Oolite Bulletins

My new wallpaper, grabbed from the Starman livestream:

Confirmed, it's a consequence of a smaller scanner. Editing this line in ShipEntity.m helps if (sd2 < SCANNER_MAX_RANGE2 * 4.0f) // double scanner range By increasing this value I've seen docking ships become uncommon rather than exremely rare. For example, in a handful of tests I twice saw two shi...

Holy mother of.....


It's SIMON B!

Welcome home, mate.. didn't think we'd ever see you again..

2 days ago, I would have said it wasn't possible. I use a gamepad (Logitech Rumblepad2) that can have 22 buttons (the software lets you designate one to act as a Shift key), still not nearly enough. Then I followed spud42's link: ... and discovered Xpadder.. ... It rated a closer look and, in a wor...

Cody wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:53 am

Flu! And I had the bloody jab! <grumbles>

That's why you got the flu...

My father's 3rd wife was a G.P. She always advised all her patients not to get the jab.. because in her experience, everyone she gave it to, got the flu.

Welcome home, Commander!

Overall, I'm liking the concept.. but I'll give the idea a while to bake in my brain before I comment further. On the subject of just when NPC ships jump out of system, I can assure you Sailsman63, that most ships departing a station jump out when not far from the station aegis. It can sometimes tak...

Why the NPC-ships not can activated Q-Bomb? Certainly NPC ships in some OXPs can use Q-Bombs.. the more dangerous marks in Random Hits carry them as a last-ditch defence or from-the-grave revenge attack. That particular tactic was a big part of the reason I came up with the Q-Bomb Detector. I vague...

cwalen wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2017 7:12 am

Sma

Less formality, please....

It's just 'Dizzy' to my friends.

Well, I do have the LMSS installed as a expansion, but I'm not using any LMSS on my ship. Well, as phkb pointed out; "You just have to have it installed in the game, not actually buying any of the equipment for your ship". So even if you're not using it, just having it installed is going ...

I'm pretty sure my sporadic presence over the last couple of years isn't news to the regulars.. one of the reasons for this has been the game The Long Dark , into which I've put over 550 hours. I'll dodge the temptation to rave about the game and instead tell you about one of its shortcomings, and o...

Twirling, twirling, twirling... towards victory. Been almost 30 years since I played elite. With the starter ship and a tendency towards the better paying passenger/parcel contracts, I am running into a _Lot_ of pirates. The solution I have found? Point your head towards the planet use matchsticks ...

To me, that very much sounds like a bug.. given that it's an uncommon one, it may well be due to incompatibility with some other OXP. The easiest way to test for clashes between OXPs (after reading the logs for clues, of course), is to use a binary search to find the culprit. See this post for a des...

I've built a couple of these: Beautiful! Reminds me a lot of the one my father is currently building. A wannabe. I've sailed a little plastic catboat that a relative had a few times, and turtled a 14 foot hobbie cat. Most of my water time has a wood-and-muscle 'sail' I'm a wannabe too.. I've spent ...

Love this. I'd love to see core scripting access extended to the point that the rescale can be done as a simple OXP. Maybe one day, something like that might be possible.. but first, we need to finish ironing out the wrinkles.. after that, hopefully it can incorporated into core in such a way that ...