Oolite Bulletins

When bimbling along from the waypoint to the Coriolis station, I'll take out any Offenders or Fugitives I meet. But when out there on your own, halfway between the two, and you meet a single, solitary trader ... are you tempted? Do you, like me, lock a missile on them so that you get a beep when the...

I have a phpBB forum on a site of mine and, after trying captchas and all sorts, I have found a way of catching the spammers that works for me. I have defined a "custom profile field" (Admin Control Panel, Users and Groups, Custom profile fields) called "Spammer", field type Bool...

I've played a few versions of Elite and from one of them got it in my head that shooting at anyone with a "clean" legal status immediately results in the player becoming an "Offender". But this is not the case in Oolite. I have just been attacked by a 'Sun' Ray; my legal status i...

At least Oolite doesn't tell you "You have been boarded by pirates" at 4:20 a.m. when you haven't saved for a while - oh, that used to make me SO cross!!! I didn't know that Speccy Elite did that. :shock: That's certainly something we have to port into Oolite as well! :twisted: By all mea...

RyanHoots wrote:

I would like to thank everyone for being friendly and kind on this board. Every time I ask a question, I get a helpful answer.

No, I won't lend you any Credits. Go see the Black Monks.

Nice try though.

... docking computer. It spends an awful long time jerking Roll back and forth, back & forth. My keyboard, which is normally responsive, sometimes needs 2, 3, 4 key taps before Oolite responds. That describes my first experience of Oolite too. Utterly unplayable and really frustrating. Shift-F ...

Well, that was fun! I ended up using this thread to find the start point in Galaxy 2. I used Hired Guns as wingmen and managed the final kill myself. It took a couple of runs from the witchpoint to the space station and back again to finish the job though. It took m ea good few hours to complete thi...

Commander McLane wrote:

I guess that SandJ is not using Oolite 1.65, so changing his personal copy will do him no harm.

It's working a treat now, thanks.

All I have to do now is resist the temptation to tweak it to pick up asteroid splinters.

Oh yes, it is slow! However, I was watching cargo that I had targeted from a stationary ship; it definitely was not moving. More info: I have docked, bought a variety of sorts of cargo, flown out into deep space, launched the Cargo Shepherd, whizzed off 10km and ejected the cargo. It is now being ve...

I have been flying round with this Cargo Shepherd for a while but cannot get the point of it; I think I was sold a busted one. a) when there are bits of cargo floating around after a pirate attack, I select the Cargo Shepherd by pressing "y", them arm it with "t" then fire it wit...

I have just been attacked by a 'Sun' Ray in Galaxy 1, a poor industrial anarchy called Eninre. My lagel status is Clean, and so is the 'Sun' Ray.

That feels most unfair ... if I shoot back I'll become an Offender. For once in my life, I'll just have to run away.

another_commander wrote:

SandJ, are you running Oolite on Linux?

Yes; I would have been running either Ubuntu 9.x or 10.4

Problem: The problem of not being able to open a save file was discussed in May 2010. The message I got was "Ship: Python - OXP not installed" but it can be any ship such as "Ship: Cobra Mark III - OXP not installed". Solution: In my case the error was caused by the saved game f...