Oolite Bulletins

I've been away from the forum for a while, moving to another continent, haven't got ADSL at home yet and have quite a bit on. But, I do plan on making a few changes to Lovecats, the AI for the bad guys, and the graphics screens.

I just destroyed the monitoring station. Ooops. It didn't have ECM or canons working, or ships defending it, and I finished it off with a mine.

No, these were not Elite style renegades, they we're from the Star Wars mission series in galaxy 7. Now appearing in galaxy 1!

Restriced play rocks. Cargo cannisters drift in space, and even if you cut the engines, your ship will too. Also, you won't be able to buy some extras, like fuel injectors. NPCs can use them though for some reason.

I've been moving, and don't have a DSL line yet (famous for it's inhabitants ancient love of sitcoms but cursed by frequent sandstorms, can you guess where?).

Anyway, are you meant to come across renegade cruisers in galaxy 1? I was quite surprised.

Maybe try http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/co ... /features/

I like the toasters! Maybe I'll be able to find the time to produce a few more ads soon.

How do you tell if the ship you're escorting makes it home safely? Do you just make sure its death actions aren't triggered? And how the hell does one of those things dock anyway? Looks fun!

You can scale dat files using dry dock. It gives you a nice user-friendly size in meters too. No issues with textures, unless you decide to stretch a model rather than just scale it. Mac only unfortunatly.

The sun is actually one of the things I think the original does better than Oolite.

I've been fined 1000cr and sent for "attitude adjustment" whne I've only had 100cr in the bank. Ended up with 0. Not sure how the game would deal with this.

In shipyard.plist, list optional equipment, like
Anything you don't list won't be available to buy.

Ds_store is cruft the mac leaves around filesystems. Windows leaves thumbs.db around image directories. You don't need any of it. Demoships adds ships to the "welcome to oolite" screen when you start the game. It can be a handy way to see your model if you don't have dry-dock (which is mac...

Ogg is an open source sound format which started off on linux. It's like MP3. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg Demoships is used to have ships rotate on the title screen when you start the game. If you want your ship to appear there, you need to add an entry. Apple's speech documentation is here...

Is there somewhere I can get a tarball of the source over http or ftp? Just wanted to get a build of the latest changes up and running on my mac.