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Posted: **Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:43 pm**

johnsmith wrote:

I'll put it in tomorrow.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:17 am**

This thread is pure enjoyment, as LB says maore depth to the Oonivers and humour too!

Has anyone done one for edible poets yet?

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:29 am**

Rxke wrote:
typo in the bugg off ad: raNges up to 20 cm

There's another one in your rating: Intergalactic Spam Assassin

TGHC wrote:
Has anyone done one for edible poets yet?

Griff did a really nice one for handcooked edible art graduates. It's on the front of billboard 1.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:27 am**

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:41 am**

Credits

Billboard 1, front: Griff
Billboard 1, back: Griff
Billboard 2, front: Griff
Billboard 2, back: Griff
Billboard 18, back: johnsmith
Billboard 19, front: johnsmith
Billboard 19, back: johnsmith
Billboard 20, front: johnsmith
Billboard 20, back: johnsmith
Billboard 21, front: ramon
Billboard 21, back: ramon
Billboard 22, front: johnsmith
Billboard 22, back: johnsmith
Billboard 23, front: johnsmith
Billboard 23, back: johnsmith
Billboard 24, front: johnsmith
Billboard 24, back: johnsmith

EDIT: The one put up an hour ago was a a working copy with errors. It has been replaced now. Sorry about that.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:28 am**

The rest have been filled with johnsmith's blue screen of death as a fitting placeholder for empty slots (it will stay on Billboard 18, back as the others fill up).

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:04 pm**

I've been working on an edible poet:

After all, who said they were humanoid poets, anyway?

Can they be animated GIFs?

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:52 pm**

I was just cruising through Raal, looking for some edible poet, when I saw this two-sided billboard. Looks like somebody left a keypad unlocked and a BoyRacer got to it. Punks. Who do they think they're fooling with this 20th-century stuff, anyway?

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:03 pm**

Credits

Billboard 1, front: Griff
Billboard 1, back: Griff
Billboard 2, front: Griff
Billboard 2, back: Griff
Billboard 17, front: Judebert
Billboard 17, back: Judebert
Billboard 18, front: Judebert
Billboard 18, back: johnsmith
Billboard 19, front: johnsmith
Billboard 19, back: johnsmith
Billboard 20, front: johnsmith
Billboard 20, back: johnsmith
Billboard 21, front: ramon
Billboard 21, back: ramon
Billboard 22, front: johnsmith
Billboard 22, back: johnsmith
Billboard 23, front: johnsmith
Billboard 23, back: johnsmith
Billboard 24, front: johnsmith
Billboard 24, back: johnsmith

Wauw! Nineteen already! I expected it to be at least a month before this expansion would be playable as something that added any variety, but with all this creativity it's coming along very fast. Navigational buoys will be looked into shortly (I think the problem was that resizing it down uniformly instead of radially along z simply made the models too thin). I just need to summon the initiative to remap and convert models (a couple of times) to have the mapping flipped right so it just reads the same graphics, since Wings somehow seemed to flip the mapping when I just re-exported the resized models

Thanks for picking so fast up on this one this would be a very boring OXP without your contributions. This is the kind of expansion that benefits from being a co-creation. It gives a kind of variety that it would be hard for a single person to achieve graphically when so many ideas are needed.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:14 pm**

I just shot one up (I know, it's against the law). It was interesting how the terascreen is the first thing to go, and it goes on both sides simultaneously. Lots of alloys, I think I will be destrying more!

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:59 pm**

It is actually possible to take the screens out one at a time. Or so the lab test says

Being at a place where space is constantly warped by incoming traffic some wormhole eddies together with the sudden field configuration change of a large mass turning into several smaller ones (aided by your laser) might have caused the alloys from the Terascreen you shot to pieces to nanowarp through to the other side of the screen hitting it the very same instant (=technobabble attempt).

It's probably because the alloys are created within a given radius when something blows up and then collides with the other screen as it's spinning makes it sweep through them.

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Someone might also do an ad for preservatives (preferably as tasty as the 21st century versions, so the OXP doesn't end up with any stickers on it). I mean who wants to wake up and discover that they just fertilized 7,000,000 lobstoid eggs the night before - and that in a system with strict laws regarding child support.

And every well travelled commander also knows what category of lethal disease it is that you can catch from an encounter with a Fierce Blue Bug-Eyed Lobster lady in the Biinceor system.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:23 pm**

Captain Hesperus wrote:
I'm sure Charlie would love to have his Benulobiweed Inc. ads blazoned across the space lanes!!

Captain Hesperus

Yes I would

I've been a-fiddling ( XML driving me crackers ) so only just noticed this thread.

Great Idea!

I would be very happy if you would consider the add's I've already posted for inclusion.
They need resizing I guess.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:30 pm**

Hi.

Sounds good. I was wondering why there were no ship ads yet - I wouldn't expect any company which involves itself in something like building spaceships to be too modest to promote themselves in 44,017"

Please resize and post the ones you want included here.

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:56 pm**

Posted: **Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:35 pm**

How about some slogans for the communist and dictatorship systems? Or maybe a picture of Our Great Lobstoid Leader in full military dress?

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