Hermitage

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Own your very own Rock Hermit!

Overview

This OXP gives the player the opportunity to operate their own Rock Hermit. In effect this OXP creates a new version of Oolite, with new goals and new problems.

Rock Hermits can be (i) purchased or (ii) pirated, or there are 3 different starting scenarios to try where you (iii) inherit a Rock Hermit with a mining-equipped small ship and try to make a living. The locations of each of these scenarios should mean a slightly different play experience in each, some easier, some harder.

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Please note:   This OXP is currently a work-in-progress, which means some things may not work as expected, or at all, and not everything I want to put in is currently implemented. Keep this in mind as you play, and please let me know your thoughts/ideas/experience via the Oolite BB topic for this OXP (see Links at the bottom of this wiki page).


Requirements

The OXP can be downloaded here: Link for v0.8.7 [url=https://app.box.com/s/y9hew1rpam9zmzkoodxlfcrov1k0s1wv]Hermitage.0.8.3.zip[/url] (beacon issues fixed!)

see OXP for details of what to do with it

The following OXP's are required to use "Hermitage":

If you want to utilise the option of piracy to acquire a Rock Hermit, you will also need one of the various versions of Broadcast Comms MFD.

Getting your first Rock Hermit

There are a number of ways you can acquire a Rock Hermit. Some Rock Hermits are for sale, and will advertise this fact when you dock at the station. While some may not be for sale, the owner might still be willing to consider a purchase. In both cases, an F4 interface, "Discuss station purchase with owner" will be available.

If you want a particular station, but either don't want to spend the money, or don't have the money to spend, you can attempt to force the Rock Hermit owner to surrender it to you. You will need to attack the station, and using the Broadcast Comms MFD, demand that the owner surrender to you. You may need to apply some force before the owner becomes willing to do this. If the station explodes, you applied too much force.

Once you have taken ownership of your Rock Hermit in either of these ways, you will need to complete a mission at the main station of the system you are in. Once that mission is complete, you *must* save and reload the game in order for some settings to be reset correctly.

Alternatively, there are three scenarios available to start a new game with, at varying difficulty levels. In each one, you will start with a basic Rock Hermit and a mining-equipment ship.

General Instructions

Once you have a Rock Hermit for yourself, it is time to take up life as a hermit. In general, the basic process of operating your station is to use a mining laser to shoot asteroids into boulders, shoot those boulders into splinters, scoop those splinters and bring them back to your Rock Hermit. You can then process the splinters in your refinery to extract whatever minerals, alloys, precious metals and gems might be found inside, after which you can add those resources to your market for sale. Over time, traders will purchase those resources, bringing you cash.

However, you are not limited to that process as the only means to generate income. Various upgrades can be added to your station that will attract more clientele and bring in other sources of income: bars and restaurants, weapons manufacturing plants or distilleries. Each upgrade has the potential to increase the income you can generate from your station. All the upgrades available are listed below.

Everything you need to achieve on your station is managed through the following F4 interface screens (grouped together in the "Hermitage Management" section):

1) Mineral Refinery

This interface gives you access to the mineral refinery of the station, which will process splinters scooped from asteroids and potentially extract other commodities from them, like alloys, radioactives, precious metals or gem-stones.

The refinery can be upgraded through "Station Upgrades" (see below) for an improved refinery process that will extract more value from the splinters scooped. By default, refined goods will be sent straight to the market, or (if the market is at capacity) to storage.

2) Cargo Storage Facility

Every Rock Hermit has an area dedicated to cargo storage. Only cargo can be stored in this facility. Cargo can be transferred from your cargo hold, or from the station market.

  • The size of your storage area can be increased through "Station Upgrades" (see below).

3) Equipment Storage Facility

You can transfer equipment from your ship to this personal storage facility. Most equipment items installed and held on your ship can be stored in this facility. This can be useful when certain components required for building upgrades are purchased in advance, as they can be removed from your ship and stored safely here.

Stored items can then be transferred back to your ship, or sold if they are no longer required.

4) Personal Ship Hangar

Each Rock Hermit has a place to store a number of vessels the owner might need to use. For instance, the owner might have a ship dedicated to mining, but a different ship set up for defense or bulk hauling. The personal ship hangar is where these ships are stored, and they can be swapped for your current ship at any time, without penalty.

