Oolite Bulletins

Ah, Eric. Now I understand why you have to clear all pods on docking at any dockable entity. Thanks for the explanation. That also clears a few other misunderstandings I had.

Thargoid wrote:

I'm happy to see all the ideas and discussions, so I can make the OXP do what people using it want...

Speaking for myself, I'm happy with the way things are right now. Yes, it would obviously be nice if scooped escape pods could somehow retain their identity during cargo bay cycling, but I don't regard it as essential to flying the Vortex and if it meant a lot of work I'd say leave it.

I do think the Vortex wiki page should make the situation clear to prospective pilots, however. Anyone screwing up a mission by cycling the bays (which could easily happen, if I'm understanding Eric's previous comments aright) would have a right to feel aggrieved, I think, if they hadn't been warned in advance.

It would be good if the 'heads-up' could be in the form of a handwavium explanation of why this is so. I've tried to think of one, but all I've come up with so far -- and it's pretty thin, I warn you now -- is that cycling a bay performs a mind wipe on any occupant, so the person/creature who got into the pod isn't the same individual who climbs out. Insurance companies refuse to pay up and GalCop can't prosecute, so it's the slave pens for them, poor souls. (I did warn you it was thin).

Hi -

Finally saved enough cash to buy one of these monsters. Sorry Smivs, the Boa Clipper has been a great ride, but I simply cannot resist!

I like the introduction screen when you first buy the ship. I did notice that the MAC has a small glitch: it reports the ship as having 6 energy banks, rather than 8.

My new Vortex had a name, but I have forgotten it. Is it on any of the in-game screens? I even had a look at my savegame file but it doesn't seem to be there.

Lastly, I am having trouble getting the turrets to fire. I have driven a Caduceus Omega, so am reasonably familiar with the requirements: having to have a target lock, the target being hostile (red), and the target has to be within range and in the turret's firing arc. But the turrents simply will not fire. In fact, I cannot even see them on the rear of the ship, from the external view. Have they been shot off? Have I somehow turned them off? I even went back and bought a brand new Vortex, took it straight out, and could not manage to get the turrets to engage a target. What am I missing?

Never mind the last bit, I found the Turret Switcher (Shift-N, n)

Oolite 1.76.1, Vortex OXP 1.25a, 2008 Unibody MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8.

Cheers,

Woot

Ah, I missed it. "Bringer of Light", you are mine

Would it be possible to expose this in the game somewhere (if it isn't already)?

Vortex and Maelstrom are missing from the Dynamic Ship List.

Woot wrote:

Ah, I missed it. "Bringer of Light", you are mine

Would it be possible to expose this in the game somewhere (if it isn't already)?

Yes, it could be put on the manifest screen, although I was resisting doing so as it's somewhat superfluous data.

But as that screen from 1.77 will be page-able then I might add it in.

Hiya.
I was verrry happy when (at last) I came across a Maelstrom, and had the funds for it at the same time!
I had to bodge in some decent external views, of course, and slow down the controls a touch, as befits a 100tonner.
I was mildly dissapointed that it didn't have turrets like the Vortex, but still love it.

Just a little thing though, which might be an un-avoidable inter OXP glitch.....
When cloaked in a Maelstrom, and you 'fire' a pylon mounted fuel pod, the pod fires, but no 3.0au of fuel appears in the fuel tank.

Presumably this is part of some (very sensible) part of the code to stop people firing missiles from 'cloaked', but I thought I'd mention it.

Cheers.

J

Hmm, you might have to remind me where to find the log, sorry.
I just re-created the situation, & it's still the same.
strangely (maybe) the 'mines' floated off into the distance. I don't remember that happening before. shouldn't they just vanish?
I followed them, & attempted scooping, to no avail.
as soon as I un-cloaked (automatically, by shooting the lazer) they all popped.

flying in the test universe - 1.77-5267
on a mac, if that matters.

'Fuel Tank v 2.2'

Ahha...
when I un-cloak, the fuel magically appears in the tank, so it is working, just not showing up on the dial until I un-cloak.










Opening log for Oolite development version 1.77-5267 (x86-64 test release) under Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 (Build 10K549) at 2012-09-06 22:27:33 +0100.
Machine type: iMac7,1, 2048 MiB memory, 2 x x86 (Core 2/Merom) @ 2400 MHz.
Build options: new planets, spoken messages, mass/fuel pricing, JavaScript console support, Debug plug-in support, OXP verifier, localization tools, debug GraphViz support, JavaScript profiling.

Note that the contents of the log file can be adjusted by editing logcontrol.plist.

22:27:35.965 [display.fullScreen.temp]: Selecting Snow Leopard full-screen controller.
22:27:35.995 [rendering.opengl.version]: OpenGL renderer version: 2.1.0 ("2.1 ATI-1.6.36"). Vendor: "ATI Technologies Inc.". Renderer: "ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO OpenGL Engine".
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22:27:36.008 [rendering.opengl.shader.support]: Shaders are supported.
22:27:36.008 [speech.synthesis]: Spoken messages are off.
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22:27:36.493 [shipData.load.begin]: Loading ship data.
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22:28:47.586 [texture.load.png.error]: ***** A PNG loading error occurred for /Applications/GAMES/Oolite/OOLITE GAME/AddOns/RandomHits1.4.11.oxp/Textures/imp_cour_tex.png: bad adaptive filter value.

Closing log at 2012-09-06 22:29:15 +0100.