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Cholmondely: /* How NPC's react to you */ Added note on escorting NPCs

2026-03-12T16:55:02Z

‎How NPC's react to you: Added note on escorting NPCs

Cholmondely: Added notes, corrected assertions about side lasers

2025-07-25T06:47:41Z

Added notes, corrected assertions about side lasers

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Cholmondely: Added note on Skilled NPCs OXP

2025-05-11T10:29:55Z

Added note on Skilled NPCs OXP

Cholmondely: Added list of limitations

2024-07-11T08:44:29Z

Added list of limitations

Cholmondely: Added "NewCargoesAPI/Personalities" under Tools

2024-05-29T09:54:21Z

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	In general the idea is that your actions give you a reputation, AIs respond to that reputation, and escaping an established reputation can be done but takes some effort. ([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=285903#p285903 Cim 2022])		In general the idea is that your actions give you a reputation, AIs respond to that reputation, and escaping an established reputation can be done but takes some effort. ([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=285903#p285903 Cim 2022])
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		+	=== Awareness of player's escorting them ===
		+	I'm ready to make the bottleneck jump from Bien to Teceteis (fully expecting a pack of assassins waiting for me on the other end). Well, there happens to be a nice Mark III headed there as well, so I hitch a ride (uninvited): Do NPC's "know" when I'm running along side of them as an escort?
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		+	NPCs know that you are there, but they don't really care. They will just continue on their AI routine and do whatever it is they are doing with or without you. You can influence their behaviour if you play it right though. If you are attacked, for example, they will just carry on travelling to the station, but if you move close enough to them, then they may get hit by a laser that was aimed at you. At that point there is a good chance that some defense AI will kick in and they will start fighting the enemy on your side (but they are really just trying to save themselves). This is especially effective in the case of convoys, if you stand very close to the mother. [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=254420#p254420 Aycheff & another_commander 2017]

	== OXP's ==		== OXP's ==

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 === Combat ===
-*Lasers: While they ''can'' use their rear lasers, they can't (yet) use side lasers. OXP plasma cannons (in turrets) work normally, though. And possessing side lasers does allow them to use yaw in manoeuvering!
+*Lasers: While they ''can'' use their rear lasers, the vanilla game NPC's never get side lasers. OXP plasma cannons (in turrets) work normally, though.
-*Scanners: They seem not to recognise the existence of anything outside scanner range (other than beacons).
+:When an OXP assigns them side lasers the possession of the side lasers also allows them to use yaw in manoeuvering!
 === Travel ===
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 === Beefing-up NPCs ===
 There are a number of OXPs which do this.
-*[[Skilled NPCs OXP]]
+*[[Skilled NPCs OXP]] - this can have a ''major'' impact on the NPCs in your game. The ''average'' AI is 3x as deadly as the dumbest.
 *See the lists under [[Cheating]]

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 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18609 Do NPCs use primable equipment?] (2017)
 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=276445#p276445 You can't directly reference and/or assign a script to a character] (2022) - and see the next 5 posts
 [[Category:Factual]] [[Category:Concepts]]

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 == Overview ==
-In Oolite, all characters other than you are NPC's. Unless you manage to connect with somebody else using Hiram's [[Nexus]].
+In Oolite, all characters other than you are NPC's. Unless you manage to connect with somebody else using Hiran's [[Nexus]].
 How do personalities exist within Oolite? Well, one '''either''' interacts with them when docked '''or''' as ships (in which case the [[AI]] of the ship is the relevant part - note that the AI's were rewritten for Oolite back in 2014 (v.1.80), breaking many AI's in older oxp's).
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 === Combat ===
-*Lasers: While they ''can'' use their rear lasers, they can't (yet) use side lasers. OXP plasma cannons (in turrets) work normally, though.
+*Lasers: While they ''can'' use their rear lasers, they can't (yet) use side lasers. OXP plasma cannons (in turrets) work normally, though. And possessing side lasers does allow them to use yaw in manoeuvering!
-*Scanners: They seem not to recognise the existence of anything outside scanner range (other than beacons)
+*Scanners: They seem not to recognise the existence of anything outside scanner range (other than beacons).
 === Travel ===
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 Many missions involve ships with personality. See [[Oolite Missions]] for a sortable list (you might wish to select your galaxy, for example).
 *See especially [[Resistance Commander]] where you lead a group of NPC guerillas
 === Tools ===

