Oolite Bulletins

UK_Eliter wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:12 am

A new version of Interstellar Tweaks - namely, version 6.6 - is available from the in-game download manager.

Interstellar Tweaks already did things with the Missionaries OXP by Dr Nil; but now my OXP does more with that other expansion pack than it did before.

In short, there is now a greater abundance of . . lobsters. Here is some more detail about that.
* The chance of encountering worshippers of the 'witchspace lobster' (these being critters supplied by the Missionaries OXP) has been increased (and you are most likely to meet them, in interstellar space, in galaxies 4 and 8, and if you have a very high combat rating).
* There are liable to be more of these criters in any one encounter than was the case before, especially in one of the aforementioned galaxies.
* There are now some special lobster enthusiasts . .[/list]

In small groups - *small* groups - these holy warriors pose little threat to a well equipped and skillful combattier ('combater'? How does one spell that?).

Now the Missionaries OXP is an OXP strictly so-called, i.e. it is not in the OXZ format. So it needs to be installed into one's AddOns folder manually. Here is the download link and here is a (somewhat bare) information page.

There have been a few other updates to Interstellar Tweaks lately too. Each of those updates tried to make some small improvement - sometimes to performance, sometimes in other ways.

Note that coming to encounter the lobster-fanciers may take some time, but I've tried to increase not only the chance of meeting them but also the chance of a few other interesting things happening in interstellar space, in that I've upped the probabilities of some of my more outré scenarios. A bit.

This expansion pack makes various uses of numerous other expansion packs, when they are installed. Most of those expansion packs are listed below. The ones marked '*' are especially recommended for use with Interstellar Tweaks.

UK_Eliter wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:05 pm

Cholmondely, thanks for your post, but I have trouble understanding you. My OXP does not really 'update' any other OXPs. Rather, and as the README file says:

This expansion pack makes various uses of numerous other expansion packs, when they are installed. Most of those expansion packs are listed below. The ones marked '*' are especially recommended for use with Interstellar Tweaks.

Moreover, the 'manifest' file singles out two other OXPs - other OXPs by me - as 'optional_oxps' (namely, ferdelance_3G and ExtraThargoids).

UK_Eliter wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:12 pm

Fuel Collector (which my code hacks in order to make the collector work well with Oolite 1.8; note also that, by the design of this OXP, fuel collection is very slow in interstellar space)

UK_Eliter wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:08 pm

I wonder whether you are using the Latin pace correctly. That word means, literally, 'peace (to)', i.e. 'be silent', i.e. despite. So pace has the same meaning as contra, though perhaps the connotation is a bit softer. For example:

God is no lobster (pace the lobster-worshippers)

means: 'God is no lobster (be quiet, lobster-worshippers)', i.e. despite what they say. I think you used pace to mean vide, i.e., 'see'.

UK_Eliter wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:02 pm

Cholmondely:

I suppose that any making use of an OXP is a modification of that OXP, in that the making use makes the OXP (the one made use of) behave in a way that it otherwise would not. That said: sometimes my OXP does not so much change the behaviour of an existing OXP as expand that behaviour, in that I give the other OXP a witchspace dimension that it lacked. An example is the lobster missionaries. But, yes, sometimes the modification goes further than that - as in the case of the hacks that my OXP performs upon the Fuel Collector OXP. So, one could indeed call hacks of the latter sort 'updates' (though of course I do not modify the actual files comprising any other OXP).

Thank you for your work on the wiki page for my OXP.

UK_Eliter wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 2:02 pm

Thank you for your work on the wiki page for my OXP.

UK_Eliter wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 1:32 pm

Hi Cholmondely - nice to hear from you.

I'm completely confused - for the following reasons.

Why did you post in this thread? Does my Interstellar Tweaks use the/a logcontrol file?

Indeed: can OXPs customize the logcontrol file? The text within the logcontrol file that comes with Oolite (or at least I think that's how I got it) says (and, er, your wiki page says): 'It can be selectively overridden using a separate logcontrol.plist file in your AddOns folder' - and that is ambiguous. For, is a user placed file, in the root of the AddOn directory, at issue? Or is a file within an OXP at issue?

Also, what are you doing on that wiki page? Adding comments to the logcontrol.plist that comes with the game? But that file seems to come with comments already. Are you altering those comments?