Oolite Bulletins

Disembodied wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:17 am

which is an argument in favour of getting in close, fast.

And then fleeing fast, far away from the combat center, before coming back to your designated victim

phkb wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2017 4:42 am

I believe each distro is responsible for the version they make available.

Exactly.

I run Linux and compile from the source. But really, using the tgz archive is the simplest way to be up-to-date.

I think a single message saying "Allegiances have changed" and then creating an F4 screen that lists all of them that are relevant to the current system (like a short range screen version of the galactic map you currently have) would be helpful. Alternate proposition: - instead of some ne...

Day, I'm noticing something strange going on. After I jump into a system and dock at a station, shortly afterwards I start getting a whole pile of Snooper's news items telling me about a dozen or so new allegiances that have just taken place. Well yes, they're the initial alliances. It's what's exp...

Cool! And certainly 'not obvious' (to me, at least). Remember most of us are self-taught wrt JScript - at first I thought that was another keyword, like self in Python :) I had the same problem the first time I encountered "that" :lol: So you're basically storing a (far) reference as a fu...

The tip I gave phkb, and I realized then that although it is implicit in what was already exposed, it is not obvious: From: this.$rand = function(max) { return Math.floor((Math.random() * max) + 1); } To: this.$rand = function $rand(max) { var that = $rand; var floor = (that.floor = that.floor || Ma...

Thank you

Here is a random idea: what if some very few anarchist systems had their Coriolis station on fire? Griff has made a very nice model back in 2008 but it seems nobody has used it in any OXP yet, perhaps this would be an idea. See his post here: https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=3460&start=1...

In the other scripts: And the subscribers will put their startUp code in: this._startUp = function() { // move your startUp code here }; Submit to you, compel everyone, how will you, 'Master', hmm? :) Granted, your solution is easier to grasp than http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Handling_OXP_Depen...

No, space doesn't work like that - there is gravity as long as you're anywhere near a planet or a star, which heavily restricts how real spacecraft behave, and also, a rocket's fuel is a huge component of its mass and most of a Saturn V's take-off weight was fuel + somewhere to put it. In order to ...

By returning myinnerfunc, you're telling JS that you'll be back (ie. will call the function later) and so it preserves its environment or scope. This is a 'closure': any variables you define will be preserved over each call (but the code itself won't be duplicated if you create many copies). [...] ...

Malacandra wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:09 am

We know that ships' drives (normal space - not Witchdrive) can run indefinitely without refuelling.

I assumed it was because no gravity + no friction implies eternal travel?
Energy would only be needed to steer.

Malacandra wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:09 am

But we should have a Space Elevators OXZ anyway, because Rule of Cool.

I hadn't read the full thread. Now I have :mrgreen: Fuel scooping. Do we have the information of how quirium is produced? If not, probably through industrial fuel scooping. We could have industrial fuel scooping installations :-) And the player could interoperate with them. Solar storms I would inst...

hoqllnq wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2017 5:36 pm

Day wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:06 pm

For example:

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var r = Math.random();
var z = 1000;
while (z--) {
	r();
}

Should that be:

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var r = Math.random;

without the parentheses,
so that the value of r becomes (a reference to) the function itself, not the result of calling the function?

Exactly.

At best we gain a fraction of a millisecond (averaged over 10k iterations, 100s of nano-seconds), so not much at all, at the expense of readability & explicit typing.

Ok, so this part is useless.

Thanks a lot for the profiling