SOTL Exploration - Revision history

Cholmondely: Updated CB's download, added his new pictures

2026-08-23T19:36:43Z

Updated CB's download, added his new pictures

Cholmondely: Linked Captain Beatnik's new Gravitational Sensor Readout

2026-08-12T08:55:58Z

Linked Captain Beatnik's new Gravitational Sensor Readout

Cholmondely: Added more musings

2026-07-15T17:24:32Z

Added more musings

Cholmondely: Added another musing

2026-07-15T15:06:26Z

Added another musing

Cholmondely: /* Musings */ Added another HUD idea

2026-07-15T15:01:49Z

‎Musings: Added another HUD idea

Cholmondely: Added "Tweaks" with link to Phkb's post, tweaks

2026-07-15T09:59:34Z

Added "Tweaks" with link to Phkb's post, tweaks

Cholmondely: /* Musings */ Added more

2026-07-12T12:01:35Z

‎Musings: Added more

Cholmondely: Updated link

2026-07-02T08:11:24Z

Updated link

Phkb: Updating BB links

2024-02-29T02:43:20Z

Updating BB links

Cholmondely: Added note

2023-05-01T12:40:44Z

Added note

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 :F8 screen (stuff for sale!) seems a bit bizarre! Column headings need changing.
 ) Better HUD
 :especially half-way marks for the Gravitational Sensor ''(badly needed'') - see Captain Beatnik's tweaked version ("Tweaks" below)
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 == Tweaks ==
-[[File:Captain Beatnik's SOTL Gravitational Sensor 0.4.1.jpg|right|200px]]
+[[File:CB's SOTL HUD (Gravity Scanner).png|right|300px|thumb|Captain Beatnik's new HUD: showing a ''much'' more comprehensible gravity scanner reading]]
 * '''Generation Ship''': to replace the colony ship ''Local Maximum'' which is currently a Coriolis station with a more immersive Generation Ship.
 :Follow phkb's instructions [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=306558#p306558 here] - you will need to use his linked "Generation_Ships.oxp download" which corrects the dock model alignment and positioning to make docking easier.
 * '''Gravitational Sensor'''
-:Captain Beatnik had been decent enough to rejig the Sensor readouts so that they are easier to decipher. Download his version of SOTL Exploration OXP [https://app.box.com/s/v3oigcxwncmm7l4dzbu5zzp8mghd5szp here] (if you want a Generation Ship as well, you will still need to tweak in line with Phkb's instructions above!).
+:Captain Beatnik had been decent enough to rejig the HUD. The Sensor readouts are now much easier to decipher. Download his new version of SOTL Exploration OXP [https://app.box.com/s/hmwe90lwh6ys58jgwl0uwwrna926wqth here] (if you want a Generation Ship as well, you will still need to tweak in line with Phkb's instructions above!). See his [[Tales from Riredi]] for some fiction about it.
 == Links ==

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 There seem to be three major points about this .oxp/game/proof of concept.
-) It is genuine exploration within the Oolite game framework. Although the map is known (ie the location of the stars), one must "discover" how to make the jump, and discover what is at the other end (planets, asteroids, ''etc''). And as the only pilot, there is nobody else about to spoonfeed you the information!
+) It is ''genuine'' exploration within the Oolite game framework. Although the map is known (ie the location of the stars), one must "discover" how to make the jump, and discover what is at the other end (planets, asteroids, ''etc''). And as the only pilot, there is nobody else about to spoonfeed you the information!
 ) The Hyperspace Jump is no longer a doddle - it's now an adventure! It now starts to resemble what one reads about in some of the science fiction.
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 ) Better HUD
-:especially half-way marks for the Gravitational Sensor ''(badly needed'')
+:especially half-way marks for the Gravitational Sensor ''(badly needed'') - see Captain Beatnik's tweaked version ("Tweaks" below)
 :: (i) The vanilla game HUD has roll/pitch indicators, which Wildeblood rotated 90° for his [[Wide-Screen HUD]]. These have a zero-point in the ''middle'' of the bar.
 :: (ii) the various [[User:Captain Beatnik|Coluber/CB HUDs]] which have markings along their bars.
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 == Tweaks ==
-* To replace the colony ship ''Local Maximum'' which is currently a Coriolis station with a Generation Ship.
+[[File:Captain Beatnik's SOTL Gravitational Sensor 0.4.1.jpg|right|200px]]
 :Follow phkb's instructions [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?p=306558#p306558 here] - you will need to use his linked "Generation_Ships.oxp download" which corrects the dock model alignment and positioning to make docking easier.
 == Links ==

