GNN - Revision history

Cholmondely: Tweaks!

2025-05-19T08:06:06Z

Tweaks!

Cholmondely: Added note about Library.oxp

2025-05-18T00:52:32Z

Added note about Library.oxp

Phkb: Updating BB links

2024-02-29T01:47:34Z

Updating BB links

Cholmondely: /* Features */ Added note on Tionisla Chronicle Array OXP

2023-09-27T06:58:09Z

‎Features: Added note on Tionisla Chronicle Array OXP

Cholmondely: Explained what GNN means! And added details from the Snoopers page

2023-08-23T11:00:16Z

Explained what GNN means! And added details from the Snoopers page

Cholmondely: /* Documentation */ Added link

2023-08-23T09:50:29Z

‎Documentation: Added link

Cholmondely: Added note on BGS-X Mapping, and list of OXPs using GNN

2023-03-08T10:43:04Z

Added note on BGS-X Mapping, and list of OXPs using GNN

Cholmondely: Added picture!

2023-02-24T14:47:02Z

Added picture!

Cholmondely: /* Links */ Added another

2022-11-27T23:00:13Z

‎Links: Added another

Cholmondely: Added Lib icon

2022-10-28T12:37:47Z

Added Lib icon

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-[[File:GNN Newsflash.png|thumb|right|The viewscreen (top right) icon informing you that a GNN Newsflash awaits on docking. It appears when you enter the [[aegis]] ]]
+[[File:GNN Newsflash.png|thumb|right|300px|The viewscreen (top right) icon informing you that a GNN Newsflash awaits on docking. <br>It appears when you enter the [[aegis]] ]]
 [[Image:IconGNN.png|100px|right]]
 GNN (The Galactic News Network) - in-game newsflashes
 == Story ==
-[[Image:Snoopers_Cover.jpg|Cover or undercover. We take it.|180px|thumb|right]]
+[[Image:Snoopers_Cover.jpg|Cover or undercover. We take it.|300px|thumb|right]]
 ''3130 MGMT - GalCop begins a programme of retrofitting out-of-date communications equipment on older vessels. At the same time, satellite and comms buoys are upgraded.''<br>
 * source: [http://daftworks.co.uk/elite/index.php/Galactic_Timeline Encyclopedia Galactica]
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 == Features ==
-GNN is the successor to [[Snoopers]].
+In-game News flashes on docking. See the [[F4 page (ship and system interfaces)|Docked F4 Screen]] under "News" (only appears if there actually ''is'' any news!).
 * Four established news agencies. GNN, Rooters, Snoopers and the good old Tionisla Chronicle
 * Hot news for the [[Oolite_Missions|Constrictor Hunt]], [[Oolite_Missions|Nova]] and [[Asteroid_Storm|Asteroid Storm]] missions.
 * Usable by other oxps.
 * Configurable through [[Library OXP]].
-[[File:BGS XMapping.jpg|thumb|right|300px|BGS-X Mapping (note the rather dim buttons on the right for toggling regions and spacelanes)]]
+[[File:BGS XMapping.jpg|thumb|right|300px|BGS-X Mapping (deprecated: note the rather dim buttons on the right for toggling regions and spacelanes)]]
 === OXPs using GNN ===
 *[[Asteroid Storm]]
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 === Declarations of Regional/SpaceLane Naming ===
-These were originally introduced in conjunction with BGS-X Mapping, where these features would ''appear'' on the F6 chart only after their announcement by Snoopers/GNN. The changes to the F6 chart introduced by Oolite v.1.82 comprehensively clobbered BGS-X.
+These were originally introduced in conjunction with BGS-X Mapping, where these regions/space lane features would ''appear'' on the F6 chart only after their announcement by Snoopers/GNN. The changes to the F6 chart introduced by Oolite v.1.82 comprehensively clobbered BGS-X Mapping, and it has since been removed from BGS.
 See [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18170 What are these "Map-Update" news alerts?] (2016)
-[[File:Tca.png|right|200px]]
+[[File:Tca.png|right|thumb|300px|The Tionisla Chronicle Array (TCA)]]
 === Tionisla Chronicle Array OXP ===
 An associated OXP.
-The [[Tionisla Chronicle Array]] OXP adds in a news broadcasting station to each of the 8 galaxies. This station is felt by many to be one of the most beautiful in Oolite.
+The [[Tionisla Chronicle Array]] OXP (TCA) adds in a news broadcasting station to each of the 8 galaxies. This station is felt by many to be one of the most beautiful in Oolite.
-That in the first galaxy is called the Tionisla Chronicle Array, and is located at Tionisla itself, on the opposite side of the planet from the main orbital station. There is also an associated mission ([[Tionisla Reporter]] OXP).
+The station in the first galaxy is called the Tionisla Chronicle Array, and is located at Tionisla itself, on the opposite side of the planet from the main orbital station. There is also an associated mission ([[Tionisla Reporter]] OXP) which adds to the TCA.
 The news broadcasting stations in the other 7 galaxies are named after other news services, 4 of which do not (yet) feature in GNN's broadcasts in those galaxies: The Views of the Worlds Array (Galaxy 2), The Daily Wail Array (Galaxy 4), The G5TVN Array (Galaxy 5) and The StarSports Array (Galaxy 7).
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 === The Tionisla Chronicle ===
-[[Image:Snoopers_TC.png|right|The Tionisla Chronicle - THE network]]
+[[Image:Snoopers_TC.png|thumb|300px|right|The Tionisla Chronicle - THE network]]
 Affectionately known as the 'Chronic', and considered by many to inhabit the trashy end of the news market, nevertheless the Tionisla Chronicle is one of the most widely read news feeds broadcasting around the galaxy with advertising revenues in excess of five million credits per year. Its blend of populist articles, local news, hyperbole and scant regard for complete factual accuracy, aimed squarely at the impecunious yet entrepreneurial small-time trader, endears it to many.
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 * [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19419 Forum ]
 == Requirements ==
 * Latest version needs Oolite v1.88.

