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- Thu May 16, 2024 8:09 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Am annoyed about fixed lasers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 90
Re: Am annoyed about fixed lasers
There's also cosmetics to consider. Default laser only fires in a cardinal direction. You can remove it altogether (in which case you need a new method of 'firing') or you can try to hide it (in which case you also need to hide relevant contact effects such as sounds). If drawing a new laser path th...
- Tue May 14, 2024 11:54 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Am annoyed about fixed lasers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 90
Re: Am annoyed about fixed lasers
I'd been thinking about this a little bit recently... So currently facing = aim but but if that association were no longer absolute then some interesting possibilities (as well as pitfalls) present themselves. Sepearating laser facing from pilot facing is one way of describing such an unlock and so ...
- Mon May 13, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Physical Dimensions of "Space Trader's Flight Training Manual"?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 180
Re: Physical Dimensions of "Space Trader's Flight Training Manual"?
What you have there, Redspear, is a document in the internationally standardized A5 size. If you read into my previous reply an implication that you were an imprecise measurer, please take this as a public apology. No disparagement of your measuring ability was intended. No worries. I merely answer...
- Mon May 13, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Physical Dimensions of "Space Trader's Flight Training Manual"?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 180
Re: Physical Dimensions of "Space Trader's Flight Training Manual"?
BBC manual 210mm x 149mm (likely 150 if curvature is accounted for). No, more likely 148mm than 150mm. Specifically, A5 size. The one I measured was at least 149. I measured both front and back to account for staple displacement. So unless the ruler (not tape which could have stretched) was out the...
- Sun May 12, 2024 11:36 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Screenshots
- Replies: 6853
- Views: 2047663
Re: Screenshots
Oolite's graphics have come a long way...
Those gas giant shots are harder to compose than they look if my attempts have taught me anything. Nicely done.
Those gas giant shots are harder to compose than they look if my attempts have taught me anything. Nicely done.
- Sun May 12, 2024 11:30 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Physical Dimensions of "Space Trader's Flight Training Manual"?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 180
Re: Physical Dimensions of "Space Trader's Flight Training Manual"?
BBC manual 210mm x 149mm (likely 150 if curvature is accounted for). Spectrum 205mm x 144mm (likely 145 if flattened out). C64 206mm x 145mm (poss. 146 flattened). So the BBC version is slightly larger and sursprisingly the C64 version is a tiny bit bigger than the Spectrum version despite both bein...
- Sat May 11, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Physical Dimensions of "Space Trader's Flight Training Manual"?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 180
- Wed May 08, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Sizes and scale in Oolite (again)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 15973
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Sizes and scale in Oolite (again)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 15973
Re: Sizes and scale in Oolite (again)
Some systems are also just busier than others. Regardless of capacity, there is only one docking bay. A busy station doesn't require that many ships be docked but rather that turnover be high. A significantly less busy station requires neither of those things however. Maybe loitering is just fine in...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Oolite Flavours
- Replies: 78
- Views: 3377
Re: Oolite Flavours
Those four mods are all dealing with some aspect of the issue of long, boring trips from the witchpoint to the station. True. - Indestructible Injectors does what it says on the tin: injectors can’t be damaged. - Masslock Reimagined changes how masslocks work, reducing time spent mass locked by shi...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Oolite Flavours
- Replies: 78
- Views: 3377
Re: Oolite Flavours
Would this be relevant?
- Time Saver or Ain't Got All God Damn Day Flavour
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Proposal for 1.82: updates to service level / maintenance
- Replies: 50
- Views: 29775
Re: Proposal for 1.82: updates to service level / maintenance
The correct use of analogies is a tricky thing. Whether in biblical hermeneutics or in philosophical logic. But I'm amused that Smiv's analogy proves my side of the argument rather than his. The correct use of the word 'proves' is also a tricky thing :wink: But they are useful. Yes, a sort of time ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Proposal for 1.82: updates to service level / maintenance
- Replies: 50
- Views: 29775
Re: Proposal for 1.82: updates to service level / maintenance
Now I can see Redspear's fun arguments (or RalphHH's) coming in as an objection to all this, but not Smiv's car servicing! I'm not disagrreing with you here oh Cholmongous one, really I'm not. But I would like to make that point that it highlights an issue with real world analogies. Just when you t...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Expansion Pack
- Topic: WOOT-Attack!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 190
Re: WOOT-Attack!
So... Weapons online works just as before UNTIL the player targets something, right? I nearly always use power to engines and consequently usually have weapons offline. Something that becones very obvious very quickly is that with weapons offline the targeting area of the scanner is dimmed significa...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Expansion Pack
- Topic: Planetfall 2.0 (probably)
- Replies: 325
- Views: 3721
Re: Planetfall 2.0 (maybe)
Plan to try this out but from what you've written... Some good ideas there I think with a clear awareness of the issues. Configurable never hurts and you've had a go at addressing everything. Maintenence overhaul on planets is a good idea I think. Not particularly becasue it 'makes sense' (although ...