Oolite Bulletins

Hi viberunner, Also, the game engine is under active development; feel free to dive in yourself! Alternatively if you bug the developers enough they just might add the additional features you require; for example, changing the player ship (and divorcing the player from the ship) is a recurring reque...

Not my decision. But if TAF was to become a game feature, I think there needs to be a lot of testing done to ensure you can't warp through stuff and whatnot. Probably also have to automatically flip to "real-time" on Condition Red and suchlike. Perhaps post MNSR, but for now I don't think ...

Alternatively you could be running a release configuration build. TAF is a test/debug feature, not a game feature. edit- in fact, I'm sure that's the case; the -ubuntu1 build is the 'official' Debian/Ubuntu packaged build and they compile Oolite as a release build, not like the test builds which we ...

Hi Commander Wilmot, by this stage you should be using Oolite 1.75.3. Ensure that all OXPs you are running are at their latest version -and- supported. It sounds like some of them may be old versions or even obsolete. If you put your savegame online somewhere I can also take a look, Cheers, - Micha.

Can you please post the exact steps to reproduce, from starting Oolite until the crash, including which save-file, which systems you target, which order you perform the commands in, etc. At this stage I can't help but conclude that it's either an oddity of specific Windows configurations and/or with...

Still can't reproduce crash under Linux.

Start Oolite, load savegame A00G3Test3b, launch, turn away, press 0, press Shift-N, press n, watch jump animations, get bored.

Looks interesting.. but until someone works out a way around the lack of haptic feedback I can't see it replacing the standard keyboard (even in that video there was a proper keyboard). If you can't feel it, you can't touch-type on it and always have to look where you're pressing. Nevertheless I wou...

Throwing petrol on the fire: I personally wouldn't mind a multiplayer Oolite (even though I know it'd be a VERY ambitious undertaking with the current codebase and most likely require a rewrite from scratch, and hence something which is exceedingly unlikely to ever happen (unless of course, someone ...

Does the Docking Clearance Protocol that came into being from Oolite 1.72, stop ships from launching when a ship has permission to dock? Yes. In fact, the whole launching-ship-ramming-docking-player is what got that feature started in the first place. It's not everybody's cup of tea though, hence t...

Actually, on that, wouldn't it possibly make more sense to reset speed to absolutes when launching/hyperspacing, rather than %ages? For me it would feel more natural that the speed is given by the wormhole itself and is independent from a ships max speed. So yes, a fixed speed for all ships would b...

My gaming style is similar to Drew's - I try to stay alive at all costs, and don't use savegames as a try-again mechanism although not quite as hardcore that I consider a savegame lost if I do die. I will take on the odd contract (gives me an incentive to see the galaxy), and will try to help other ...

Actually, on that, wouldn't it possibly make more sense to reset speed to absolutes when launching/hyperspacing, rather than %ages? Having done some testing recently with a bleeding fast ship, you barely get time (ok, slight overstatement, but still) to pull up before crashing into the buoy when lau...

Blog entry Nice post! Also, incidentally, I very much liked the earlier Pern books (Landing, etc). as well. ( Spoiler ) I just found the last couple a bit too unbelievable that (a) a feudal society could re-learn advanced technology in the space of a couple of years (even under the tutelage of a Ma...

This is really turning out to be a rough year for people I respect passing on :( I found Pern through the school library - and spent ages trying to work out which order to read the blasted things in :) Still one of my all-time fave series, at least, until they re-discover their past. Liked her other...

I definitely think that we should return to the old-style of war: the people that -want- the war, should be in the frontlines, and not cowering like curs in a massive bunker half-way around the world pushing buttons.

Would certainly reduce the level of madness a bit.