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Just musing about Anaconda Liners - and other ships with scoops fitted. And Oolite code limitations.

Could one stick oneself in a spacesuit/escape capsule/cargo container with life support etc and be scooped up by and thus "visit" that second scooping ship?

Reference: Astronaut

Greetings to all denizens of the 8 charts! Been a long-time lurker here and a sporadic Ooliter since 2014 or thereabouts. Apart from MS FS9, Oolite is the only 'game' that consistently keeps me returning to it. That's some feat on the part of the developers, and so finally I express my thanks and a...

My understanding is that the logos would be of the planetary Corporations, rather than of the planetary governments. And I'd expect to see them on stations, RHs's, trading fleets and cargo pods. But I can see the argument for your planetary logos on the local vipers. But perhaps after one has played...

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phkb wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 1:41 am

Along the same lines, I mean.

G2:

LARAISSONIAN LINERS?

CEINERIAN CRUISERS?

What a fascinating thread! Can't believe that I missed this one.

cbr wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 4:28 pm

A Domino proof mk.1 escorting in warm comforting paintjob...

The domino-proofing is not needed by your ship. It is needed by your cranium. Greywracke dominoes weigh a ton and make sizeable dents when they land.

My understanding of Corporates is based on Imprint.

Have you tried pm-ing Cim? (Switeck or Spara might also be able to help).

And AltMap might also be worth a look:

In the vanilla game/Classic Elite the police are paid for by GalCop, the United Nations equivalent, which presumably used to police pretty much everything in the Golden Age. There are more police and fewer pirates in the safer systems. The consensus on these boards has been that the wealthier system...

I thought Italian police cars traditionally had green/white colouring. Italians have four different varieties of police - polizia, carabinieri, fiscal police (who also do counter-terrorism - think mafia) and the transport police. Apparently it is to stop one singular head of the police staging a co...

Is the witchpoint beacon/buoy an entity and, if so, under what heading do I find it in the Javascript reference? - I merely want its position so I can spawn some ships there (instead of around the player.ship, where collisions tend to happen). My understanding is that it is much more than an entity...

Trump is fond of authoritarian leaders and wishes he could be one too. I'm happy to see leaders in Europe, Canada, and Mexico stand up to his bullying. And the current understanding is that standing up to him works (unlike what has happened with Panama and its canal). Two very nasty articles in tod...

cbr wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 2:16 pm

Digebiti seems quite popular with these smaller liners...

You do know that cousin Digby has more than the one domino, don't you?

...how about repurposed cobra mk1s as escorts... But would they be good enough? "Today, it is hopelessly outclassed as a fighter, but some pirates still use the craft when operating in groups due to its low cost, and occasionally traders use the craft as a support vessel. Today, it is most com...