Maintenance - Revision history

Cholmondely: Added picture

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Cholmondely: /* Doing It */ Updated link

2024-06-14T07:57:59Z

‎Doing It: Updated link

Hiran: /* Knowing about it */

2024-06-13T22:08:17Z

‎Knowing about it

Cholmondely: Added cim's discussion of redundancy

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Phkb: Updating BB links

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Cholmondely: /* Knowing about it */ Added Griff's SpecGloss Sidewinder

2023-12-14T17:21:03Z

‎Knowing about it: Added Griff's SpecGloss Sidewinder

Cholmondely: /* See Also */ Added another

2022-12-22T09:55:10Z

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Cholmondely: /* Maintenance Overhaul */ Updated link

2022-11-08T12:51:43Z

‎Maintenance Overhaul: Updated link

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 [[File:Hull bar (Maintenance).png|thumb|600px|right|The yellow "Hull" bar (bottom left-ish) shows need for maintenance. <br> This is the version on the Large & Extra-large HUDs which come with the [[HUDSelector]] OXP. The [[Vimana HUD]] has a different icon which shows when maintenance is needed.]]
 == Maintenance Overhaul ==
 Covers dry docking fees, cleaning and replating of damaged hull sections, shield and scoop system de-ionization, systems tune-up, repainting and detailed valeting.

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 == OXPs ==
 === Doing It ===
-*PHKB's [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20189&start=15 Maintenance Tune-Up] keeps maintenance perpetually listed on the F3 screen in case of need. When the F3 listing turns ''orange'' the maintenance starts to become '''urgent'''.
+*PHKB's [[Maintenance Tune Up]] keeps maintenance perpetually listed on the F3 screen in case of need. When the F3 screen's listing turns ''orange'' the maintenance starts to become '''urgent'''!
 *[[ShipVersion]] by Norby introduces Service Levels, Small Fixes & handy repair bots which can help a little.
 [[File:Trade-Factor-Animation.gif|right|thumb|Griff's "SpecGloss Sidewinder" showing degradation due to lack of maintenance]]
 === Knowing about it ===
 *Norby's [[HUDSelector]] includes a '''Large HUD''' & an '''Extra-Large HUD''', each with a 'Hull bar' giving an indication of the need for maintenance.

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 === Knowing about it ===
 *Norby's [[HUDSelector]] includes a '''Large HUD''' & an '''Extra-Large HUD''', each with a 'Hull bar' giving an indication of the need for maintenance.
-*[[Vimana HUD]] throws up a Maintenance Warning when the time is ripe.
+*[[Vimana HUD]] flashes lamp 14 as a Maintenance Warning when the time is ripe.
 *[[Useful MFDs]] adds a free MFD with the relevant information (if you have a compatible [[HUD]]).
 * [[Failing HUD]] - (2015) by [[User:Spara|Spara]]. As maintenance becomes more urgent, your HUD starts flickering!

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 Sure, your [[Energy_banks|shield]]s take care of these things, that's why you paid so much for them, but nonetheless, these punishments add up, and one day, in mid-flight, things might go bad without prior warning. Witchjumping into [[Thargoids|Thargoid]] territory, [[Fuel Leaks]], your [[IFF_system|scanner]] going haywire... Space is an unforgiving place, and face it, life is already perilous enough without having to worry about failing equipment. So take good care of your ship. It's the only thing separating you from the deep vacuum.
 Also, when you go shopping for a [[Second-hand ships|new ship]], it might be a good idea to fork out for a maintenance-session before swapping in your old one. Recently-serviced ships have a significantly better trade-in value than ships in poor shape.
 Note that the TL of the system has an impact on servicing: the higher the TL, the longer-lasting the maintenance on your vessel. If you don't get into major fights, and always get your repairs done at the ''best'' shipyards, you're probably looking at about 50 jumps between refits ([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=172820#p172820 Cim]).
 [[Image:Bgs hyper effect.jpg|800px|thumb|right|Jumping through Hyperspace/WitchSpace: [[BGS]] v.1.10.9.]]
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 [[File:Maintenance YAH B 5.png|thumb|right|320px|[[YAH]] ad]]
 == Breakability ==
-*Note that Maintenance is '''not''' related to Breakability ([[Breakable 'Standard' Equipment OXPs]], [[Breakable Life Support System]]), and is thus unaffected by [[Repair Bots]].
+*Note that Maintenance is '''not''' related to Breakability ([[Breakable 'Standard' Equipment OXPs]], [[Breakable Life Support System]]), and is thus unaffected by [[Repair Bots]]. But see Cim's note on Price Increases above - there ''is'' an argument to the contrary! But then those OXPs predate cim's rework of the vanilla game code in 2014.
 == See Also ==
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 *[[Oolite_Equipment|Oolite Equipment]]
 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17042 (Release) Ship Condition] (2014+) Good discussion. And another .oxp to boot!
 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13918 maintenance: to pay or not to pay?] (2013)
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 *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atVVe-QYCv4 A more sophisticated approach] (2022 - YouTube ad: An overview of ship maintenance operations in ASG (parts wear, repairs, replacement, and related best policies).
 [[File:Maintenance YAH C 11.png|thumb|right|320px|[[YAH]] ad]]

