Oolite Bulletins

It's why I like the Superhub station, but even it kills my ship sometimes due to docking weirdness. I've never had this. What happened? The visual model doesn't line up with the collision model. Try flying close to the central opening approaching from the side... you'll probably soon painfully disc...

I thought the docking slit was the "industry standard" one. They're not all the same? Indeed that probably is the standard sized docking port/slit/bay/entrance for the common Coriolis. Dodo, and Ico stations ...and it sucks trying to dock a Boa 2 if you don't do it sideways. I recently to...

I really want to like the Globe and Torus stations, but one problem I especially have with the Torus stations is their small docking port relative to their total size. Docking a Boa 2 or Anaconda without any scraping is really hard on the minimally-sized docking ports.

Cholmondely, my condolences as well.

You told me of her disease, I did not know it was that progressed.

No, it was a BUG. Even if I moved slowly for long enough to "clear" the nonexistent atmosphere tag-along and then at max speed...it would kill my ship every time. Please don't argue with me on that one. Having written that I am wondering if it's possible to open a wormhole without going th...

Tell me with a straight face that that passage is not attempting (deceitfully) to imply that Hawking would have received the other half, had he still been alive. There may have been an intentional cruel act of waiting till Hawking died to award the Nobel Prize... You're correct, hiran, Oolite-style...

Only for small black holes, where one gets the spectacular spaghettification and all that jazz. For supermassive black holes, the event of crossing the horizon would pass unremarkably. Jury's still out on whether the Killing Horizon would actually kill you for supermassive black holes, but it could...

Really close to a black hole, even Oolite's ships should have trouble overcoming both Newtonian and relativistic forces. And the event horizon is death! RooTers News Public Service Announcement: Don't go flying into the Pulsar at Tianve near top right of Galaxy Chart 1. It isn't a wormhole, you'll j...

If a star's diameter is 1 million km and a black hole's event horizon is 100 km then getting within 1/2 million km of the center-of-mass of the star is crashing into it while the same is not even close to hitting the black hole. A "near miss" of a star by 1 million km means either an ellip...

A Black Hole would be on the edges of a regular Oolite solar system? Or in Interstellar Space? Hmm. I'd expect a black hole to be the center of a galaxy. Which means it starts as a collapsed star and as that in the center of a solar system, then aggregates mass such that it influences all star syst...

AddOns should handle user-managed addons in it even if they're not inside the User or Managed folders. Also the AddOns folder presumably can handle addons in both .oxp and .oxz formats...for both Managed and User folders. If the existing user addons folder currently handles both formats, then that ...

~/Oolite AddOns/ Managed/ (moved from ~/GNUstep/Library/ApplicationSupport/Oolite/ManagedAddOns/) User/ (moved from ~/.Oolite/AddOns/) ... We should still allow in addition <Oolite installation folder>/AddOns/ or possibly rename slightly to <Oolite installation folder>/UserAddOns/ It is a bit of an...

I almost never have Interstellar Tweaks OXP installed because my goal in Interstellar space is to make it as empty as possible...most of the time. Even Thargoids won't be after you with every misjump...but likewise help may be slow to arrive as well (added by populator). The crash is very old, from ...

phkb, that will be in my next update. "You might want to consider expanding on which variables are saved in missionVariables, so changes made via Library Config are saved after changes are made." I already ran into problems with a separate OXP that added or removed the TWD...and its versio...

Call this a beta or even alpha version... But the older versions use OXPConfig for Configuration. Have the newer versions been updated to use Library OXP Config? Since I haven't changed that, the answer is almost certainly no. This is definitely a for-testing version, even though it adds a few cool...