Oolite Bulletins

Some time ago someone asked a question about newtonian physics and I made prototype for it (basically you remember the velocity vector and force it to stay the same). At the same time there is this problem that big trader ships are a bit boring because they "have to" be slow and not maneuv...

I have streamed Oolite about twenty hours total on SmashTV (formerly HitboxTV) at the end of last year. Hitbox has far less viewers than Twitch, but I never got Twitch to make my stream appear in the live streams list - I suspect probably due to the low quality of my stream because I have very littl...

That's a good suggestion. Perhaps a way to combine a and c would be to give the equipment a maximum lifespan; while it is active the player can see the beacon. When the player "consumes" all of the lifespan the equipment, it breaks and has to be repaired (however it would mean that a way t...

spud42 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 3:27 pm

might be a bit complicated, the next person would have to have the exact same OXZ's installed as well.

There's A_C's OOlite-in-a-VM thingy. It's a bit heavy though (178Mo IIRC) and it requires Windows.

Maybe the space compass reference could be very inaccurate at first and then become more and more accurate as the player gets closer?

Hmmm... What if we make it so that the player lands at the same coordinates in the new system? Given that the WP is always (0,0,0), it's the only safe place to jump from. Otherwise one might end up in the sun, a ship, an asteroid, a planet or a station (one should make an exception for wormholes spa...

yeah read that last night on another forum.... oops!! but not really... it affects intel processors from the last 10 years! so flaw has been around for a while . allowing speculative reads into protected kernal space without checking permissions? big oops... Nope. Specter and/or Meltdown also affec...

Happy new year with many good news to everyone.

It's just my opinion, but feeling the need for macros is the sign that something is wrong in the game: one usually automates the boring and dumb stuff. Why is this stuff still in the game? I've been a few times in the situation cwalen describes: I did accept a bunch of contracts without looking clos...

I'm not sure about factoring-in the service level because currently players have no control on it, in the sense that a) it is mostly hidden (you can try to keep track of it by monitoring the resell value of the ship, but it only gives a rough idea) and b) one cannot do a maintenance overhaul at anyt...

I believe Fuel Tank OXP (3LY of fuel on a pylon) should be mentioned. It's a pretty good life insurance. The price tag is a bit ridiculous given how flexible it is. OTOH a more "fair" price tag (I think around 400Cr would be more correct as it is at least as valuable as a hardhead) would m...

I believe you uninstalled Spara's Starting Choices. It modifies the Adder to allow a cargo bay extension so you can fit a passenger berth.

Maybe mention the correct buy order for equipment: sell pulse laser to buy injectors, then ECM and beam laser. Also, at the beginning, since you can't really do anything else but trade to buy the basic equipment, one should advise players not to buy equipment as soon as they have the money, but only...

... But before that I have to fix a few minor issues: Boulders spawn with a red glow. I believe that's because by default they spawn with a high temperature as if they were just fragmented by a mining laser. Traders still have a tendency to jump out of the system, which is not a consistent behavior ...

Vipers versus Stellar Serpents is now available from the manager. I kind of forgot to release it properly.

I'm considering as the next extension a more-or-less big pack of Star Jellies. So more of a "decorative" extension unless there's a way to add some spice to the encounter?