Oolite Bulletins

OK, you seem to have exited the game on the rotating Cobra screen. The materials test starts after you've started a new commander though. If this doesn;t work, I would suggest going to Oolite's Tests github page and click the Download ZIP button. This should get you a copy of the sub-project, which...

Opening log for Oolite version 1.80 (x86-64) under Linux 3.13.0-24-generic at 2014-10-08 14:36:06 +0200. 4 processors detected. Build options: OpenAL, new planets. Note that the contents of the log file can be adjusted by editing logcontrol.plist. 14:36:08.027 [display.mode.list.native]: X11 native...

another_commander wrote:

Can you be a bit more specific please? In what way exactly does it fail to produce results?

I'm not sure I can. It simply does not run. At all. As in I see zero trace of it being installed.

Failures are of interest. I have a failure… Finding myself with a tiny bit of unspent time, I've taken the 1.80 out for a few spins over the last week or so. All systems nominal, and the game is Better Than Ever™. (I especially like the OXZ manager. In the old days, keeping the AddOns folder up-to-...

Regular sub-folders would be better. Very easy to drag and drop the OXP/OXZ to a separate folder outside of the addons folder to disable. I have to disagree on this one. Recognizing only folders with the .oxp suffix allows fore more flexibility for the user. Both the renaming scheme I use to turn o...

Clarification regarding the OXZ, please: No OXZ within another OXZ, that's easy enough. But will an OXZ function from inside an OXP? My AddOns folder is organized into several subfolders, something which makes it very easy to turn on or off large swathes of OXPs in one go simply by adding or removin...

Have you tried boot-repair? For someone like me, whose "Linux" experience is limited to mucking around with Unix a few decades ago, it has proven to be a good tool for fixing boot issues. If, as it sounds like, you are completely unable to boot, it can be installed and run from a live-CD/D...

To digress slightly... what is the 'lore' behind hermits? Are they one-man operations, do they fly their own defender ship? Rock Hermits Pirates, aging bounty hunters, or planetary outcasts, who create living space out of asteroids. They usually choose large asteroids, and set up signal beacons to ...

If you are a new pilot, now is your best chance to practice docking maneuvers with the space station at Lave. The Lave Orbit Space Authority permits an unlimited number of practice runs by newly appointed pilots, and does not charge. This facility is suspended during attack, or when the Coriolis st...

Slow 'em down. In practical terms, there is no challenge associated with docking for the Elite veterans. At the other extreme, repeated crashes when docking could very well be the thing that makes a new player say "screw it" and move on. Middle ground? I don't think that exists, to be hone...

I do understand what you are saying regarding the construction of modern laptops, but even so, the switches underneath each key are quite small, and there is no justifiable reason for nearby pressure on the hand-rest region to cause such events. It is not as if the operational part of the keyboard ...

That sounds like some kind of hardware fault, to be honest.. key presses are meant to be a strictly "on" or "off" type thing. Does this behaviour manifest at other times, such as when using a word processor or typing a post in a forum? Oh, it's definitely hardware. Of the most b...

Speaking of keyboards [threadjack alert!]: I recently replaced old laptop with new laptop. Good thing is that it is heaps more powerful. Bad thing is that the mere act of resting my hands on the front part of the keyboard somehow makes my ship turn. Mainly it rolls right, though sometimes it will be...

Then, on the other hand (and this is all from memory, so may not be all that accurate): There's a scene in West Wing where the "military pays $$$$ for $ items" issue came up. One of the characters whips out a hammer and smashes the glass ashtray on his desk, breaking it cleanly into two or...

Burn the heretic!