Oolite Bulletins

OK. My guess is that the output of the 32-bit compiler should be fine, after all I'm running a binary that was presumably built with it. One thing that jumped out at me when I was looking at the build instructions was a requirement that things be on drive D:. I only have one logical drive on my mach...

I've taken the concept of re-imagining the trading aspect of the game and run with it. {big snip} Dictatorship Although prices remain fairly consistent with the norm, stock availability tends to fluctuate wildly in response to the erratic whims of the current ruler. Occasionally these whims only ch...

One of the things I thought I would do pretty soon after picking this game up would be to build it myself. However, looking at some threads in the Windows forum I saw something about how you can't build it on 64-bit Windows.

Is that right? What's the problem?

The other idea that occurs to me would be if certain commodities got a lot more valuable the further they were hauled. e.g. if the fish eggs you picked up as food at 3 Cr/t turned into luxuries when they got to be 30LY from home or something.

I do have YAH installed, and it does make for somewhat more interesting trading, but I don't have a good enough feel yet for where the constores are to make plans with those in mind.

Somebody mentioned "BlOomberg Markets." Link please?

Something that always bothered me about the original Elite was the shallowness of the trading game. The real money was always in hauling computers from rich industrials to poor ags, and there was really nothing close in value for the return trip. And so many of the commodities were basically never w...

Check the variable ship_trade_in_factor . If this is below 85, an overhaul is due and you should be seeing the offer in the equipment screen, provided you are at a planet with an adequate tech level. So is there some other reason than trade-in value to do an overhaul? Might things break due to wear...

Are fwd beam laser and ECM enough?

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And fuel injectors?
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Diziet Sma wrote:

Eeeeep! MS Word?!?!?!?
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Now, some tips for editing files in Oolite for Windows.

• Notepad = BAD
  MS Word = VERY BAD
  Wordpad = OK
  Notepad++ = GOOD

Notepad++ can be obtained here.

emacs== best

How about the laser pulses? They look like just a 2D monochrome filled triangle, complete with aliasing. They'd look better with some kind of diffusion effect.

OK, clearing the cache worked. Thanks.

I'm still finishing the test in about the same time (11 min or so) but I'm killing most of the drones now.

Is there some kind of build step I have to do? After editing the script, I just launch Oolite and my changes don't seem to be taking effect. I added a player.commsMessage("Using hacked drone lifetime", .5); and I'm not seeing that. This is still in laveAcademy_targetDrone.js!shipSpawned() ...

This is probably a question I could answer by dredging through the forums but I'm lazy and anyway, the best way to get an answer is to ask someone who knows, says me. Anyway, I'm looking at the Lave Academy OXP and would like to nerf the difficulty of the gunnery course temporarily. I'm guessing tha...

I was trying to follow this tutorial, and got lost fairly early on. I'm with him up to the point where he says Now I can make the rough shape. I'll do this by moving edges round to match positions on the image of the mini in the image-plane. To start I'll enter edge mode and select the edges at the ...