Oolite Bulletins

Absolutely. A (sadly virtual) toast to Ahruman, and all the OXP authors too! I continue to be both surprised and delighted by this game.

39. Woohoo! A forum where I don't feel I should be saying things like "Of course, in my day, the Internet was in black and white, and it was only on for three hours a day. We used to put on our Sunday Best just to log on", etc. (humour (c) Armando Iannucci: look for "Hello Hugh!"...

Ahruman wrote:

…but it is possible for NPC ships, by simply gluing a bunch of ships together (aka using subentities).

Aha! Would that be why I sometimes seem to blow wings off Iguanas and Cats?

A friend's BBC Micro gave me my first flight, but most of my original piloting was done on a 48K Spectrum. I still carry the mental scars induced by the *&%|! LensLok -- I ended up pirating a game I had bought, just to be able to play it without enduring multiple 6-minute reloads every time I fa...

nijineko wrote:

i think i did it once by accident, but i don't recall how i did. maybe the 'y' key? for cycling between multiple missles? (better check the help docs on that, i might have the wrong key.) =D

Right enough, it's the "y" key! Cheers!

right when i run out of fuel seems to be when the offenders and fugitives really notice me, unless i came in shooting. so having that extra bit helps, especially when chasing down a fergy or bwing. doesn't help that some pirates are riding ships twice as fast as you are! ^^ learning the spiral roll...

not that i have room for it. i have four fuel tanks in my cobra... do a lot of boosting ;D Fuel tanks! Of course! Why didn't I think of that? Cheap, simple, keeps the skill level up: just boost away from most problem situations, even after a near-7 light-year jump... and avoids the kind of Energy b...

While I don’t have a particularly great interest in fiddling with the weapons systems at the moment, I have considered a simpler approach: disable the energy bomb completely in normal (non-strict) play, and leave the Q-bomb as the emergency weapon. That's an idea... I'll give it a go and see if it ...

A comment by Killer Wolf in the "Possible idea for laser cooling" thread led to this concept. Briefly, I feel that Energy Bombs detract from the essential dogfighting nature of the game and give players a "get out of jail free" card (a card which, I confess, I am not too proud, o...

No errors, except I think it's not doable in an OXP. The laser cooling rate is hard-coded, and there are no scripting methods to influence it. Secondly, new keystroke-commands (as you suggested) can't be defined in an OXP. So a laser cooling device would have to be coded in the application itself. ...

Thanks for the responses, and thanks too to Commander McLane for the extra links. I take the point about game balance... but if the cooling device was written as an OXP, along the lines of the Ore Processor, then would NPCs have access to it if the player hadn't installed it? If I, as a fresh young ...

Hi all. Long time lurker, first time poster. I'll kick off with the standard but nonetheless hugely merited hymn of praise and thanks to all those who have put so much into this game! Since downloading it it's been practically the only thing I've played. Outstanding work, one and all. Now time to pu...