Oolite Bulletins

Ahruman wrote:

ktulu1975 wrote:

It'd be cool to have the Blue Danube kick in when you are about to dock with a space station also...

Doesn’t it do that already? Oh, wait, I have vague memories of a problem there in non-Mac builds that was recentlyish solved.

And of course you need to use your docking computer in order to hear the Blue Danube.

never thought about engine noise before!
might be pretty cool to change the sound file to a choppy/rougher engine note when it gets damaged too.

I think it should sound like a generator. Because the cockpit is always far away from the engine room. But there could be subtle differences. Hence in a racing game sounds are almost the primary immersion factor for a game.

Anyone does play GTR2 or GTR Evolution? Then you know that sound CAN make a very big difference

an engine sound would be excelent, and mabey the odd rattle or shake from small asteroid dust or if you hit a solar flare, but a background hum would be good, and mabey crea\king during Maneuvers.

Commander McLane wrote:

And of course you need to use your docking computer in order to hear the Blue Danube.

A little off-topic for this thread, but in the original (C64) Elite the docking computer could run you all the way from the witchspace point to the station - in Oolite it only works in station proximity. Any reason behind the change? In a (hopefully) safe system it was always good to whack on the DC and go off and have dinner *g* (Admittedly that was primarily before I discovered the 'J'umpdrive..)

On-topic, I'd also vote for some sort of engine/generator background sounds.

Micha wrote:

In a (hopefully) safe system it was always good to whack on the DC and go off and have dinner

There is no such thing as a safe system.

(Admittedly that was primarily before I discovered the 'J'umpdrive..)

I think that's the answer you're looking for. Why should anybody go on autopilot from the witchbuoy and have a painfully slow (or long) coffee-break, when there's a jumpdrive?