Oolite Bulletins

My attempt to add something to game fiction, gentlemen.
Link to text on Google drive:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tmbYbS ... sp=sharing

English is not my native language. Please feel free to discuss issues. Any comments will be welcomed.

“Turrets are almost useless” was biased declaration, agree. Changing my mind seeing several episodes of criminal trying to attack Navy frigate. In less than one second poor bastard was pulverized. So turrets are impressively effective weapons against NPCs. But not against human player. Killing rogue...

@another_commander
Thank you for your comments! It is very valuable info!

This text was written before release Oolite 1.90, so some parts of text are obsolete. Since Oolite 1.90, for example, game engine provides support for planet texture maps with reflections and pseudo-terrain. No more custom textures looking like matte balls. You can create cool planets with reflectiv...

So, the Oolite engine allows you to create spacious, unique solar systems. You can finally explore the charts step by step. You can even make full-fledged alternative charts with alternative topology and alternative system passports. But the essence of Ooniversum remains unchanged: it is a densely p...

How Ooniversum can be interesting for a researcher? The endless game world, in which the gamer is free to choose the path, sounds great, but nowadays it is already slightly worn out. This journey began in boundless space – yes, you guessed it, it was with the legendary Elite. Let the wireframe graph...

Populator Let's start with the fact that Ooniversum is a 3D world. Now this is not surprising, but in the era of arcade platformers, Elite, even with its wireframe graphics, looked incredibly cool. This degree of freedom, where the gamer does not follow a pre-designed single path, actually poses a d...

I will briefly talk about the game world – mainly in order to help describe what to expect from the game and what not to expect from it. First of all, let me remind you once again that Oolite is a game made by Elite veterans for Elite veterans. This is a conscious decision of the game developers: Oo...

Initially this text was written on Russian Roolite.org forum with purpose to explain Oolite features and peculiarities to Russian newbie gamer. Sadly, this game is almost unknown in Russia outside small community and such information is very scant. But Cholmondely’s interest helped me to realize tha...

I'm finished verification of first essay (Oolite as game world and its relations with real astronomy). Planning to upload edited transcript to Google Drive soon. After that I'll begin work on verification of economics essay. Thank you for your interest and for your very impressive work on Oolite Wik...

Needs some human edition indeed
Russian word "однотонный" for example means not only
1. monophonic
2. monochromatic
but also
3. having 1 ton capacity
It is my part of work to clarify such issues. Still hope to find time to do this job.

I completely agree with cim's arguments. All 2048 systems must have enough internal sources to provide primary needs like food, drinking water and oxygen. I have my own study of Oolite economy model. It was summarized in document Oolite - economy, statistics, demography (PDF format, on Russion). Lin...

montana05 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:18 pm

Cody wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:07 pm

montana05 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 2:58 pm

we shared the building with the bookkeeping and marketing department.

IT and Sales? Office Wars!

Nice clip, thank you for that.

Cool! Thank you, sir!

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:48 pm

Stranger's technique is right on the button!

Not mine, original Diziet Sma's guide contains description of this techique. I'm just wrote an example how to use it in OS X.

According to Wiki total mass of inner asteroid belt in our Solar System estimated as 2.8...3.2*10^21 kg (about 4% of Moon mass). Annual steel production in 2019 was 1870 Mtons (1.87*10^12 kg per year). Assuming that 1. Only 1% of asteroid mass can be converted onto useful metal (~ 3*10^19 kg) 2. Fut...