Oolite Bulletins

And your graphic-borrowing (avatar)... I don't mind much, but I wish people would ask. Mind you, since I removed contact details from the site years ago it's probably not unexpected that people don't, and it's not as if I have any claim on the original design. I wasn't aware that anyone had used th...

they may insert their cargo into your DNA though. These agrobacteriums are used as vectors to insert genes into plants, but may do so in mammals too on occasion. :) I did Brewing & Distilling at Uni, which covered MicroBiology and Biochem. Could we use these agrobacteria to create superheroes? ...

Commander McLane wrote:

And there is no need at all to re-invent the wheel in this community.

Damn. There goes my wheel-inventing project. <Puts down chisel>

when you trigger the bomb, it's launch unit (or your ship puters) do something mechanical or software-related to disable your witch drive to a point where it will not be affected by the blast. this would allow you to survive the blast but be unable to jump system in an emergency ~ the drive would b...

Arexack_Heretic wrote:

Someone turned off my incubator yesterday,
probably killing my precious bacteria.

Perhaps you could send me some of these difficult-to-cultivate bacteria?
In my bathroom, I only have the easy-grow variety. (Gram negative, of course.)

I came up with the idea :idea: some time ago for players to reply to NPC comms, or possibly initiate them with either a positive or a negative pre-set comment. So, in reply to "Help, pirates are attacking", you could have one button to reply with a message "Hold on! I shall come to yo...

drew wrote:

All we need now is a witchspace drive, thruspace motors and shields and we're there!

Ah, yes: the easy bit.

Some of the camera angles on certain ships seem to make accurate aiming a bit tricky.

Now that exhaust plumes are slightly more transparent, rear views have been improved considerably where the exhaust is centred on the rear view.

My own ship of choice? For my money, you can't whack a Wolf!

It wasn't an original - it was a copy. I remember trying to reverse engineer the original load up assembler code - it XORed itself 256 times! :o On the Beeb DFS, there was a counter for disk writes. If that counter changed from 40 on the Elite disk, the disk wouldn't work. We had to use a disk secto...

Just started Assassins and loving it.
I particularly love the extra planets that have been added to the systems, particularly the gas giant Cerberus.

I went to visit it, which took me about 45 minutes of continuous jumping!

To quote Douglas Adams, Space is really quite big.

Aw, shucks, I just threw out a box of 5.25" disks that I still had, which included ELITE for the Beeb, and my old BASIC and Assembler programmes.
(Including a GUI front end for the Beeb in 6k of code!)

Oh well....

A Q-mine shouldn't destroy a space station, as the Q-mine works by doing somthing deeply unpleasant to a ship's witch-drive engine, causing it blow up. As stations are designed just to orbit the planet, they don't have witch-drive engines and so would be q-bomb proof. Hmmm. I've actually changed my...

inquisiteur wrote:

Is there currently any soundtracks (ingame musics) ? I really miss elites 2 & 3
soundtracks...

There are Oolite playlists that will play at certain game times. Err, can't find out what they are atm, [at work] - perhaps someone will oblige?

Ah. I had an old Aegidian special OXP installed, which included the original ECM-proof missiles before they went in the app. Having ECM-proof missiles in the app and in an OXP, seemed to cause hard missiles to display yellow on the radar. Remove the old OXP, and hard missiles now display correctly o...

Arexack_Heretic wrote:

Q2: Do I need to trick players into buying a trumble?
If everyone refuses to buy one, the OXP would never be activated.

Well, I've always turned them down, but they seem to be breeding in my saved character's plist anyway, even though they don't appear on screen.

Is this normal?