Oolite Bulletins

C64 (and other "small" pc elites) were simply a fantastic bit of programming. Awesome, really. Detailed textures are nice to have, but "it's the gameplay, stupid." Some of the best games in existence (Elite, Tribes) have simple visuals or no visuals at all, but it's the *play* th...

My crappy joystick is always slghtly off center, which makes flying frustrating. Calibrating with the OS control panel doesn't help. It frequently is 5-6% off center, and the center changes. I applied a fix that seems to work great for me, in file PlayerEntityControls.m, function - (void) pollFlight...

I can only dogfight with the joystick. I have a cheap joystick that does not center properly, which is VERY annoying as the screen starts drifting in random directions when I let go of the stick. I wish there was a "center joystick" command like there seems to be with the mouse. Dogfightin...

yes the targetting system did not provide the square corners when this happened.

Just my $0.02: shaders are cool and all, but most of the variety needed in most cases comes from simple texturing. Adding Sung's textures for example really gives a massive step forward in visual richness at fairly small cost. I find specular highlights, etc. distracting. I think the absolutely most...

Thanks for the suggestions, with the plethora of OXPs out there it's hard to know which ones are the "base" ones to install. I installed both the Sung's textures and the Grove Stations and it makes a big difference! I still haven't been able to turn on the shaded planets because I think it...

It looks like having contraband on board in a GalCop command sector = Offender status, or maybe just having a cop nearby? I experimented entering a GalCop sector command system with and without contraband, and with contarband was immedaite Offender status

Is the Pi-42 the same as the "convenience store"? How do you get offered a UPS-Courier contract exactly? After docking on Pi-42 or after selecting F8-F8?

Ive noticed that YourAdHere makes the space station (the regular one) navbuoy unreliable -- sometimes it's available, sometimes it's not. Is t here a way to make the station navbuoy always there? It's handy for getting on the right space lane where the RandomHit targets travel.

The difference in sizes between CmdrLUke's and official release executables is due to debug information being stripped out from the official exe, but not from CL's. This should have no effect from the end user's standpoint. However, CL's exe has been compiled using the latest GNUstep version and in...

Thanks for the info. In both cases the Offender status came from actions only in space, no docking, no hyperspacing, etc. The only thing I was doing was shooting outlaws and scooping containers. I do not have Anarchies installed. If there are no police around, and you shoot a "Clean", I've...

All scooped cargo takes up 1 ton's worth of space per pod. CmdrLUke, in case you haven't noticed: Whatever amount of precious goods may be found in a container, it's still one complete container that you have scooped. Containers are standardized, and have all the same volume (at least if we're talk...

I installed some new OXPs tonight: UPS Courier 1.4.3 Remorse of Conscience Tiger YourAdd Here and sets A-D Galactic Navy behemoth 2.4 OoHaul Imperial Courier and the first thing I noticed is that I seem to get Offender status at the drop of a hat now, it seems just by scooping up cargo canisters? Or...

I'm playing a pimped out pirate adder (lol) for fun. I hung out at the witch point beacon and took out single ships that came through. I also took out a convoy with an Anaconda, and got sifted through the wreckage to keep only the precious metals to preserve space. After I had picked up a total of 1...

I was happily plowing through some nasty pirates, when I lined my sites up on a MkIII. Hey, pretty colors I thought. Then I started shooting it, and every time I hit it, I heard an extra sound like someone was shooting me. After my shields were down and my equipment was taking damage, I figured out ...