Oolite Bulletins

Not sure if it's supposed to do this or not T
but if you try & use a Jump gate whilst cloaked nothing happens, you fly through but don't jump...

Thargoid wrote:

It's supposed to be that way - you can't jump if it can't see you

OK, just checking to see if was a bug or intentional.
Nice touch.

Very impressive - tried it last night.

I like the way if you blow up one of the gates the other one responds with 'Jumpgate offline' - nice understatement.

Kind of 'spoilt' Oolite for me though. This is not a reflection on the OXP, but the whole game resolves around the point that you can't get from the witchspace marker to the station immediately - so I don't think I'll keep using it.

Cheers,

Drew.

Thargoid wrote:

I know what you mean, and as a few people can testify I was actually pondering whether to release it or not as a separate OXP (it's going to be a small part of another upcoming one, this was just a spin-off use). There it will take the player (and others) to a specific location (not the main station, and indeed not from the witchpoint) for a specific event.

Thinking of it, it is more something ad add-on for SystemRedux. Even at jumpspeed it takes ages to reach some of those gas giants. On the other hand; who is going to build expensive gates when here is no economic activity at the other end?

I just love gate-travelling! But if you ask me, I think the moongates from Ultima III are a tiny little bit more convenient than jumpgates are. Moongates give you a less painful stitch in the neck when using them. Maybe it´s because the moongates are based on magic, not technology.

Great OXP!

Best regard

C.B.

Just as a passing evil thought, one of the reasons pilots would choose to go the long way vs the fastest way would be cost. Someone like a courier on a time schedule would be more willing to put up with the cost vs average joe free trader pinching credits. On that note, if I were running this business, I would be charging by volume transmitted rather than per item. A reasonable fee for a cobra volume, less for a smaller ship, quite a bit more for an anaconda? Just how much are you willing to pay for speed and relative safety? And how many jumpgate "incidents" have there been so far?

Spartan wrote:

One of the reasons pilots would choose to go the long way vs the fastest way would be cost. Someone like a courier on a time schedule would be more willing to put up with the cost vs average joe free trader pinching credits. On that note, if I were running this business, I would be charging by volume transmitted rather than per item. A reasonable fee for a cobra volume, less for a smaller ship, quite a bit more for an anaconda?

WHS.

I have just today disabled the Jump Gates OXP because I used them once and then decided "never again" because of the lost credits from killing the odd pirate on the way.

They make more sense not in high-tech systems, but in the high-risk systems where one does not want to meet gangs of pirates on the way.

The jump gates have just become mass-lockers to me now, hence I disabled the OXP. Actually, if the jump gate always appeared on the deep-space side of the witchspace marker, and the far side of the space station, they would be less inconvenient than they are.

And they are not much of a time-saver; they provide a low-risk-to-docking benefit rather than save time.

I was looking at it more from an "in character" view than actual gameplay. And I think the far side of witchspace bouy/ station is a good idea.

I encountered my first pair of gates (the spider variant) today, and was surprised to see how blocky and aliased the texture looked on the edges when I got close. Perhaps a new texture is in order?