Oolite Bulletins

I'll get a update with wideband replaced shortly.

Zireael and I are excited to announce the release of BroadcastComms MFD expansion pack. For the time being, this is in beta form only. I won't be publishing this in the download manager until we've got some broader comment on the usability and suitability of this pack. We'd like feedback on everythi...

In the combat training, I'm finding that, with a base Cobra and a pulse laser, I barely beat one harmless Sidewinder, unless I crash into them. I can get behind them, hit them once or twice with the laser, then they spin almost completely around and I might get a couple more hits on them before they...

I also spent a lot of time in Revs, Infiltrator , Thrust, and The Sentinel (of which there is, like Elite, a modern, freeware (not open source) remake in "Zenith" ) Also played a lot of Impossible Mission and Thing on a Spring , which you could only play with the cheat code. And Hacker .

Just curious - the Wiki OXP list ( http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP_List ) has a column called "C" relating to compatibility with v1.76 and 1.77. With 1.80 out, and some OXP's needing 1.80 to work (ie. anything using a MFD), how should this column be used? Currently the options (as des...

Robin wrote:

I couldn't even work out how to view the oxz contents without it starting up oolite

The OXZ format is just a zip file. Change the extension from "oxz" to "zip" (or add ".zip" on the end), and you should then be able to extract the contents.

I have a couple of general feedback questions for those who are interested. Let's say you're attacked by a pirate band, and using this new-fangled "BroadcastComms MFD (tm)" you quickly send out "I surrender" message. The pirate band accept the surrender -- but what should happen ...

I say, totally awesome! Thanks Norby!

That property will only exist for ships with a 1.79 or later JS AI Right. That's fair enough. "performAttack" is on the ship object itself, not the AI controller This is what I'm doing, based on your sample. I'll keep trying -- I might remove a few OXP's to just get the core ships and see...

Also, for the instances where I do find a AIScript.oolite_priorityai, when I do the performAttack and reconsiderNow, I'm not getting any of them to decide to drop cargo. Yet if I fire a shot at them they drop and run straight away.

I'm noticing that some ships don't seem to have a "AIScript.oolite_priorityai". In particular, any "Hognose" ships I come across or even create. Is this due to some issue with the Hognose, or something I should consider on a wider scale (ie. OXP ships's pre v1.79)?

I say, awesome, too! But can someone also do the whole you-beaut update thingy to the stations as well? See http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite_Stations

Right, don't know how I missed the "subEntities" property. Thanks for the help!

Question: how do you find the dock related to a station. The wiki says that each station has at least one, but I can't find any in the entire system. I used this code to try and track one down, but no entity says "isDock = true". Maybe I've missed something here: this._reportAllEntities = ...

Thanks, Norby. That's very helpful.