Oolite Bulletins

just to clarify:

retros are boosters that kick your ship backwards some kilometers.
very useful if you are surrounded by lots of enemies (THARGS!) to get out of the fights center. and your laser is still aiming at that center, so you can hold the trigger!

thats what i need them for.

if you are interested i'd offer to spend time on the network-code if you get the entities split into physics and graphics.

i'm doing appkit since nextstep 2.1 so i have some understanding of obj-c
(yesterday i got a nextdimension, finally after 15 years i own the computer of my dreams!)

I think that an online version of an elite type game would be one of those things that would work very well or wouldn't work at all due to the nature of the game, although the dog fighting server sounds like a good idea. so let's start with the dog-fight and i'll add the persistent part later. Ther...

folks, i have some thoughts on networking oolite i'd like to share. let me start with a simple list of how to get to that goal: Server for simple dogfight: - awakes (or spawns a thread) when first client enters a new system - controls one complete system (not a galaxy) per thread - receives events f...

hi there, i am amazed that oolite is so near to the original (as far as i remember it). i just took out my old manual to elite (atari st). and i found a thing i really miss in oolite: RETRO ROCKETS! the best thing to hold your enemy at distance AND in view to keep your laser warm! any chance to get ...