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 ) Addition: Add in "landing on anchor" with [[Planetfall2 OXP|PF2]] to visit the colonies? There are presumably other non-Hyperspace ships travelling between the colonies and "Local Maximum" which could be added in for immersion. (something [[Dynamic_Ship_List_(Oolite)|small]]: [[Landing Craft|Isis Landing Craft]] w/o decal? [[Firefly]]? [[Y-Wing]]? [[Mining Pod]]?)
-) Addition: Add in Thargoids? Allow "Interdiction" during Hyperspace travel? ("Tough" start!). Thargoid visitations could get worse as the game goes on, but one could (with discovered resources) upgrade one's laser and add some defences!
+) Addition: small craft flying between the planet and the colony ship ferrying people and resources from one t'other.
 == Tweaks ==

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 === Ideas for improvement ===
 ) Replace the Coriolis (colony ship "Local Maximum") with a [[Generation Ships OXP|Generation Ship]] (see "Tweaks" below), unsure about replacing the player's Adder (but, if the technology is more primitive than Oolite's, then the Adder is too modern).
 :For immersion, have a different interface when docking, involving interaction with the colony ship leaders ([[HD Backgrounds Image Pack A]]; [[LitF]]; [[Galactic Navy OXP]])
 :F4 ship/station interface screen: remove "GalCop station" from 3rd registration screen; remove offensive/defensive from Fast Activation screens

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 :: (ii) the various [[User:Captain Beatnik|Coluber/CB HUDs]] which have markings along their bars.
 :: (iii) But they ideally need coloured fill bars extending from the zero point in the middle to show things more accurately. Is this doable?
 ) Create uses for the mined minerals, new equipment made back at "Local Maximum", ''etc''. As in [[SOTL_Exploration#Cim.27s_original_plans_for_the_future_development_of_this_OXP_.28or.2C_what.27s_missing.21.29|Cim's original plans]] above.

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 === Ideas for improvement ===
-) Replace the Coriolis (colony ship "Local Maximum") with a [[Generation Ships OXP|Generation Ship]] (I think that they are dockable), unsure about replacing the player's Adder (but, if the technology is more primitive than Oolite's, then the Adder is too modern).
+) Replace the Coriolis (colony ship "Local Maximum") with a [[Generation Ships OXP|Generation Ship]] (see "Tweaks" below), unsure about replacing the player's Adder (but, if the technology is more primitive than Oolite's, then the Adder is too modern).
 :For immersion, have a different interface when docking, involving interaction with the colony ship leaders ([[HD Backgrounds Image Pack A]]; [[LitF]]; [[Galactic Navy OXP]])
 :F4 ship/station interface screen: remove "GalCop station" from 3rd registration screen; remove offensive/defensive from Fast Activation screens
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 ) Addition: Add in Thargoids? Allow "Interdiction" during Hyperspace travel? ("Tough" start!). Thargoid visitations could get worse as the game goes on, but one could (with discovered resources) upgrade one's laser and add some defences!
 == Links ==
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 *[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17603 BB Discussion Thread] (2015+)
 *[https://github.com/cim--/oxp-SongOfTheLabyrinth SOTL GitHub site]
-*[[User:Cim|Cim]]: link to author's page & his other oxp's
+*[[User:Cim|Cim]]: link to author's page & his other OXPs
 *[[Exploration]]
 {{Unclassified-OXP}}
 {{demo-OXP}}

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 == Musings ==
 There seem to be three major points about this .oxp/game/proof of concept.
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 Since cim programmed this ''within'' the Oolite game framework, some of these ideas should be transferable to the main game for those with the skills.
 == Links ==

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 ===Wreckage, Silicates, Ice and Ores ===
-The list of commodities on the [[F8 page (commodity market)|F8 commodities screen]] is adumbrated by the F8F8 entry for each item - so there is no current need for ice, but there ''is'' for Uranium, Rhenium, ''etc''.
+The list of commodities on the [[F8 screen (commodity market)|F8 commodities screen]] is adumbrated by the F8F8 entry for each item - so there is no current need for ice, but there ''is'' for Uranium, Rhenium, ''etc''.
 [[Image:sotl-hyperspace.png|thumb|right|400px|SOTL Hyperspace]]

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 None of your normal OXPs will be usable in a SOTL Exploration game.
-For more information, see [http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17603 the forum thread]
+For more information, see [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17603 the forum thread]
 ===Warning===
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 == Links ==
 *[[SOTL Altmap]] - for details of the second game!
-*[http://www.aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17603 BB Discussion Thread] (2015+)
+*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17603 BB Discussion Thread] (2015+)
 *[https://github.com/cim--/oxp-SongOfTheLabyrinth SOTL GitHub site]
 *[[User:Cim|Cim]]: link to author's page & his other oxp's

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 ===Sampling laser and sample collection bay===
 The sampling laser will break small chunks off an asteroid - ideally one you have previously scanned with the prospecting laser - which can then be scooped into the sample collection bay and returned to the Local Maximum for extraction of valuable minerals. Each collection bay will hold 15 samples. (On particularly mineral-rich asteroids, a single sample may contain multiple usable minerals)
 [[Image:sotl-hyperspace.png|thumb|right|400px|SOTL Hyperspace]]