Ship's Library OXP

Disambiguation:

Oolite abounds with libraries!
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• A Library in the programmer's sense: reusable code that people writing OXPs can use. That is to say instead of everyone writing a javascript method to land on a planet, one person does so and everyone else uses that:

• Library.oxp
• Cabal Common Library.oxp

• A library of books or of ship/station descriptions:

• Ship Library on the starting game screen - descriptions of ships, stations, asteroids and missiles mostly from the Vanilla game
• View Ship Specifications - as above, but on the F4/4 Ship-Station Interface screen when docked
• Gallery OXP does something similar to the above but with all encountered items
• Technical Reference Library OXP - similar to Gallery but includes non-encountered ships.
• Ship's Library OXP: by Cim (with the Ship's Manual; a half-dozen library books are addable)- see below on this page

The last four are accessed through the F4/4 Ship-Station Interface screen when docked - all under Ship Systems

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This OXP was devised by Oolite's last Lead Developer Cim who also wrote a couple of books for it!

Overview

• Download the OXZ (listed under Equipment in the Expansions Manager).
• You get access to the books in your library when you are docked - Try the F4 interface and look towards the end of the list under Ship Systems. Note that your library does not give you comparisons of Spacecraft & Orbital Stations - for that you need View Ship Specifications, which is called the Ship Library when you are inside it!
• You can also buy an in-flight reader for 200cr. This will provide an MFD (which will need priming using the :/; keys) governed by the n/b keys to allow you to scroll through your books!

The Library comes with your Ship's Manual:

Ship's Manual Contents

• Tip of the Day (varies!)

Ship controls and information displays

• Ship Systems Controls
• Station Systems Controls
• Standard In-flight Controls

Ship equipment, both standard and optional

• Standard Equipment
• Trading Equipment
• Combat Equipment
• Extra Equipment

A brief introduction to life in space

• Galactic Cooperative
• Interactions with other pilots
• Planetary Governments
• Planetary Economics
• Species of the Cooperative
• Thargoids
• History

Supplementary Volumes

You can also download (via the in-game Expansions Manager: also under Equipment) the following volumes:

• Captain Solo's Good Fortune by Captain Solo himself!
• Extracts from the Tre Clan Addresses on Interplanetary Life: lectures on the nomadic life of a space-farer (also by Cim).
• Ship's Library Book - Mutabilis: Volume 2 of Drew Wagar's series
• Ship's Library Book - Status Quo: Volume 1 of Drew Wagar's series

• The Traders Almanach link is here: this is dated and may not work, but is full of advice on what to trade between the various planets!

Links

See the bulletin board discussion here