Oolite Bulletins

Switeck wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 4:10 am The lead freighter/fighter that the escorts were supposed to guard often just putters around often not even shooting back, using very short bursts on injectors if it has them even while not being hit and/or being shot at. What is causing that? I've observed ...

phkb my good man, you have already contributed so much to my enjoyment of Oolite that you were off the hook from further necessity several hundred man-hours ago!

The other thing I would probably point out from an AI-behavioral POV is that the AI appears to have two modes: the first is evade, and the second is try-to-attack. The main thing I would change is that the AI immediately turns to evade mode as soon as it is fired upon, and in some cases as soon as y...

And I'll say something else: I acknowledge that perfect centre-of-object accuracy is probably undesirable except in rare cases. We would never stumble upon fighting factions because they would already have wiped one another out within minutes. There has to be a happy medium; and that medium should p...

I just stumbled across this: Friend or Foe OXP The blurb reads: The Friend or Foe system will allow groups of ships to work as a team independently without being setup as escorts. There is no concept of a leader or escorts/wingmen in this system. Each ship has complete autonomy and can call on help...

I understand your critique of the AI, but fear that our AI experts (primarily Eric Walch & cim, no?) have all been gobbled up by the Witchspace Lobster. I suspect this as well, hence I figured I would propose the least labor intensive suggestion I could muster, in case there were some lurking b...

(Revisiting this topic because I fired up my main jameson last night and remembered why it's been months since I've touched Oolite: the AI's chase, aim-and-fire, and dogfight subroutines. To clarify, this is about the movement and aim-and-fire programming, and the fact that AI groups observably jus...

Two questions, Sir Szaum-ix: 1) Any chance of your publishing some of your code for the rest of us to use/peruse? 2) Do you know how real-life traders confirm that they really want to do a deal? I keep on fluffing up . Been big on work for several months, plus I got the shits with the too-easy AI l...

Sure, but it was especially appropriate and viable for TA given E/M, the concept of nanolathing, storage, and the unique-to-RTS role of construction units and factories generally. Anyway if we are arguing about Elite/Oolite wormholes for practical (OXP) reasons, the fact of whether a wormhole is a t...

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Truly excellent expounding on these quibbles my man, your points here are salient and compelling. I especially like this one: ...think how tough Elite/Oolite ships have to be to survive space itself bending them! This can only be possible due to force fields rather than structural materials...since ...

1. They're (I believe) theoretical. They are. I used to read math and physics papers and books for fun. I'm such a party animal. What I've always figured is that wormholes (IIRC, the actual theoretical physics term is "closed time-like curves") are of improbably dubious stability beyond t...

There's actually really good video game science theory reason for jump limits: the fact that time in the wormhole increases exponentially with every otherwise constant pip of distance and fuel expended is the big clue. Just for fun, What I've figured is that wormholes (IIRC, the actual theoretical p...

Same experience. I haven't been able to achieve sunskimming in Oolite.

Then again due to various balance irritations I'm at the point where I've just stopped playing and am unlikely to come back for a while

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 11:14 am

Would giving the NPC's shields also work?

szaumix wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 6:42 am

this just makes them more slippery in a dogfight (harder to shoot), not more dangerous (deadly, by aim-and-fire subroutines, to my ship).