Planetfall2 OXP

Overview

PlanetFall2 OXP

Name	Atmospheric Stabilisers
Cost	5,000₢
TL Availability	9

An OXP which allows the Commander to land at specific locations on planets and moons (but not suns, even at night). Each main planet has up to 5 designated landing sites, while additional planets can have 3, and each moon can have 2 (configurable via Library Config). Pick your landing site and point your ship at the flashing marker near the surface that indicates the Ground Control Interface Point for the landing zone. Ensure your flight path is not too steep, otherwise you may sustain damage when the automated landing protocol engages.

Be careful of turbulence as you enter the atmosphere. To assist with atmospheric turbulence, the "Atmospheric Stabilisers" can be purchased at any TL9+ system for 5000cr. When equipped, this will reduce the impact of turbulence on your ship. Speed will have an impact on how much your ship is effected by turbulence. Slowing down will decrease the effect.

Your approach will trigger an automatic landing request. You should receive a response after a few seconds, indicating you are either cleared for landing or not. If you have clearance, continue towards the Ground Control Interface Point at less than 100 m/s until the automated system engages, captures your ship and lowers you to a landing pad.

Planetary take-off is via a launch booster, with control being returned to the Commander once orbital insertion is achieved.

This OXP is currently a suite of 3 OXPs:

PlanetFall2 (the coding)
PlanetFall Resources (the images)
Feudal PlanetFall2 (linking PlanetFall2 with Feudal States which is currently the only OXP which does much on the planet surface).

At time of writing PlanetFall2 is only compatible with Feudal States v.1 (and the alpha Feudal States v.2 is only compatible with PlanetFall v.1)!

Gaming changes from Thargoid's PlanetFall v1 (2008-13)

You can now land on a planet without purchasing "planetary landing capabilities"/"atmospheric stabilisers" - but it is rather more dangerous

If you have already bought "planetary landing capabilities", PF2 will convert them to "atmospheric stabilisers"

There are now specific landing sites on the planet
Commodity Markets are now included (ie PlanetFall Markets OXP is redundant).
When landed you can transit from one landing site to another (and pay good money to transit your ship, too!).
Maintenance overhauls are now performed on the planet surface rather than in the orbital station (they will tell you this on the station!)
There are other changes to be discovered!

Requirements

Options

There are a lot of options available to help configure the system the way you want it. The list is long, so if you want to see everything, click the link on the right.

Library Config has the following sections for PlanetFall2:

General settings
F3/F8: Main planet
Spawn chances: Main planet
F3/F8: Extra planets
Spawn chances: Extra planets
F3/F8: Moons
Spawn chances: Moons
Spawn chances: TL factors
Transit costs
Ship transfer costs

General settings

Flags

Move shipyards to planet: Controls whether shipyards are moved to planet-side locations.
Move maintenance to planet: Controls whether the "Maintenance Overhaul" item is moved to only be offered on planet-side locations.
Atmosphere turbulence: Controls whether the turbulence effect, when entering the atmosphere of a planet, is active or not.
Use landing images: Controls whether the images displayed after landing at a planetary site are displayed.
Use Almanac names: Controls whether the names of planetary locations are given names based on the methodology from the Galactic Almanac.
Allow planetary transit: Controls whether it is possible to fast travel to other planetary sites after landing.
Planet rotation tweaks: Controls whether planetary rotation is slowed on approach (to reduce the visual impact of scaling issues).

Values

Main planet max: Maximum number of locations that could be spawned on the main planet.
Extra planet max: Maximum number of locations that could be spawned on a secondary planet with an atmosphere.
Moon max: Maximum number of locations that could be spawned on a moon with no atmosphere.
Atmosphere max altitude: Maximum height (in km) of the atmosphere of a planet.
Beacon range: Max distance (in km) that planetary beacons become visible to the player.
Service Level dec: Amount that service level will be reduced by when launching from a planet.
Transfer Fee: Fee amount to be charged to the player when transferring their ship to the current location.
Transfer Time: Amount of time (in hours) that will pass when transferring player ship to the current location.
Train speed: Base average speed of trains (in kph), which is scaled up or down based on the TL of the system.

F3/F8: Main planet

Flags

Capital cities: Whether capital cities will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Military bases: Whether military bases will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Leisure complexes: Whether leisure complexes will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Factories: Whether factories will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Rubbish dumps: Whether rubbish dumps will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.

Values

Capital cities: What type of market will be available at capital cities.
Military bases: What type of market will be available at military bases.
Leisure complexes: What type of market will be available at military bases.
Factories: What type of market will be available at factories.
Rubbish dumps: What type of market will be available at rubbish dumps.

Market type key:

0 = No market;
1 = Default market, which will likely be the main station market;
2 = SFEP (Stations for Extra Planets) method, which adjusts prices and quantities based on the distance of the site from the main station.
3 = Original market, as defined in PlanetFall v1.51. (but pre-Oolite 1.84).

Spawn chances: Main planet

Values

Spawn city: Chance of spawning a capital city.
Spawn military base: Chance of spawning a military base.
Spawn leisure complex: Chance of spawning a leisure complex.
Spawn factory: Chance of spawning a factory.
Spawn rubbish dump: Chance of spawning a rubbish dump.

eg 0.4 = 40% chance. The chance will be adjusted slightly by the TechLevel factor (see below).

F3/F8: Extra planets

Flags

Colony cities: Whether colony cities will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Military bases: Whether military bases will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Leisure complexes: Whether leisure complexes will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Factories: Whether factories will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Rubbish dumps: Whether rubbish dumps will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.

