Oolite Bulletins

All the ships in Oolite are ridiculously large, even when you don’t take the tiny planets into account. Weren’t they at some stage converted from N ft to N m instead of 0.3048N m? If so, the sizes on feet were merely surprising, not silly. :-p Agreeing here! The adjustment from feet to meters was n...

Dr Beeb dropped in last year. There is a newer model for a cloud cities which is available from Sol Command (Venusian Aerostat) Venusian Aerostats - (8).png I do not know if it has any docking bays - or if an external dock might be added. Or how easy it would be to convert to Oolite's ".dat&quo...

Query: F7 screen "planet descriptions". Ignoring the one-liner addons ("This planet has rings"), there are two possibilities for the planet descriptions - the vanilla game goat-soup one and those provided by eg. Famous Planets/The Assassins Guild etc. Is there any way of a second...

Comments, feedback and suggestions welcome. Wiki page is now up: ConsoleLogMFD BUT! 1) I don't have any screen shots for it (AppleMac :mrgreen: ) - Thank you, Cbr! 2) I'm unsure exactly what a console message is supposed to be (the wiki programming pages have nothing to say on the subject!).

phkb wrote: ↑Fri Feb 27, 2026 11:03 am

And I don't think a conversion to Manicheanism would preclude me working on my mods.

St Augustine of Hippo never worked on any Oolite OXPs back in his Manichean period.

Neither did Psattiq, Faustus of Mileve or khagan Bögü Qaghan.

Manicheanism is murder to Oolite modding!

What wrong with just having normal .pdfs in the download? The ones we have been using up until now? Has this method stopped working? I'm just reminiscing about all the fun and games we had with Oolite.org being sold, with the original bulletin boards crashing and the bot invasions of this new bullet...

I've just had another stab with oolite-1.90a2-Mac-TestRelease (downloaded 8th June). Hi, where to download this (or any newer version) from? Any links? Best regards, G I think that I got it from https://app.box.com/s/p78wgne1fitzxyngn8suvtqvwn3h9pm1 Phkb was decent enough to have a couple of stabs ...

The following was posted on Reddit (r/Oolite) a week ago: Oolite on Steam Deck? HI there. In theory being a Linux also game it should work on the Steam Deck correct? Has anyone done this? If so, is it a complicated setup procedure? Thanks in advance! ( YoreHistory_YouTube ) And there has been one an...

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Heliosphan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 09, 2026 2:19 pm

first time posting

Greetings and Salutations!

Welcome to our merry throng!!

Summary: What is your favourite SF book. And why? 1) Ffutures: John Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar" (1968) 2) Phkb: "Remnant Population" by Elizabeth Moon. 3) Wildeblood: John Brunner's "The Wrong End of Time" 4) Rock Doctor: Harry Harrison's "Make Room! Make Room!&q...

I think that this is relevant... but am not sure. I'm in G2 with a new Jameson (Start locations variety pack) and have Thargoid Wars running. At G2 Anvere, I launched due to a Thargoid raid. With no extra equopment worth a damn, and my pathetic combat skills, I ended up tagging along with a squadron...

I purchased ED a few months ago. I only started it briefly but didn't like the whole walking around on the planet training part and haven't played it since. It looks like it needs a serious investment in time for me to learn the controls. I couldn't figure out what I needed to do to open a door lol...

Lone_Wolf wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 11:12 am

A slaver base is - in my opinion - a special case of a pirate cove which is a special case of a rock hermit .

My opinion too.

Lone_Wolf wrote: ↑Sat Jan 24, 2026 5:37 pm

 Rock_Hermit_Beacons_OXP has such beacons.

Does it? I saw nothing obvious in either the javascripts or the shipdata.plist.

But if you nose around inside  Rock Hermit Beacons OXP then you will come across this: rockHermitBeacons.js