  • Additional ships can be purchased through "Station Upgrades" (see below).
  • The maximum number of ships you can house in your hangar is related to the maximum amount of space available. If you don't have any space upgrades, you can have 4 ships in your hangar. If you have the upgrade to 300m², you can have 6 ships. If you have the 500m² upgrade, you can have 10 ships.
  • You cannot transfer ships to another station, or have them delivered to you at some other location. Your ships are only available at your Rock Hermit.

5) Rock Hermit management

All other functions of the Rock Hermit are managed through the "Rock Hermit management" screen. This screen has the following six options:

5.1) Facilities Management

This option lists all facilities currently installed in your station, the state of those upgrades (active, inactive, damaged), and (if applicable) the current level of that facility, as a percentage.

  • Each facility can be selected to display additional details and functions specific to that facility.
  • Some facilities have operational costs. This can be monetary, or in the form of resources. If resources are required to keep the facility operational, they will be taken from storage at the beginning of the day. If the resources are not present, the facility will be shut down, and any potential income for that facility will be lost until the required resources are supplied.
  • If resources are required for daily operations, it is possible to set up a scheduled transport to deliver those commodities, allowing you, as the Rock Hermit owner, to concentrate on other aspects of your station. The price for the transports will vary by distance travelled, and the danger of the route.
  • If a facility is damaged, the repairs can be ordered through this interface. Repairs will require certain commodities, which are different for each facility. If the required resources are not available, the facility will remain in a damaged state and any potential income from that facility will be lost.
  • Facilities can also be manually disabled. This may be necessary if you need to recover the power usage for other purposes, or you want to prevent the facility from using resources.
Details about specific facilities is covered in the "Station Upgrades" section below.

5.2) Scheduled Transports

This section lists all transports that have been booked to deliver commodities to your station. Transports are booked through each facilities management pages (see section above).

5.3) Personnel

As your base expands and increases in profitability, you may want to employ additional staff to help with certain functions. There are three main staffing areas open for employment:

1. Mining/Contractor pilots. These pilots will exit the station and perform mining activities outside your station.
2. Defense pilots. These pilots will launch to defend your station, if it comes under attack.
3. Security guards. These staff members increase the security of your station, preventing theft and damage.
  • Staff are paid on a daily basis. If you don't have sufficient credits to cover their wage, they will cease employment immediately and leave your station.
  • You can employ new staff through this interface. Higher-skilled pilots/guards will have a higher wage.

5.4) Market Functions

From this option you can adjust the price of any commodity on the market, increasing or decreasing them as you see fit. You can also transfer cargo between various locations: market, storage, or your hold. Whenever you go to the F8 Market screen on your Hermitage, you will be brought here to perform any market-related functions.

5.5) Income/Expenses

This option shows you how well your station is performing from an income and expenses perspective. All transactions with a monetary component will be displayed, with the daily total shown at the top. The report can show previous days summary as well.

5.6) Miscellaneous Services

There are potentially 9 different options here:

1. Rename station: Allows you to change the name of your Rock Hermit. This can be done at any time.
2. Set beacon code: If the navigation beacon has been installed, this option will let you change the code used by the space compass to represent your station.
3. Construction schedule: If you have upgrades currently being constructed, this option will shown you when they are due to be completed.
4. Allegiance: Use this option to change the allegiance of your station, to one of the following:
NEUTRAL: pirates and criminals will not dock, but may hang around outside safely. Everyone else may dock
CHAOTIC: anyone will be allowed to dock
PIRATE: pirates and criminals can dock, while others may be considered hostile
HUNTER: friendly to bounty hunters and hostile to offenders and fugitives
5. Station log: This is a record of all activity on your station, including buy/sell transactions from other ships, upgrade purchases, equipment damage and repair.
6. Visit mineral refinery: This will take you to the Mineral Refinery screen.
7. Visit cargo storage: This will take you to the Cargo Storage facility screen.
8. Visit equipment storage: This will take you to the Equipment Storage facility screen.
9. Visit ship hangar: This will take you to the Ship Hangar screen.

Station Market

The commodity market of the Rock Hermit is completely under your control. That is, you can move cargo in or out of the market without any cost involved. You can also set the price of any commodity using the Rock Hermit Management screen.

Production Commodities

Several station upgrades can produce commodities as part of their function. This includes the refinery, hydroponics unit, distillery, weapons manufacturing plant, and the narcotics processing plant. By default, any commodities produced are sent to the station market, ready for sale. To switch this default to be the cargo storage facility, go to the Mineral Refinery screen and change the default there. That will change the default for all production services.