← Older revision		Revision as of 00:52, 18 May 2025
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	The Chronicle operates from its base at Tionisla, transmitting from the [[Tionisla_Chronicle_Array\|Chronicle Array]], on wideband channel 385.2.		The Chronicle operates from its base at Tionisla, transmitting from the [[Tionisla_Chronicle_Array\|Chronicle Array]], on wideband channel 385.2.
		+	----
		+	== Recording Old News Flashes ==
		+	[[Library OXP]]'s P.A.D. (accessed through the docked F4 screen) records the most recent News Flash.

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 These were originally introduced in conjunction with BGS-X Mapping, where these features would ''appear'' on the F6 chart only after their announcement by Snoopers/GNN. The changes to the F6 chart introduced by Oolite v.1.82 comprehensively clobbered BGS-X.
-See [https://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18170 What are these "Map-Update" news alerts?] (2016)
+See [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18170 What are these "Map-Update" news alerts?] (2016)
 [[File:Tca.png|right|200px]]
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 * [[GNN_Doc|API Documentation]] for OXP developers
 * Presuming that the ''GNN phrase generator'' was added in from CCL, [[Cabal Common Library Doc PhraseGen]] may well be relevant
-* [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19419 Forum ]
+* [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19419 Forum ]
 == Requirements ==
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 == Links ==
 *[[Communication]]
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2741 A news OXP] (2006) - fons et origo of all this?
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2741 A news OXP] (2006) - fons et origo of all this?
 ==Quick Facts==
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 |category = Ambience OXPs
 |author = DaddyHoggy, Disembodied, Drew & Svengali
-|feedback = [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19419 BB]
+|feedback = [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19419 BB]
 }}

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 * Configurable through [[Library OXP]].
 === OXPs using GNN ===
 *[[Asteroid Storm]]
 *[[BlOomberg Markets]]
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 See [https://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18170 What are these "Map-Update" news alerts?] (2016)
 ----
 == Channels ==
 [[Image:Snoopers_Snoopers.png|right|Snoopers.gal - Independent]]

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-[[File:GNN Newsflash.png|thumb|right|This icon appear on your viewscreen (top right) to inform that a GNN Newsflash awaits on docking. It appears when you enter the [[aegis]] ]]
+[[File:GNN Newsflash.png|thumb|right|The viewscreen (top right) icon informing you that a GNN Newsflash awaits on docking. It appears when you enter the [[aegis]] ]]
 == Story ==
 [[Image:Snoopers_Cover.jpg|Cover or undercover. We take it.|180px|thumb|right]]
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 And communications companies popped up like mushrooms, offering dubious and sometimes very expensive services, each trying to grab the biggest slice of this new market, swept up by a gold rush fever. Only a handful of news agencies survived the ensuing 'War of Information' - an orgy of mergers, acquisitions, lawsuits and the occasional little bit of terrorism and sabotage - to create today's stable news market that we know and love.
-[[Image:IconGNN.png|100px|right]]
+----
 [[File:IconLib.png|right]]
 == Features ==
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 === OXPs using GNN ===
 *[[Asteroid Storm]]
 *[[BlOomberg Markets]]
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 *[[UPS Courier]]
 === Declarations of Regional/SpaceLane Naming ===
 These were originally introduced in conjunction with BGS-X Mapping, where these features would ''appear'' on the F6 chart only after their announcement by Snoopers/GNN. The changes to the F6 chart introduced by Oolite v.1.82 comprehensively clobbered BGS-X.
 See [https://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18170 What are these "Map-Update" news alerts?] (2016)
 == Documentation ==
 * [[GNN_Doc|API Documentation]] for OXP developers