Values

Colony cities: What type of market will be available at colony cities.
Military bases: What type of market will be available at military bases.
Leisure complexes: What type of market will be available at leisure complexes.
Factories: What type of market will be available at factories.
Rubbish dumps: What type of market will be available at rubbish dumps.

Market type key:

0 = No market;
1 = Default market, which will likely be the main station market;
2 = SFEP (Stations for Extra Planets) method, which adjusts prices and quantities based on the distance of the site from the main station.
3 = Original market, as defined in PlanetFall v1.51 (but pre-Oolite 1.84).

Spawn chances: Extra planets

Values

Spawn colony city: Chance of spawning a colony city.
Spawn military base: Chance of spawning a military base.
Spawn leisure complex: Chance of spawning a leisure complex.
Spawn factory: Chance of spawning a factory.
Spawn rubbish dump: Chance of spawning a rubbish dump.

eg 0.4 = 40% chance. The chance will be adjusted slightly by the TechLevel factor (see below).

F3/F8: Moons

Flags

Colony domes: Whether colony domes will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Mines: Whether mines will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Prisons: Whether prisons will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Leisure domes: Whether leisure domes will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Robot factories: Whether robot factories will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Research complexes: Whether research complexes will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.
Wastelands: Whether wastelands will have access to the F3 Equip Ship screen.

Values

Colony domes: What type of market will be available at colony domes.
Mines: What type of market will be available at mines.
Prison: What type of market will be available at prisons.
Leisure domes: What type of market will be available at leisure domes.
Robot factories: What type of market will be available at robot factories.
Research complexes: What type of market will be available at research complexes.
Wastelands: What type of market will be available at wastelands.

Market type key:

0 = No market;
1 = Default market, which will likely be the main station market;
2 = SFEP (Stations for Extra Planets) method, which adjusts prices and quantities based on the distance of the site from the main station.
3 = Original market, as defined in PlanetFall v1.51 (but pre-Oolite 1.84).

Spawn chances: Moons

Values

Spawn colony dome: Chance of spawning a colony dome.
Spawn mine: Chance of spawning a mine.
Spawn prison: Chance of spawning a prison.
Spawn leisure dome: Chance of spawning a leisure dome.
Spawn robot factory: Chance of spawning a robot factory.
Spawn research complex: Chance of spawning a research complex.
Spawn wasteland: Chance of spawning a wasteland.

eg 0.4 = 40% chance. The chance will be adjusted slightly by the TechLevel factor (see below).

Spawn chances: TL factors

Values

Main planet min/max: Factor to apply to spawn chance of main planet locations based on the TL of the system.
Extra planets min/max: Factor to apply to spawn chance of extra planet locations based on the TL of the system.
Moons min/max: Factor to apply to spawn chance of moon locations based on the TL of the system.

The min value would be applied at the lowest TL, while the max value would apply to the highest TL.
TL's in between would get a scaled value between min and max.

Transit costs

Values

Fee: Base cost for a single trip (cr).
Anarchy factor: Factor applied to fee in Anarchy systems
Feudal factor: Factor applied to fee in Feudal systems.
Multi-government factor: Factor applied to fee in Multi-Government systems.
Dictatorship factor: Factor applied to fee in Dictatorship systems.
Communist factor: Factor applied to fee in Communist systems.
Confederacy factor: Factor applied to fee in Confederacy systems.
Democracy factor: Factor applied to fee in Democracy systems.
Corporate State factor: Factor applied to fee in Corporate State systems.

eg 0.0 = All trips are free; 1.0 = Use base cost; 0.5 = 50% of base cost.

Ship transfer costs

Values

Fee: Base cost for ship transfer (cr).
Anarchy factor: Factor applied to fee in Anarchy systems
Feudal factor: Factor applied to fee in Feudal systems.
Multi-government factor: Factor applied to fee in Multi-Government systems.
Dictatorship factor: Factor applied to fee in Dictatorship systems.
Communist factor: Factor applied to fee in Communist systems.
Confederacy factor: Factor applied to fee in Confederacy systems.
Democracy factor: Factor applied to fee in Democracy systems.
Corporate State factor: Factor applied to fee in Corporate State systems.

eg 0.0 = Ship transfers are free; 1.0 = Use base cost; 1.5 = 150% base cost.

License

Author (PF v.2): Phkb
Author (PF v.1): Thargoid

This OXP is released under the Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike 3.0 license with the following clauses:

Whilst you are free (and encouraged) to re-use any of the scripting, models or texturing in this OXP, the usage must be distinct from that within this OXP. Unique identifiers such as (but not limited to) unique shipdata.plist entity keys, mission variables, script names (this.name), equipment identity strings (EQ_), description list arrays and entity roles must not be re-used without prior agreement. Basically if it's unique or would identify or overwrite anything in the original OXP, then you may not re-use it (for obvious compatibility reasons).
rebundling of this OXP within another distribution is permitted as long as it is unchanged. The following derivates however are permitted and except from the above:
- the conversion of files between XML and openStep.
- the merging of files with other files of the same type from other OXPs.
The license information (either as this file or merged into a larger one) must be included in the OXP.
Even though it is not compulsory, if you are re-using any sizable or recognisable piece of this OXP, please let me know :)

Sound files:
"e train 140kmh 04 190613_0029.wav" by klankbeeld -- https://freesound.org/s/476298/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
"Arrival of a passenger electric train.1950km station_2(Eq,lmtr).wav" by newlocknew -- https://freesound.org/s/580464/ -- License: Attribution 4.0