Oolite Bulletins

Excellent! Brilliant! Thanks, hiran.

I think I haven't thought about this one long enough yet... There certainly seems to be much that is worth some more consideration.

Suggestions for a better name eagerly canvassed! The Elite Plus manual, p. 13, par. 1, Delivery Advice: states: 'Pilot licences are issued only at the planet Lave.' (spelling error is original) Perhaps an alternative name referring to 'New Licensing Offices' or similar might be applicable...?

... Good points, all of them! Yes, and, if Mr. Redman was as good at playing as Mr. Holdstock had confessed to have been, then he might not have got used to the methods of movement so much. ...And, yes, joysticks are beyond my ken. (Assumptions are sneaky little things... -- especially my own.) Rega...

Yes, agreed, Cholmondely. There does seem to be some azimuth:elevation concept involved, but the final application looks a bit wonky. Regarding your first example, though, I think the meaning there is actually, that he rolled 30deg anticlockwise, because rolling is the only (anti-)clockwise manoeuvr...

I'm not freaking out. :lol: All I'm trying to indicate is that I think that I've tried to do my homework as best I know how, and to provide a solid argument to show why Mr. Redman's bearings might very well be random gibberish. ...unless someone can explain how else I should rather interpret them. I...

Yes, thanks, Cholmondely. I have tried to contact him, years ago already. Am still awaiting a reply.

That sure looks like one sweet ride...

I'm not sure that I understand your critique. If the numbers are measured on a 0°-360°, then I would count forwards in the approved manner (clockwise and upwards, for example) and 110:95, 195:15 and 290:85 are all three very different. As are 310:120 & 130:60. And there would not be any negativ...

The second Elite novella, Imprint , by Andy Redman, published in the back of the 1991 Elite Plus "basic flight manual", on the following pages, refer to the following directions/bearings in the context of flight/combat scenarios: p. i2: "20: 40" p. i16: "50: 80", "...

If you want to optimise your travelogue a bit, I hope the following format with launch time might streamline things somewhat for you: DDDD-DDD:HH:MM System Any other details and interesting occurrences. Oh, that is an excellent suggestion. That's such a good suggestion that I'm kicking myself a bit...

[[ game session start time 2084-191:23:53 | session RW time 2:34:07 | game session end time 2084-194:18:53 ]] ... Latest jump record, sir. Totals : 47 jumps Jump Distance: 146.0ly Jump Time: 557.60h Non-Jump Time: 42.40h (dock-to-dock only: 42.13 h) Averages : Jump Distance: 3.1ly Jump Time: 11.86h...

Aahhh... O.K. Thanks. Interesting... dayChanged.

In other news: I'll have to postpone updating the travelogue spreadsheet for the moment, right now, as RL interrupts and distracts... but I should be back on duty at least by the weekend. <o

Oh. So I had to open the pic by itself in a new browser tab in order to see the filename. OK. Cool.

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Sun Apr 27, 2025 7:07 am

22 days, 5 hours, for anyone interested in how many dayChanged events a player encounters.

I'm interested. ...But does "dayChanged events" mean?