Oolite Bulletins

Hello Jols, I might be at total loss here, but it sounds like the buoy you are seeing is the witch space buoy that marks the entry point to the system. Also the fact that you're seeing a small planet suggests that. If this is the case, then you have to fly towards the planet and when you're close e...

This becomes important as soon as you have more than 1000 kg of precious metals on your ship, because your safe has only a capacity of 1000 kg. Anything above that quantity is stored in a cargo canister... I thought it was any amount above 500kg (or even above 499kg)? Ah, you're right, my bad. Also...

I met a couple of rattle-cutters whilst playing military fiasco on v1.79 a few weeks... a spectaculary quick way to die!!! (Even in an iron-ass caddy) The cutter has always been a vessel to take seriously, even prior to 1.77. My tactic is to close range quickly and get behind the bugger so it canno...

Very beautiful!

But I can't help but think that the next thing in need of an optical makeover is the plasma sparks. They don't really hold up to the quality of the other effects anymore.

Is there any way to make donations to Oolite development? I'm not talking loadsa dough, but if we could donate to the development team and maybe some of the creators of the top end OXPs, we might encourage them to continue their fine work!ZM No, not like that. Oolite is very decidedly a not-for-pro...

When I started playing Oolite, I had the same issue of wishing back the grey dots from previous incarnations of Elite. However, after a short while of playing, I had adjusted. And now I find in retrospect that the grey dots were actually a cheat, and I like the hard-to-discern-in-the-distance ships ...

I'm just back from four weeks of vacation, and only four pages of unread topics suggest that overall it has been a quiet time here. :wink: As for E:D, while I've backed at a level that allows me to participate in the beta phase (but not yet in the current alpha phase), this is of no practical conseq...

Just to make sure I've got this straight... If I scoop gold (or gemstones or anything that would normally go in a safe) it shows in the manifest as if it's in the safe, although it's actually in a cargo canister that I can select for ejection. Not quite yet, because there is another quirk as well. ...

Cody wrote:

cim wrote:

It's not enabled on the default HUD.

I've often wondered about that - could it be enabled as part of one of the core targeting upgrades?

I don't know. I don't want it, and I don't want to be forced to switch it off first.

You can just use the URL tags, though: User:JazHaz And for the icing on the cake, you can put the Wiki icon in front of it manually: https://bb.oolite.space/images/elitewikismall.png User:JazHaz Looks just like the original. :wink: This is achieved by [url=http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/User:JazH...

Switeck wrote:

Well if you do decide to add one, it'd be cool to have the station launch a bunch of ships really rapidly if it's throwing sparks and presumably about to explode.

If the sparks are coming from an attack by a Thargoid Carrier, you'll see exactly that.

The basic problem is that the game apparently uses key scancodes instead of ASCII values. As far as I know, the game does use ASCII values. For instance, the screenshot is simply the key labeled '*', which is SHIFT-8 (I believe) on a US keyboard, but SHIFT-+ on my German keyboard, which is what I p...

Are you sure that they don't appear at all, or do you just mean that you didn't find them? You can check for the former by making an entity dump into your latest.log (pause game, then press '0' (zero)), and check for the presence of the target, even if you're on a deployment version of Oolite. The u...

"Building up a library of small, useful scripts that OXP authors may draw on" is exactly the purpose of the Scripters cove sticky . Thus I propose to move the original post of this thread into the sticky. Yes, the scripters' cove has become clogged, blurred, and derailed several times over...

drew wrote:

Oh.... and Toby Longworth is reading my book.

This information should go on that very Wikipedia page.