F4 page (ship and system interfaces)

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F4 screen from the Vanilla game
F4 screen after being OXP'd
*Docked HUDs removes the HUD from the bottom of the screen leaving just the fuel bar & missile display
*BGS adds the monitor surround - and the backdrop behind it
*The list on this page has been added to by OXPs (in order): Library, Market Inquirer, Diplomancy, GalCop Galactic Registry, Commanders Log, CommsLog MFD, Email System & Flight Log


Second page of F4 screen ornamented by the older BGS (v.1.10.9).
*Dangerous HUD (Blue) has changed the text colour to blue and provides the docked HUD at the bottom of the screen. Note the green missiles!
*The list on this page has been added to by (in order): Station Dock Control, Explorer's Club, the Vanilla game code, HUD Selector,

This page is only accessible while docked - naturally - it controls the interface between your ship and the station you are docked at. the station can be an orbital station, a rock hermit or even a dockable vessel such as a liner. The F4 page is where you can interface with the station, GalCop etc.

Key-commands

  • The "Arrow keys" navigate around & between the pages, while the "Enter" key selects the option in question. Depending on how many OXPs you have loaded, the ship-station interface can easily run to 3 or more pages!
  • There is (as yet) no F4F4 page.

Number of options on offer

The OXPs which you have loaded determine the number of options on offer!

In the Vanilla game, as can be seen to the right there are only 5 options: the 3 Deliveries (Passenger contracts, Cargo contracts & Parcel Contracts) and the 2 ship's systems - for changing your name from Jameson (but not your save file name) and for looking at ship statistics (eg a Viper's speed, missile bays, etc).

These are grouped by category:

