Oolite Bulletins

I must admit there I disagree, at least from a realism viewpoint if not a gameplay one. The next small logical step from having something detected is to automatically do something about it. And if it's something like destroying incoming missiles, then it would be a no-brainer to do it. Where do you...

What platform are you on? I can build WinXP and Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) binaries.

Heh, I didn't know any fellow Elite players 'back in the day', male or female. My (copmputer-owning) friends all pretty much thought it was boring.. did they ever miss out! Some of them got into space-"sims" later on but by then there were more advanced ones around so Elite didn't get a lo...

TGHC wrote:

using the rear laser took a bit of practice at first (as usual for all of us), since with the joystick I used to turn it round 180 degrees.

*blink* Wouldn't you be dead by the time you've turned your joystick around?

Actually I've been meaning to ask - is there any way to get at the root certificate for BerliOS? Be nice to just install & trust 1 certificate instead of several.. I've searched a bit but couldn't find it.

Simon B wrote:

Note: this script goes in the source.
Where do source submissions go?

Either someone will pick it up from here or you can make it a feature request here and that way it'll be tracked:
http://developer.berlios.de/feature/?group_id=3577

In the game Elite, Commanders could set their pitch & roll keys to remain "on" and adjust the rate of pitch or roll to match a stations' roll rate during docking manuvers. What happened to this feature when the game was ported to Oolite? Giles did the right thing and did not port this...

pagroove wrote:

Question though. 1.72 isn't downloadable atm or am I wrong?

The latest (in source form) can always be had directly from the repository:
http://developer.berlios.de/svn/?group_id=3577

If you can't build it yourself perhaps someone can build you a binary for your platform.

In a station you can use your ship to sleep in. It does have full living quarters, after all. It would be a bit like taking a caravan to a campsite then sleeping in a hotel... I disagree with that...after sleeping in a caravan for most of your time, wouldn't you like to exchange it for a hotel room...

To be honest, I can't recall ever getting 'stuck' in Witchspace in original Elite - sure, I got sucked in by a bunch of Thargoids once in a while, but if I managed to survive I always had enough fuel for a jump back out - even if I had to backtrack to my starting system. Now, either I always got ver...

Ah, well, I wasn't aware of any I'll chuff off and educate myself on that, then.

<edit>searching on f4 reveals no results. anywhere I should start reading, apart from the entire history of the 'Suggestion Box'?</edit>

Hmm. All reasonable points. Personally I prefer to have certain things like spacestations deterministic but I can see that it's not always desirable. And of course different people have different expectations of the game. To save everything though requires the save engine to query every OXP for its ...

Just as it happens, F4/4 isn't mapped to anything when docked so we could probably add a "Space Bar" quite easily into the game. Thinking further, this would be a reat place for missions. We'd probably still need the current mission popups as it would break too much if we got rid of them, ...

Now all the save-file needs to store is -which- dockable a player saved at, the rest gets regenerated based on the system seed. regarding that all dockable objects spawn initialised from a known seed... They dont... i have tested this plenty of times to know, that they do not... [/quote] I know the...

This does, however, raise the question of the message dialog. Perhaps we should think about being able to define where messages are displayed (and how big) in the hud configuration? It would also be nice to be able to scroll through a history of the last X messages received.