Oolite Bulletins

This may be related to postings elsewhere about a bug in the Nova mission.
Do you have this OXP installed...?

Hi

It might be a bit hard to dock from a 3rd person view! However, I understand that slightly different views are on the menu.

I get the 'unable to cast character' error for supercobra and behemoth. I've now removed the OXPs to see if the error occurs with other ship types.

Not sure if it's related, but I am crashing a lot in versions 1.62 to 1.65b2, but not specifically after jump.

(Logs sent to Giles.)

I realise that you could just drag your OXPs out of the AddOns folder, but does anyone see the merit in being able to start Oolite with, say, the SHIFT key down, to stop OXPs loading in...? Might be useful for bug testing, so can rule out OXPs in one go, before loading each one in turn, or combinati...

I fly in, and then when the scoops start working, tip up, keeping the curve of the sun at the bottom of the screen. Hopefully, your altitude will then stay roughly the same as you fly at a tangent. Watch your altimeter and temp gauge. Fuel scooping doesn't make the friendly beeping noise that it use...

Now it's been a long time since I did any real programming but back in the 8 bit days I used to poll the keyboard with interrupts rather than between frames, so the keyboard could be read regardless of other actions taking place. To check for key presses, you just have to issue an OSBYTE call to th...

Love it.

Great idea, superbly implemented, as per.


But, if you destroy an innocent craft and scoop up the escape pod, you get a reward for rescuing them from, err...., yourself? It's (almost) a shame to take their money!

I don't favour Space Stations blowing up as a rule. Not least of all, if NPCs can (occasionally) release Q-bombs; what do you do if you go to a planet and discover it doesn't have a station...? Sure, make an oxp with a death star, and then make sure you have to aim the Q bomb. (It's just like killin...

Could we have auto-repeat on the arrow keys for the market place?

That way, if you do want, say 23t of something that doesn't fill your hold and is significantly less than the total in the market, you can just hold the key down.

There have been previous calls for Infra-red / Ultra-violet colour shift goggles, so that in systems with low light you can change which bandwidth of EM rays you choose to look at.

This would make ships easier to spot.

However, the call has received mixed reviews and may be a nightmare to implement.

If you want to get the Behemoth involved, the best thing to do is to draw the pirates' fire and stick close to the Behemoth. I've used this tactic quite a lot, and it's great fun. Behemoths also used to attack Vipers whose fire overshot, but I'm not convinced they do this anymore. I also like hiding...

I've been trying out a number of different ships recently, and I love seeing the exhaust plumes out the rear view, as well as the "front bonnet" on some ships stretching out in front. However, quite a few ships have a single exhaust plume appearing slap bang in the middle of the rear view,...

I don't want to teach physics, but: The mass lock could conceivably be a combination of mass and density. Density is a function of mass. It's how much mass there is in a given volume. It's also dependent on the weight to mass ratio. The weight to mass ratio IS the gravitational field strength. Also,...

Errr.. I just thought it made sense to explain why some things cause mass lock and others don't. Given that we are trying to create a physics based on the rules on the game.... The Mass lock effect is encountered when J-jumping. If a ship has its engines powered-up, you mass-lock. If it isn't powere...

I've always thought of it as a "density lock". That way, you can have asteroids and cargo which don't lock you, and ships/planets/suns, which do. This also implies that jumping uses some kind of radical Gravity engine. Unpowered ships would presumably not have their gravity device on line.