Oolite Bulletins

That's appreciated Kaks, thank you. The 42k dl was the first upload, it was updated yesterday and now measures at <24k. I hadn't considered the directory structure, that's what happens when I spend all my time in a shell I guess. The ship reference is also handy info, I hadn't got round to testing a...

"As the Chinese say, 1001 words is worth more than a picture." - John McCarthy

As with all AI, it doesn't take long to get used to them. I'm all for a mod which toughens them up a bit as long as it has a big warning on it for newbies.

Okay, I've oopified it and added the option of non-slave mining. Not surprisingly this has cut the code in half, making bug hunting and feature adding much easier. It may be harder to take over claimed mines now, as they have a tendancy to explode. This wont kill anyone but if you're too close it wi...

Two lightyears per millenium. Roughly.

But having now looked at the script there doesn't seem to be any reason for the timer object being collected while in flight. this.targetTimer is valid from it's instantiation through to leaving the system. It's only a hunch, but if it is the garbage collector being too hasty moving the: this.target...

I haven't looked at the script but I do know that occasionally a timer is garbage collected after a few minutes in the system. That might well be by design though.

Can I make a small appeal for the possibility to run mines without using slaves? I have moral qualms about using slaves (in fact, I find myself unable to eject any scooped pods with slaves in them, even if there are loads of other, potentially high-value, pods floating around out there). Don't get ...

Interesting / exciting subject. :) I always planned to claim a rock for myself....but I kept snagging on my asteroids looking like turds. Mind if I try to code a sub-oxp at some point? 'Course not, sounds interesting. Your asteroids, objects as large as a station can often been seen from the witchp...

http://www.box.net/shared/5i3h37u1ay Mines are placed in the system randomly for every new visit. Mines will persist in their locations when you save but only in the current system, allowing you to continue a search pattern (if that's your kind of thing). The exception to that is the mines which you...

Makes sense Kaks, will do. My gratitude. I will likely keep that download link updated, if anything else substantial is added in. It's these warm evenings, you see, when sleeping is impossible for me

http://www.box.net/shared/5i3h37u1ay Mines are placed in the system randomly for every new visit. Mines will persist in their locations when you save but only in the current system, allowing you to continue a search pattern (if that's your kind of thing). The exception to that is the mines which you...

Just as an aside, javascript supports the ?: operator too which goes: so...
Which is handy for when you're nesting simple conditionals.

The two I've been noticing recently are the Vector and blackbaron which both use mission.choice. I look at them in the logs, but I haven't got round to fixing them.

I deserve a good shouting at really, because I've fixed several and since forgotten which.

Sorry.

I tend to think of a beacon as a broadcast on a specific frequency, I can imagine that turning off the main station beacon via script would be a pain but perhaps a separate class of OXP beacons could be script controllable. At the moment it is fairly clunky, having to remove and replace entities on ...