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The reason I very rarely buy new books is because here in Australia the paperbacks are anywhere from $20 to $33 each I'm damned if I will pay $33 for a paperback ! I can get 10 books for that at my second hand bookstore. As also stated everyone wants to write a trilogy at the least then most contin...

Because [reasons], I viewed a random website today. It was in the old-fashioned, article/comments format. ("Blog" format. Sorry, often the terminology evades me. Anyway, it pre-dated the modern infinite-scroll format.) ...Anyway... I think the reason blog-style died out was because allowin...

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 5:24 am

Should use about six lines of code.

Make a note of that, I've already altered it once, from five to six.

Might it not be easier to just create an oxp which outputs all this to eg. the latest.log? It might very well be, but I have no idea how to go about doing that. Besides, I'm not playing the game myself yet; I'm just doing lore research. So, I would really appreciate any and all input, if there is a...

Ok I’m stumped… can someone PM me how to get to a quarantine system? I’ve got urgent thargoid plans to deliver! <presumption> Set a different system in the same direction as your destination, mis-jump into interstellar space, set the quarantine system as your destination, jump again. </presumption>

Hi everyone. I'm opening this discussion because I can't quite understand what triggers criminal status. Are there any goods that are illegal? If so, how do I understand what they are? and why are they in the general market? shouldn't they be in a different market? As noted, three commodities are i...

I opened the oxz and simply replaced the tracks, leaving the same name. now when I load oxz the game gives me this error: Expansion-name does not have a valid manifest.plist and cannot be loaded. Does anyone know why this error occurs even though I didn't touch the manifest but simply replaced some...

Redspear wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:32 pm

Hasn't phkb made quite a few oxps to that end?

I rather read it as implying that googling had not directed him to this BB. (Despite that googlebot seems to visit here 24 times a day.) Why else would he be asking on reddit, rather than here?

This might be obvious, but is there a way to see which missions I’ve actually completed in full? My current commander has been running about 8 years in RL, with several long breaks, and I can’t actually remember that far back! Read the mission variables section of your save file. Some will delete a...

What do they recommend as packages for sound design? the game is too quiet. BGS for sounds. For the background images, I always used a mix of about half taken from BGS and half my own finds/creations. Customizing the images is very easy and a great place to start moulding Oolite to your liking. Fin...

another_commander wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2024 11:38 am

I guess it's not bad, but Rule of Cool says that it must look like Star Wars, so I'd stick to the bright version.

I believe that this is a non sequitur.

But if anyone knows of a fix and would like to talk this old eeejit through the method and how it is done, I'm always willing to learn :) Having looked through it earlier this year, I'll opine that it's not phkb's finest work. Nor his second or third finest. :wink: Just delete it and forget about it.

Bounty System Needed by GalCop Missions and GalCop Most Wanted , so I cant load those either. As to why its causing the problem - i have no idea... :) The clue is in the name: it's an OXP that takes control over the bounty system, so was always likely involved. (The other obvious suspect is Anarchi...

Meanwhile, and far away... Coles just put the price of Tim-Tams up, by another 11% , today. Yes, it's been six months already. You know what that means: time for all the prices in Coles and Woolworths to rise. This time they didn't bother with the 50c increment, and just went from $5 to $6 - anothe...

I just discovered this topic has been started previously:

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