ADVANCED SPACE COMPASS letters

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:41 am

The reference sheet says that if I have Advanced Space Compass an 'N' or a 'W' should appear by the compass when I am near a Nav Buoy or Witchspace beach respectively
and a 'Z' for a free trade zone wiith the FTZ OXP.
But I don't ever see letters for any of those items. am I missing something here?

Post by **Kaks** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:44 am

Well, in order to see those letters, you need to switch between beacons (using '\' on the keyboard)!

PS: if you are on a windows pc and have problems with '\', have a look at the us keyboard layout.
Oolite on windows thinks that everybody has a us keyboard. After a while of hacking away, I managed to convince it to also use the standard '\' key on windows uk keyboards, but that's as far as it went...

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:49 am

Chrisfs wrote:
The reference sheet says that if I have Advanced Space Compass an 'N' or a 'W' should appear by the compass when I am near a Nav Buoy or Witchspace beach respectively
and a 'Z' for a free trade zone wiith the FTZ OXP.
But I don't ever see letters for any of those items. am I missing something here?

Are you getting nothing that looks like this:

or this:

Have you tried cycling through the Advanced Space Compass options? It's \ (next to the Z) on a QWERTY keyboard. Not sure on the Mac or Linux, tho.

<EDIT> Poop, Kaks got there first.

Captain Hesperus

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:52 am

doh, learn something new all the time.

Post by **Kaks** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:54 am

Repeat after me: the Reference Sheet is my friend, the Reference Sheet is my friend!

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:59 am

Kaks wrote:
Repeat after me: the Reference Sheet is my friend, the Reference Sheet is my friend!

The what? <scrabbles through 'Python Owners' Handy Guide to Your Ship'>
Oh, wow! There's a handy little sheet detailing all the ship's controls here! And a maintenance logbook.... oh, it's blank....ah...

Captain Hesperus

Chrisfs · Post by **Chrisfs** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:03 am

Maintainence log book...
I just spent 1400 cr on a maintenance overhaul that I'm not really sure did anything.

Post by **another_commander** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:07 am

Chrisfs wrote:
Maintainence log book...
I just spent 1400 cr on a maintenance overhaul that I'm not really sure did anything.

It did. If you want, next time don't take it and watch the slow degradation of your ship taking place

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:15 am

And of course the small point to make sure you actually have the ASC installed and working on your ship

And given the problems with the \ key on UK keyboards, might using another key by default (e.g. "z") be a better option? Mine's redefined there via keyconfig.plist and it works fine for my fingers.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:30 am

Strangely, on my keyboard it's "#".

Post by **Kaks** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:25 am

El Viejo: on uk keyboards it's both '#' (it's where the us keyboard places its '\') and '\' - apparently, best of both worlds...

Thargoid: 'ours is not to question why...' - the use of '\' is a Giles-given thing, and it doesn't cause any problem/confusion on either macs, where Oolite was born, or linuces. We're keeping it as the standard key at least until MNSR.

Hmmm, MNSR, you might notice a theme starting to emerge here!

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:26 am

All hail billionaire Bill and the assumption that all keyboards will be US...

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:03 am

It's a standard-issue US mindset thingy.. who else would hold a "World Series" that no other countries are even invited to participate in?

Post by **Kaks** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:07 am

Hey, they do have 1 or 2 Canadian teams in it!

Mind you, one Canadian friend of mine refers to his home country as US-lite, which doesn't help...

Zbond-Zbond · Post by **Zbond-Zbond** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:56 pm

Diziet Sma wrote:
standard-issue US mindset

this is changing: emissaries have been heard referring to "petrol" when abroad

but what is this "" being near "z"

edit -- o I see, there's an extra button..

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