Oolite Bulletins

I changed the way the face lift OXP adds the external dock. I was previously using the world event "systemWIllRepopulate", which takes place around 20 seconds after the system has finished populating. What I'm now doing is using the systemWillPopulate world event, but giving it a much low...

I hope you can see more in that lot than I could. Yeah, I'm not seeing a pattern, other than the one we've already identified: If you don't get the "<100" message, it's a fail. One more try: ExternalDockingSystem_1.6.oxz SpaceBarFacelift_1.6.oxz I *think* I know what's going on, but we'll...

OK, new one to try. ExternalDockingSystem_1.5.oxz I'll start with rapid testing from a save in flight just over 25k from the space bar, approaching having jumped into the system. With "Docking Clearance Protocol" set to on. Attempt 1: Approached without asking for clearance. Flew through ...

I turned on docking clearance protocol.

It worked without the '<100' three times.

I got the message on the fourth attempt.

On the fifth try I got clearance, with a time window, and despite being well within that window, failed to external dock, twice, with a bang on the second attempt..

In case you hadn't clocked it, I've installed the Galactic registry recently, but before I added external docking. Could that be causing issues, since the name of the bar is not the same as the generic "a seedy space bar" used to set it up? It still would'nt explain why it works sometimes ...

Can I get you to try something for me? When you have a space bar that hasn't reported the "<100" message, make sure it's your current target and enter the following into the console: PS.target._isMoving And let me know what you get. text = Ident system locked onto Lobbie's Can-Can Lounge....

phkb wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:42 am

MrFlibble wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:38 am

From that, it all seems a bit random.

Oh, good! I love random!

Wait, no I don't.

Well, that's certainly weirder. I guess I need to look a little closer at what might be happening.

Quick question: You still flying the Warlance?

Yes I am. I've tweaked it a bit (just textures).

Did not get '<100' thing. It's probably worth noting that a successful dock is not predicated on getting that message. It seems to be the 'tell' that I'll not bounce, and as such is the only symptom with any consistency. I've not failed when that message has been present, and not succeeded in it's ...

... check the log file for the message "adding external doc for " followed by some details about the spacebar. If you don't see that message, that tells me something. I have a save in flight near the station, but to avoid possible oddness, I tried flying in more conventionally from a stat...

OK, I think I worked out the docking request issue. If you have the "Docking Clearance Protocol" turned on, then any station that doesn't explicitly have "requires_docking_clearance = no;" in their shipdata, will have it turned on by default. I have that set to "off" i...

I just blew myself up on the same Space Bar three times. On approach, the hail from the Space Bar (Lobbie's Can-Can Lounge, Sotique in G1) wasthis: Our external dock is available after requesting clearance, and can be used if there is delay at the main dock. Okay, so as soon as I can, I hit Shift-L ...

Couldn't make it happen quite the same on the bench machine. I had one failure to external dock (with no prompts) at the first space bar I found after installing the OXP. Docked at main, saved, quit, then reloaded and then docked fine at the same external dock, complete with "slow to < 100m/s&q...

It would be handy to see if there was anything in the logs for those instances, but by the sound of it you’ve run a few sessions since then and the logs won’t show anything. I'd tried quite a few times over the last couple of weeks before switching ships today, bouncing off the docking ports gently...

Is it possible to tweak existing OXP ships (e.g. D.T.T. War Lance) to allow them to use external docking? Currently I just bounce off space bar external docking ports. I switched ships to something standard and it all works as expected, After testing with a different ship, my previous save with the...

Another typo:
in Scripts/randomstationnames.js:var missiontext10
Change commination to communication, unless the ship has some really dark systems I didn't know about!