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 === Not quite maintenance ===
 *[[Repair Bots]]
-*[http://bb.aegidian.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13592 External Repair System for subentities]. GGShinobi (2013) Alpha release. (for rotating nacelles, landing gear, ''etc''!)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13592 External Repair System for subentities]. GGShinobi (2013) Alpha release. (for rotating nacelles, landing gear, ''etc''!)
 [[Category:Oolite]]
 [[Category:Oolite Equipment]]

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 Also, when you go shopping for a [[Second-hand ships|new ship]], it might be a good idea to fork out for a maintenance-session before swapping in your old one. Recently-serviced ships have a significantly better trade-in value than ships in poor shape.
-Note that the TL of the system has an impact on servicing: the higher the TL, the longer-lasting the maintenance on your vessel. If you don't get into major fights, and always get your repairs done at the ''best'' shipyards, you're probably looking at about 50 jumps between refits ([http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=172820#p172820 Cim]).
+Note that the TL of the system has an impact on servicing: the higher the TL, the longer-lasting the maintenance on your vessel. If you don't get into major fights, and always get your repairs done at the ''best'' shipyards, you're probably looking at about 50 jumps between refits ([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=172820#p172820 Cim]).
 [[Image:Bgs hyper effect.jpg|800px|thumb|right|Jumping through Hyperspace/WitchSpace: [[BGS]] v.1.10.9.]]
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 The term witchspace refers specifically to the strange, magical and somewhat unlikely visual artefacts encountered while travelling the virtual length of the intertube. This virtual length is at once constant and proportional to the square of the realspace length, which makes perfect sense in five-dimensional bogometrics.
-A witchspace malfunction occurs when the metric of the intertube is not perfectly balanced, which can happen due to hardware failure (slightly bent wire, build-ups of dust, or uneven load due to centrifugal force) in the witchspace drive’s field generator coils. This causes an “unravelling” of the field which dumps the traveller somewhere along the realspace path of the intertube; it is more likely to do so in the presence of large quantities of radioactive isotopes, incidentally of the very type used by the thargoids in their unrelated and badly-understood interstellar drives. Unfortunately, the only way to detect an unravelling condition is to enter the blue hole and see whether you end up where you expected to. This explains the importance of regular Maintenance [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=35219#p35219 Jens Ayton (2007)].
+A witchspace malfunction occurs when the metric of the intertube is not perfectly balanced, which can happen due to hardware failure (slightly bent wire, build-ups of dust, or uneven load due to centrifugal force) in the witchspace drive’s field generator coils. This causes an “unravelling” of the field which dumps the traveller somewhere along the realspace path of the intertube; it is more likely to do so in the presence of large quantities of radioactive isotopes, incidentally of the very type used by the thargoids in their unrelated and badly-understood interstellar drives. Unfortunately, the only way to detect an unravelling condition is to enter the blue hole and see whether you end up where you expected to. This explains the importance of regular Maintenance [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=35219#p35219 Jens Ayton (2007)].
 == OXPs ==
 === Doing It ===
-*PHKB's [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20189&start=15 Maintenance Tune-Up] keeps maintenance perpetually listed on the F3 screen in case of need. When the F3 listing turns ''orange'' the maintenance starts to become '''urgent'''.
+*PHKB's [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=20189&start=15 Maintenance Tune-Up] keeps maintenance perpetually listed on the F3 screen in case of need. When the F3 listing turns ''orange'' the maintenance starts to become '''urgent'''.
 *[[ShipVersion]] by Norby introduces Service Levels, Small Fixes & handy repair bots which can help a little.
 [[File:Trade-Factor-Animation.gif|right|thumb|Griff's "SpecGloss Sidewinder" showing degradation due to lack of maintenance]]
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 * [[Failing HUD]] - (2015) by [[User:Spara|Spara]]. As maintenance becomes more urgent, your HUD starts flickering!
 * Ship Condition oxp (2014) by Spara - see below. Shows maintenance level on F5 Ship Manifest screen.
-* Griff's SpecGloss Sidewinder (2023) - see [http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21170 here] for download
+* Griff's SpecGloss Sidewinder (2023) - see [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21170 here] for download
 ''Spara's Failing HUD & Vimana HUD are the most realistic of these. Do you really have a gauge in a plane or on your car giving you a 92% maintenance value? Although, maybe in the future...''
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 *[[Oolite_Equipment|Oolite Equipment]]
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17042 (Release) Ship Condition] (2014+) Good discussion. And another .oxp to boot!
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17042 (Release) Ship Condition] (2014+) Good discussion. And another .oxp to boot!
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13918 maintenance: to pay or not to pay?] (2013)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13918 maintenance: to pay or not to pay?] (2013)
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12006 Maintenance Overhaul] (2012) - some super ideas, such as messages that bits are falling off your ship - or gauges off your HUD!
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12006 Maintenance Overhaul] (2012) - some super ideas, such as messages that bits are falling off your ship - or gauges off your HUD!
-*[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=101360#p101360 A_c's synopsis of this] (2010)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=101360#p101360 A_c's synopsis of this] (2010)
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2235 Should running costs be much more expensive and frequent?] (2006)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2235 Should running costs be much more expensive and frequent?] (2006)
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=272050#p272050 Maintenance costs & PlanetFall OXP] (2020)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=272050#p272050 Maintenance costs & PlanetFall OXP] (2020)
 *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atVVe-QYCv4 A more sophisticated approach] (2022 - YouTube ad: An overview of ship maintenance operations in ASG (parts wear, repairs, replacement, and related best policies).

