GNN

This icon appear on your viewscreen (top right) to inform that a GNN Newsflash awaits on docking. It appears when you enter the aegis

Story

Cover or undercover. We take it.

3130 MGMT - GalCop begins a programme of retrofitting out-of-date communications equipment on older vessels. At the same time, satellite and comms buoys are upgraded.

• source: Encyclopedia Galactica

And communications companies popped up like mushrooms, offering dubious and sometimes very expensive services, each trying to grab the biggest slice of this new market, swept up by a gold rush fever. Only a handful of news agencies survived the ensuing 'War of Information' - an orgy of mergers, acquisitions, lawsuits and the occasional little bit of terrorism and sabotage - to create today's stable news market that we know and love.

Features

GNN is the successor to Snoopers.

• Four established news agencies. GNN, Rooters, Snoopers and the good old Tionisla Chronicle
• Hot news for the Constrictor Hunt, Nova and Asteroid Storm missions.
• Usable by other oxps.
• Configurable through Library OXP.

OXPs using GNN

• Asteroid Storm
• BlOomberg Markets
• Diplomancy OXP
• GalCop Missions
• The Galactic Almanac OXZ
• UPS Courier

BGS-X Mapping (note the rather dim buttons on the right for toggling regions and spacelanes)

Declarations of Regional/SpaceLane Naming

These were originally introduced in conjunction with BGS-X Mapping, where these features would appear on the F6 chart only after their announcement by Snoopers/GNN. The changes to the F6 chart introduced by Oolite v.1.82 comprehensively clobbered BGS-X.

See What are these "Map-Update" news alerts? (2016)

Documentation

• API Documentation for OXP developers
• Presuming that the GNN phrase generator was added in from CCL, Cabal Common Library Doc PhraseGen may well be relevant
• Forum

Requirements

• Latest version needs Oolite v1.88.
• Library 1.7,1.

Download

GNN1.2.oxz (oxz, 4.1 MB)

Links

• Communication
• A news OXP (2006) - fons et origo of all this?

Quick Facts

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Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.2	2018-11-21	CC-by-nc-sa-4.0	Images, Sounds & Music	Ambience OXPs	DaddyHoggy, Disembodied, Drew & Svengali	BB