Oolite Bulletins

Cmdr Wyvern wrote:

My digital camera is old. The company that made it folded. Fat chance of getting updated drivers for it. Crap! So forgive the lack of photo, I'll describe what lies in my cockpit.

Not got a camera phone then?

I haven't posted a Peek of the Week for some time, however here's one showing the expanded area we will be able to explore when the Standard Beta 1 launches on July 27th:


Peek of the Week 41

Zireael wrote:

Which forum do you mean?

It must be the Frontier forum.

Commander Doppler wrote:

I would be in witchspace and confronted by one or more angry thargons. I tried it a few times today and I just safely end up in the chosen system Am being thick?

Yes. They are Thargoids, not Thargons.

New video from Frontier, showing off the new Orbis station. Check out the parkland inside the wheel.... Wow, just gorgeous!

http://youtu.be/ex2nGIvbiVI

More fixes because there were too many for a single post :-) - Using forward/backward thrust resets throttle fixed - Fix bounty hunters with no crime scanners - was setting the (basic) scan time to 100s if there was no crime scanner, rather than 3s - Once a ships engines are taken offline, AI shoul...

Hi, Premium Beta 2 is now available. I've copied the change log below, please read the important bit at the top! New Content/Features - New space station type added (Orbis) - Added Hauler ship type - 3 x new visitable systems (Styx, Aulin and LHS 3006) - German language support added - Incremental ...

@JazHaz: you still using a laptop, or have you got a desktop? 10 fps is terrible! Yes, laptop. I get 60 fps in Oolite with full shaders 1080p. ED 10 fps near the station, impossible to dock, and thats at 1366x768. I can play recent games like Civilization V (admittedly not a twitch game) and Sniper...

Premium Beta 2 is due later today! Apparently, one of the new things to look out for is improved FPS. As I tend to only get about 10 FPS that'll be nice!

SpaceX Inc of Hawthorne, California, USA, is aiming to build a colony on Mars! CEO, Elon Musk formerly of PayPal Inc, and also the founder of the company, has the vision of building the colony and retiring there himself . They are currently competing with two other companies (Boeing and Sierra Nevad...

Congrats on getting the book out to us KS backers!

I am not very patient about flying around trying to chase and scoop splinters, but returns can be nice. In this situation I recommend the Cargo Shepherd OXP. Very handy! What raised a question with original behavior how alloys can be flying off the ice boulder? Is it some miner crashed into asteroi...

yeah, was mentioned a few times so i don't think it was a typo, seems a strange thing to change in the game backstory. it was the "elite wanted" book, quite good i thought. i really liked the docking is dangerous book too, it's not really tied too closely to elite bar a few concepts and n...

Norby wrote:

I think there is about a half hour downtime every night somewhere near 2am.

I think you might be right. It's down right now. (2:15am)

EDIT: and is back up again. (2:31am)

Digital86 wrote:

Thanks, but no. Armoury OXP adds a lot of weapons. You can get confused.

Yeah so if you don't like Armoury OXP, go for the ACS. I did, and I've never regretted it.