Oolite Bulletins

Redspear wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 7:54 pm

... if the ships hadn't all had their dimensions read as meters instead of the original feet.

The old chestnuts are the best! Having set a tale partly aboard an Adder, that's the one that really bugs me!

The Limit Theory forum disappeared last week - the final act is done, it seems.

Links to information on Limit Theory Redux can be found at SSC here.

RockDoctor wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:53 pm

Which sort-of implies that (on this board) you must have registered an account before posting.

Yep! And first posts require approval by mods and/or admins.

I detect and delete the accounts of spambots!

Don't panic, you have not joined the Spam Assassins!

phkb wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:48 am

Usually I’m too busy fighting things at the time to see it pop up myself.

Yeah... many years since I last saw it.

phkb wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:51 pm

"Right on, Commander"

Good to see the missing comma (but not in-game, I guess?). Does it still pop-up every 256 kills?

In Oolite, acknowledgement of a kill, payment of bounty and the impact on one's Elite Rating are all immediate. Does this actually make sense? The details of the kill have to be sent to the Elite Federation for registration, and that message has to be communicated to all systems in the galaxy. How ...

In the game-in-my-head, whatever powers the mysterious ship drives (the torus engine?) provides shipboard AG. I see no reason why that AG couldn't be extended (handwaved?) to assist with atmospheric flight (with some limits on ship size, perhaps). "The Anaconda hung in the sky in much the same ...

DGill wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:48 pm

- nice and earthy!

"Nice 'n' sleazy does it"


The other alternative might be Groundside (which I think is/was common at airports - groundside/flightside).

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:51 pm

Question: What are these Space Routes all about?

Charts, maps, named sectors within them... I love all that, but I've never had any use for the trade routes.

A sci-fi term for being on a planet's surface (as opposed to being in space) is Dirtside.
Would that be preferable to Downplanet? Just a thought.

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:07 am

Cody, is there a system which you might argue was the "Regional Capital" of the "Rift Worlds"?

Articeso... it's the gateway to the Rift Worlds, and a TL 14 Corporate.

The Five Points Trade Barrier and the Rubicon Crossroad are two regions of what's known as the Rift Worlds (aka Baying Wolf).

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:03 am

Five Points cluster?

The Five Points Trade Barrier (G7 in ClymAngus' vector maps). And no, I don't know who named it thus.