A brand new real life mission

[j-man 0]

UPDATE: 10th August

Version 1.00 released!

This mission has been a 2 year long project of mine. It's set on the island of Odense (a modified Everon) and has the player take on the role of a regular guy trying to live his life on the island.

Your free to do as you please. Your ultimate goal is to improve your status in life (buy a nice car, big house, etc...). Your main source of income will be the farm in which you live on. It's a wierd farm in that it contains cherries, carrots, and cows . But it's up to you to pick the cherries and collect the carrots inorder to sell them at the local farmers market. If farming isn't your thing, you can roam around the entire island and find various jobs that you can do. You can work in a pharmacy and sort the inventory, jump in a fishing boat and go trawling, and about a dozen other things you can do to make a little $$$.

For those of you who think it's going to be easy to make the money you need, think again. Your character isn't Rambo and so after a lot of working, he'll need to go home and sleep inorder to regain his strenght and work again. Also, you'll need to eat in order to survive. You can last about 4 days before you'll eventually die of hunger. Another thing, you'll need to periodicaly fill your car with gasoline or she'll stop running. And since your a simple farmer, your car isn't a fancy BMW. It's a piece of junk. It'll break down once in a while. So either get ready to make the long walk to the nearest mechanice, or buy a new car (which is really quite expensive).

Features:

-Hunger

-Cooking (cook up some grub on the stove. But you'll need to buy, or catch your meal first)

-Stores (you can buy bandaids, snacks, binoculars, guns,etc...)

-Restaurants

-Pharmacy (drugs that have various effects on you)

-Police force (speeding laws are very strict. And don't even think about killing anyone, cause SWAT isn't very nice)

-A transit system (taxi's, buses, ferries)

-Airport (you can buy planes, or fly planes for money)

-Boats (buy them, steal them. But be careful, the coast guard is on patrol)

-Hospital (need an ambulance? Just call 911 and one will be sent to you right away)

-Interactive NPC's (talk to almost any random person on the street. Some of the things they say are really quite interesting/funny/informative)

-Casino gambling (there may be no Ceaser's Palace. But there is money to be won! )

-Military (don't bother them and they won't bother you. But do something really bad, and... well, you can guess)

-Car dealerships (luxery cars, crappy cars, used military vehicles, such a range of choice! )

-Fuel stations and mechanics

-Motels (tired, but to drunk to drive home? Check in at your local inn)

-Prison (you don't wanna know what goes on in their. Do you?)

-Your criminal record (if it gets too high, then you end up six feet under. But there are ways to lower it. It's illegal ofcourse)

-MP3 player (one of the few nice things you start with)

-Gun range (releave your rage by firing a gun at a static blue target!!! )

-A ton of easter eggs (find them by pure luck, or try talking to the local people for clues)

And a ton of other stuff that i'm not going to mention right now.

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MISSION DOWNLOAD:

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DOWNLOAD HERE [4.06 MB]

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Required Addons:

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Real Lights (AEF) [109 KB]

Barracks V1.5 (Mapfact) [3.65 MB]

Fishing Boats (Col. Klink) [5.22 MB]

Nogova Police addon pack V1.1 (DeadMeat) [4.29 MB]

Civilian Vehicles pack (Devil) [9.7 MB]

Editor Upgrade - Editor's Edition (General Barron)

Resistance Editor Addon (Peterle) [180 KB]

Project Farmland Objects V1.2 (MiG) [4.1 MB]

Updated Mustang GT-R Pack (Cell7) [11.7 MB]

Animal Pack (MiG) [914 KB]

Gaz-24 (Volga) Beta 2 (Mohax) [4.18 MB]

Bell 206B III Jet Ranger *Fixed (Martin) [6.08 MB]

Phone Box (Zwadar) [341 KB]

Police Bell-206 V1.1 (VIT) [16.7 MB]

US Coast Guard Pack: fixed release (USCG mod) [27.9 MB]

Go Fast Boats - 2nd Update (USCG mod) [5.4 MB]

Project Farmland Civil pack V2.0 (MiG) [2.56 MB]

PC Boat2 (Philcommando) [394 KB]

SWAT Units (Pops + Jacek) [1.62 MB]

SWAT weapon #1 [1.56 MB]

SWAT weapon #2 [311 KB]

Misc. Objects (Popka) [1.0 MB] (alternative link HERE)

Some screenshots:

Now we're rockin' in style!!

