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by Kyle Aaron
Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:24 am
Forum: Outworld
Topic: US joins rest of Industrial World in 20th (21st) Century
Replies: 60
Views: 10699

It'd be nice to have at least one forum where US domestic politics doesn't intrude. It gets a bit tedious. I mean, do Aussies, French, Canadians, South Africans, Italians and so on bother unrelated forums with their boring domestic politics? No, we don't.
by Kyle Aaron
Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:24 pm
Forum: Testing and Bug reports
Topic: Did you ever wish for just a little more space in your hold?
Replies: 31
Views: 6136

When this first happened I just assumed the expansion was bigger than I'd expected. So I went ahead and bought 50t of goods. When I loaded up a savegame later, I saw that I had 50t of 35t of cargo space filled. When I went to buying and selling things, I found that... I could have negative tonnes of...
by Kyle Aaron
Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:19 am
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: Pilot models for ships
Replies: 54
Views: 21550

The thing is, elite is fundamentally broken, scalewise. If its fixed, then things like flight time need to be changed, and the whole gameplay is different. Likewise, the physics are broken, too. Craft in space have a maximum acceleration , not a maximum speed . They may have a maximum safe speed th...
by Kyle Aaron
Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:09 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Ship dimensions...
Replies: 21
Views: 8976

What the other guys said. Please don't try to reconcile sizes and distances in Oolite, because it simply can't be done. After all, keep in mind that Oolite is a game, not a faithful space simulation. So at the end of the day we don't implement what would be correct, but what works as a game. Which ...
by Kyle Aaron
Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:41 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Taking off from planet
Replies: 7
Views: 1684

We can land on planets?

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