Oolite Bulletins

Commander McLane wrote:

Fatleaf wrote:

SandJ wrote:

Now you just need The Heart of Gold and Liberator for a full set.

If you have Random Hits installed then you have the Liberator. But only as a mark, not as a general ship.

At a certain point I wanted it as my player ship. But the model is too big to dock, which is a big no-no in my Ooniverse.

That's pretty much a no-no in any player's Ooniverse..

It would dock in a Superhub would it not! But that would severely limit the player.
But I suppose you could make all stations Superhubs

Diziet Sma wrote:

That's pretty much a no-no in any player's Ooniverse..

Fatleaf already tells you that this hypothesis is wrong, especially as Oolite's size-check-before-launching code exempts the player, so you wouldn't even need to replace the main stations.

And don't forget the vocal minority of people who want to fly capital ships.

Being active here on the boards for more than five years has told me that my view of the player being a rather insignificant part of the Ooniverse and only getting to fly insignificant ships that don't exceed a certain size is one of the rules I adhere to, not something that I can expect to be a main stream consensus.

Commander McLane wrote:

Diziet Sma wrote:

That's pretty much a no-no in any player's Ooniverse..

Fatleaf already tells you that this hypothesis is wrong, especially as Oolite's size-check-before-launching code exempts the player, so you wouldn't even need to replace the main stations.

Is there size-check-when-docking exemption code for the player as well? Because that's what I was mostly referring to.

Diziet Sma wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

Diziet Sma wrote:

That's pretty much a no-no in any player's Ooniverse..

Fatleaf already tells you that this hypothesis is wrong, especially as Oolite's size-check-before-launching code exempts the player, so you wouldn't even need to replace the main stations.

Is there size-check-when-docking exemption code for the player as well? Because that's what I was mostly referring to.

There doesn't need to be, because you can dock either manually or instantly, and the game cannot possibly prevent you from doing the former. Instant docking saves you from any possible damage. With manual docking the question is whether you can get enough scrape damage to actually kill you before the docking rings appear. I can't answer that, but it may depend on your ship's max energy and energy recharge rate.

Commander McLane wrote:

There doesn't need to be, because you can dock either manually or instantly, and the game cannot possibly prevent you from doing the former. Instant docking saves you from any possible damage. With manual docking the question is whether you can get enough scrape damage to actually kill you before the docking rings appear. I can't answer that, but it may depend on your ship's max energy and energy recharge rate.

Docking too big player ships has some special code. When I remember well, the code checks the port size and when it is less than 10% bigger than the ship, is simulates a 10% bigger than the ship port for scratching. (That was code already present in 1.65). So any big size does actually 'fit' and scratches hard on the walls when not exactly centred. And remember that your point of view is often above the centre, so you have to aim at a point above the centre. (Or dock with external view on)

Ok.. not that I think I'll ever need it, but thanks for the explanation..

Just downloaded it.

Shipbuilder, if you're still with us (haven't seen anything from you on the forums for a while),



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