Oolite Bulletins

Mad Hollander wrote:

You need to be in a proper galaxy, because some of them are not good for delivery balance exploit.

Question: what do you mean by "proper" galaxy? Do you mean that your system doesn't work in some galaxies?

For my purposes, player.ship.destinationSystem is not set when I need it to be, which is as soon as the player chooses a destination system on the F6 screen.

Note that as a consequence the player.ship.targetSystem property may be pointing to an out-of-range system during witchspace entry and countdown events, which it previously couldn't. This may require minor adjustments to a few OXPs If player.ship.targetSystem now points to an out of range system, w...

Is ClymAgnus still around? If so, there's a really, really minor bug in the Sector 1 vector map. #218 Anle (just to the right of Tianve) is miss-spelled as "Anie", but hard to tell because it all caps.

All 8 galaxies are now in the "New Galaxy Guide", with about as much automated text as I can compile. From here on it's probably going to be handcrafted. Data that is still missing: * Famous Planets (I see that there are references to sector 3 (1 planet), sector 5 (1 planet) and sector 8 (...

You're right about that thread being a long read - 43 pages! Phew! This might take some time...

All the routes and regions have now been added for sector 3. http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Sector3/Index . I don't know where the origins for each of the regions comes from. Perhaps someone with that info can update the Wiki, or tell me where to find the info and I'll add it. Please let me know i...

After a bit of fiddling I think I've got the thumbnail images in the correct dimensions so that all the existing planet pages will now have the circle over the correct dot. I also uploaded new versions of the sector 1 and 2 thumbnails so their planets will do the same. Onwards and upwards.

I think a smuggler's hold could only be purchased in locations that fall outside Galcop's notice - perhaps rock hermits, or space bars, those sorts of places. If it's damaged, and you repair it at a normal station, your bounty goes up - the presence of a smuggler's hold must mean you are smuggling. ...

Everyone chime in and shoot this down if required (or point me to an existing OXP if it's already been done - I only had a brief look before posting), but I was thinking about creating an OXP that simulates a smuggling hold on your ship. The idea would be you could move contraband into the smuggling...

I've just uploaded galaxy 3 to the New Galaxy guide, using a variety of sources to run an automated script. There's still some work to do: lanes and regions are not listed, and no OXP links have been made. But the majority of the work is done. The only thing I can't get right is the little circle th...

Thanks, cim!

What's the correct way of calculating the distance in LY between two systems? I know I can do this using Javascript, but if I were doing it outside the system, using two sets of co-ordinates, the standard geometric function SQRT((X2-X1)^2 + (Y2-Y1)^2) doesn't seem to match the actual distances in ga...

<slaps forehead> Of course. I should've realised that! I'll have to head back to Lave for some remedial astro-navigation training.

Minor bug report, for a very rare edge case: In G5, if you're in either Divees or Tezabi, and your target system is the other system (Divees or Tezabi), the Hyperdrive status will always say "No target system set". I think both these systems have the same co-ordinates which is probably cau...