My attempt to add something to game fiction, gentlemen.
Link to text on Google drive:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tmbYbS ... sp=sharing
English is not my native language. Please feel free to discuss issues. Any comments will be welcomed.
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- Wed Oct 20, 2021 9:43 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics
- Replies: 120
- Views: 39109
Re: Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics
“Turrets are almost useless” was biased declaration, agree. Changing my mind seeing several episodes of criminal trying to attack Navy frigate. In less than one second poor bastard was pulverized. So turrets are impressively effective weapons against NPCs. But not against human player. Killing rogue...
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 8:40 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics
- Replies: 120
- Views: 39109
Re: Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics
@another_commander
Thank you for your comments! It is very valuable info!
Thank you for your comments! It is very valuable info!
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:54 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics
- Replies: 120
- Views: 39109
Oolite essay: brief conclusion
This text was written before release Oolite 1.90, so some parts of text are obsolete. Since Oolite 1.90, for example, game engine provides support for planet texture maps with reflections and pseudo-terrain. No more custom textures looking like matte balls. You can create cool planets with reflectiv...
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:22 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics
- Replies: 120
- Views: 39109
Real astronomy in Oolite?
So, the Oolite engine allows you to create spacious, unique solar systems. You can finally explore the charts step by step. You can even make full-fledged alternative charts with alternative topology and alternative system passports. But the essence of Ooniversum remains unchanged: it is a densely p...
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:20 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics
- Replies: 120
- Views: 39109
Oolite as exploration game
How Ooniversum can be interesting for a researcher? The endless game world, in which the gamer is free to choose the path, sounds great, but nowadays it is already slightly worn out. This journey began in boundless space – yes, you guessed it, it was with the legendary Elite. Let the wireframe graph...
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:18 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics
- Replies: 120
- Views: 39109
Oolite game mechanics
Populator Let's start with the fact that Ooniversum is a 3D world. Now this is not surprising, but in the era of arcade platformers, Elite, even with its wireframe graphics, looked incredibly cool. This degree of freedom, where the gamer does not follow a pre-designed single path, actually poses a d...
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:17 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics
- Replies: 120
- Views: 39109
Oolite game world
I will briefly talk about the game world – mainly in order to help describe what to expect from the game and what not to expect from it. First of all, let me remind you once again that Oolite is a game made by Elite veterans for Elite veterans. This is a conscious decision of the game developers: Oo...
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:15 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics
- Replies: 120
- Views: 39109
Oolite essay: game lore, features and mechanics
Initially this text was written on Russian Roolite.org forum with purpose to explain Oolite features and peculiarities to Russian newbie gamer. Sadly, this game is almost unknown in Russia outside small community and such information is very scant. But Cholmondely’s interest helped me to realize tha...
- Mon Oct 18, 2021 9:35 pm
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Stranger's Roolite Essay on Economics & Trade
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5447
Re: Stranger's Roolite Essay on Economics & Trade
I'm finished verification of first essay (Oolite as game world and its relations with real astronomy). Planning to upload edited transcript to Google Drive soon. After that I'll begin work on verification of economics essay. Thank you for your interest and for your very impressive work on Oolite Wik...
- Sun Oct 17, 2021 1:10 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Stranger's Roolite Essay on Economics & Trade
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5447
Re: Stranger's Roolite Essay on Economics & Trade
Needs some human edition indeed
Russian word "однотонный" for example means not only
1. monophonic
2. monochromatic
but also
3. having 1 ton capacity
It is my part of work to clarify such issues. Still hope to find time to do this job.
Russian word "однотонный" for example means not only
1. monophonic
2. monochromatic
but also
3. having 1 ton capacity
It is my part of work to clarify such issues. Still hope to find time to do this job.
- Sat Oct 16, 2021 11:21 pm
- Forum: Expansion Pack
- Topic: SW Economy
- Replies: 61
- Views: 50351
Re: SW Economy
I completely agree with cim's arguments. All 2048 systems must have enough internal sources to provide primary needs like food, drinking water and oxygen. I have my own study of Oolite economy model. It was summarized in document Oolite - economy, statistics, demography (PDF format, on Russion). Lin...
- Fri Sep 10, 2021 1:49 pm
- Forum: Expansion Pack
- Topic: [RELEASE] Addons for Beginners (Vital Statistics)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7157
- Fri Aug 27, 2021 12:41 am
- Forum: Expansion Pack
- Topic: The All-in-One Guide to OXZ Packaging and Distribution
- Replies: 67
- Views: 151270
Re: The All-in-One Guide to OXZ Packaging and Distribution
Not mine, original Diziet Sma's guide contains description of this techique. I'm just wrote an example how to use it in OS X.
- Sun Jul 18, 2021 6:13 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Lore: where do all the asteroids come from?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5029
Re: Lore: where do all the asteroids come from?
According to Wiki total mass of inner asteroid belt in our Solar System estimated as 2.8...3.2*10^21 kg (about 4% of Moon mass). Annual steel production in 2019 was 1870 Mtons (1.87*10^12 kg per year). Assuming that 1. Only 1% of asteroid mass can be converted onto useful metal (~ 3*10^19 kg) 2. Fut...