Oolite Bulletins

Lovely set of screenshots! is it a trick of the light or are the red patches on that planet somehow glowing? If so how's that being done? is it Submersible's 'shady planet' code branch?

Griff wrote:

Lovely set of screenshots! is it a trick of the light or are the red patches on that planet somehow glowing? If so how's that being done? is it Submersible's 'shady planet' code branch?

I think it's a trick of the light, but the effect is very nice!
The planet is from System Demux, a very underrated planet set, IMHO.

Which OXP is that station from?

Diziet Sma wrote:

Which OXP is that station from?

That's from Dertien's Z_Groovy system stations, which I incuded in my Stations for Extra Planets oxp.

Hmm. I appear to be interrupting something. Don't mind me, folks...



On days like these, Shift-C really earns its money!

I might be wrong but that looks like it's at the Tionisla Graveyard?

Nope - somewhere (can't remember exactly) in G7. I think I turned up at an inter-galactic police seminar. Every single one of those was queuing to dock - one would move about a yard, which would trigger three others to move two feet, then ten more would move six inches.

After about five minutes of watching it and fighting the urge to put a burst of fire into one of them and trigger an Oolite Blues Brothers space car chase, I gave up and Shift-C'ed into dock. If saving while in flight was possible, I might just have had a pop...

JazHaz wrote:

I might be wrong but that looks like it's at the Tionisla Graveyard?

Nope. Note that all the blobs are police (or military) ships. Could be the aftermath of a furball outside the station.

Commander McLane wrote:

Could be the aftermath of a furball outside the station.

That was my initial reaction - until I remembered I removed the Furball OXP a while ago (it was happening a bit too often and my ship has auto-turrets, which are a tad indiscriminate for use near things like main stations).

I just opened the original (1680x1050) pic in Photoshop, messed with the levels a bit and counted seventy-one system vessels in visual, and no SecCom station in the system either.

This poor bounty-hunter made a bad mistake...



... alas, The Bronco in Satin did not have an escape pod fitted!

spara wrote:

Diziet Sma wrote:

Which OXP is that station from?

That's from Dertien's Z_Groovy system stations, which I incuded in my Stations for Extra Planets oxp.

Thanks!

Capt. Reynolds wrote:

After about five minutes of watching it and fighting the urge to put a burst of fire into one of them and trigger an Oolite Blues Brothers space car chase, I gave up and Shift-C'ed into dock.

Now that's what I call admirable self-restraint!

Capt. Reynolds wrote:

Oolite Blues Brothers space car chase...

Heehee, I think I would not be able to resist

Cody wrote:

This poor bounty-hunter made a bad mistake...
... alas, The Bronco in Satin did not have an escape pod fitted!

"I die for the Lobster"?!?!?

Ranthe wrote:

Cody wrote:

This poor bounty-hunter made a bad mistake...
... alas, The Bronco in Satin did not have an escape pod fitted!

"I die for the Lobster"?!?!?

Yes, that got me interested as well. Where's the chatter from?

Griff's recent Hognose oxp includes missionaries who evangelise about the Witchspace Lobster. They also make disparaging remarks about our less-than-average number of legs, so the unfortunate Bronco may be of that persuasion. I think Griff borrowed that banter from an older missionaries oxp, so it could also be that.