NPC

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Library OXP's database showing entry for an NPC
(Captain Curruthers from the Vanilla game)

Non-Player Character

Overview

In Oolite, all characters other than you are NPC's. Unless you manage to connect with somebody else using Hiram's Nexus.

How are personalities created within Oolite? Well, one either interacts with them as ships (in which case the AI of the ship is the relevant part - note that the AI's were rewritten for Oolite back in 2014 (v.1.80), breaking many AI's in older oxp's) or when docked.

OXP's

These OXP's introduce ships with NPC's into your game.
Many of these were crafted by Murgh
Note that some of these have been repackaged several times over the years - Missionaries, Boy Racer, Refugee Adder/Adder Xpat


These OXP's introduce (paid) allies into your game.


Docked NPC's


One of the issues is the Torus Drive which is not shared with NPC ships, and limits some interractions with them. See Torus Drive for workarounds

Missions

Many missions involve ships with personality. See Oolite Missions for a sortable list (you might wish to select your galaxy, for example).

Tools

  • Library OXP introduces the Lib PAD which contains a database for in-game NPC's with extensive resources. This has sadly not been implemented by other OXP's.

Links

See, for example, the discussion at Hire Traders (2011)