Oolite Bulletins

would it be cheating to re-load a saved game, after crashing, exploding, failing to dock etc., in any case then? although as regards the cloaking device -- having forgotten what was going on since last scooping one on a BBC model "B" -- I did have to go much backwards to perform the same s...

The first time I tried PlanetFall I wound up in a most scenic spot
scenic and aromatic

There is a special check to place suns at the planet position in novæ systems, but further away to not burn the station itself. Moving a star (otherwise re-located to the former planet's position) explains everything. Given the nature of the native mission. I'd never realised it was possible to ret...

When a star goes nova, the planet disappears and the star appears in a new position (as seen when emerging from witchspace upon one's return). That new position of the star is almost, but not quite, where the planet used to be. It is a little farther along the line between laser sights of the HUD (i...

While all this is very interesting, and recognising that invisible lasers probably have little future is a visual game format pending release of the brainstem plug-in version ( via quantum loop head-bud™ technology), my suggestion stems from the display settings I use which distort colours most seve...

cargo contracts can be very groovy regardless of ship size -- persist with them

the main problem -- if it is a problem (which it probably isn't) -- is that games saved in strict mode won't open in in normal mode (whatever "normal" is) .. .. hang on I'll just try that the other way around

I really wouldn't try anything without military lasers fore & aft and if you're downgrading to a cheaper ship to liberate cash for guns you'll be able to afford them ( e.g. at Onrira) Everything else is too expensive, even ECM hardened missiles, which do work OK; I prefer the interception missil...

wades wrote:

How about the laser pulses? They look like just a 2D monochrome filled triangle, complete with aliasing

yes, cool aren't they!

Ahruman wrote:

I have a detailed plan to improve them..

availability of any colour at all would be good, instead of the machine second guessing my choice and overwriting

..lasers.. It would be nice if any-colour-you-like were possible for lasers. If you defined one you didn't like (or couldn't see) you could just change it to one you did like (or could see). I don't see why the darker colours should be "adjusted" by the divinity in the machine, who is unl...

they're whole planets we're talking about here, and you're only flying one ship. ..however one usually makes purchases at a space station which, due to the need for commodities to be transported space-side, limits availability; it seems that repeated trading depletes stocks (at the station) but tha...

This might be a little off topic (?) but what is required for the broadside plasma cannon to operate?

When I try to buy eqpt there is no option that works in this capacity

"suppose the escape pod auto-ejects before you get from your Commander's Chair to the Pod?" losing all your cargo is a bit of a nightmare though, sometimes (fortunate that the "safe" seems to be situated in the escape pod) so if I shoot up a pod, in my foulness, why doesn't it sp...

:!: why would anybody want an automatic ebomb? and now I think about it the oxp energy eqpt. (the non-pylon mounted stuff) seemed to be auto-deploying, so I see your point chaff dispenser, rock hermit location etc., all not pylon mounted, but do require bits on pylons to work... (thinking aloud here...

OK, I have arrived at a station with a distress beacon, clean, and got attacked. I launched the sos baecon and 4 vipers turned up but I was shot up before they did anything other than fly around in tight formation with blue lights flashing Next time I remembered to carry some cargo :oops: and got a ...