Interstellar Tweaks

Make interstellar space more exciting!

A special type of Thargoid.

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Interstellar Tweaks interacts intelligently with many other OXPs, adding depth to Oolite. The little blob on the upper right is an enormous Galactic Navy Behemoth!

Overview

This OXP makes misjumps a little more likely and, fairly often, generates one of various (mostly) exciting witchspace scenarios.

Requirements

• The expansion pack requires Oolite version 1.82 or above.
• The pack draws upon various other expansion packs, if they are installed. (See below.)

General notes

The scenarios at issue include, but are not limited to, the following things happening within interstellar space.

• Encountering the navy battling thargoids (though some other OXPs provide something on those lines).
• Having your escape pod rescued. (Hooray! The chance of rescue is increased by having the 'electronic thumb'.)
• Encountering bounty hunters. (Hooray?)
• Encountering pirates. (Boo?)
• Developing 'witchspace sickness'. (Definitely boo.)
• Ending up in a high radiation area, which can kill you whilst you are there but has no long-lasting effects. (So, mostly: boo.)
• Meeting rebel thargoids. (Hooray!)
• Finding derelicts within interstellar space.

Also, though this is something that happens when one leaves witchspace: this OXP gives you a chance of ending up near - or, er, very near - the system's sun. (Er . . handy?)

Relation to other expansion packs

OXPs which Interstellar Tweaks enhances/uses

Interstellar Tweaks can draw upon all of the following (and indeed more, but in a fairly trivial way). Yet, Interstellar Tweaks does not require any of them.

• Armoury.
• Behemoth.
• Breakable WitchDrive.
• Escape Pod Locator.
• Extra Thargoids.
• Fer-de-Lance 3G.
• Fuel Collector.
• Galactic Navy - which is not in the expansion-pack manager; see Galactic Navy OXP for download details; there are several variants to choose between.
• Generation Ships.
• Griff's shipset expansion packs - for, especially, nice looking thargoids!
• Interstellar Help.
• Military Fiasco.
• Missionaries.
• mPakRedux (a.k.a. 'Rusties') - not in the expansion-pack manager; see Second-hand ships for download details.
• To Catch a Thargoid.
• Thargoid Carrier - not in the expansion-pack manager (and the Carrier OXP will considerably increase the thargoid threat - though the Fer-de-Lance 3G OXP will somewhat offset that).
• Thargorn Threat. This one makes the thargoids more dangerous, but not as dangerous as if one installed Thargorn Threat but not Interstellar Tweaks!
• Tionisla Orbital Graveyard, together with its 'TOGY_Shipwreck pack'.

When one installs Interstellar Tweaks via the in-game expansion-pack manager, that manager will suggest some of the foregoing OXPs - but only, for one thing, those that are actually available via that manager. (A word here on the other exceptions - i.e., the OXPs of which this one can make use, but which it does not suggest for installation, even though they are in the Manager. Each such other OXP either adds little to Interstellar Tweaks or else add things that one might not want or at least do not need. Of the OXPs that are ``not`` in the Manager, Interstellar Tweaks benefits from, especially, the Missionaries OXP.)

Compatibility

Interstellar tweaks tries to be compatible with the following, further, expansion packs.

• Galactic Misjump - not in the expansion-pack manager.
• Galactic Navy - not in the expansion-pack manager.
• Her Imperial Majesty's Space Navy - at least up to a point.
• Misjump Analyser.
• Staer9 Spectre - not in the expansion-pack manager.
• Thargoid Witchspace Drive - not in the expansion-pack manager.
• Wormhole drones - not in the expansion-pack manager.
• [Wormhole_Restoration https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Wormhole_restoration_OXP].

Other points

• The load that Interstellar Tweaks will place on your computer will be, for the most part, light to moderate (and, mostly, via CPU much more than RAM and graphics card). That is so especially for Interstellar Tweaks version ≥ 7.5. Yet, if you install many expansion packs with which Interstellar Tweaks can interact, then that will increase the load.

• The difficulty of this expansion pack varies automatically, in various ways, with the player's Elite Rating.

License

This expansion pack is released under the Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike 3.0 license. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

You are free:

• to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work;
• to make derivative works.

But only under the following conditions.

• Attribution: you must give the original author credit.
• Non-commercial use: you may not use this work for commercial purposes.
• Share Alike: if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license materially identical to this one.

Your fair use right and other rights are in no way affected by the above.

Acknowledgements

My thanks to the following (from some of whom I have adapted code).

• Another Commander
• Arexack Heretic
• Capt. Murphy
• Cholmondely
• cim
• Commander McLane
• Draco Caeles
• Duggan
• Dr Nil and other contributors to the 'Your Ad Here' expansion pack
• Eric Walch
• Gimi
• Norby
• phkb
• SirAdrian
• Thargoid
• Solonar
• Switeck

Download

• Downloadable through the in-game Expansions Manager

• Or here: File:Oolite.oxp.UK Eliter.InterstellarTweaks.oxz
• Rather older downloads are here: File:InterstellarTweaks.oxz

Version	Released	License	Features	Category	Author(s)	Feedback
1.82	6.67	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	surprises!	Mechanics OXPs	Uk Eliter	BB Thread