VariableMasslock

Speeds up Masslock locks - by creating smaller Masslock radii (as in Classic Elite).

Overview

This .oxp reduces the masslock radius of a ship according to its mass.

Ship name	Mass	Masslock radius (r=mass*0.02+17000)
Adder         	16 t	17 km
Gecko        	25 t	17.5 km
Sidewinder	25 t	17.5 km
Viper        	34 t	17.7 km
Mamba         	36 t	17.7 km
Moray        	51 t	18 km
Cobra Mk I	52 t	18 km
Fer-de-Lance	53 t	18 km
Asp          	76 t	18.5 km
Krait       	93 t	19 km
Boa           	182 t	20.5 km
Cobra Mk III	215 t	21 km
Boa2         	216 t	21 km
Python      	267 t	22 km
Anaconda	438 t	26 km

But. You can't use your Torus Drive in combat situations due to red alert, regardless of these distances!

The Torus drive will turn off when a new ship arrives into scanner range but you can re-engage the Torus drive when your alert level is green.

Ships over masslock range are marked with a darker yellow 'lollipop' in green alert.

Torus will turn off when there are asteroids, buoys, cargo boxes or mines on a collision course (to slow down in time and help prevent an impact).

License

• This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License version 4.0.
• If you are re-using any piece of this OXP, please let me know by sending an e-mail to norbylite at gmail.com.

Changelog

2015.05.22. v1.1  Set proper scannerDisplayColors for ships out of masslock range.
                  Torus stop before Buoys and cargo boxes, not only asteroids.
2015.04.20. v1.0  First release.

Download

Either from the in-game Expansions Manager

or:

VariableMasslock_1.1.oxz‎ (downloaded 2740 times).

VariableMasslock_1.0.oxz‎ (downloaded 358 times).

Do not unzip the .oxz file above, just move it into the AddOns folder of your Oolite installation.

Tweaks

• Alter masslocking by role of ship, not by mass Redspear, 2016
• Stealth Tweak Stranger, 2018

You might wish to consult How to tweak OXZ's

Summary of Masslock OXPs

Redspear's summary of his four Masslock OXP's (from the BB)

Masslock Compensator (2018)

Speedboost (200%) when masslocked but cancelled by red alert

No benefit for combat

Significant reduction of time spent in masslock

Power To Engines (2019)

Speedboost (150%) when weapons offline

Useful for escaping faster opponents (if they did same then they wouldn't be able to shoot)

Helps reduce duration of masslocks

Traffic Redistributer (2017)

Adjusts traffic to increase frequency of slower traders (and so that the 'best' courier ships aren't also the most common)

Station bound traffic becomes easier to overtake because it's usually slower

Pirates, hunters and police are unaffected

Redspear's three older OXPs above are complementary and do not conflict with each other

Masslock Reimagined (2022)

Masslock lasts for a fixed duration rather than until scanner is clear

No speed changes to either player or average encountered NPC

Taking fire negates the effect but possible to dodge your way out of a masslock without being the faster ship

Likely to make Masslock Compensators obsolete if it develops as I hope

Norby also wrote an older Masslock OXP:

Variable Masslock (2015)

Reduces Radii of masslocking NPCs by the mass of their ships (copying Classic Elite)

Non-masslocking ships appear as a darker yellow on the scanner

Masslock reintroduced to stop one smashing into unpowered asteroids/cargo pods etc.

Quick Facts

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Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.1	2015-05-22	CC BY-NC-SA 4	Mass based masslock radiuses	Mechanics OXPs	Norby	BB-Link