Pirate Clan Blitzspears

A pirate clan

Introduction

The first of the Pan-Galaxy Outlaw clans to rise through the leadership of some diabolical criminal genius. What are his, or indeed hers or, further indeed, its future plans? Will their nefarious example be followed by others? The answers are out there...

Overview

This expansion pack introduces the following ships, all of which are playable.

Assassin

Hoodlum

Mugger

Scoundrel

Spiv

The original idea was to have another two models - a pirate boss and a pirate base (the OXP contains a texture for a missing ship). And also to have a number of different pirate clans, each employing different tactics.

The models were originally to be insects:

• Grasshopper Light Fighter: Single man fighter. I wanted to explore the idea of ships on the vertical plane, rather than the more usual horizontal. This is about the size of a Krait/Sidewinder
• Ant Tug/Light Transport Ship (empty of cargo)
• Hornet Cruiser: A bit bigger than a cobra.
• Beetle Heavy Cargo Transport: The 'scarring' is from earlier attempts at uv mapping.
• Mosquito Independent Laser Missile (as discussed in the Thargoid Reverse Engineering Thread).

Download Link

Pirate Clan One: The Blitzspears

Difficulty Rating

"Medium" to "Hard". This OXP adds powerful new ships, which might also spawn in the role "pirate". At the same time, you get the opportunity to buy one of these ships for yourself. If you chose to install this OXP, more variety is added to the game. This OXP adds more variety to the ships you will encounter in the space lanes and find for sale in Shipyards. Due to their very high energy recharge rate, high speeds, agility and often small size, these ships can prove to be very hard to kill even for experienced commanders, and probably even impossible to kill if the player has not outfitted his ship with powerful offensive weaponry like military lasers. But since avoiding combat and fleeing is always an option, and the ships added by this oxp have no higher offensive capabilities than other ships, this oxp is still suited for commanders with average experience, while at the same time it proves to be a challenge for deadly commanders if they choose to fight. This OXP is a SHIPS OXP.

3-5

Version History

v1.0 Original release
v1.1 Mainly graphical changes

Chaky's rejig is separate.

Installing and Playing

To play the OXP, unzip the download file. This will create a file named "AAACrooks.OXP". Move this file into Oolite's AddOns folder, these ships will then be available the next time Oolite is started.

Chaky's rejig

This is a light redux of Amen Brick's Pirate Clan One - The Blitzspears.oxp. a.k.a AAACroocks.oxp This package contains replacement ships.

- the ship models are oriented correctly and centered (no more flying sideways or backwards)

- all weapon mountpoints are actual model's points (no more firing lasers from 50 m away from ship)

- all viewpoints are attached to ships (no more 100 m away, some are realistically placed where the cockpit should be, making part of the hull visible)

- added several lights (constantly lit flashers). Some models have, what can best be described as headlights or missile pylons, so I've placed flashers inside them.

- exhausts are correctly placed and more-or-less realistic. I added more where originally there was only one, according to the actual model.

- repositioned cargo and missile launch positions close to ship hulls, making them appear as if the cargo/missiles are coming from the ship, and not from nowhere (appearing 50 m behind the ship).

- reorganised shipdata.plist. Made use of "like_ship" redirection.

To install, you need the original (http://www.box.net/shared/p9wjemvoc8) and replace the older files with the equivalent files from my pack.

Links

• This OXP was written by Amen Brick.
• Pirate Clan One (2008)
• Blitzspears Clan.oxp download (2008) BB thread

Chaky's rejig of Blitzspears (open and tweak!): I had to... I just had to... I couldn't help it.. It was chasing me and it was too fast.

• AB's earlier development thread (initially to be a "Beetles" OXP)

• See Hotrods OXP for another unfinished pirate OXP.

Amen Brick's other oxp

• Amen Bricks Megaships