Bad news re the wiki

Phantom Hoover · Post by **Phantom Hoover** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:12 pm

Google is starting to realise that it's down; as a result, pages are disappearing from the search and cache. I would suggest anyone with content they want saved makes a local copy.

FlammableFlower · Post by **FlammableFlower** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:02 pm

Damn, 'cos I'm always forgetting what the letters in the advanced space compass stand for and used the wiki to look them up.

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:30 pm

FlammableFlower wrote:
Damn, 'cos I'm always forgetting what the letters in the advanced space compass stand for and used the wiki to look them up.

Hi, and welcome to the board.

Green = ahead
red = behind
Circle (green or white centre) = planet
Circle (yellow centre) = Sun
Crosshairs = active target
Square = Space station
W & triangle = witchpoint beacon
N & triangle = Navigation beacon (space station)
S & triangle = SecCom station (Galactic Navy OXP)
C & triangle = Con Store (YAH OXP)

There may be other OXP symbols I don't know about, but hope this helps.
Smivs.

Gimi · Post by **Gimi** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:57 pm

From the Wiki. Copied it for printing a while back.

Navigational Buoys
Navigational buoys are indicated by a triangle, and an identifying letter. Pressing the \ or # key will cause the Advanced Space Compass to cycle though all the Beacons being transmitted by stations, buoys or ships in the current system.

List of Navigational Buoys
•W - Witchpoint
•N - Galcop Station
•A - Lave Academy - Lave Academy OXP
•A - Astromine - Commies OXP
•B - Nemeanian Military Base - The Assassins Guild OXP
•B - Space Bar - Random Hits OXP
•B - Bank of the Black Monks - Black Monks OXP
•C - Pi-42 Constore - Your Ad Here! OXP
•C - HoOpy Casino - HoOpy Casino OXP
•D - Dredger - Deep Space Dredgers OXP
•F - Fuel Station - Fuel Station OXP
•F - Collective Zero-G Factory - Commies OXP
•F - Collective SLAPU - Commies OXP
•F - Imperial Astro Farm - Dictators OXP
•J - Jump Ring - Racing Rings OXP
•G - GRS Buoy Repair Factory - Buoy Repair OXP
•G - Griff Research Orbital - The Assassins Guild OXP
•F - Collective Zero-G Factory - Commies OXP
•H - Hacker Hideout - Anarchies OXP
•H - Deep Space Hoopy Hotel (Hades Branch) - The Assassins Guild OXP
•L - Link Base - Ionics OXP
•L - Deep Space Hoopy Hotel (Lernean Branch) - The Assassins Guild OXP
•P - Tianve Pulsar Monitoring Station - Tianve Pulsar OXP
•Q - Hesperides Wiseguy Way Station - The Assassins Guild OXP
•R - Rock Hermit - Rock Hermit Locator OXP
•R - Augeaian Orbital Repair Facility - The Assassins Guild OXP
•R - Rebel Outpost - The Assassins Guild OXP
•S - Galactic Navy SECOM Station - Galactic Navy OXP
•T - Taxi - Taxi Galactica OXP
•T - Taranis Corporation HQ - Taranis OXP
•U - Baakili Far Trader - Baakili Far Trader OXP
•Z – Free Trade Zone – Free Trade Zone OXP

(fuel pump icon) - Fuel Station - Fuel Station OXP

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:42 am

I'm glad that list is being put to good use, as I put most of it together!

pagroove · Post by **pagroove** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:10 pm

How long will the WIKI be offline? Anyone has an idea?

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:23 pm

pagroove wrote:
How long will the WIKI be offline? Anyone has an idea?

However long it takes for the new server that's on order, to arrive. If it's coming from overseas, then the recent disruption from volcanic ash may well have affected it.

Of course, I'm assuming that the wiki is hosted in the UK as Winston is here.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:44 pm

JazHaz wrote:
Of course, I'm assuming that the wiki is hosted in the UK as Winston is here.

Actually, according to his profile, Winston is located on the Isle of Man. Which may complicate things a little...

Post by **winston** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:16 pm

The wiki server is in a datacentre in London, not at home.

The new box was held up by the recent spot of bother with the rumblings in Iceland, but I'm told it has arrived now and is being assembled and tested. Hopefully not too long now.

pagroove · Post by **pagroove** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:35 pm

winston wrote:
The wiki server is in a datacentre in London, not at home.

The new box was held up by the recent spot of bother with the rumblings in Iceland, but I'm told it has arrived now and is being assembled and tested. Hopefully not too long now.

Thats good news

Post by **Eric Walch** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:21 pm

winston wrote:
The new box was held up by the recent spot of bother with the rumblings in Iceland,

Good to know. I asked the the UPS delivery man yesterday how things went as he was earlier at our door than usual. He said: "Hectic".

For those that want instant access to my oxp's I changed my signature. It now points direct to my box account, containing about 30 oxp's I worked on in the past.

lfnfan · Post by **lfnfan** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:35 pm

anyone looking for the Oolite Trade Route Timekeeper can get to it via the link in my sig.

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:10 pm

I'm thinking of a Dust Storm thing of Oolite. Where a planet or section of a galaxy is off limits due to dust from a recent supernova. Causing havoc for people with passenger or cargo contracts.

Post by **winston** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:41 pm

OK - the server's in the rack, I've just got to configure it now. This should happen tomorrow (Thursday).

Cmd. Cheyd · Post by **Cmd. Cheyd** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 2:11 am

YEAH WINSTON!!!!!!