Oolite Bulletins

Hmm. If they were the main station then they would be named as the main station. Oolite will only allow one station in the system to be the main station. Every other station is added as an OXZ station, so he will be adding them by a custom role as this is the only way to add stations. You can replac...

Thanks. I'm a bit short of Oolite time atm, but would you mind just testing something for me with the Stranger stations which are currently unamed. Bear with me as I'll just have to give a quick summary of what these two OXZs are doing and how the Galactic Almanac works with either OXZ installed. Th...

Updated the Wiki and the first post with a link to B1.3.

Thanks Guys, I'm totally stumped as to why windows did not throw a wobbely and refuse to run with the double comma. Not quite as dramatic as the case where "a man's life hung upon a comma" (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jun/27/the-man-hanged-because-of-a-comma)! I'll upload a ...

I'm not sure why not having a space after the // would make a difference. But the characters //" only appear at the line that seems to be causing a problem. Could you try this Beta 1.2 ? This is the same but will all the commenting out removed in the first key and just the general examples key ...

Grr. Still Broken. All of the OXZs files are being read correctly on the Mac except descriptions.plist. Oolite is very picky both on windows or mac about a single illegal charcter or a single missed , " or a non-standard chracter. If there is a single one missing in the decriptionss file in all...

I've only added names rather than changing the stations themselves, so it won't fix an issue with an existing station. V1.1 should work as I used the mission.text file (which I know the Mac is reading), deleted its text and put the descriptions text in a copy of it. That should mean whatever hidden ...

Could you try this V1.1? If the descriptions file now works on the Mac, I'll update the link to this one:-


https://app.box.com/s/kegivsfnoaxleg543eyouz6xde6o2g53

Edit. [Problem I think is invisable windows characters being inserted at line 1. The .plist is a Mac format so when run on a Mac it has to be exactly right for the Mac to read it. The windows versions of Oolite doesn't care if Windows has added invisable characters and so runs with no errors reporte...

The Descriptions file is definatley broken on your OS (but fine on mine). I'll just have to break mine by putting an illegal charcter in and than I can walk you through how to spot it..... To get a report First can you install LogEvents from the Manager. This won't effect gameplay, but it will log e...

The Abandoned Rock Hermits are added by Spara's Spiecey Hermits OXP. Normally they just appear as "Abandoned Rock Hermit". But as a handwave that on being abandoned the GAL-ID unit was removed and so the have the same name format I just added to the dispay names ": GAL-ID Unit Off Lin...

The OXP is documented on the Wiki at the link below in my signature. The OXZ can be downloaded in game from the Expansion Pack Manager under the Ambiance Category. This OXZ adds unique and persistent names to all stars, planets, gas giants, asteroids and space stations in all 2,048 star systems. Als...

I'm not sure if this helps, but this is some code I've been using to get things in (reasonabley) neat tables to get round the fact that there isn't the equivilent of a Tab command with text in Oolite. This code was shamlessly cribbed from Spara's In System Disstances. Set the text you want to format...

Depending on your OXP set up there can actually be quite a lot. I'm playing with Rock Hermit locator installed and it always adds 50 asteroids around each hermit. Playing with OXPs like Salvage Gang as well its quite common to have 200 odd rocks in a system. Names are persitant and an unintended fea...

Thanks Guys, Adding a flavour to the Pizzas was more an easter egg / code test. I needed a way of testing the code to read system descriptions and the Pizzas were a good way of testing it. So a system famous for edible poets is assigned a “Poet & Parmesan” flavour pizza, one with edible deadly g...