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 When the shipyard-folk start systematically approaching you with an offer to do a big overhaul, do ''not'' readily shrug off their offers thinking it's a scam. These people usually know what they're talking about, and when they suggest an overhaul, it's usually a sign they spotted something's about to break. Maybe your last scrape-ins during those [[Docking|manual docking]]s are beginning to show? Got into any hairballs recently?
-Sure, your [[Energy_banks|shield]]s take care of these things, that's why you paid so much for them, but nonetheless, these punishments add up, and one day, in mid-flight, things might go bad without prior warning. Witchjumping into [[Thargoids|Thargoid]] territory, [[Pilot's_Reference_Manual#Hyperdrive|fuel-leak]]s, your [[IFF_system|scanner]] going haywire... Space is an unforgiving place, and face it, life is already perilous enough without having to worry about failing equipment. So take good care of your ship. It's the only thing separating you from the deep vacuum.
+Sure, your [[Energy_banks|shield]]s take care of these things, that's why you paid so much for them, but nonetheless, these punishments add up, and one day, in mid-flight, things might go bad without prior warning. Witchjumping into [[Thargoids|Thargoid]] territory, [[Fuel Leaks]], your [[IFF_system|scanner]] going haywire... Space is an unforgiving place, and face it, life is already perilous enough without having to worry about failing equipment. So take good care of your ship. It's the only thing separating you from the deep vacuum.
 Also, when you go shopping for a [[Second-hand ships|new ship]], it might be a good idea to fork out for a maintenance-session before swapping in your old one. Recently-serviced ships have a significantly better trade-in value than ships in poor shape.