More to do... Orbital Purpose

[Sherrif of Nottingham]

Ok, I've kindof suggested these things for OMP or MMOMP whatever you wanna call it.

But really who wouldn't want this?

I'm kind of tired of flying to Brighton Beach, unloading cargo... then going into the scenario editor to remove that cargo and add some "moon rock" cargo. I mean, really!

I would like to be able to have constructible bases, compatible payloads for many of the available ships (whether base or addon). So I can build myself a base on the moon, separate from Brighton Beach, or on Mars, or Io. Maybe a Solar farm on Mercury...

You can do things, I mean, why build all of those space stations? Besides refueling the ISS is a piece of Space Junk (no offense or anything).

Just a little purpose!

Also, expanding on that, Objectives for missions! You create a scenario to launch a DG into orbit to dock with the ISS, then reenter back at KSC. I know that having way points is ridiculously hard, but making a mission that tells the pilot that they succeeded after going properly through the steps (maybe an objective would be to dock with the ISS, then have the next objective to land at KSC somewhere.) That way you know what your doing Inside the Sim, and be told if your doing it right.

a MissionSim Module or something.

Please if there's anything like this available already I could use a link, I couldn't find it. (either the purpose or the Mission thing)

 

[GregBurch]

There's nothing like this, but it gets talked about and a couple of people seem to be working on projects in this direction.

I have some basic logic designs for a "development sim" in which you'd build persistent, active infrastructure over time, but coding it is way beyond my abilities or the time I have available. If anyone's REALLY interested in doing this, I'd be glad to share my thoughts in more detail.

 

[Sherrif of Nottingham]

Well I realize some of the things I ask for can really only be done with multiple players, I have a mostly graphic design background, 3D art basically. I was just hoping somebody was on the verge, beta testing.

There's no "purpose" addons though? Darn. I guess it would take a lot of coding, NPC's would be required for some things too i guess. most things...

 

[Zatnikitelman]

If you're looking for near-tech, I'll be resuming the building of my moonbase pack pretty soon I hope.
Otherwise, you can try the Lua script MFD at OrbitHangar, and if you don't mind waiting till a Tuesday, the Lua script will be built in to the next Orbiter version so you can script your own missions.

 

[Sherrif of Nottingham]

heh... heh... a Tuesday...

the LUA test MFD looks a little low tech, but you say that may allow me to have people do missions "my way"?

Mwahahaha ha ha... ha. he... oh...

Well, I'll just see what happens.