Oolite Bulletins

Computers/Machinery turning into alloys during a jump does strike me as a bit far-fetched. Not so far-fetched; my little boxen, that runs Oolite at a blistering 7 FPS, is going to transmute into e-waste in October, if Microsoft's propaganda is to be believed. (Since I can't update it to Windows 11,...

Suppose that a cargo bay must be fitted to a particular standard in order to ship goods through witchspace. Suppose further that this standard varied according to goods being shipped. It seems to me, you might be trying to re-invent the passenger cabin for other purposes. If so, you might consider ...

In most cases, they are setting the condition_script property of the equipment, and doing the check in that code for whether the equipment can be installed. As you'd be working with existing equipment, you'd need to utilise the equipment-overrides.plist file so you could apply your condition_script...

is that the only use of nano? No, it was published in 1995, so has all the ideas about how nanotech could develop that were current at that time, liquid metal etc. (And, it's been more than 25 years since I read it, so I don't recall details.) The problem is that it's a stupidly unfocused and long ...

... instances of nano technology being used biologically to enhance a beings ( doesn't have to be human ) health or possibly offensive capabilities... I might suggest, fully acknowledging it's a borderline example, Neal Stephenson's highly anticipated follow-up to Snow Crash, The Diamond Age . http...

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:09 am

Asteroids that are claimed... when the player vaporizes a random asteroid in the spacelanes, instead of a 1cr reward for clearing a navigation hazard, they suffer a fine for claim-jumping.

https://youtu.be/Tab9WziiYAs?t=6949

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 5:41 pm

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:59 am

That planet image right there is beautiful. May I snaffle it for inclusion in Explorers' Club 1.4.8?

Did you?

Save the image? Yes. It's on my HDD somewhere.

Update Explorers' Club? No. A cocoanut fell on my head. It was quite distracting.

I'm trying to find out if there is a mechanism in shipyard.plist or shipdata.plist to prevent the purchase of standard equipment, a bit like what incompatible_with_equipment does in equipment.plist . That somewhat goes against the spirit of the game; there's a clue in the phrase " standard equ...

You have already done this with several pieces of equipment in your shipyard.plist for this ship. The equipment you have commented out ( // preceding the item) in the optional_equipment section of the code will prevent your ship from being able to purchase that equipment. Alternatively you could si...

Change of Subject. Oolite. Excuse you. How rude. What sort of changes would you like to see in the game? Just thought of one: asteroids that are claimed by big mining companies. So, when the player vaporizes a random asteroid in the spacelanes, instead of a 1cr reward for clearing a navigation haza...

I would have accepted films like Idiocracy, Colossus, Terminator, Slaughterbots as point-scoring answers. It was supposed to be an instruction manual, not a warning: The anti-example was, of course, Edward Luttwak's 1968 classic, Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook . Over to you. well i got a cyclone ...

Jetsons? They were a family who lived in a retro-futuristic, flattened-ovoid-shaped dwelling in the 1960s. There was a television documentary series made about them. Digression: In the 1980s, I had the opportunity to purchase a Futuro house dirt cheap, and [additional words go here] did not. It was...

Saudi Arabia’s Overwater Villas Look Fake… But They’re Real! https://youtu.be/Xaz-E69SDRw?si=uxs_GOHybf5drZpV When I first saw Kara and Nate’s video on Saudi Arabia’s newest overwater villas, I honestly thought it was AI-generated. The futuristic design, the sleek architecture, and the way the villa...

spud42 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 05, 2025 12:43 pm

oi!! what did i do to be penalised with a point??? lol

Looks like the chalice might be yours soon. Unless you can claim the immunity card.

Trying https to bb.oolite.space has been giving 525 (SSL Handshake Failed) and 504 (Gateway Time-out) errors for the last few hours. Using http instead got me here on the first try. Apparently, your SSL certificate has expired.