Scanner resolution

Callas · Post by **Callas** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:55 am

I played the Spectrum and BBC versions of Elite.

Playing Oolite, I find that the scanner lacks resolution. In the original versions, moving so that a scanner blip had no vertical bar meant that the target was in your visual field. In Oolite, I find that doing this does *not* mean the target is in your visual field. This makes finding stuff awkward - I have to line up, get reasonbly close, then start looking up and down.

I'd like to see the horizontal "blip" bar at the top of the vertical bar be narrowed, so that a higher resolution is achieved.

CaptKev · Post by **CaptKev** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:17 pm

Have you tried zoom?

Callas · Post by **Callas** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:35 pm

CaptKev wrote:
Have you tried zoom? :roll:

There's a zoom??

I don't have Adobe installed, because their viewer contacts Adobe *even when you turn off all the options for it to check for upgrades*.

So I've not been able to read the manual.

CaptKev · Post by **CaptKev** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:49 pm

Just save this image to your Oolite folder.

Callas · Post by **Callas** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:21 pm

CaptKev wrote:
Just save this image to your Oolite folder.

Thanks, Commander!

CaptKev · Post by **CaptKev** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:07 pm

No problem, glad to be of help.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:50 pm

Oh, and shift-z also returns the magnification to 1:1 regardless of your current magnification. Handy to remember when you're zoomed in to 3:1 and your status indicator goes red and you can't see the devil.....

Captain Hesperus

Callas · Post by **Callas** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:16 pm

Hmm.

Shift + D = dock with no sequence

D = dump cargo

Asking for trouble?

Also I note that docking with no sequence apparently teleports the ship - no time passes.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:50 am

Callas wrote:
Hmm.

Shift + D = dock with no sequence

D = dump cargo

Asking for trouble?

A foible, but not exactly Lave shattering.

Callas wrote:
Also I note that docking with no sequence apparently teleports the ship - no time passes.

Well if it's good enough for ST that'll do for me, anyway whilst the Blue Danube is a fine piece of music, I don't want to hear it thousands of times, and docking at a station is a time consuming part of the game. You get enough docking practice with Hoopy's, Behemoths,Rock Hermits and being fugitive.

I just want to kill Thargoids!!!!!

Uncle Reno · Post by **Uncle Reno** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:18 am

Callas wrote:
Also I note that docking with no sequence apparently teleports the ship - no time passes.

Hmm, it does on mine by 20 mins.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:30 am

Your machine must be constipated!

Flying_Circus · Post by **Flying_Circus** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:30 am

Maybe it's secretly phoning Adobe, in order to email the contents of his underpants drawer to them? Sneaky things, computers - can't trust them!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:21 pm

Callas wrote:
Also I note that docking with no sequence apparently teleports the ship - no time passes.

No, look again. Actually docking with no sequence takes quite a lot of time: your ship's clock is advanced by 20 minutes in an instant.

EDIT: Sorry, had this thread opened for half a day before I wrote this, and noticed only then that the answer was already given.

Anyway, the 20 minutes should be the same for everyone.

Callas · Post by **Callas** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:58 am

Commander McLane wrote:
Callas wrote:
Also I note that docking with no sequence apparently teleports the ship - no time passes.
No, look again. Actually docking with no sequence takes quite a lot of time: your ship's clock is advanced by 20 minutes in an instant.

EDIT: Sorry, had this thread opened for half a day before I wrote this, and noticed only then that the answer was already given.

Anyway, the 20 minutes should be the same for everyone.

It looks like I'm in error!

I'll check tonight.

Callas · Post by **Callas** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:04 pm

Callas wrote:
It looks like I'm in error!

I'll check tonight.

And indeed I was wrong.

I was looking down at the clock immediately *after* the docking tunnel, whereas the time increment occurs, almost instantly, *before* the docking tunnel.