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	How do personalities exist within Oolite? Well, one '''either''' interacts with them when docked '''or''' as ships (in which case the [[AI]] of the ship is the relevant part - note that the AI's were rewritten for Oolite back in 2014 (v.1.80), breaking many AI's in older oxp's).		How do personalities exist within Oolite? Well, one '''either''' interacts with them when docked '''or''' as ships (in which case the [[AI]] of the ship is the relevant part - note that the AI's were rewritten for Oolite back in 2014 (v.1.80), breaking many AI's in older oxp's).
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		+	== NPC limitations ==
		+	There are a number of things which NPCs can't do.
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		+	=== Combat ===
		+	*Lasers: While they ''can'' use their rear lasers, they can't (yet) use side lasers. OXP plasma cannons (in turrets) work normally, though.
		+	*Scanners: They seem not to recognise the existence of anything outside scanner range (other than beacons)
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		+	=== Travel ===
		+	*Hyperdrive/Torus drive: they don't have it/can't use it.
		+	:But see the [[Synchronised Torus OXP]] ''and'' the experimental [[SOTL Altmap]] OXP

	== How NPC's react to you ==		== How NPC's react to you ==

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 === Tools ===
-*[[Library OXP]] introduces the [[Lib PAD]] which contains a database for in-game NPC's with extensive resources. This has sadly not been implemented by other OXP's.
+*[[Library OXP]] introduces the [[Lib PAD]] which contains a database for in-game NPC's with extensive resources. This is being implemented by DGill's new version of [[Feudal States]].
 == Links ==

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 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=205073#p205073 General Overview] from the Elite: Dangerous - Design Decision Forum (2013)
-*See, for example, the discussion at [http://oolite.bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9279 Hire Traders] (2011)
+*See, for example, the discussion at [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9279 Hire Traders] (2011)
 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18018 System Populator Memory] (2016) - a number of these posts are very relevant to our topic
 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18609 Do NPCs use primable equipment?] (2017)

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 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10543 Your Oolite Identity] (2011-12)
-*[http://bb.aegidian.org/viewtopic.php?p=205073#p205073 General Overview] from the Elite: Dangerous - Design Decision Forum (2013)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=205073#p205073 General Overview] from the Elite: Dangerous - Design Decision Forum (2013)
 *See, for example, the discussion at [http://oolite.bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9279 Hire Traders] (2011)

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 This is also used by the police AIs if they stumble across a fight between two Clean ships: does the player have a better rep than the ship they're fighting? If so, it was probably the other one that started it, so they'll then start allocating bounties on that basis. (OXPs have a fair bit of flexibility to poke this so that the assassin pre-emptively attacking the player is the locally highly respected Earl of Tree Grubs, so clearly the scruffy outsider started it when the cops show up). Various other things like friendly fire forgiveness work in a similar way; traders are likely to run away from a "pirate" role player even if the player hasn't got anywhere near being hostile today; etc.
-In general the idea is that your actions give you a reputation, AIs respond to that reputation, and escaping an established reputation can be done but takes some effort. ([http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=285903#p285903 Cim 2022])
+In general the idea is that your actions give you a reputation, AIs respond to that reputation, and escaping an established reputation can be done but takes some effort. ([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=285903#p285903 Cim 2022])
 == OXP's ==
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 === Discussions ===
-*[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10543 Your Oolite Identity] (2011-12)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10543 Your Oolite Identity] (2011-12)
 *[http://bb.aegidian.org/viewtopic.php?p=205073#p205073 General Overview] from the Elite: Dangerous - Design Decision Forum (2013)
-*See, for example, the discussion at [http://oolite.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9279 Hire Traders] (2011)
+*See, for example, the discussion at [http://oolite.bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9279 Hire Traders] (2011)
-*[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18018 System Populator Memory] (2016) - a number of these posts are very relevant to our topic
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18018 System Populator Memory] (2016) - a number of these posts are very relevant to our topic
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18609 Do NPCs use primable equipment?] (2017)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18609 Do NPCs use primable equipment?] (2017)
-*[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=276445#p276445 You can't directly reference and/or assign a script to a character] (2022) - and see the next 5 posts
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=276445#p276445 You can't directly reference and/or assign a script to a character] (2022) - and see the next 5 posts
 [[Category:Factual]] [[Category:Concepts]]

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	=== Discussions ===		=== Discussions ===
		+	*[http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10543 Your Oolite Identity] (2011-12)
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	*[http://bb.aegidian.org/viewtopic.php?p=205073#p205073 General Overview] from the Elite: Dangerous - Design Decision Forum (2013)		*[http://bb.aegidian.org/viewtopic.php?p=205073#p205073 General Overview] from the Elite: Dangerous - Design Decision Forum (2013)