Oolite Bulletins

I don't know how old any of these are (my searching hasn't thrown up much, but I've never been great at guessing at search terms), so I'll briefly list a collection. 1) Flickering textures (most obviously on the Coriolis ring and buoys). I think this one has been around for a bit; I dimly recall it ...

chaos syndrome wrote:

Tried ArcElite and hated it (never could get the hang of the mouse controls, and keyboard, while still an option, just wasn't manoeuverable enough).

It was awful at first, but rewarded perserverance well.

However, I don't think the becomeUncontrolledThargon command can be reversed - it's not really an AI thing so I don't think you can issue a further instruction to simply switch to another AI and in any case you'd need to know what the ship's original AI was otherwise you'd end up turning police int...

Ahruman wrote:

[*] Fiddled with texture cache. It’s leaking.

Ah, is that why I sometimes get random textures instead of the docking / hyperspace tunnel? (after fiddling back and forth with F12).

First played it on the BBC (casette version), having got it for Christmas 1984. When we upgraded the Beeb to the disc version I played it on that, reaching Elite. I was amazingly excited about getting the Constrictor mission, because at that time I didn't know there were missions in Elite. I've play...

And your graphic-borrowing (avatar)... I don't mind much, but I wish people would ask. Mind you, since I removed contact details from the site years ago it's probably not unexpected that people don't, and it's not as if I have any claim on the original design. I wasn't aware that anyone had used th...

How about slowing down shield recharge rate instead of cooling lasers quicker?

If you mean the Salamander, it's in the oldships.oxp No, I don't mean that one. Perhaps you mean the Cougar... I don't mean that one either (the Cougar isn't in Elite A). THe Elite-A big mystery ship is very big, very rarely appears (I've only seen it a couple of times, apart from in the files), an...

I'll consider it... There's just the slightly awkward fact that both Elite A and ArcElite have (different) ships called the Bushmaster. So have different designs. There are several versions of the original ship banging around (eg. the Dark Wheel Cobra Mk. III and The LOVELY Dream Team ships) But th...

One ArcElite ship and a handful of Elite-A ones in the OldShips one (possibly because it's far easier to relate the Elite-A ship stats), and the rest don't come from any version of Elite I know (ArchElite != ArcElite; I've never heard of ArchElite). Well, then. One answer to that could be dabbling ...

And there is no need at all to re-invent the wheel in this community. :wink: Damn. There goes my wheel-inventing project. <Puts down chisel> :roll: And your graphic-borrowing (avatar)... I don't mind much, but I wish people would ask. Mind you, since I removed contact details from the site years ag...

One ArcElite ship and a handful of Elite-A ones in the OldShips one (possibly because it's far easier to relate the Elite-A ship stats), and the rest don't come from any version of Elite I know (ArchElite != ArcElite; I've never heard of ArchElite).

Well, finally gave Oolite another shot, after it had been sitting on my hard disc for ages not doing anything. I'm surprised by the lack of OXPs bringing in all the good old ArcElite and Elite A ships (at least I've not found them, just one ArcElite ship and a handful of Elite A ones). I suppose tha...