First Finance OXP

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First Finance lends you the money to buy your ship - and manages the loan

F5F5 (ship's manifest page)
Loan Synopsis

Overview

So, you've got yourself a ship, but how exactly did you get it? Maybe you took a loan to buy it before the game started. This OXP will create a loan debt you have to pay off, when you start a new game. Yupp. This OXP will make the game a bit harder, nothing else.

While in the Vanilla game & Classic Elite your Cobra Mk.3 is a free graduation gift worth 150,000₢ (and in Frontier it was a gift from your grandfather), real life does not always work like that!

This oxp creates the Lave First Finance Corp, which lent you the money to buy your ship. You have a choice of repayment terms (based on either time or dockings), and this oxp takes it from there. You can repay more, there are issues with late payments, etc., etc.

Initial Terms
Loan Management Screen

Operation

  • The Initial Terms come up once you select New Commander at game start.
  • The next repayment is shown on your F5F5 Ship's Manifest screen
  • The Loan Management screen can be found when docked through the F4 screen (ship and system interfaces)
- select Loans Menu (under the Loans category).
  • You can also check the small print on the loan contract!

License

  • License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  • Author: Ocz
  • Version: 0.3.0 (but 0.2.0 in the Manifest.plist!)
  • Oolite version: v.1.81

Version History

  • Version 0.3.0 1/8/2016
Renamed form "Loan Repayment" to "First Finance"
Declared beta status
Added backgrounds to loan menus
Added a warning text to arrival report, if payment cycle ends soon.
Added info text to the manifest screen (F5F5).
Minor bugfixes
  • Version 0.2.0 1/3/2016 ("Loan Repayment")
Revised texts
Revised loan engagement menus
Some bugfixes
New save and load methods using JSON
Galactic Drive disabled.
  • Version 0.1.0 12/31/2015 ("Loan Repayment")
Initial alpha release

Notes

  • Honourable mentions:
My thanks go to:
phkb. His $padTextRight in "StationDockControl_Interface" from "Station Dock Control" OXP was a big help in improving the menu. I used a few very important lines of code in _formatLineToList.
Disembodied for prove reading most texts.
Norby and Cody for pitching their name ideas, that led to the name of this OXP.
  • Sidenote:
If it breaks and isn't repaired by me within quite some time, feel free the recreate a repaired version. (Please check beforehand, if somebody else already did this and his/her version isn't working at this point either. Give them credit too, when due!)

Links

Note that there is an auxiliary (alpha) .oxp: Loan Repayment (downloaded 86 times) - the lenders! by Ocz as above (2014)

Gameplay and Balance Indicator

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Start your game with a massive loan!