Oolite Bulletins

As expected from the man who brought light to cities!

Your turn, Commander_X.

I'd be surprised if Proxima Centauri was entirely left alone by sci-fi authors. The existence of a planet has been confimed in 2016.

Nice find, but not a very satisfying answer for several reasons... I'll wait a little more for other proposals.

Thanks for BGS, it improves Oolite a lot. One thing that bugs me a little is that the background images show designs very different from Oolite; one can see for instance a very round ship in one of them. Personally I prefer to keep a consistent look, which means very "geometric" designs. G...

I'll have to reject The Moon is a Harsh Mistress because the moon isn't a planet. One more to go. Mars is an easy target, so I want a city on an exoplanet for the last one!

Ah, never mind. My fears that this question could be too difficult have come true. The answer was Steins;Gate . I'll give another, more fun question instead: give me five fictional cities that are not on Earth but nevertheless real planets; that is, either known solar system planets (Pluto is ok), o...

Oh, crap. I don't have the vast sci-fi culture you guys have. My main input is animes, and even then that's not really my main focus. Anyway, here is a question about a series I actually didn't like (because of its main character; the plot is ok-ish I guess) but which is quite popular: In which anim...

Shirka/Shiruka, the Odyssey's main computer, in the Ulysses 31 TV animated series.

No problem, my English may be lacking too. The computation for the position of the sun looks complicated in the source. There's at least two or three configuration keys involved ( http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Planetinfo.plist ), but it seems to me that the computations work in our favor: the sun...

2. I've downloaded a few OXPs but is it possible to reduce the number of CPU ships with witch space fuel injectors. I find over 80% of them have them and run. I'd like to locate the piece of code that sets up ship layouts and modify it myself but don't know where to look. Am playing on the Mac. You...

If the issue is to vary the system's configuration so that it doesn't always look the same, "all you have to do" is to rotate the planet around the Witchpoint. As i understand it, when the system is generated, everything is set up in relation to the witchpoint. So in order to 'move' the w...

Judging from the dates on my save files I was away from Oolite for over a year. I switch to Minetest, a FOSS game engine for Minecraft-style games. I wanted to resurrect somehow a game that went under, Firefall. I got caught again in game design issues, only even harder than in Oolite because of the...

To me, the fact that the bodies are not moving while in the system is not a problem. Players are usually in a system an hour or two maximum, so I think the system's bodies don't have the time to move in a noticeable way. IMO one should refrain from thinking in terms of distances and more in terms of...

On the viability of sun-skimming, one could make repairs and refueling at a station cost much more time (on the in-game clock). Players doing contracts could then use sun skimming as a joker when late, or as a way to run more contracts simultaneously. I think it should be relatively fair in the base...

You don't want to download the most popular OXZs; you want to download a set of OXZs that work well together. Minetest - the game I'm currently playing with - has the concept of "subgames". Minetest has tons of mods like Oolite and you can download'em'all if you want. But what you'd rather...