Oolite Bulletins

Ahruman wrote:

Oh yeah, yaw control (i.e., turn left/right, as opposed to roll) doesn’t work in strict mode.

TURN left/right? Ewwwwwwwwww!

LittleBear wrote:

In original Elite you could just survive a missile at full shield, so at 20% you've no chance.

On the Spectrum 48k original Elite, a single missle hit took out one full energy bank or one full shield. Which is why Oolite surprised me so!

Okay, what gives? I'm in a Python. Front shield prolly at about 20% or so. Someone chucks a missile at me. I've got SEVEN energy banks, all full - and POW I'M DEAD. WTF!?!?!!! First time I thought - well okay, maybe I accidentally rammed the guy. But it's happened three times now. Single missiles ap...

Shooting down missiles is possible, but very hard. It appears to happen to me when a target releases a missile while I'm in the act of shooting him. His missile appears to interpose itself between my laser rifle and my target. I must say though I find the crosshair to be inaccurate. To score hits I...

Callas wrote:

It looks like I'm in error!

I'll check tonight.

And indeed I was wrong.

I was looking down at the clock immediately *after* the docking tunnel, whereas the time increment occurs, almost instantly, *before* the docking tunnel.

I occasionally trade in Narcotics. When I can buy at 4.4 and sell at >100, it's a no brainer. Of course, this affects my criminal status. Normally, I trade between highly stable Governments, so I don't need to worry about pirates (going Corporate State to a Confederacy). It struck me that if, instea...

Also I note that docking with no sequence apparently teleports the ship - no time passes. No, look again. Actually docking with no sequence takes quite a lot of time: your ship's clock is advanced by 20 minutes in an instant. EDIT: Sorry, had this thread opened for half a day before I wrote this, a...

Hmm.

Shift + D = dock with no sequence

D = dump cargo

Asking for trouble?

Also I note that docking with no sequence apparently teleports the ship - no time passes.

I also have zero interest in playing around with ObjC code to get screens and such like going, because I have no interest in this economy server project. This isn’t personal, or discriminatory; it’s just that the quantity of stuff I want to do with Oolite grows much faster than the quantity of stuf...

Ahruman - with regard to implementing economy changes, what I have in mind is that I could write a library, in C, which should therefore compile okay with the ObjC compiler; and that library would provide an API which simply would be called at the appropriate times, to initialise and run the economy...

The thought struck me; maybe we could say the Thargoids have hyperspace drive *jammers*. So, you go to jump, when you come out, it's because they intercepted you, you only lose fuel pro rata, so you will be able to reach your destination, but you have to nail or escape from the Thargoids to be able ...

CaptKev wrote:

Just save this image to your Oolite folder.

Thanks, Commander!

CaptKev wrote:

Have you tried zoom? :roll:

There's a zoom??

I don't have Adobe installed, because their viewer contacts Adobe *even when you turn off all the options for it to check for upgrades*.

So I've not been able to read the manual.

I played the Spectrum and BBC versions of Elite. Playing Oolite, I find that the scanner lacks resolution. In the original versions, moving so that a scanner blip had no vertical bar meant that the target was in your visual field. In Oolite, I find that doing this does *not* mean the target is in yo...

Ahruman wrote:

Wolfwood wrote:

"hissy fit"? First time I've heard that expression... :?

It’s one of those expressions people use when they can’t agree on disagreeing.

Very well said.