Does anyone know where to find the Generation Ships OXP? The Wiki turns up an upload page I've seen some pictures on this board and I would like to see one in "real life".
Glad you found the file, I've picked it up as well - looking forward to meeting one of them.
Are the Hueij i know from poly by any chance? if so it was you that pointed me in the direction of Oolite, so thanks very much
If so you'll know me as El_Cid, the new version of child of Thor that used to run those mad elite stories on poly(Cmdr Thorsson being the one).
I suspect that as I get into Oolite more I will end up trying to do the oxp thing. I might even have a go at creating the Galactic Falcon and running a mission for it?(thats at the ambitious end at the momment - I haven't yet experienced a mission in Oolite so don't know quite what can be done).
But yeah Cmdr Thorsson is alive and well having moved from FFE to Oolite
EDIT: here's that original Cmdr Thorsson thread(the story starts towards midway):
is there any particular way to upload the pics, or do i need to host them somewheres? i can do either. oh... i should copy over my adventure from the other thread, as it includes gen ships. =D
***copied verbatim from the bug-and-testing thread***
crashed again. but this time with an interesting experience before hand. i went bug-hunting, and found that just after i warped in, two generation ships warped in almost on top of me. i could see the individual rivets on the superstructure. took me a good while at full thrust to even see the entire thing. as i was looking in awe at the rusted over docking bay, i noticed that one of the ships was going critical. something at the other end of the ship was attacking it! (i suspect thargoids, but i don't know because it was out of my radar range!!)
suddenly the ship exploded producing a pair of wormholes. i chased them down and bullseyed them. (hit the rings and they accelerate....) this produced some orbs and assorted mind-controlled ships. a lot of them. so i happened to have this second-hand quirium mine i found. chucked it out the cargolock, and hit the afterburners.
well, that produced a trio of phantom worm holes... or two somethings with rings and another thing with a variable pulsating glow surrounded by a thick shroud of splinters. none of which could be id'ed or tractored. i wasn't willing to test a collision. shooting was ineffective as well.
after a while i moved on, but it was interesting gathering what data i could in the interest of science. ^^
oh... i took screenshots too. =D
arukibito ga michi wo erabu no ka, michi ga arukibito wo erabu no deshou ka?
...@ all others: Poly stands for the forums over at http://apolyton.net/forums, dedicated to the Civilization series (and some other stuff).
...ah hah... ...many thanks for slipping in that link!!
I am a die-hard Civ fan, as well as Elite/Oolite!
...and people say to me, "but what will you do with yourself if you take early retirement...???" (next January 31st.... hooorrrrrayyyyyyyy!!!!!)
(maybe I'll actually finish writing the mission I started 3 years ago - the recent improvements to scripting will make it much more interesting!!....)