If there are some commodities you want to deal with differently to the default, you can change the specific production destination on the commodity details page in the Hermitage Management screens.

Strategy and Tactics

Xiibli Nbilibli, the renowned hermit of Galaxy 2, famously built his empire starting as a humble hermit. Starting with mining asteroids to get splinters, and then building an ore processor to extract the valuables from them, he was able to amass enough capital to start upgrading the technology level of his hermit. As he did this, he was able to build more and more upgrades and then transcend his hermit and build his mining empire.

Red Chaldo explains in his Hermit's Almanac that it is vital to keep your market and fuel reserves stocked... and when one has amassed enough money, one can then diversify into other more amusing ways to earn a living... Needless to say, his Almanac contains a full set of blueprints for expanding the structure of one's hermit, increasing the fuel reserves, energy storage units, building life support systems, auto-repair facilities, distilleries, narcotics processing units, turret defense systems, security systems, bars & restaurants, etc etc.

Hermit Outfitters

Station Upgrades

Upgrades to your Rock Hermit can be found on the F3 Equip Ship screen, under the 'Station upgrades' item. Items are grouped into one of the following subsections: Core Systems, General Operations, Power/Energy, Shipyard Operations, Market Operations, Defensive Systems, TechLevel, Entertainment Facilities, and Utility Ships. Some items will need your station to be at a certain TechLevel before they can be constructed. Only those items that are able to be built at the current TechLevel of your station will be shown.

Most items will require resources of some sort in order to build them. The requirements are listed on the description page of each item. Additionally, the resource requirements can be very specific, for instance needing alloys from a TL7 system, or luxuries from a TL10 system.

Tables of Upgrades

The following tables provide a full list of all the possible upgrades available for your station and details of each.

Notes

1. Your station has limited space and power. Upgrades must remain inside these limitations, although there are some options available to expand the space and power limits of your station.
2. Some upgrades have ongoing costs, which must be paid each day for the facility to remain functional. If you do not have sufficient credits, the unit will be automatically deactivated.
3. Some upgrades have material requirements for operating. If you do not have these resources in storage, the unit will be automatically deactivated.
4. Blueprints: Some upgrades require the purchase of a blueprint before details about the construction can be assessed. When a blueprint is required, the details on where to find it will be shown on the equipment details page. Blueprints can only be purchased from other Rock Hermits.
5. Life Support: if the life support system reaches 0%, the station will not be able to support life. Any pilots or guard you have employed will leave the station and your employment. The life support system can be recharged with minerals to quickly restore it to 100%, although it will recover slowly on it's own.
6. Fuel Reserve: this is the amount of fuel available to ships when they dock, if they want to refuel their ships. If this reaches 0, no more refuelling will take place. Additional fuel can be scooped from the sun, or a transport can be booked to perform this function for you.
7. Required after purchase: GalCop Certification. Items that have this requirement will necessitate a trip to the main station (plus a save and reload of the game) to register the upgrade with GalCop before it can be activated.
8. Installation/delivery time: unlike standard ship upgrades which happen immediately, upgrades to your station will be scheduled according to the amount of time required. When the completion time passes, the upgrade will become available.
9. The price of utility ships will be higher if the Ship Configuration OXP is in use.

Core Systems

Show Core Systems

General Operations

Show General Operations

Shipyard Operations

Show Shipyard Operations

Power/Energy

Show Power/Energy

TechLevel

Show TechLevel

Market Operations

Show Market Operations

Defensive Systems

Show Defensive Systems

Entertainment Facilities

Show Entertainment Facilities

Utility Ships

Show Utility Ships

Specialised equipment components

There are certain pieces of equipment that are used as components of certain upgrades. They can be purchased at main stations in systems with the appropriate TechLevel. They are as follows:

Show Equipment Components

Blueprints

Blueprints are required in order build various Rock Hermit components, as they provide all the technical specifications and resource requirements of that upgrade. Blueprints can be purchased from other Rock Hermits in most systems. Some Rock Hermits also offer bundles of blueprints at a reduced overall cost.

