making clarificatory abstractions.


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