Oolite Bulletins

Just spotted this thread. I am on the DDF. Judging from the postings of provisionally 'finalised' outlines of some game design outcomes based on the feedback from the forums and DDF I am impressed by how much they are still making the game they want - ie Elite, but clearly taking on board and implem...

What are peoples thoughts on a fail over? I'm not sure on the size of the wiki but a static mirror here and there just so new captains don't see a 404 might be something we might want to think about. Server fall over start to smell baaad. Just occured to me to mention this. http://www.proxy-offline...

I didn't have a last.fm account. But I have now....

http://www.last.fm/user/rundblick


Good shout!

I have been able to access the wiki over the last few days, it just takes several minutes to bring up a page. At first I thought that it must be stored locally somwhere in my proxy or browser cache, but the "This page has been accessed 77,937 times" at the bottom gets updated, so the serve...

LittleBear wrote:

Looks like someone has staked a claim to this asteroid:-

Now that has got me all exited....

First off - ***** THANK YOU!!!! ***** I will second that. The developers and OXP-ers have done and are doing really amazing stuff. I don't say thanks much because it would just be gratitude-spam and sound weird, but I feel like saying thanks lots, so I can quote you! BTW. welcome Cmd. Cheyd Vlos'Ol...

Great idea for it to be possible, however I would have to speak in favour of a system that did not pause the game in-flight. That sort of thing really spoils the immersion for me, as soon as the universe stops just so I can read and respond to a message. I would like to be able to respond to message...

And...if it's not too difficult or already in there...I guess every player who has Hatchling racers in the game would like to see that some engineer or company owner who produced such things would be a target, because of the crime to do so - as well as the parents who gave such a thing to their mis...

I played eve-online for about 6 months, It definitely succeeds brilliantly in what they are trying to do but at the end of the day it is a spaced-based capitalism simulator and not what I wanted. Infinity I have downloaded the client and looked at thier forums and stuff (I could never find a server ...

I would be amazed if there was anything new or inspiring, or even pleasantly surprising about the new film. It just doesn't seem to happen in SF in film or series media anymore which is a shame because for me the main entertainment strength of SF is to feel that somehow I have had my perspective or ...

Wow! I didn't know you could get Charlie Stross's stuff on-line, I read all his stuff in print from the library. Anyone who likes Charles Stross (and Anyone who is a reader on this forum is bound to) will also like the work of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_MacLeod . Also Greg Egan is probably my ...

First Played Elite on BBC at school in break, also I was the school geek (they were rare then) so I got to spend a lot more time in the computer room when I should have been in other lessons, and stay after school for a couple of hours. I then bought it on disc (5 1/4!) so I could play 'properly' bu...

I suspect both keyboard and joystick control could be improved by using a non-linear response curve, though. I have been thinking exactly the same thing. The small ship vector ajustments needed for fine control in Oolite must be small fractions of a degree, while the ability to rotate a ship fairly...

4) I don't know if it was a bug or me being to fast at the keyboard, but I had sometimes the message that I was hiding while Thargoids attempted to raid the station...but in no occasion I saw a "please launch" message before. Maybe I hit the keys too fast before the text was displayed? If...

In all my years of playing different incarnations of Elite I have never used anything else than my keyboard, and I can tell you: With a little (or make that a little more :wink: ) training you can steer with any precision you Want. I would tend to agree. All the way from the Beeb, through C64, Amig...