Another lovely day at the beach

Your humble home

Your base of operations (aka. the farm)

Luxery cars (don't expect to be buying these any time soon)

The army. ATEN HUT!

The airport

Local firing range (those targets are in for it now! )

Your dream home (one day, you'll be living their)

This is just version 1.00. So there are bound to be a few bugs here and there. Please report any bugs that you find so that I can fix them up for the next version .

Finally, I'd like to thank everyone here and over at OFPEC who provided help, ideas, or anything else .

Please forgive me for my spelling. I'm Canadian

J-man

[POPKA 0]

i like the Ipod dialog

and also, i have some money models (US dollars) which i have in ofp, these make a nice effect if you camcreate them/Getpos them into places, i was making a mission called lipany underground, fairly similar system with money, i had a script that when you killed someone they would drop the money, and you would be able to pick it up from them aswell as mugging. I never got round to finishing it though due to ofp complications which can not be changed to the way iwanted them

well anyway, if you want a link to the money addon i can post it here

[D.murphy man 0]

Sounds good! ill give it a try when it released, and is that island released already or is it one youve made and are planning to release with the mission?

[bn880 5]

Hey,

sounds very interesting, hope it all works out for you and I'm glad you got some inspiration from my old baby. Beware of that silly savegame bug, it punished my mission quite a bit.

It's a joy to see non war concepts in OFP, good luck.

[Guest Ti0n3r]

Both thumbs up!

I'll give it a try once it's released.

[DBR_ONIX 0]

Impressive looking

Is there plans for a MP version? That would be great

And finaly, what spec is the computer you used to make this? (Or testers computers), some RPGs get hideously laggy even on decent PCs..

- Ben

[exigent 0]

Hey i was wondering if you are gonna add like ferrari addons and new SWAT and police units? Good job keep it up, cant wait.

[j-man 0]

@POPKA: That money addon would be a pretty interesting addition to the mission. Although I tried to make the mission so that criminal acts are discouraged and punished severly, the money might be useful as an easter egg and you find it scatterd around the island. Also, I may add something so that as the your criminal record goes up (by commiting lots of crimes), you get more options, like mugging people or robbing stores.

If you could post the link here/send me a PM, that would be great .

@D.murphy man: Odense is a custom island (named after a real place) I made for this mission. It's not that different from Everon, it just has a couple new places that would be impossible to create just using the mission editor. It will be released along with the mission.

@DBR_ONIX: My skills in creating MP missions are extreamly bad. I have no plans in making this into an MP mission, although mabey one day in the future, i'll sit down and learn some MP scripting, or mabey see if someone would want to help me convert the mission into MP. This mission was created on system running:

P 4 - 2 GHz

1024 DDR

ATI Radeon 9600 - 128 MB

Win XP pro

Video setting I use on OFP:

1024 x 768

Visability: 1654

Vis. quality: 7.19

Frame rate: MAX

No object/vehicle shadows

Ground detail: Low (anything higher messes up the placement of some of the objects. No big deal though)

Using these setting, I get about 15 FPS in the most densly populated areas of the game. Also, there are no major gun battles or things of that sort in the game that could cause the FPS to drop dramaticaly.

@exigent: I'm currently using an addon for SWAT.

SWAT and their eye in the sky

I'm also planning to release a "full" version of this mission in the future. "full" just means many many more addons will be put in (like better looking cars).

Now, i'll leave you with a short video of the marina on Odense. It's the perfect place to grab a bite to eat, relax in the sun, or joy ride in a power boat!

Video Here (8.4Mb)

Sorry for my crummy camera work.

[Guest The Cobra]

Seems very nice.. Keep up the good work, reallife sims are always funny

[j-man 0]

Question for everyone:

Should custom music be added to the MP3 player? Or should the regular OFP music be used?

Please voice your opinion

[HOBOMAN 0]

Custom music please. OFP music got old and someone probally wouldn't have it on their ipod.

[Rikki Tikki Tavi 0]

Custom -The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, that sort of thing.  

