Oolite Bulletins

Not sure if this fits the true definition of the genre as it is more of a Parody then anything else but it is the first relatable thing that popped into my head.

THE SAGA BEGINS

Would it be correct to guess that all of this will be optional in much the same way as using the current in game Expansion Manager is optional. Completely understand the need to have an OXZ acquisition method that makes things as easy as possible for New Players. However, for the slightly more exper...

Anyone else notice a considerable slowdown when accessing the forums over the past several days. Been also getting the occasional 503 error, down for maintenance or overcrowded . Checked the Interweb traffic sites and there are no apparent outages that can account for this. Does anyone have contact ...

The Year of the Angry Rabbit Admittedly found in a Google Search but that then lead to an interesting side find. The Night of the Lepus , a 1972 movie based on the book minus the novel's dark humor according to the Wikipedia page, sits firmly in my memory as one of those films one would rather forg...

Take a look in both the descriptions.plist and the dredger.js files. Once there look for entries that contain salvage_drone_battle . These entries will have other words attached to them but this would be your main search term. This is the relevant stuff for when and where Dredgers are called in afte...

Dr. Prilicla from the Sector General series is an acceptable answer. That is the 5th answer so the Chalice is now yours ffutures. It may need to be seriously decontaminated though. Several Pygmy Marmosets had to be brought in to eat all the locusts. Said mini monkeys did not take up residence in the...

Starship Troopers definitely qualifies. Two MBPs to you spud42. One for giving an answer that was originally in my head when forming the question and a second for keeping the "low hanging fruit" thing alive while the show was under my command. One to go. By the by the Chalice has been del...

All three of the previous posts are acceptable answers. THEM! earns two MBPs for ffutures as the answer that qualifies as a personal favorite. Two more to go before this Chalice of Lice gets passed on and away from my increasingly itchy self. If this takes too long a plexiglass box my have to be ord...

Nothing ground breaking comes to mind so let us celebrate The Thargoids. Name five Science Fiction works which feature larger than normal Insects. They do NOT have to be Godzilla sized but something of that size would be an acceptable answer. Usual rules, one answer per post, and citation is a good ...

Got it to work by using the following code. this.shipWillDockWithStation = function (station) { if (system.techLevel == 0 && (station.hasRole ("coriolis") || station.hasRole ("dodecahedron") || station.hasRole ("icosahedron") || station.hasRole ("sfep_stati...

Trying to write my first JavaScript file from a blank page. Not having much luck. The project is based on the Docking Fees OXZ. Trying to eliminate the Fees and just have a Message always appear on the Station Arrival Screen. The current behavior is that if the Player has a Fine or has scooped an Es...

Once again, the lowest hanging fruit possible.

THE CHINA SYNDROME

Although it was a fairly good movie.

Mostly it is just a matter of getting the numbers right to achieve my goal. My original intent in all of this was to rework the Markets of the three types of Rock Hermits found in the Spicy Hermits OXZ. Quite a while ago the "spara method" was used by me to rework the Markets of the Deep S...

Have a look HERE . Specifically at the options for markerShape. Combined with what Cholmondely pointed out it is not too hard to change the shape of the Markers on the F6 chart in an OXZ. Tweaking stuff is half the fun in this game. Beware the Dark Side though, it can become quite addictive. If more...

From the sounds of it, I think everyone wants to see how to rework the entire economy to create 3/4/5/x-pole trade routes, all with the existing tech. Would that be a fair assessment? If you want to go into that deep a dive my belief is that it would certainly result in something positive. Re-imagi...