Oolite Bulletins

Sounds intriguingly mysterious. It's not finished of course but plans are in place, and furthermore likely within my current ability. "Surprise" like witch-driving into the middle of the biggest "Bug" invasion fleet since Ephebe laid down the law to Omnia (if you know your Pratc...

Did you ever publish any of your work on these? No. I think at the time I was struggling to get a texture to stick to any of my models. The FdL Lightspeeder was actually rather simple compared to some of my earlier modeling efforts but then the Grass Snake wasn't particularly intricate either. I ma...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:22 pm

Just to say, Phantorgorth includes 10 lunar textures in his Deep Horizons "Systems" standard texture pack.

See here: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File: ... e_Pack.zip

Good to know, thanks.

Another thing useful to remember, in deep nests of conditions - if you need a test (value, property) at several points in a set of tests, it can save effort to store it in a locally-scoped variable (so : you can see it in this module, but it doesn't contaminate the wider namespace) the first time (...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:30 pm

Redspear’s Janes Galactic Shipset tweaks the ship dimensions a tad, but I fear he failed to undo all the damage

Yeah, well, y'know...

I tried to address the problem (as I saw it) and not just the change from ft to m (which was only part of the problem IMHO).

erik wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 8:36 am

Hi

Welcome erik and thanks for the 'gift'

Hope you have fun on these boards as well as with the game.

From the wiki...

An item is considered expensive if its price exceeds your current credits.

Great idea! Well done and as a_c said, here's to many more.

It absorbs the heat energy of laser fire and prevents the weapon from overheating Incoming laser fire? Wouldn't it make more sense if it absorbed the heat from outgoing fire? (Maybe it does: this is me asking :P ) If it's the former then absorbing external heat to create internal cooling is at leas...

Hello everyone, nice to be here Welcome :D Never achieved a rank higher than Dangerous Same here except on the speccy. You could be stuck seemingly forever on 'dangerous' and I only manage to find one of the missions... I've written an OXP Congrats. I've not tried it yet but don't worry if it's not...

Do insect(oid)s have theory-forming minds? Great question, which I am in no position to answer adequately. My approach Re oolite (usually) : if the classical lore say its so then it likelly is. How or why exactly I prefer to leave to the player. Communism for example is a label that has been applie...

[ If... If... Or... or... Or... Or... I have considered such things for some time, certainly with regards this oxp and don't want to reveal very much at present. However, if a system is both insect inhabited and communist then I don't see why both couldn't be represented in some manner. I'm not medd...

May of the political systems have specific stations of their own (royal hunting lodges, SLAPUs, Imperial AstroFactories, etc). What about the species? There is Wasps with its own station. And PAGroove's variants which you added to SFEP. But how about lobstoid stations? And. Species has a list of al...

you've got the easiest check (What is the contents of player.ship.alertCondition?) last. Could I be so bold as to suggest this re-arrangement for clarity: Certainly... it could save some unnecessary calculation when it actually matters, I think I get it: why do the expensive check first when it als...

this.$sendMessageTimer = function $sendMessageTimer () { var p = player.ship; var stn = system.mainStation; var dist = p.position.distanceTo(stn.position); if (dist < stn.scannerRange) { // only send a message if the player is within scanner range if (p.alertCondition != 3) { // only send if the pl...

Is there a way to get the Messages to appear at all of the possible Stations in a System instead of only at the Main Station? Hi Nite Owl, Yes, I think so and (to my surprise) I may even know how to do it... If I'm right then the key would be in swapping the main station part of the check so that i...