Planetfall OXP

Overview

An OXP which allows the Commander to land on planets and moons (but not gas giants or suns, even at night), and to trade there.

To achieve this, once your ship is suitably equipped just fly toward the body, although take care not to go too fast or else you risk burning up in the atmosphere of planets, and don't try and land on the actual surface before you've got landing permission from planetary control (usually just before you would actually land)!

To land, your ship needs to be firstly equipped with heat shields and docking computers. Then at all reputable (and a few not so reputable) tech 9+ systems you can purchase planetary landing capabilities. These consist of some tweaks to your ship, plus all of the relevant permits, permissions and registrations with authorities to allow landing.

Once your ship is suitably equipped, landing is done by flying down towards the planet. Your systems will automatically make all the necessary requests, and once permission is granted then just land on the planet surface. You should be greeted by a nice view of flying in over the planetary terrain.

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

Requirements

This OXP requires at least version 1.77 of Oolite.

To purchase the equipment, you also need to be equipped with Docking Computers and Heat Shield.

AddOns

Basic

• Planetfall Markets
• PlanetFall Market Saver

More involved

• Black Monk Monastery - Adds Black Monk Monasteries to the planet surface locations, complete with offerings of loans. The full Black Monks OXP also needs to be installed.
• HoOpy casino - Adds HoOpy casinos to the planet surface locations, complete with offerings of loans. The HoOpy casino OXP also needs to be installed.
• In-System Taxi can offer fares to and from planet and moon surfaces. This OXP by Spara supercedes Planetfall Taxi, which is now retired. People using that OXP should consider IST instead.
• In-System Cargo Delivery offers delivery missions to bases on the surfaces of the other planets in the system.
• Planetfall Mission - OoHaul - Adds an Oo-Haul distribution centre to the main planet, and a mission to escort a hauler from it out to either the witchpoint or constore. No other OXPs are essential, although for the constore variant mission the YAH/Your Ad Here! OXP needs to be installed. For full flavour the main Oo-Haul OXP should also be installed.

• Feudal States - Ramirez's excellent OXP uses Planetfall to base missions from planets.

Download

Downloadable through the in-game Expansions Manager ... or ...

• PlanetFall_1.51.oxz downloaded 10504 times.
• PlanetFall_Markets_0.1.oxz needed to enable markets from Oolite 1.82, downloaded 4603 times.
• Planetfall v1.51 can be downloaded from Box.com by clicking on the link.
• Also available is the Russian translation of Planetfall by Catsam, Radcapricorn and Seventh.

Links

• Planetfall forum topic (2008+)
• Thargoid's OXP page.

Gameplay and Balance Indicator

While this OXP adds an extra market, the hassle of landing more than makes up for it! Be careful not to burn yourself up - keep an eye on Cabin Temperature, your speed and your angle!