Sandbox Sovereign Expansion

[Drako Slyith]

RPC and I have been making some progress in sandbox, but we need some help. We need to expand several sovereigns, to work well in sandbox. We need to expand the Ringers, Ares, Ranx, and Sung, and some minor sovereigns as well. If anyone is interested in expanding some sovereigns, please post here which one/ones that you would like to expand. If you would like to help on another part, please either post it here or PM me or RPC. Thank you all.

[RPC]

BTW, Heliotropes
Gaians
Xenophobes
and
Ranx
are taken

[RPC]

Here's a list of enemy stations and their sovereigns that need content (please tell me if I'm missing any stations). I didn't include any of the Heretic stuff because I think they should be left alone for now.

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hard: (needs lots of content like stations, ships, items and is in sore need of some lore)
	(svCult)
	stPenitentShrine
	stPenitentSanctum
	
	(svSettlers)
	stAbbasidOutpost
	(svSettlers)
	stAsteroidMinePalladium	
	stAsteroidMineDuralloy
	stAsteroidMinePteracnium
	
	(svIndependentTrader)
	stOutlawConvoyEncounter
	
	(svOutlaw)
	stOutlawBase
	(svOutlaw)
	stDrugCartelOutpost
	(svOutlaw)
	stOutlawBase
	stOutlawBase2
	stOutlawHaven
	
	
	(svHimalSeparatists)
	stHimalRefuge

	(svDestructiveOrder)
	stLuminousAssembler
	
	(svDestructiveChaos)
	stPteravoreLair
	
	(svAnarchists)
	stAnarchistCell
	stAnarchistGathering
	stAnarchistGatheringSat
	stAnarchistSettlement
	(svAnarchists)
	stTerroristCamp
	stTerroristCompound

medium: (needs Dockscreens and a few more items, the faction is mostly complete but a bit lacking)

	(svDwargRaiders)
	stDwargColony
	stDwargGathering
	stDwargGatheringSat
	stDwargFortress
	
	(svUrakWarlords)
	stUrakOutpost
	stUrakMine
	stUrakFortress
	
	(svRogueFleet)
	stRogueFleetCache
	stRogueFleetSettlement
	
	(svKobolWarlords)
	stKobolWarlordCamp
	
	(svIndependentTrader)
	stSalvagerEncounter
	
	(svDestructiveOrder)
	stVentariColony
	
	(svDestructiveOrder)
	stRanxOutpost
	stRanxFortress

	(svIndependentTrader)
	stGaianProcessorEncounter
	
	(svHeliotropes)
	stHeliotropeColony
	stHeliotropeOutpost

	(svCommonwealth)
	stCentauriOccupation
	(svCentauriWarlords)
	stCentauriCamp
	stCentauriStronghold
	
	(svMarauders)
	stMarauderOutpost
	stMarauderCompound
	stMarauderStronghold

	(svDestructiveChaos)
	stXenophobeFleet		
	stXenophobeWorldship


easy: (only needs dockscreens and most people know who they are and what they do)

	(svFerianMiners) /(svFerianMinersAngry)
	stFerianColony
	
	(svSung)
	stSungSlaveCamp
	stSungFortress
	stSungCitadel
	
	(svAres)/ (svAresHeretic)
	stAresOutpost
	stAresRedoubt--- ??? What the heck is that?
	stAresCommune
	stAresShipyard
	
	(svPirates)
	stCharonPirateFortress
	stCharonPirateOutpost
	stCharonPirateOutpost2
	stCharonPirateOutpost2a
	stCharonPirateOutpost3
	stCharonPrimaryStronghold1
	stCharonPrimaryStronghold2
	stCharonPrimaryStronghold3

The stations with svSettlers (Abbasid and the illegal miners) and svAnarchists (the tiny hornet stations are related to the Sapiens?!?!? how?) got me mixed up. Now I have to find out what their relation is....
And I want to see the Ares Redoubt! I've seen it a few versions back, but I didn't think it would persist to 1.06a... so... what is it?

[Drako Slyith]

Perhaps we could also expand the Teratons? This would be medium difficulty, I think. It would be nice to find out what exactly their experiments are working to develop. Maybe a new life form?

