Oolite Bulletins

what happens presently with Hired Escorts when you make a galactic jump. Seems they get left behind. [wiki]Hired Guns[/wiki] remove all in the playerEnteredNewGalaxy event handler. If you want to play as if escorts are equipped with a galactic drive for this case then insert return; into the 79. li...

In which Malacandra begins his summer writing project, bringing you the further adventures of Marilee and the Macraes one thousand words at a time You don't need to be brought up on space travel to make a good spacer. That was certainly true of me - and if I sound like I'm flattering myself to call...

Hmm, I wondered what happens presently with Hired Escorts when you make a galactic jump. Seems they get left behind. (Well, that's going to have to get creatively edited for my next piece of fiction, anyway.) I was hoping it turned out they tag along, which would prove that a wormhole does exist lon...

They don't. What it would look like if they did is a little hard to tell - galactic jumps currently take zero time, so the wormhole would never be visible at the start side. Why not? The length of time a wormhole lasts isn't tied to the time taken for the jump, surely? Otherwise you'd see a wormhol...

patndave wrote:

Well you learn something new - I thought that was the toaster's job.

No, if it's anything like real life then it's the job of the most expensive technology on the ship to protect a threepenny fuse by blowing first.

So there I am all set to jump to Witchspace when I get a sad little bleep from the computer: "Witchdrive malfunction!" and I stay where I am. Better than dropping out halfway in the middle of nowhere and a bunch of Thargoids rolling out their own special welcome mat, but... the only system...

Good to see you back again, and congratulations on passing 10,000 thread views (more than my various efforts put together, I see, although Sidewinder Precision Pro managed half what you've had at least). I look forward to seeing more!

I saw snark where clearly none was implied. A nasty personality flaw of mine, one which I usually have firmly buttoned down. I whole heatedly apologize for any offence caused by my rambunctious offence taking. None taken, I should be clearer in my mischief-making, and I've also gone off half-cocked...

*mumbles something about Scotch mist.* If someone is nice enough to point out the "max headroom sign" it is inadvisable to throw your face at it, just to prove it does indeed exist and is functioning properly. After people went a bit "ape-sh*t" about the softcore (which is harde...

I have decided to write something again. It is a small idea at the moment, which may get bigger over time. Whilst Rise of the Kirin was a lot of fun. Wyverns and my writing styles are fairly different. Not better or worse, merely different. I feel there is a story left to be told, a rift in Drews' ...

I call sneak bragging! I call envy! :P :lol: Envy? What? Me? No! Banged two hot chicks at the same time hundreds of times, me! Of course. That's why I hang around all the time on a fan site dedicated to a fan remake of a computer game that had massive geek cred back when I was 25. *slinks out* :(

ClymAngus wrote:

It's a good thing this is fiction. Because (and I can vouch for this from experience:) 3 is a crowd.

I call sneak bragging!

(I know it's a crime to leave the station with it; is it a crime to pick it up in space and bring it on station? ) Nope.. that will not cause you any problems.. (though I believe there may be an OXP around which might change that - don't recall which, though) I think it's the [wiki]Illegal Goods Tw...

I plugged in one of my "Tales from the Spacelanes" write-ups and it said I write like Arthur C Clarke! I just did the same with one of mine, and got the same result as you.. :lol: David Foster Wallace (who?) for something else I wrote in what was meant to be a Damon Runyon parody, but Art...

I fed it the first thousand words of "Sidewinder Precision Pro" and it said I write like Douglas Adams.

I'm not seeing a problem here.