Activity
AddOns
  • Config for AddOns: Library - for tweaking OXPs
Captains Log
  • PAD: Library - a personal assistance device with details of naval career, people met, etc.
Commerce
  • Commodity Markets: Market Inquirer - comparison of local market prices & quantities
  • Sell all cargo or find an alternative customer: SellAll OXP
  • Speciality Cargo Trading: New Cargoes - access to markets, auctions, gossip & purchase of permits
Contracts
  • GalCop bulletin board (# available): contains the vanilla game contract deliveries and whatever else is added by other OXPs
  • Taxi Galactica bulletin board: Taxi Galactica OXP
Danger
Deliveries
(Phkb's Contracts On BB moves these contracts onto the Bulletin Board located under the Contracts category above)
  • Cargo contract deliveries (# available): Vanilla game code
  • In-System Cargo Delivery:
  • Parcel contract deliveries (# available): Vanilla game code
  • Passenger contract deliveries (# available): Vanilla game code
Diplomacy
This category is added by the Diplomancy OXZ
  • Embassy district - for buying visas (and seeing how much time you have left on your current visas)
  • Star Wars (also needs the ANA installed - toggles between Wars Map/Diplomancy Map/Warring Systems Map.
  • System History - history of wars & alliances with local systems
Game
  • Cheat Screen: OoCheat - for awarding yourself extra money, invulnerability, extra kills etc.
Gambling
This category (with a variety of different options) appears depending on which OXPs you have loaded, and where you have docked!
G.E.T. (Guild of Elite Traders)
This category is added by the Elite Trader OXZ
G.E.T. Best Trade Resetter: resets your "Best Trade" statistics
G.E.T. Master Advisory: advice from the local guild master. If you had previously selected a commodity on the F8 markets page, you get information for that commodity for all markets in the system with a guild presence.
G.E.T. Ship Status Report: report on how Guild engineers have improved your ship's performance
Info
  • Planner - a blank notebook for recording information. Thanks to the Vanilla game programming, using this is a pain in the unmentionables!
Informational
Loans
Logs
  • Commander's Log - short list of important events (maintenance overhauls, increase in Elite Rating, jump to new Galaxy)
  • Communications log: MFD - CommsLog - collection of spoken/console messages received in flight
  • Damage Report: Damage Report MFD - list of damaged items, TL & cost needed to fix, link to map showing closest repair yard.
  • Email System - allows receipt (but not sending) of emails announcing kills, awards, fines, equipment purchases, etc
  • Flight Log - list of hyperjumps, and financial summary of profit/loss/money spent on equipment etc.
  • Reputations and awards: GalCop Missions - shows improvement in reputation fulfilling missions (Library can also add in your other reputations from the F5F5 screen)
  • View GalCop station docking counts from Home System
Mission
News
  • Galactic News Network: GNN - pops up when there is a newsflash.
Options
Organisations
  • Explorers' Club - lists of what has been visited, select what is marked on your F6 screen...
Ship
  • Access Hypercargo: - HyperCargo - only shows at some stations (otherwise you need to use the F5-F8 key sequence).
View Ship Specifications (Vanilla game code)
Ship Systems
  • Edit ship registration: Vanilla game code
  • Exhibitions (# visited): Gallery - select which exhibitions you wish to visit (hunters, escorts, pirates etc)
  • Gallery of all objects (# objects): Gallery of everything which might exist in your game
  • Gallery of all encounters (# items stored): Gallery of what you have so far met
  • Heat sink control: Ship Configuration - this complex oxp makes the heating up of your ship a major game factor which can be combated by a one-use heat sink
  • HUD and MFD selector: HUD Selector - select which HUD you want to fly with (and select the dials to go with some of them)
  • Laser arrangement - move your lasers around!
  • LMSS dockside services - move your lasers around!
  • Manage primable equipment: Vanilla game code - comes up when you have added primable equipment (ie OXPs).
  • Reorder Interfaces: Interface Reordering OXP - reorders your F4 screen to your taste.
  • Route Planning Interface: Route Planner OXP - for calculating more complex routes with the ANA.
  • Ship's Library - allows you to read the books in your ship's library.
  • Smuggling Compartment Configuration: Smugglers
  • View equipment specifications: Ship Configuration
  • View ship specifications: Vanilla game code - a library allowing you to access details of ships & stations in the game.
Station
  • Show Syllabus: Lave Academy OXP - list of extra-mural courses on offer (this also replaces the F8 page!).
Station Interfaces
  • Black Market: Smugglers - market & smugglers' noticeboard
  • Cargo Storage Facility: Hermitage - interface for managing your own Rock Hermit
  • Coriolis/Dodecahedron/Rock Hermit etc Station traffic control: Station Dock Control - allows you to see which ships are docked, arriving and leaving.
  • Dock Master: Smugglers - information about local Milkruns
  • GalCop security kiosk: Bounty System - at a secondary GalCop-aligned station - buy licenses, see "most wanted list", see notice board
  • GalCop security office: Bounty System - at the system's main GalCop orbital station - as above
  • Illegal goods information: Smugglers - details of import and export bans
  • Mineral Refinery: Hermitage - interface for managing your own Rock Hermit
  • Personal Ship Hanger: Hermitage - interface for managing your own Rock Hermit
  • Rock Hermit Management: Hermitage - interface for managing your own Rock Hermit
  • Storage facility management: Equipment Storage - for storing equipment and cargo
  • Telescope Options: Station Options - for setting the more complex options for Telescope
  • Transfer Cargo to Market: Hermitage - interface for managing your own Rock Hermit
Statistical
Training

Notes:

  • you will never get all of the above. For example Smugglers and New Cargoes clash, so you will only get the entries from one or the other. Ditto for Life on the Frontier and Life on the Frontier - Revival.
  • If the categories show ?? before each of them, then you have User:Alnivel's Interface Reordering OXZ loaded and have yet to reorder your F4 screen.

Changing the page

  • BGS 2.5.1 provides a backdrop of your ship's bridge - and appropriate station noises!
  • BGS 1.10.9 provides a more visible backdrop - with a suitable cacophonic accompaniment. You may need to remove Library to be able to see it - which could nobble some of your other OXPs!
It also provides a key on the left for the F1-F8 buttons.
  • Werewolf's HUD nicely emphasises the monitor effect.
  • XenonUI provides an on-screen reference list of key commands for this and the other F4-F8 pages
  • Docked HUDs removes your HUD from the bottom of the page, leaving only the fuel bar & missile display. Some of the more recent HUDs do this automatically.
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