Oolite Bulletins

The fastest way is a cycle through ships returned by player.ship.checkScanner(true); Wow, the things you learn! I've gone through all the Wiki docs quite a bit but still hadn't seen that one. Thanks! I should be able to cut down on my use of filteredEntities with that. If I want then I can lock a t...

Got this error in my log after a forced misjump to fight some Thargoids: 14:12:09.724 [script.javaScript.exception.unexpectedType]: ***** JavaScript exception (Explorers Club 1.4.3): TypeError: system.sun is null 14:12:09.724 [script.javaScript.exception.unexpectedType]: C:\Oolite/oolite.app/GNUstep...

Surrender: send to all ships in scanner range due to the player try to stop all of them. Hmm. I'm not totally convinced yet, but I'll have a look at how I can handle the multi-group aspect. I think my AI skills are going to hit their limit here, though. Bribe: give the money to the ship who accept ...

Most help requests are intended for other group members only - the sending is requestHelpFromGroup and only group members receive the helpRequestReceived event. So if I see a "Help me" transmission from a ship, there is no event I can pick up unless the player is part of that ship's group...

V1.0.11 is available via links in the first post. This version fixes the "wideband" issue, I've re-ordered the messages to hopefully put the more relevant ones first. I've removed all of the prefixes, instead making the text of the message clearer as to who it is relevant to. I've fixed a ...

In external access would be nice the short usage like this: worldScripts.BroadcastCommsMFD.$createMessage("spam", "Eat spam!"); Not sure about reducing the call this much. If there's no callback function defined, then wouldn't it be a rather pointless message? Funny maybe, but n...

Thanks for the suggestions, Norby. It's great feedback, and exactly what we needed! feel more natural if the displayed messages are not prefixed in parenthesis but show "Send greeting to target" and simply the message if broadcast. Good ideas. That will probably be how I do the next versio...

I'll get a update with wideband replaced shortly.

Zireael and I are excited to announce the release of BroadcastComms MFD expansion pack. For the time being, this is in beta form only. I won't be publishing this in the download manager until we've got some broader comment on the usability and suitability of this pack. We'd like feedback on everythi...

In the combat training, I'm finding that, with a base Cobra and a pulse laser, I barely beat one harmless Sidewinder, unless I crash into them. I can get behind them, hit them once or twice with the laser, then they spin almost completely around and I might get a couple more hits on them before they...

I also spent a lot of time in Revs, Infiltrator , Thrust, and The Sentinel (of which there is, like Elite, a modern, freeware (not open source) remake in "Zenith" ) Also played a lot of Impossible Mission and Thing on a Spring , which you could only play with the cheat code. And Hacker .

Just curious - the Wiki OXP list ( http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP_List ) has a column called "C" relating to compatibility with v1.76 and 1.77. With 1.80 out, and some OXP's needing 1.80 to work (ie. anything using a MFD), how should this column be used? Currently the options (as des...

Robin wrote:

I couldn't even work out how to view the oxz contents without it starting up oolite

The OXZ format is just a zip file. Change the extension from "oxz" to "zip" (or add ".zip" on the end), and you should then be able to extract the contents.

I have a couple of general feedback questions for those who are interested. Let's say you're attacked by a pirate band, and using this new-fangled "BroadcastComms MFD (tm)" you quickly send out "I surrender" message. The pirate band accept the surrender -- but what should happen ...

I say, totally awesome! Thanks Norby!