Oolite Bulletins

The Navigation M.F.D. has an indicating line that tells you if you are too close to something large enough to cause Jump failure. Interesting, I'd forgotten that the Navigation MFD had that facility! The code to do that check used to be isolated in an example micro-oxp for anyone to copy: https://b...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed May 14, 2025 5:03 pm

Well? Does your Smart_Home_Control.oxz actually work?

It does actually, quite reliably.

I was at Quandixe, and Oolite took forever to load: [script.javaScript.timeLimit] OperationCallback (OOJSEngineTimeManagement.m:229): ***** ERROR: Script "in-system_traders" ran for 24 .4797 seconds and has been terminated. Don't try telling Cholly patience is a virtue; he's having none o...

LittleBear wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 11:43 am

System.infoForSystem(6,73).inhabitants = "Small Rodent Scientists";

General tip for anyone reading along:
Whenever altering either system.info.inhabitant (singular phrase) or system.info.inhabitants (plural phrase) remember to keep them in agreement.

phkb wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 9:04 am

Startle Faster

If it were my doing, I'd call it Startled! Or possibly, Startled! The Musical.

I spent last night reading old threads about whether slave-trading should be encouraged by OXP, so please forgive this digression:

Start Localized Alternative Varied Economies

Shame, I thought something like ' So Lave's not good enough for you eh OXP ' had a certain ring to it. Oh well. I spent a full minute or so thinking, "What's love got to do with it?" (in Tina Turner's voice), before I looked closer and saw it was an a, not an o. I'm after something utterl...

If you're determined to be bland, just "Alternative Starts".

What on earth did you ask it to do? This: I want to create a flash-card type mini-game within Oolite. When activated, it would spawn a field of asteroids around the player ship, and as the player targeted each asteroid, instead of being labelled simply "Asteroid", it would be labelled wit...

// JavaScript for Oolite (ECMAScript 5) "use strict"; this.name = "FlashCardAsteroidGame"; // Define your flash cards here this.flashCards = [ { key: "OOP", definition: "Object-Oriented Programming" }, { key: "ECMAScript", definition: "Standard...

javascript... var playerShip = player.ship; // Get the player's ship refugeeAdder.setAI("follow"); // Set the AI to follow refugeeAdder.follow(playerShip); // Make the refugee follow the player's ship Ensure that the follow method is defined in the ship's AI. If it’s not, you may need to ...

SceaduDraca wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 6:52 pm

Explorer Club didn't appeal to me, so I removed it, and lost every system in the galaxy except SecCom systems and the ones in jump range.

Could you expound on that comment? What do you mean "lost every system"?

Playtesters eagerly sought! That OXZ has what lawyers call unnecessary inclusions . I'd guess it was created on a Mac, judging by the Mac-specific artefacts. Get someone not using a Mac to remake it for you, once you've settled on its final contents. ( To be clear (now in boldface, because apparent...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 4:48 pm

This is now published: see viewtopic.php?t=21803

You know that links back to this same topic?

Might there be point in just reminding the utiliser of your programmable perfecter of planets what the current statistic actually is before he/she starts playing merry havoc with it all? Version 1.2.3 - functionally complete. (Not version 1.3 yet, because it's still scruffy on the inside, and wants...

This micro-oxp uses an alternative method of storing data, which differs from Explorers' Club in two ways:

1. It does not record the order in which you first visit each system;
2. It will tell you how many times you've visited each system.