Oolite Bulletins

Hah - thanks for that - I'll have to test... must go now, dinner calls. Wedding annaversery tomorrow - doubt I'll get to spend it in the ooniverse. I have uploaded the arachnid oxp (tarballed) and images to my oolite page. Including an impractical but fancy HUD. I't a lux ship after all... [image re...

Doomsday machine - big and slow, powerful enough to take out a station or a planet. This is kind of where I was going to go with one of my ships (part of a work in progress). Depending on your legal rating your mission would either be attacking or defending a vessel that was itself attacking a stat...

There are some entertaining offensive and defensive missiles and mines in the Missiles and Bombs OXP. Turreted weapons are I believe all plasma cannons... if you want a big, turret-bearing military ship, check out the Behemoth or the various Galactic navy ships! Yes - seen those. The Tourist does s...

another suggestions from me: anti-missile rockets: faster, more maneuverable than normal missiles, but almost no warhead, usable only in destroying missiles. Comes in a pack. pulse laser turret: auto targetting, but only with pulse laser. Mounts as normal weapon. Hard enough to target missiles as i...

I originally installed 1.6-whatever it is for Ubuntu to try it out - since it was just a: sudo apt-get install oolite. 1.7 series got installed a few weeks ago on my desktop because I wanted to look at the tianve pulsar - lame I know. I noticed two puzzling changes in the upcrade - 1. collision boxe...

Well sure - but I'm talking about the linux build process and the Ubuntu releases are peripheral to that. There are special forums for talking about linux, you'll find me there too. For just Ubuntu - a patch may be easier. Then the Ubuntu build process would become: get source + deps apply patch mak...

The ubuntu install method is in the link at the top of the first post. It was tricky to find so I guess it needs more mention. The ideal for ubuntu would be to create a deb + repo for 1.7 ... need to learn. But there is a reason that source installs now all have that configure step - and you are loo...

... I mean - it's gon about 8x the volume of the mark1 and only twice the cargo. Compare the model with the anaconda... the wingspan of one is comparable with the length of the other. I've been having fun with the ship models. I've put some experiments up: http://www.hbclinux.net.nz/oolite.html I'm ...

All right - some ideas I may get around to: Ships - UFO - basically a light or bunch of lights that follows a player (or other ship) around annoying the capt since it blocks the jump drive. Possible they could choose to have an escort role though. IFF name is "Unknown Object". (Note - it i...

Considering: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=4595&sid=ba4837965fd4451cbb45d6adb6aea479 It struck me that much of the work needed to make sure of a compatible build environment for different gnu/linux distros would normally go in a configure script - then the install method would become -...

Imagine my delight at finding that Elite is well and thriving as a FOSS project - Free Software no less. But, of course, you don't need to imagine, you've been exactly where I am. Intros: I am an eldritch old-school hacker living on a clifftop overlooking the Pacific. With me is a wifie and three (c...