Oolite Bulletins

Absolutely. I could not agree more. The problem is time . How long does it take to master the game commands? How long does it take until you can play without looking everything up. And then once you have mastered the Vanilla game, how long to work your way through 700 OXZs on the Expansions Manager...

My understanding is that expansions cannot add key functions (the game code rules it out), but must use the N,n,b & MFD key-presses. That makes it a lot easier for me. :-) As for the overview graphics, I think that Keyboard Config might give you that - unless you would prefer Clym Angus's ( old...

With the plethora of choice out there, some of our stalwarts should be easily able to put together some very different flavours of Oolite: mercantile, militarised, etc . Then the Start menu could offer a range of options: vanilla, updated Norby, Stranger's World, SOTL, Galactic Navy, etc . Or maybe...

Or maybe, just maybe, it should be made obvious that after installing you better install some fancy oxps to get you started with that "my game" feeling. Yes, that would also do it. To some degree that has happened. I think Norby created a collection of OXPs for novice users. So all that m...

Being a newcomer so hard that I do not even know you can use : and ; to control the MFDs. I use them to yaw the ship... EDIT: I am on a german keyboard layout, that may add another layer of difficulty. You might be referring to only one key? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36...

We may have different interpretations of a standard, and I see there are different ideas wich seem to me solutions for different problems. 1) Let's assume we create wiki pages from OXPs automatically. After some time people add content to the wiki. From that moment on we should never update the OXP ...

"information_url" = already got a pointer to where additional information are offered, usually wiki I am aware of that field in the manifest. It is definitely better than nothing. But while I was searching for user's manual how to actually benefit from installed expansions, equipment or s...

Good point you made, @montana05. Now I believe we have to anticipate different constellations. Right now I would not know how to distinguish them by looking at an OXP: An OXP may require another one. Depending on the reason we probably want to treat only the new one or both OXPs as an 'official' one...

a) You could probably have an effect entity representing a second sun and it could maybe be made to look just like the standard suns, but there will be a problem: it will not behave like a light source. It will just be decoration. And you would need some added scripting to emulate fuel scooping act...

OK, another one - Second Ending by James White (1961). [...] OK, that isn't quite the way it was expressed, but there are several long (many millions of years) periods of suspended animation so I'm pretty sure it qualifies. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18493395-second-ending Nice plot! The b...

http://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/4/48/Oolite.oxp.zzz.Montana05.GalTech_cylon_raider_Fix.OXZ!read_me.txt http://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/6/62/Oolite.oxp.zzz.Montana05.Far_Arm_Ships.OXZ!Far Arm ships 3.0.1 ReadMe.txt Cylon Raider Fix is not a real OXP, the readme.txt is merely a change log. I ...

Now there is an update available at https://app.box.com/s/6t0u4dj0y5g4adjo4ji6ggn06xnyvpa2
Some of the changes mentioned above are already in. Comments welcome.

To give a better overview of the readme.txt challenge: Have a look at these creative names. And it is just an excerpt of the full list. I will dump the content of these files into the expansion overview, however we still lack good descriptions for ships or equipment. No guarantees for the guys provi...

Oh my giddy Aunt! I managed to find an index page in the morass of material. I did not tell anyone that opening *any* of the files reveals a link in the upper left corner "Back to index", which means you would not have had to search if you just knew. But point taken, that is not very intu...

Hiran, why don't you post say 3 on the wiki. I can then start editing them and let you know about the problems with the system from my perspective? If the worst comes to the worst, and it ends up as a mess, it will still make things a little simpler from my end. Sharing just three of the files woul...