Discovery 4.85 "Extended" - My personal opensp mod

I won’t even pretend to take credit for most of this mod, since this is a mod of a mod, but I feel like some other people might enjoy it.

Ok, as you may have noticed, I’m not on the servers much. Mainly because I don’t like some of the restrictive rules, but thats not the point. Vanilla FL openSP is a bit boring, and disco open sp was a bit less boring. Since I knew I was going to spend a lot of time in opensp in disco, I decided to adapt it a bit.

To be clear, this adds no new “content”, only changes to the feel of the game and the spawn mechanics. Disco has plenty of content.

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This is the disco 4.85 mod, update 3 with some hacks that make it a bit more interesting and varied in opensp (at least in my opinion). The main weakness of opensp was that it always felt empty, lifeless, and artificial. I feel like I’ve fixed that.

List of Big Changes:

Adoxa’s Single Player Console - As you may know you can own more than one ship, shorten travel times, etc
Freelancer now completely ignores population density limits - This makes the universe lively biggrin.gif
NPCs can spawn at much further ranges, and persist at much further ranges - Like in multiplayer, you can see someone’s ship in the distance and go for it. More importantly, it makes me feel like I’m not trapped in a 4km spawn bubble.

In addition, you can now initiate dock at 99km instead of 20km. It minimizes me having to babysit autopilot when docking at range (I never understood the reason for the dock button to have a range limit). And the mouse flight text is finally gone.

Oh, and the disco auto update system is disabled to prevent issues if there’s ever a disco 4.85 update 4.

Trust me, the ability to own more than one ship alone is enough to bring new life into single player! Thanks to adoxa you don’t have to pick the one size fits all craft, because you can have a ship for ever occasion.

Finally, opening the spawn floodgates creates some pretty cool, emergently dynamic, encounters. Battles can last for 5 minutes and the victor was never for certain, and let’s not even talk about being caught completely alone without countermeasures in Omicron Delta….

Since Disco 4.86 isn’t going to be out for a while, I figure some people might get a kick out of this.