Oolite Bulletins

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Is there any natural progression with government type, or is it purely down to the thing that is influencing them? ie One type of influence could push a multigov towards confederacy, while a different type could push it to anarchy. It's the kind of the same with economy: If an agricultural world wa...

As for post-Soviet Russia and post-Soviet states, plutocracy really is a better descriptor, but there's no Oolite equivalent for that. The closest might be Dictatorship, but that's not *quite* what's going on in the post-Soviet states. I went with Corporate only because the fundamental goals of the...

@ arquebus Good answer! While on the whole I think there could be cases made for generalizable progressions from one gov type to another (for example), history shows us that this generalization is routinely broken in (much more) interesting ways. Agreed. We can argue the nuances of whether Soviet go...

I think it's the case that the 256 is a hard-coded limit. So never mind adding extra map space or anything like that, there isn't 'room' allocated for even one more system. This has led to oxps commandeering systems rather than adding them. Which approach causes the most disruption is perhaps a matt...

I further suspect that your basic idea correlates well with map size. More systems, less problems with changing them. If each Galactic map were significantly bigger (say x4) then each additional system would be providing a tiny degree of insurance against the map losing its utility. If the player ha...

I think this might be a case of a very fine question that doesn't easily lead to a very useful answer. You highlight the simple numerical progression inherited from elite, where a poor industrial is essentially more 'evolved' than a rich agricultural. I think that works as long as they are static. I...

The penguin beak just failed to convince, especially compared to Mr F's glorious nasal girth. Could you have been perhaps swayed by the association with his Uncle Arnie, otherwise known as his flared nostrilness? Also note the distinct vertical orientation og the puffin's beak and how markedly diff...

hiran wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:22 pm

For a moment I thought you were referring to Gentoo Linux

Pending the lab results, these points provide hope that Tux and I remain penguin: Comedy penguins don't look anything like natural penguins. There aren't many comedy puffins, possibly 'cos most folk would assume them to be penguins. Additionally there ARE penguins with yellow/orange beaks and even ...