Show Blueprints

Licence

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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Adder texture borrowed from gsagostinho's Adder texture pack.
Cobra MkIII texture borrowed from gsagostinho's Cobra MkIII texture pack.
Sidewinder and Cobra Mk1 textures borrowed from ZGroovy's Variety pack.
Asp MkII texture borrowed from gsagostinho's Asp Mk II texture pack.
Fer-de-Lance texture borrowed from gsagostinho's Fer-de-Lance texture pack.
Python texture borrowed from gsagostinho's Python texture pack.
Krait maps borrowed from Griff's Krait.

Version History

  • 0.8.7
- Added protection against some invalid data.
  • 0.8.6
- Turned on some debug messages for testing purposes.
  • 0.8.5
- Turned off testing mode that made every Rock Hermit ready for purchase.
  • 0.8.4
- Fixed issue with updating Hermitage station data key.
- Fixed JS error when reactivating items that have ongoing costs.
- Added current market capacity to market management page.
- Reduced the number of shipdata entries required for all possible Hermitage configurations.
- Fixed issue where purchasing techlevel or price factor upgrade was not being applied after reload.
- Fixed bug that was preventing cargo from being moved to storage if the result would fill the storage facility.
- Fixed bug that was preventing cargo from being moved from the market to storage.
- Shipyard purchase now doesn't require a GalCop Certification process, with the save/reload step.
- Added BGS docking tunnel textures for different levels of TL.
- Any upgrade that produces output commodities can now have individual control on the destination (market or storage).
- Added Rock Hermit market data to start scenarios.
- Reduced life support issue frequency.
- Some management page UI tweaks.
- Added a "Welcome home" message when docking at your Hermitage.
  • 0.8.3
- Added overlay masks for screens that display ship models, to make sure foreground text is always visible.
- Tweaked recharging requirements and reliability for Life Support systems.
- Fixed integration error with Ore Processor.
- Fixed issue with GalCop Certification missions causing JS error when completing.
- Switched contracted miner role to be "scavenger".
- Fixed issue with setting the commodity amount when booking a transport.
- Added note on Fuel Reserve details page indicating when a transport has been scheduled.
- Updated readme.txt file.
  • 0.8.2
- Prevented cargo being transferred to hold from market or storage when not docked at the Hermitage.
- Fixed JS bug when purchasing Rock Hermit.
- Fixed JS bug when getting secondary mission after purchasing certain upgrades.
- Improved detection of scavenger when redocking at Hermitage.
- Prevented any trade simulation from running before you arrive at your station, when playing the start scenario.
- Added missing trueValues array to Transports script file.
  • 0.8.1
- Fixed JS error when accessing Reactor details in Facilities management.
- Fixed JS error when purchasing equipment that requires a sub-mission.
- Issue issue where swapping to a stored ship while holding cargo would result in the player getting credits for sold cargo.
- Prevented access to some local services when using remote management.
- Fixed issue where installing an upgrade that must replace an existing one was not removed previous upgrade.
- Fixed issue where RH AI wasn't getting switched after purchase.
- Adjusted price and energy consumption of hydroponics unit.
- Fixed issue where the expected delivery of upgrades might show as a blank when very close to delivery time.
- Added Market Inquirer role requirement to shipdata, rather than adding hermitage role to Market Inquirer.
  • 0.8
- Market Inquirer screens now available on Hermitages.
- Removed TL and eco requirements for resources. So 1t of computers is now 1t of computers, regardless of where you purchase it.
- Added upgrade blueprints for most upgrades, plus some blueprint bundles to speed up collection.
- Added special equipment requirements for some upgrades.
- Commodities on the "Market and Cargo Functions" page are now listed in the same order as the F8 Market page.
- Added missing F5F5 manifest details for pending missions.
- Fixed issue with redocking miners causing Javascript error.
- Replaced F8 Market screen with equivalent Hermitage management screen.
- Cleaned up process of purchasing Rock Hermit from former owner.
- Rock Hermit name was sometimes getting messed up after purchasing a Rock Hermit.
- If using force to get ownership of a Rock Hermit, the former owner now correctly launches and runs away once they give in to your demands.
- Added ability to store ship equipment at a Hermitage.
- Moved all Hermitage-related F4 interfaces into a new sub-section called "Hermitage Management".
- Changed destination of change of ownership missions, and certification missions, to the main station in the local system, with a note to the player that they need to save and reload the game when the mission is completed.
- Fixed issue where HUD was not resetting correctly when leaving the F4 Hermitage Management screen.
- Updated cargo storage menus for consistency, and sorted all commodities in the same order as on the F8 Market page.
- Added hydroponics upgrade.
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