Ideas and Thanks

[Cmdr. Maegil]

But I am more and more convinced Opera should vanish from existence anyways.

I hope not! It's a brilliant browser and as far as I know is the only one with built-in email and irc clients, both of which I use. It's just so convenient having all three web functions I need open in tabs on the same desktop.

Don't worry, they'll probably be on the next Firefox version...

[Micha]

Don't worry, they'll probably be on the next Firefox version...

Oh, so we're going back to SeaMonkey after all?

Heh, knew this new-fangled Firefox thing was just a fad..

[Cmdr. Maegil]

Oh, so we're going back to SeaMonkey after all?

Back? It's the first time I hear about it... But it does seem to make firefox obsolete.

[Micha]

SeaMonkey was around a looong time before the Firefox project got launched. Firefox was supposed to be the lightweight fast browser-only option (and technology testbed), competing directly with IE and whatever else was making waves at the time.

Just like fashion, IT keeps going in Circles...

[Gimi]

SeaMonkey was around a looong time before the Firefox project got launched. Firefox was supposed to be the lightweight fast browser-only option (and technology testbed), competing directly with IE and whatever else was making waves at the time.
Just like fashion, IT keeps going in Circles...

It was supposed to be the continuation of the Netscape Communicator suite if I remember correctly, suite being the key word.

[Cholmondely]

Hi all,
I played the original back in 1984 on my BBC model B. Showing my age now. I also played the second version too. Still have them both in the roof-space I think.
I was pleased when I discovered Oolite and have been playing it for a while and have become ELITE again.
Thanks everyone for your time and effort with Oolite.
I hope no one will be offended if I list a few of my thoughts below about the game and the add on's.
Some are little things that niggle me and others are just ideas I had while I have been playing.
I hope this is OK to post here. It is a bit of a mixed bag of items realy.
Thanks again Dave.


Nuit.oxp adds another station every time I launch in the system.

Hired escorts are the same colour on the radar as Fugitives in Police IFF Scanner Upgrade this make it difficult to know what is what in the heat of battle. Could the ingoing missiles and out going missiles be different colours to the selected target also.

On the radar F is for the fuel station and for collective station.

Vector has a flashing screen when collecting pods. Could this cause someone to have a fit?

Sometimes when I launch with the updated constore I get another constore station appear.

How about a one press lock of the (i) fuel injection button. Perhaps Shift/i to save wearing out ones keyboard.

In the flight log if you buy lots of expensive cargo it lowers your credits/profits for the planet making it look like a loss when it is just an investment in cargo. What if another figure was added calculating the average value of the cargo. Perhaps a third figure combining the two. Would this not give a truer credit value for each planet.

How about a cargo calculation computer. It helps work out what to buy and sell. The user tells it he is about to fly say to a democracy and the computer works out the potentially best cargo to take from the currant planet. If selected it could do an automatic buy and sell of cargo. Call it the cargo predictor.

When you have lots of dockables it is difficult to know which is which even with a letter on the compass. Could it not be possible to write the full name bellow the compass.

When uploading the hyper cargo why does it not go back to the cargo screen. Instead it goes to Equipment screen. And why so many buttons to press to transfer the cargo? Why not put a new list on the cargo screen next to the In Hold column and call it the in Hyper cargo column.

Repairing the iron hide armour takes you to the equipment screen. Why? It would be better to go back to the outfitting screen where you started ready to carry on looking at that list.

In the new sound BGS-A1.3.5.OXP The sound for the laser fire does not differentiate for a hit and a miss sound as the original does. Not that I can tell anyway. When the laser over heats it makes a sound like the clangers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfsMZKwqw3w. Don't like this. When I put the game in pause the sounds carry on playing. Is there no way of stopping this? Sometimes while playing I want to look things up such as Planet maps and the sounds just keep on playing forever. The engine sound is playing now while I am trying to think and writing this.

I noticed that you come back visiting every once in a while. How were you pleased with the eventual resolution of the issues you outlined above? I think that your "cargo calculation computer" might have solved by Wildeblood's AI Trading Assistant, but that of course was broken with Oolite v.1.82. But what about your other issues?

NB: Montana05 only recently came out with a non-trial version of KillerWolf's Nuit station. It is on the in-game Expansions Manager.