Oolite Bulletins

I've recently attained Competent status. And the military came asking for help. I understand that in this mission, you can obtain a cloaking device. If I agree to help, and get the cloak, but then upgrade to a nicer ship, will the cloak go with me? Or will it be gone forever? In answer to your ques...

Hello again, I'm looking at my save file, and I think I've found where the entry is for the deposed mission but not sure what I'm looking at, what should it say? Cheers Wombat Cos You should find something like: <key>mission_deposed</key> <string>MISSION_COMPLETE</string> What does it say under the...

Cos wrote:

Yes I definately went back, but got zippo when I docked, I'm wondering if I missed one or something and there are more than 3 of the ships.

Cos

Nope, just three. Do me a favor and use a text editor to look in your savefile. What's the mission_deposed variable set to?

Its been so long since a played it I can't remember! Do an author search for Wobat (he wrote it). There is a thread on the boads that deals with this somwhere under expansion packs (i think). If you look through Wombat's posts you be able to find where he answered this. When authors release an OXP ...

Congrats!!!

Only ~700 kills to get there myself...

Arexack_Heretic wrote:

You could use the new and improved thargoid invasion fleet I'm about to post on OosatoO.

I may well do that. Thanks! I'm looking forward to testing it out.

A bug squashing we will go!

LittleBear wrote:

There'd be nothing to stop someone OXPing a Thargoid invasion of Tianve!

Working on it.




Allright, not at Tianve. Location has been decided, but is not for disclosure.

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So there I was, cruising through the Reesdice system, when I came upon this...




It just ain't natural...

After a few minutes they separated. I guess they were done.

Mmm.. working on this.. The Nova mission can interact badly with other missions presenting a choice on-screen (like the trumble salesman f'rinstance). I'll fix this for the trumbles but other mission designers may want to check for mission_novacount undefined before presenting an on-screen choice. ...

The Planet BIRERA is just toooo far for the ship to jump. After a series of fights and jumps to the system... I go to the system which is closest to the target planet, But... I find that my ship's engines are far too small to make the jump to BIRERA as its MORE THAN 7.0 light years even from the cl...

fasnoon wrote:

Thanks for the early reply... but Im not sure what you mean...

Right below where Murgh wrote "*spoiler" highlight below:" there is some text that's the same color as the background. If you highlight the text (hold down the mouse button as you select it), it becomes readable.

DUMB missiles would be invulnerable to ECM and fly only in a straight line(torpedoes/rockets), or have minimal tracking ability. (a slow turn or delayed intercept script) That would make for interesting broadside battles. Or they could be used for planet/station bombardment platforms. I see what yo...

I have a question for Giles in this subject: Can ships be limited to the type of missiles they can carry? (NB it would be fun to build a rocket ship, carrying only dumb missiles, but if it would have ECm missiles onboard, the balance is way off!) One problem with a rocket ship is that it can be tak...

Kriken Overlord wrote:

Oooo, I knew about the color thing. So a player ship with a Tharg laser would not have to aim so much? explain. I mean, will it just shoot straight
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Or go at my target?

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I don't think it works on a player ship, only on an NPC ship.

Good. I love Bab 5 and my goal was for something shadow-esque. I have a queeeeeeeestion: How do thargoids shoot in 'all directions'. They seem to be able to shoot me no matter the facing; Regard, could this be applied to Dark Orion ships? :twisted: Yes, you can do this (sort of). In the shipdata.pl...