Personalities OXP

Adds Oolite community personalities to your game

Overview

This OXP adds characters we all know and love from the Oolite Bulletin Boards to the Ooniverse. Each personality has some specific behaviour and communication patterns.

Notable Features

There is a 65% chance that you will meet one well-known personality when you either jump into a new system or launch from a main station. Some of them are traders or engage in asteroid mining, some of them are bounty hunters and will protect you in case a pirate attacks you—or attack you in case you are the pirate. Some will only engage Thargoids. And some greet you friendly first, but may try to make you one more step on their ELITE ladder if nobody else is looking. Their behaviour in combat varies, but expect all of them to be a little tougher than your average adversary.

A list of the personalities contained in the basic OXP can be found at the very bottom of its ReadMe, separated by enough whitespace. If you like to be surprised, don't scroll down.

Notes on Alnivel's update version 0.91 (2022)

Update of the original 10 personalities to work with newer versions of Oolite. Adds more options.

Notes on original version 0.9 (2009)

DISCLAIMER

Personalities.oxp is a work in progress, and this version 0.9 is meant as a sneak preview, to give you a feeling what it looks like. It works as it is, but the final release may be different. Please help improving it by reporting bugs and strange or unexpected behaviour in its thread on the Oolite Bulletin Boards. Thanks very much!

How do I remove my own character?

1) Open the shipdata.plist inside the "Config" folder.
2) Look for the entry "personalities-<yourname>".
3a) Remove it completely.
or
3b) Go to its "roles" key, and delete the roles "personalities" and "personalities_launcher".

Minimum Requirements

Personalities 0.95 was updated for Oolite 1.90. The AI's are still in .plist form, but can now be located in a specific system/galaxy. Personalities 0.9 was written and tested on Oolite 1.73.4. It should run on Oolite 1.73 and above. Some of its features will only be available and enabled from Oolite 1.74 onwards.

Download Location

Personalities.oxp v 0.91 (2022) Personalities.oxp v 0.9 (2009) is available for download via Box.com.

Installation

Move or copy the file Personalities.oxp from the main download folder into your AddOns folder. Where this resides, depends on your OS and your personal preferences. Restart Oolite.

Version History

• version 0.9.1 (September, 2022) by Alnivel

requires Oolite 1.9 (probably can work even on versions 1.82+, but not tested)

fixed several broken function calls

changed names of internal variables and resources to avoid conflicts

changed comms message using method, it now requires a description.plist entry to be defined in this format:

"personalities-<personality name>-messageTypes" = "<list of space separated message types>";

rewritten methods for the spawn of special ships, changing a probability of this spawns now easier

added method for adding role to appear on a specified condition, such as system id, after some event etc

• version 0.9 (November 5th, 2009) by Commander McLane

functional version for testing and feedback purposes

script may still get worked over

requires Oolite 1.73

Links

• Personalities.oxp (2009 - date)
• Forum Denizen OXPs This seems to be the fons et origo of this oxp (2009)
• How would you like to appear as a Cameo in OOLite? (2005)