The Galactic Almanac OXZ
Overview
Incoming Message
In accordance with GalCop Directive Number 48753/A, all orbital platform operators were required to transmit the names of any and all platforms under their control from 09.00 today, Lave Local Time. Failure to comply with this Directive is a serious offence. All Commanders are encouraged to report any violations through their local Bulletin Board. Your onboard targeting software has been updated to display the names of all stars, worlds and registered orbitals. The Galactic Almanac of GAL-ID Registered Stars, Worlds and Orbitals has been added to your Dockside Services Interface. Access is available by selecting F4 whilst docked with any orbital or whilst landed on any planet or moon. Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with these new features of your Identification and Navigation systems.
Chief Cartographer Hober Marlowe.
Her Imperial Majesty's Bureau of Records. Autocrat House, 7 Triumph Road, Riverside Sector, Ashoria, Lave I, ZF1-007.
This expansion allocates unique and persistent names to all space stations, satellites, stars, gas giants, planets, moons and asteroids in the game. All names are persistent both for individual players and all players of the game. If, for example, you have the SIRIF Station Expansion installed then for you and all players of the game with the OXZ installed, there will be a SIRIF Station named Status Que present in the Lave System. The Galactic Almanac OXZ does not however itself add any stations or planets to the game. The code works by reading the OXPs (if any) you personally have installed and naming those which exist in your game. The Expansion does not name Rock Hermits or Carriers such as Behemoths, as these are already named by Random Ship Names OXZ. If you play with both expansions installed, then every object in your game will be named. The two expansions are not dependant on each other and you can play with both, neither or just one installed as you wish.
The expansion does not name unique stations, such as the Tionisla Orbital Graveyard or stations which have already been assigned names by their creator, such as the Space Bars from Random Hits. The Expansion automatically detects names added by other OXZs and will display any name assigned by another OXZ to any object in the game.
The expansion does not change the behaviour of any other OXZ. Not all stations have complied with GalCop’s directive as they are run by criminals. Some stations are secret and not shown on Galactic Maps as they are classified installations. These stations are named by the expansion, but they will not be shown on your Advanced Space Compass until you find a way of locating them, as intended by their creators. Classified Stations and Secret Stations will not be shown on the Galactic Almanac screen even once you have discovered them as GalCop does not disclose the locations of its Military Installation and Black Operations Sites to the Spacefaring community in genera. Similarly as GalCop does not know the locations of certain rebel organisations, resistance groups and criminal gangs, stations operated by these outlaws are not recorded in the Galactic Almanac.
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The OXZ is under Construction - Please Stand By - Not Available on the Expansion Pack Manager Yet!
This OXZ requires Version 1.90 or higher of Oolite.
Main Features
Upon installing the OXZ you will receive the message above from Her Imperial Majesty's Bureau of Records and the Galactic Almanac will be added to your Dockside Services Interface. If you press F4 whilst docked with any orbital or carrier or whilst landed on any planet or moon, you will be able to view the list of natural and artificial satellites in the local system together with their orbital positions and the distance each is from your current location.
All of the features of the expansion can be individually toggled on or off in game from the Galactic Almanac Settings Menu. The expansion will by default name all Stars, Gas Giants, Planets, Moons, Asteroids, Main Stations, Witchpoint Beacons and OXZ Stations. Each of these features can be individually turned on or off in the Settings Menu. You can also select the Units of Distance in which you would like the Almanac to display distances and select your preferred background graphics for the Galactic Almanac Screens.
The Galactic Almanac OXZ provides support for other OXZs in two ways. If you are writing a new Station OXZ or adding a planet or moon, you can chose whether your creation is named by the Galactic Almanac OXZ or not. New Stations will not be named by the Expansion unless the author of the Station tells the Galactic Almanac to name it. This is done by setting a script info command in the Station’s shipdata.plist entry. If you chose one of the default styles and all stations your OXZ adds will be assigned unique and persistent names in the style you have selected.
The Galactic Almanac OXZ also contains an inbuilt Procedural Name Generator which can be used by other authors to generate custom names for their creations. The Generator can be turned on in the Settings Menu. When enabled the generator will write 256 procedurally generated names to your Latest Log file in a format ready to copy and paste into a script file each time you make a hyperspace jump in game. You can set the word lists you wish the generator to combine in order to create customised names. Instructions on how to use the generator to create custom name lists for new OXZ stations are set out on the The Galactic Almanac User Manual page.
