Oolite Bulletins

Place 1 : Moonraker ; Wildblood ; no MBPs. Correction - in his list of Bondisms, Wildblood did include the MBP I had been thinking of - the sub-volcano cave (magma chamber? I shudder, geologically) in You Only Live Twice. He also took several other shows off the table (Thunderbirds, UFO) but not al...

RockDoctor wrote: ↑Thu Aug 14, 2025 10:21 pm

Place 5 : TBA

Chalice alert!

Is this thing on ? ... {howl round}

Since you're grumpy with me for "spoiling" UFO , might I suggest: Battle Beneath the Earth (1967) The Greatest Adventure on Earth...Is Under It! Quoting from IMDB: "A Chinese general goes berserk and has a system of tunnels dug all the way from China to USA, under the Pacific Ocean. ...

RockDoctor wrote: ↑Sat Aug 09, 2025 10:25 pm

What is this board's coding for a "spoiler"? Well, you have been warned ; spoiler for Asimov's "Caves of Steel" (1955, thereabouts) :

For my personal reference, it's lsquare( spoiler rsquare) blah blah blah lsquare( /spoiler rsquare) Just stick that into the HTML editor ...

Do tunnels count as caves? If so, I just thought of very good example. Well since in terms of plot devices What is this board's coding for a "spoiler"? Well, you have been warned ; spoiler for Asimov's "Caves of Steel" (1955, thereabouts) : Asimov's main plot device in terms of ...

At least on Linux *-test builds, the major version (e.g. 1.91) and build date appear in the window title. On dev builds, the full version name appears in the top of the screen. Standard builds too. I've never been tempted by the "dev" builds. IIRC, dev is the same as test (has debug conso...

this will push the definition of "cave"... Caves of Steel Asimov 1953.... Well, having recently reminisced about "caving" in the Box stone quarries near Bath, I think I can accept that stretch. Oh, hang on, sequence check ... Yeah, that's good. Place 1 : Moonraker ; Wildblood ; ...

Just probing if it was a download size issue. Currently the largest object in the Expansion manager is "Lave is Earth 8k", at 130MB and some change. Which is giving about 1 minute of 1MBPS (I could get 2.2 MBPS by going to the wiki links). Then it drops to under 256 kBPS and slowly tails o...

I can download the pack by clicking the link on the web, so it can certainly download. There's an out-of-game way of getting at the OXPs, OXZs, etc? (Doh! See below! Someone uploaded a new version while I wasn't looking.) Ummm. Find the OXZ through the Wiki ; download from the link in that descript...

I'm not sure if this is a Planetfall issue, or that I'm running v1.90 (the stable one) not 1.91 (the "dev" build), but for about the 47th time I've failed to d/l "Resources2". Screenshot 1 https://app.box.com/s/3kr69rpasjdwxakr99na2uqdrgbkqyyb https://app.box.com/s/3kr69rpasjdwxa...

Incidentally, is the height Oolite uses to determine entering atmosphere proper - not the adjustable turbulence value in Planetfall, but the one that determines when the sky changes colour and you start getting frictional heating - the same for all planets with an atmosphere? On all planets I've la...

Over to you. Let the spelunking commence. How about the hidden cave system underneath the city of Threerivers in Paul O. Williams' The Fall of the Shell? Set in the aftermath of a nuclear war destroying the US, some refugees build cities along the Mississippi and hide away in them. Threerivers has ...

another_commander wrote: ↑Thu Jul 31, 2025 7:41 am

And you can run the game with the -showversion parameter, which will display the game version on the startup screen as well.

That's another place to look which the yoof of tomorrow are going to go "huh?" over. "Wots a commandline? (to the tune of knuckles sparking off cobbles)

MrFlibble wrote: ↑Thu Jul 31, 2025 7:35 am

At least on Linux *-test builds, the major version (e.g. 1.91) and build date appear in the window title. On dev builds, the full version name appears in the top of the screen.

Standard builds too.
I've never been tempted by the "dev" builds.

I was want a own Rock Hermit because I want gain more money but this is little hard :) Mining/Contractor pilots become a dead little quickly (almost in a 1 day, sometimes 2 day) maybe this pilots become dead in 4-5 day, also Hermitage colour up to oolite Do you have/ can you program a requirement t...