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 - Status Quo: Volume 1 of Drew Wagar's series
• Ship's Library Book - Mutabilis: Volume 2 of Drew Wagar's series

• The Traders Almanach link is here: this is an oxp (not an oxz), but is full of advice on what to trade between 90 or so planets in Galaxy 1!

Links

See the bulletin board discussion here