Oolite Bulletins

And it turns up on the BBC too!

if an oxp of mine is not popular(it may be but how would I know :wink: )then I probably will not waste time improving it. http://www.s-and-j.co.uk/smilies/idea.gif Suggestion: don't tinker with the ones being downloaded - they are popular. Fix the ones that aren't! A nice analogy, and a very intere...

Capt. Murphy wrote:

Makara - that's a lovely screenshot, would you mind if I added it to the collection in the first post and on the escort contracts wiki page

Be delighted for you to make use of it.

It's good that even with the graphics turned way down Oolite still produces some photogenic moments

The last line currently reads mission.setInstructionsKey(escortrepstring, "Escort_Contracts_Rep"); and it should be mission.setInstructions(escortrepstring, "Escort_Contracts_Rep"); Yep - this turned the trick and my ITHA Rep is now displayed as good. Despite the very next contr...

Very fond of this OXP - it's a useful income source for my zero-tonnage variant and provides a different style of combat (no more idly heading away & sniping, you have to stay close to the mother). Also gives lots of shouting at the screen moments -"Oh no - pirate cove", "Stop att...

4. The Kill the Dead Tharglets Cheat This feels like a cheat to me. When the parent Thargoid has died and the baby Tharglets go off-line, you can scoop them for credits or shoot them for kills. Shooting a dead droid Tharglet is hardly the toughest assignment in town, but after a major Thargoid inva...

I don' know, it's not immediately obvious which info is which. What are the two red bars in the screen centre, I assume one is laser temperature? Yep - Speed on the left, Laser temp on the right. Personally I prefer a gentler approach to labelling - with most gauges you get used to what they repres...

Agreed on the pitch/roll indicators - they can very much be tucked off to one side. Although I am used to the binary on/off nature of keyboard maneuvering... While I do find it interesting to see some of the things being done with HUDs recently (and I may chase up that script of Thargoid's that Capt...

... Still wish the controls were less twitchy, though. Well, one option would be to reduce the handling of your vessel (by setting up overrides for the pitch & yaw), although that would also make it more sluggish in general flight. As it sounds like your issue is more with precision aiming in c...

The PWEI (Post Witchspace Exit Inhibitor) - sustains the respulitron particles gathered during Witch-tunnel transit and traps them temporarily within the shield matrix. As far as the pilot is concerned the PWEI gives the ship apparently infinite amounts of energy and is therefore temporarily indest...

Both versions should satisfy your need for non-fragile derelicts, Snork. The modification in v 1.1 is just that a ship abandoned while you are in-system (as opposed to one spawned as a derelict) won't recharge their shields now (ones spawned as derelict never had shields). Their energy should replen...

As I wrote (and you deduced from the script) the change is for derelict ships, which is the same as "after ejection". Perhaps I wasn't consistent enough with the reasoning. My point is that I feel the shield recharging should stop after the ship is "dead". At this point the ship...

Surprised that this OXP isn't proving popular - it is definitely one of my essentials, even though I miss out on the whizzy graphical effect. It adds an interesting "do I finish off this guy to stop him recovering, or take out his friends before they hurt me badly" dynamic to firefights. I...

Hmmm - this thread got me to pondering recent missile experiences of mine. Never managed to shoot one down, but even in a "clean" ship (in this case Asp II - only equips being the humble Pulse Laser) a missile launch doesn't have to translate into "Press Space, Commander". My bas...

However I've noticed that the ASC icon seems to be broken again (it's reverted from the petrol pump one to the "F"). I need to look at that one later, but for the moment the new version will fix the death errors issue. Just had a look at this following confusion in a Dictatorship, and it ...