Oolite Bulletins

I used to think of witchspace as the void that a failed hyperspace jump dropped you into, but Oolite uses interstellar space, with an actual location...

Well, you guys seem to have my favourite classic Sci-Fi covered. Some newer stuff that I've been introduced to: Leviathan Wakes - the first in the Expanse series by "James S. A. Corey" Ancilliary Justice - the first in the Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie I was lent both of these by my ...

I don't think I've ever bothered rolling. For me, it's all about timing, which I control with the speed of my ship. I line up outside the station, orientate myself, and then wait. Then head straight into the dock, usually at full speed.

Just an alternative strategy if the other doesn't work for you!

The main reason I haven't posted before is I suffer from severe depression and am not too good with strangers. But everyone here seems so friendly and I don't think I've seen a flame yet so I finally decided to pitch in and say a big thanks for helping keep me sane. I actually discovered Oolite and...

JensAyton wrote:

I’ll give it about as much credence as a Daily Mail FAQ on nutritional theory.

*laughs out loud* I'm definitely going to have to use that at some point!

I have no idea how accurate this is, but it was interesting nonetheless: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/201 ... ible-drive

Cody wrote:

You mean Gravity Waves?

Yep, that's the one! Somewhere or other he shared the playlists... *rummages around bookmarks* Here we are: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/138 ... _waves.htm

Seconding the thanks! I used to quite enjoy the monthly IRC ambient radio show which introduced me to the style. 'Tis not something that I would buy, or be able to particularly distinguish between pieces, but I find it rather nice as general background music. These will do nicely!

The Cobra MkIV was one of Killer Wolf's creations, if I recall correctly.

And now he gets his own article! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27836293

I saw this, and thought of you... Apparently, David Braben has been granted the honour of being an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. David John BRABEN, FREng Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Frontier Development plc. For services to the UK Computer and Video Games Industry BBC News art...

... but how much in-game time does a Galactic Jump take? By the ship's clock, a gal-jump is instantaneous. There's been some discussion about it before - I'd like to see it take a fair bit of in-game time. Indeed. I seem to recall that given enough of Smivs' Gaa-drive pods, (ie 7 + 1 standard Galac...

Finally got around to upgrading to FF29 today. Mainly because the RSS addon (for which amongst other things I use to read the bulletin board, rather than actively visit) decided to start playing up. Normally I run the beta version of Firefox, but for some reason I never got around to enabled that PP...

I should really stop following the links that you guys post about this. I keep on drooling on my keyboard - he's realising dreams that I never knew that I had! In my own time I'm playing around with procedural generation of landscapes, in C and OpenGL. I suspect that if I ever saw the innards of his...

Not a bad tale!

*evil grin* So when's the OXP version coming out!?