Oolite Bulletins

DaddyHoggy wrote:

I still think we have many "sleepers" amongst our numbers - but we're watching, always watching...

I try not to "talk" too much since I am quite bad at phrasing stuff so it doeesn't come off as "this is how I do it, so you should too"... I re-read some of my posts in threads on the "real shapes" for cargo canisters and ships/models of same and it sounded like I was trying to tell people how it should be done rather than saying "this is how I see it".

I also don't get to visit as often as I would like...

wow, at least there are also plenty of people from the UK. i tend to go on forums of things i like, and get overwhelmed by the ammount of people from the USA, and find out im the only person from the UK

I think you'll find that many of the original players of Oolite are Brits - Aegidian, the creator of Oolite is a Brit, and it was circulated several years ago by the UK version of MacWorld in one of its first major versions, v.1.06., which is how I first found it.

@ BlackKnight - love the signature!! Sounds like an encounter out of D&D!!

I'm proud to be only a few hours drive away from where Elite was born

Selezen wrote:

I've created one of those Google map things so we can have a tracker of where everyone lives! I've been very precise cos I have no fear.

Oolite Parties at my place!

the map is here:

Wait until you get swarmed by Tomb Raider fans. (I hear they are good at having parties, too)
You are really close to the planned Tomb Raider Way, I think.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 538106.stm

You'll probably have to log in at or get an account with google to use it though.

I guess so. hm, maybe tomorrow.

Rustybolts wrote:

mmmmmmm spam drooool

Bloody vikings!

How does one add their own location to the map ?

snork wrote:

Wait until you get swarmed by Tomb Raider fans. (I hear they are good at having parties, too)
You are really close to the planned Tomb Raider Way, I think.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 538106.stm

Yeah, I'm surrounded by the roadworks for it. Grr.

Way to resurrect a topic, though!

I'd forgotten I set this up. Can't even remember how to use it any more. Google search is your friend, but as far as I remember you need to log into Google to use it and you just need to submit your details. Not sure about the fine print though. Give it a go and if you have no joy let me know and I'll look into it...

I live in the wilds of Kent, which is part of the unfashionable end of the eastern spiral arm of the UK...

Cheers,

Drew.

Selezen wrote:

I'd forgotten I set this up. Can't even remember how to use it any more. Google search is your friend, but as far as I remember you need to log into Google to use it and you just need to submit your details. Not sure about the fine print though. Give it a go and if you have no joy let me know and I'll look into it...

Can't work out how to add to your map, but not sure I want to anyway. What with the fuss over http://pleaserobme.com privacy issues/identity theft etc it is something to worry about.

"Are we world wide?"

Mmm. Yup!

I'm in Perth WA, The most remote city on this world and about as far from the UK you can get without gills. So technically that's about as wide as this world gets for air breathers.

Err. Second thoughts.. To get the widest you would have to measure opposite points on the equator, This wee planet aint actually a sphere.

I just know it takes at least 24Hrs flight time on a Jumbo.
That's not counting the 8Hrs I have to add to my clock.

well, I am from Novo Hamburgo, southern Brazil.

here, a panorama of my city, which I bet none of you ever heard about (hey, its the 96th largest city in Brazil, how come you never heard about it??? )

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6764 ... allat1.jpg

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia here.. in the so-called 'Sunshine State' where it seems to rain half of every week...