Oolite Bulletins

Somewhere in the docs (we have got to reorganize that stuff; might have been a man page or AI comment) it says that FRUSTRATED happens when the AI has been trying to scoop something for more than 10 seconds.

Background: In https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=2556&highlight= someone was a reminiscing about seeing Sidewinders pop out of Boas. I figured this would be a simple OXP and posted https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=2559&highlight= to ask about replacing ships with variants at a ...

Funny you should mention it. I'm having trouble with that. I've tried using various addShip methods, to no avail. My debugging shows the code is getting called, but nothing shows up. I'm still reading through the rest of the Assassins questions. As I recall, there's a missile somewhere that spawns m...

I gave Wings a quick look for the "Pimp My Cobra" competition, and as a (former) professional 3D modeler, that thing scares me! I might just be able to make minor mods, but texturing drove me crazy. I'm right with you on the scanner thing. If I can ever get this to work, you won't be able ...

One thing that really got me stuck was like_shiping. Though bitter frustration I now know, you must include <model> in the shipdata even if the model is the same as the liked ship. :roll: Thanks, but... well, I've like-shipped the Anacondas and Boas. Since they don't look any different from the reg...

Thanks for the reply. I believe adding the like-ship attribute gives it the same chance of appearance as any other like ship, and that has the overall effect that 50% of all Boas will be a carrier Boa. Not exactly what I was looking for, but close enough. It's not like I'm trying to script a mission...

So, I've decided that implementing the "Boas ejecting escorts" observation from another thread would be an easy OXP. (Oy, vey. Look what I'm getting myself into this time.) I've already updated the shipdata.plist for my new variants, which I call "microcarriers". I copied some of...

Okay, time for someone to design a ship -- a big, nearly-weaponless, TOUGH ship -- and name it the Moose.

Nice press release. But I always wait for the Intergalactic Consumer Reports review before I purchase any craft.

Is it my imagination, or are the majority of those cargo missions only performable in an Anaconda? I keep seeing missions for 200 to 400 units, and apparently I'm not allowed to make multiple trips.

Auto Trader equipment. You just tell it in which system you plan to dock at a station next time and it loads your cargo up accordingly. Auto Pilot Scoop Software - might make the mining carrer more attractive. Auto Pilot Auto Tracker - Combat Software Perhaps entirely automate the game, so you don'...

With the enhanced targeting system, you get text along with the lock. I'll bet the graphics card is having a problem rendering text in accelerated mode. The easiest debugging step is to configure your DirectX/graphics settings and reducing the amount of hardware acceleration to use; often this will ...

Just doin' my part. Not like I can spare the time to write a book or anything.

On that topic, is "Status Quo" available in electronic plain-text format? I could put it on my Palm and read it in my spare seconds...

Very strange; when I use "view image" I can see "Revolt of the Triffids". In the normal board, nothing. Try this link: http://www.vintagepbks.com/images/publi ... op_411.jpg to see what drew was thinking.

We assume the problem is the image size. I cut them down to a little over 100K or so, but they still take approximately the same size in texture memory. I originally thought it might have something to do with the PNG compression (which is set to the highest level, 9), but if they display fine indepe...

In the interests of cross-platform capabilities, I downloaded the OXP and converted those images from RGB to 256. It took assassins.PNG from 300MB to 100MB. If RGB is required, I can save it that way, with the reduced colors, and still get 200MB. The reduced 256-color files are: http://judebert.com/...