Oolite Bulletins

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2026 8:05 am

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2026 7:52 am

What are we actually trying to do?

Not have people download all 800 OXPs and seriously expect everything to just work. Not have people download two OXPs that do exactly the opposite thing, then come on here and demand, "Make your crap compatible with that other crap."

1) Most people will be realistic, no? Especially when they realise that all the OXPs are written by different people. And if they have come across other games with an ocean of modifications. There will always be a handful with great expectations, but I've not noticed many complaints over the past 5 years about incompatibilities.

2) And is this not the very thing that the Manifest.plist is supposed to help with? Stranger, for example, lists known incompatibilities where his OXPs conflict with a similar (Traffic Lights <> Neo-Docklights / Hard Way <> TorusToSun & FuelCollector)

So I see this as secondary to helping new players navigate our burgeoning swamp of OXPs (bringing them in rather than scaring them off!).

Maybe https://modding-openmw.com/ can inspire something ?

Especially the curated mod lists are very popular .
Note that several of those lists include other lists, making it easy to expand.

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2026 7:54 am

You've several times mentioned this, and I'm intrigued. How can any two sane people have any disagreement over fictional organizations? Was there an assertion of insufficient fictitiousness? Or, insufficient organization? Or was it a demarcation dispute, the Union of Space-farers versus the League of Space Traders trying to do the same thing?

Reval is/was not sane and that disagreement happened because he put his chunk in wrong categories on the wiki, therefore confusing users.