Oolite Bulletins

I was attracted to Oolite several years ago when reading a series about interstellar traders in Scifi. (The Liaden Universe series by Miller and Lee, if anybody cares.) I thought that a trading game would be fun, and Google led me to Oolite. I think this was around 2015. I'm running it on Fedora Lin...

According to the wiki, you can redefine planet attributes in your copy of planetinfo.plist. (wiki:Planetinfo.plist) You can also define an object in interstellar space: <key>interstellar: 0 7 129</key> <dict> ... </dict> My question is, what is this good for? What can you put in interstellar space? ...

3) When you get near the planet the compass should automagically switch lock-on from the planet to the main station (an "o" to a square if I remember correctly). I had read that this was the case, but I've never seen my compass do this. What might I be missing? Ver 1.73 from autopackage o...

Now I have a working joystick, a bit more experience, and about 500 cr ammassed from shipping. Still can't afford anything for the ship :( I also got blown out of the sky once by a group of four of something, that jus swooped down on me and did me in before I could even get my nose pointed at them. ...

First, my apologies for posting in Suggestion Box, which was the wrong forum. I don't know how I managed that. Anyway, I wasn't able to find the newer release in any of the Ubuntu repositories, so I installed the autopackaged version from the oolite web site, and I'm running it successfully now. I h...

Was the Yaw control deleted from Oolite? I find Yaw left and right in the Oolite Keyboard Controls on the wiki, and folks make reference to it in postings, but there are no such controls defined in the keyconfig.plist. My version is 1.65-gbuild2, running on Ubuntu 9.10 (from the Karmic Repositories)...