Interstellar Tweaks

Interstellar Tweaks interacts intelligently with many other OXPs, adding depth to Oolite. Such as this Navy Light Destroyer from Galactic Navy Additions (Not on the in-game Expansions Manager)

Interstellar Tweaks adds rather more to interactions with the massive Generation Ships. The little blob on the upper right is an enormous Galactic Navy Behemoth!

Rather more excitement in interstellar space!

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, but in a fairly trivial way, a few that I do not list here) - but it requires none of them. Most but not all of the packs are available via the in-game Expansions Manager. (The remainder will have to be downloaded and installed manually. The in-game expansions manager will suggest - as accompaniments to Interstellar Tweaks - only those packs that are available via that manager.)

• Armoury
• Behemoth
• Breakable WitchDrive
• BGS
• Escape Pod Locator OXP
• Extra Thargoids
• Fer-de-Lance 3G OXP
• Fuel Collector OXP
• Galactic Navy - not on Expansions Manager - see Galactic Navy OXP for download details - there are several variants and GN addons to choose from
• Generation Ships OXP
• Griff's shipset expansion packs (for, especially, nice looking thargoids!)
• Interstellar help OXP - with its 'Electronic Thumb'
• Military Fiasco
• Misjump Analyser
• Missionaries OXP
• mPakRedux (a.k.a. 'Rusties') - not on Expansions Manager - see Second-hand ships for download details
• Staer9 Spectre - not on Expansions Manager
• To Catch a Thargoid
• Thargoid Carrier - not on Expansions Manager (this will considerably increase the thargoid threat - though the Fer-de-Lance 3G OXP will somewhat offset that);
• Thargorn Threat
• Tionisla Orbital Graveyard together with its 'TOGY_Shipwreck pack'

Compatibility

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

• Thargoid Witchspace Drive - not on Expansions Manager
• Wormhole drones - not on Expansions Manager
• Galactic Misjump OXP - not on Expansions Manager
• Her Imperial Majesty's Space Navy (at least up to a point)

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
• 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

Thanks also to Cholmondely, our indefatigable archivist.

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
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