Oolite Bulletins

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 10:55 pm

Redspear wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 9:50 pm

I seem to be doing this sort of thing all the time at the moment. Rather disconcerting...

FWIW, I'd blame it on the quanity that you're doing rather than the quality.

The two well-developed versions of the lore - Selezen's & Cim's - both imply that the inhabitants of the Eight came from elsewhere. Neither seem to discuss the GS's - but Selezen's views would have been historically tinged by his wish to incorporate Frontier From what I recall of Selezen's acco...

Casting an occasional eye upon developments within Elite Dangerous I noticed with interest the new supercruise overdrive feature and was considering posting something about it relating to what I'd been trying to do around masslock (and with this oxp in particular). Just hours ago, this was posted: S...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

user2357 wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 5:51 am

Neurodivergent much? Yes, please.

I've got a few actual manuals which I can measure for you later: BBC, Spectrunm and C64 (???)
I'll get back to you.

Cody wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 8:56 pm

The old chestnuts are the best!

Speaking of which...

hiran wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 9:16 pm

Actually I was also wondering about scale and size of this ship...

As long as it's not armed with one of those 'Seismosteller Triggering Devices'. They can be nasty.

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...

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...

Would this be relevant?

• Time Saver or Ain't Got All God Damn Day Flavour
  •  Indestructible Injectors
  •  Masslock Reimagined
  •  Power To Engines
  •  Traffic Redistributer

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 ...