[D.murphy man 0]

Id say dont worry too much about custom music on the Ipod since you cant make every one happy, although maybe provide instructions with the mission on how people can add there own music to the ipod through De'pboing the mission and pasting over a few ogg's then every bodys happy! Remember though too much custom music = one hell of a download size. (my latest mission only had about 8 tracks and its 22 MB and it isint even finished so i made the music as a seperate sound pack addon instead)

[maxwellmurder680 0]

So any guesstimate on when this is gonna be done? Can't wait to paly it.

[j-man 0]

@D.murphy man: I like the idea of people adding their own music.

@maxwellmurder680: My guess is that the mission should be done in about 2 weeks. I just have some more features I want to add and the island needs a few bugs worked out.

Here's another video showing the farm that you live/work on:

Video (2MB)

[Guest The Cobra]

Question for everyone:

Should custom music be added to the MP3 player? Or should the regular OFP music be used?

Please voice your opinion

Custom music...

A name for the mission could be "Life". Just "Life".

A question; Can you be a gangster, ruling the underworld like so, or just a bankrobber if you want to?

An other question; The mission you have got inspiration from, where can i find that mission... Didn't find it on ofp.info

[POPKA 0]

J-Man i sent you a PM with the link in but if there was any problem with what i sent you can download it here -

Download here (not rapidshare.de)

[stgn 39]

Why did you choose the name Odense  

STGN

[DBR_ONIX 0]

Yeh, let people customise the music, idealy via a sepearte PBO (So if you release a new version, you dont have to redo the changes)

You have around same spec PC as me, and sliightly higher settings, can I be first to congratilate you on making lagless RPG?

(Just don't create a respawning bus that appears where it was killed.. If it crashes into water... Didn't know OFP could go that slow )

Excelent work

- Ben

[j-man 0]

Thanks for the link POPkA. The car dealer and gun stall are very cool. nice work. I'll be sure to credit you in the mission.

@TheCobra: I don't really want the player to focus too much on commiting crimes inorder to make money. But, I am planning the mission so that as the players criminal rating goes up (by doing small crimes like speeding, etc...), he'll get new options to commit petty crimes like mabey robbing a small strore, nothing really big though.

@STGN: I choose the name using a the high tech method of closing my eyes and pointing to some random location on a map.

Odense is located in Denmark. Official website for the city if you want to read about it for some reason

[Pappy Boyington 0]

3 suggestions

1: Pimpin Pipers even if u dont use the planes, theres a 15meg pbo file with 14 custom tracks i used for the Y2K3 cd player and the pimpin pipers in flight music. so if u want custom music theres 14 songs right there; you have my permission.

2: Civi Boats for the boat yard or marina  

3: Replace this... thing ugh    with these they come in just as bright a colors. but the look better, drive better, and would fit in better as a sports car then the BIS rip-off of an aston. (the bis model name for the "sports car" is "aston" so they apperntly think its an aston martin)

other then that it looks good

[j-man 0]

Thanks pappy for the suggestions. The mission already contains your go-fast boats and your coast guard units. You did some great work on them

I've never seen that Mustang pack before. Looks like a good addon to replace those BIS cars. I'll check them out and see how they fit

[Pappy Boyington 0]

yea i saw the "coast gaurd" part so i kinda figured you ment that stuff didnt know if you had the go-fasts yet.

as a warning to your mission players: dont try to out run the gun of that cutter; it just aint happening. i know, i tried. and failed lol.

i saw you using the bright green "sports car" thing.. which is why i suggested the mustang pack cuz i skined the bright/neon colored ones myself for cell7 so i figured if u wanted bright flashy cars for your expensive sports cars.. that would be what your lookin for

i look foreward to your mission; and hope that i already have most of the addons you use

in any case i look foreward to enjoying the mission

[stgn 39]

@STGN: I choose the name using a the high tech method of closing my eyes and pointing to some random location on a map.

Odense is located in Denmark. Official website for the city if you want to read about it for some reason

No not realy just thort it was funny, as Im from Denmark, that you had selected that name.

STGN

[Guest The Cobra]

J-Man i sent you a PM with the link in but if there was any problem with what i sent you can download it here -

Download here (not rapidshare.de)

Ehrrm... Sure U got the right link? Doesnt seem to be a mission, its just some models and textures in the PBO  

Ohh.. BTW; I havent recivied any PM from j-man