Scanner Zoom Levels

Hoopy · Post by **Hoopy** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:05 am

I find that I only use the scanner at 1x, 2x and 5x. And sometimes I want more zoom (eg when trying to collect all the cargo in a big cloud).

Does anybody else think that the zoom multiples should be geometric rather than linear? eg 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x or 1x, 2x, 5x, 10x?

If I'm being really picky then I'd like the scanner to remember that I've pressed 'Z' 3 times so it would zoom all the way from 1x to 4x rather than me having to wait for it to zoom to 2x and then having to press again, wait again, press again. I still like the way it takes a while to zoom though - it's just that I don't have time to wait when a nearby group of ships suddenly all decide that they dislike me!

GothStag · Post by **GothStag** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:07 am

I think a zoom down button would be helpful when you're at 2x zoom and some ships decide to help their pirate friend.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:41 pm

GothStag wrote:
I think a zoom down button would be helpful when you're at 2x zoom and some ships decide to help their pirate friend.

Shift+z

Captain Hesperus

GothStag · Post by **GothStag** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:53 pm

Captain Hesperus wrote:
GothStag wrote:
I think a zoom down button would be helpful when you're at 2x zoom and some ships decide to help their pirate friend.
Shift+z

Captain Hesperus

Cheers Cap'n!

I have the PDF Oolite reference sheet but is there any other keyboard commands that may be useful. A complete list would be great.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:31 pm

This page has a full list of the keyboard map, although considering some of the (accidental?) extra debugging tools reported in this very forum, it may be out of date a bit. I think it's probably time to update the PDF reference sheet. I'd do it of course, but I only have a .pdf reader, not a....errrm, writer.

Captain Hesperus

GothStag · Post by **GothStag** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:45 pm

Once again cheers Cap'n!

May your lasers never overheat!

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:00 pm

Your thanks would mean more if I could just persuade you to accept one of these cute and fluffy Trumbles to accompany you on those long interplanetary trade runs. Their calming chirping FAR outweighs their some-times annoying propensity to fuse your life support circuits to the drinks dispenser, so that ordering a 'standard-caf coffee with cream and two sugars' actually pumps radioactive chlorine gas though the majority of the living areas. Go on, take the challenge, only Cr30.

Captain Hesperus

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:14 am

Captain Hesperus wrote:
This page has a full list of the keyboard map, although considering some of the (accidental?) extra debugging tools reported in this very forum, it may be out of date a bit. I think it's probably time to update the PDF reference sheet. I'd do it of course, but I only have a .pdf reader, not a....errrm, writer.

Whilst warming my slippers in front of the fire and waiting for nursy to give me some Horlicks

, I had a look at this and to my surprise saw H - emergency hyperdrive. I had a little play and couldn't get it to do anything! so can someone please enlighten me

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:04 am

TGHC wrote:
Whilst warming my slippers in front of the fire and waiting for nursy to give me some Horlicks :twisted:, I had a look at this and to my surprise saw H - emergency hyperdrive.

That’s because it doesn’t do anything.

GothStag · Post by **GothStag** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:45 am

Captain Hesperus wrote:
Your thanks would mean more if I could just persuade you to accept one of these cute and fluffy Trumbles to accompany you on those long interplanetary trade runs. Their calming chirping FAR outweighs their some-times annoying propensity to fuse your life support circuits to the drinks dispenser, so that ordering a 'standard-caf coffee with cream and two sugars' actually pumps radioactive chlorine gas though the majority of the living areas. Go on, take the challenge, only Cr30.

Captain Hesperus

Ahhh so you're the one that keeps offering me Trumbles. I've heard about them and thanks but no thanks.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:10 am

Captain Hesperus wrote:
This page has a full list of the keyboard map, although considering some of the (accidental?) extra debugging tools reported in this very forum, it may be out of date a bit.

Dear Captain, as I myself personally updated the page only last week (adding e.g. all these extra debugging tools), I can assure you that it is not out of date.

TGHC wrote:
Whilst warming my slippers in front of the fire and waiting for nursy to give me some Horlicks , I had a look at this and to my surprise saw H - emergency hyperdrive. I had a little play and couldn't get it to do anything! so can someone please enlighten me

It seems that our Master and Commander at a certain point had planned to implement this, but never actually did. So it doesn't work. (Which is also what the remark in the table says.)

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:29 am

Commander McLane wrote:
It seems that our Master and Commander at a certain point had planned to implement this, but never actually did. So it doesn't work. (Which is also what the remark in the table says.)

Aaah, I was overcome with excitement, and thought I'd try it straight away, so obviously missed that remark.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:34 am

TGHC wrote:
Aaah, I was overcome with excitement, and thought I'd try it straight away, so obviously missed that remark.

Serves you right for asking your nurse to wear stockings and suspenders and then asking her to pick up your dropped newspaper.

Captain Hesperus

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:38 am

It was a bunch of keys actually! and funnily enough about 20 years ago she would have given Pamela Anderson a run for her money