And I don't think all of them need to be expanded massively.
High priority would probably be:
Ringers
Ares
Sung

Ringers and Ares are two of 3 main sovereigns in Sandbox, Sung is going to be a minor empire, using guerilla tactics to build their strength.

[RPC]

For the Ringers, we'll only need to add ships and stations, right?
The Ares and Sung just need dockscreens, so I'll try to add dockscreens without overriding. Wish me luck!

[Drako Slyith]

Yeah, ringers need more stations (with new dockscreens) and ships would be good. Ares of course need dockscreens and new stations. (We also need to think about capitals)

If you finish a sovereign (or get a basic prototype working) you can past it on the workspace: http://code.google.com/p/transcendence- ... -topology/

[shanejfilomena]

Hornet: made by Earth Industries: I learned this making the EI station:they are sold to Anarchists.
I never seen them as anything else.
( but do have a nice one that flies in my "testing Ideas" folder: LightTharsisPlate makes it hold out a little longer without making them more annoying in the game.)

[Drako Slyith]

With just a MKII shield hornets are nearly invincible with anything but an omnidirectional weapon.

[RPC]

Uh-oh, any ideas on how to add this (Trade currency) dynamically?

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<Trade currency="credit" max="100000" replenish="5000">
			<Sell	criteria="m +Commonwealth; -Illegal; -Military; -NotForSale; L:1-3;" priceAdj="115" inventoryAdj="200"/>
			<Sell	criteria="*NU -Illegal; -ID; -NotForSale;"	priceAdj="110"/>
			<Buy	criteria="amswNU -Illegal; -NotForSale;"		priceAdj="50"/>
			<Buy	criteria="*NU -Illegal; -ID; -NotForSale;"	priceAdj="90"/>
			<Buy	criteria="*NU -Illegal; -ID;"				priceAdj="10"/>
		</Trade>

I gave the Ares Stations a sell DS, but they don't want anything

[shanejfilomena]

m+Commonwealth?????
that should be a road block.
try *NU+Ares ( you get weapons and nukes)

Unless you explicitly make commonwealth attributed missiles ,etc , it will not be able to function. But that is supposing that you did not make such things.

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<Trade currency="credit" max="50000" replenish="2500">
			<Sell	criteria="m +NAMI; -Illegal; -NotForSale;" priceAdj="120" inventoryAdj="600"/>
			<Sell	criteria="*NU -Illegal; -ID; -NotForSale;"	priceAdj="420"/>
		</Trade>

edited to add my Nami dealer code for show and tell: and to remove "ids" when I mean "is"

[alterecco]

Uh-oh, any ideas on how to add this (Trade currency) dynamically? snip code

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(objAddSellOrder obj criteria priceAdj) -> True/Nil
(objAddBuyOrder obj criteria priceAdj) -> True/Nil

The only thing you can not add there is the `inventoryAdj` attribute. Not even sure what it does.

[shanejfilomena]

NOW I feel tiny:) I never saw such code before..must get out of the ship more often.
however: as I understood it so far : `inventoryAdj` marks up items called to the inventory: in the EI dealer I feared the player getting a tev9 too early in the game ( made by EI ), so I inventory adj it to be " OMG , RLY ?". it worked.

[alterecco]

however: as I understood it so far : `inventoryAdj` marks up items called to the inventory: in the EI dealer I feared the player getting a tev9 too early in the game ( made by EI ), so I inventory adj it to be " OMG , RLY ?". it worked.

I am not entirely sure what you are suggesting. I think inventoryAdj modifies the amount of items the station will buy or sell, or it adjusts the amount of items available (don't think so though, that should go somewhere else). Probably, by setting the value to " OMG, RLY ?" you did the equivalent of setting it to 0 or nil. I am quite certain that is not a valid value.

[RPC]

I think a last ditch effort would be to just override stations and put all the Sandbox Overrides in an .xml or module and use the
extends attribute to keep it Sandbox-only.

[Drako Slyith]

Sandbox is an adventure, so if you overwrite and have it be a module, I can make it work only with sandbox, and it makes it much easier.