Oolite Bulletins

Sorts it out for me, thanks a lot!

Agreed in one point: docking has become way too harmless and thus became boring. But skipping it entirely can't be the solution. A good game has to be challenging, but if the player needs to shoot in his own knees to make it a challenge, then there's something wrong with the game. Oolite as it is no...

If the nightly is only available via rsync, where would you place my current SVN version rev 440? That sounds like your own private build. Huh? Not all too long ago that was the "official" way to go with SVN: svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/oolite-linux I compile with 'make' in the ~/oo...

To end your confusion, there are exactly three builds for Linux: Snip and thanks for your thorough explanation, but I'm still confused (or just too stupid): If the nightly is only available via rsync, where would you place my current SVN version rev 440? Updates are almost too frequent (on a daily ...

I hope you don't confuse autodocking with instant docking.
Nothing against autodocking, the latter is cheesy and stinks.
Also, when we talk about "original", the C-64 version was surely
one of the more popular versions close to the original. And it had
no instant docking.

In general I agree with Arkanoid and Ponder, but even would like to go a little further and take a small fee for instant docking: 0.1% (rounded) of your current Cr, starting when you have a minimum of 5000 Cr (=5 Cr, before you wouldn't have to pay anything). What do you think? It's like taxes: the ...

The whole idea is not really new: it's known from Terminus and used to trigger linear story missions.
Personally, I'm no great fan of linear story lines, but real random missions (=> not bound to specific OXPs)
would be something for my taste! Though it also wouldn't be something new...

I'm on SVN rev 439 (meanwhile I'm pretty confused, so many different versions. I guess the nightly builds are something else....) On my low-end system (1Ghz Athlon, GeForce2-Gts) everything's smooth with 50 FPS on average. Some month ago FPS was higher (~80-100), but also higher CPU load which is no...

Mining was generally pretty boring and unrewarding (financially) though - I wonder if it's any more rewarding in Oolite... Interesting thought. There really should be something to spice up mining, e.g. some valuable cargo/equipment (as a replacement of a splinter), randomly and with a probability b...

Somehow this thread reminds me to an old bug, from which I thought was fixed in v1.53:
Something out of Control
Are you sure this here is something different?
Not that it would help, I'm just curious...

Ahruman wrote:

mikaellq wrote:

"Going Slooowly" should be mentioned, speed-bar at green.

Nah. I’ve successfully scooped on afterburner.

Sometimes you just have too, eg chasing an escape capsule. Absolute speed isn't relevant, your relative speed to the object is what counts.

Exactly, you got it.
But Linux is fortunately sophisticated enough to serve them quite well.

BlunderBuss Carrotcat II wrote:

Mac users are intelligent enough to work out how to do things with only a tiny amount of direction.

Yeah, and a single dot would be quite sufficient for Linux users...

Rxke wrote:

Ah darn, Oolite has become mainstream, I'm outa here!

I'm absolutely with you. Everyone should pass a freak-check before being allowed to download Oolite!

There's certainly arguments for starting windowed (it's safer - if something gets screwed up or the game hangs, the user doesn't have to switch to console mode and kill -9 the game) Exactly for that reason I voted for windowed. I hope I got you right and you were talking about the very first start ...