Oolite Bulletins

A selection of “default” formations is possible, but the general idea is for OXPs to be able to do it.

Ahruman wrote:

A selection of “default” formations is possible

That would be really good... if possible.

El Viejo wrote:

Ideally, for a six ship escort, you’d want one on point, one trailing on the mother’s ‘six’, and the other four arranged in a circle, as in Eric’s pic.

I have been playing with two oxp's since Ahruman added the feature yesterday.

• The ixian_cruiser had 10 escorts. I always had problems with this because the wing used to fill the whole scanner. Reason was that the spacing is also determined by the size of the mother. I now made an escort formation as spiral around the mother (based on Ahrumans circular example). That gives a much more realistic close group.
• The super dredger was so big that the default spacing made that only 2 from the 6 escorts fitted on the scanner. With a custom formation you can now let 3 escorts fly on each side, above each other, so you also get a close group.

Only one thing from your suggestion will not work: "one on point". Because of the avoiding of obstacles, the mother does not like anything in front of it.

so w/ all these new formations possible, who can spoof coloured smoke trails in space so we can have a Red Arrows OXP?

Shouldn't that be the 'Red ArrOows'...?

I thought perhaps the Rood Arrows?

Rude Arrows! I can imagine some of their formation shapes ..!

I'd deliberately been trying to avoid that one!!

A very troublesome bandit on my six:

oh pretty!

Brilliant, just how I imagined E4 would look all those years ago!

Ahruman wrote:

El Viejo wrote:

Laser fire is always the weak link (and engine plumes)… it’s the momentary freeze frame of the snapshot function that does it

It’s not only in snapshots… a serious revision of special effects is on my post-MNSR wish list.

Dribble... I *so* want this.

Cheers,

Drew.

If I see this screenshot then I want a free moving Camera around your ship. Good one EV.

Thanks PAG... when I get my head round the external view co-ords, I'm hoping for some even better shots.

lovely shot - reminds me of the cover i did for the Mutabilis compo.