Oolite Bulletins

That sounds great - and thanks for the very quick replies

I have installed the System Redux expansion. The planets look really impressive, but I have noticed, that they change appearance. If, for instance, I am on Ensoreus, and I watch the data for Ararus, this is what I see http://www.jakobkramer.eu/oolite/ararus1.jpg After the jump, however, the planet l...

Thanks for the replies.

Kaks was right - I found the comms log by pressing the § key (above the Tab key)

Hi, I have just installed the latest build of Oolite on my computer, and now I'm looking for the key to see the communications log. I can see in the reference sheet that this key is "`" (without quotation marks). I can also see that on non-US keyboards, some keys may vary, and I think that...

Problem solved. I had made a (noob) error when unzipping the Wolf files. They were packed in a directory named Wolfmk2, but inside this directory were the folders and files that should be placed in the Addons folder. I completely missed that and placed the wolfmk2 folder in the addons folder, causin...

For some reason this OXP doesn't seem to work for me. I'm using v. 1.68 on a PC (Win XP). My PC has the SIS graphics chip that isn't ideal for playing Oolite (it messes up the HUD "radar"), but I don't know if the chip's the source of the problem. It appears that the Wolf is not even recog...

Heh... space madness! :) It could be used for at Fright Bomb. When dropped it affects the perception of other commanders, causing very frightening hallucinations, making the commanders try to escape through witchspace jumps if they have sufficient fuel to reach another system. A bit like the energy ...

I had a strange experience yesterday. I had finally saved up enough cash to buy the Military Shield Enhancement and had gotten into a rather wild fight with two groups of pirates at the same time. Even military shields can't stand that, so I chose to fuel inject away. Only two pirates had their own ...

I had the same problem (see this thread), but after installing v 1.68 all ghost ships have vanished

LittleBear > I tried downloading the Thargon Test OXP, launched and found a Moray Medical Boat approx. 10 km away. I fired the Thargon and it started flying towards the Moray. It was quite far away (and the sun was directly behind both vessels), so I cannot say whether the Thargon fired at the Moray...

As I wrote, I'm not a programmer, so I am in no position to tell, whether it is possible to program such a feature :) As for the background story I have played Elite on Amiga and Commodore 64 (so bear with me, if these versions are different form other versions). In the Amiga version it is possible ...

Just some thoughts regarding a new weapon. When I encounter Thargoids, they usually launch the Thargons. These Thargons then proceed to move to a position somewhat away from the Thargoid mothership and then attack me. I take out the mothership, and the Thargons are reduced to very expensive and some...

I was once in a dogfight with an Asp. Suddenly the Asp chickened out and made a witchspace jump. I was so close that I was caught in the wake and followed the Asp to another system. In this system I quickly located the Asp and continued my attack. They pleaded for their lives (very nice detail by th...

i've vandalised Ahrumans laserglow shader into a glowing metal fragment shader for use on debris left behind by exploding ships, here is it at work on the 'alloy' metal fragment Ooh! That looks nice! A cool (but probably not easily implemented) effect could be if such a "heated metal glow"...

Great!

And an impressively quick response too

The use of "&" in stead of "!" sounds nice to me, but it is not a big deal... I mean, you only make such typos rarely and with docking computer installed a quick Shift+D takes you back.