Oolite Bulletins

Not that this old contrabandista has ever been involved in a bar-room brawl, you understand... no sir, not ever!

El Viejo wrote:

Nice one, Smivs... I tried doing that with my avatar, but at 128x128, it didn't show clearly enough.
I'm having another one out tomorrow... arghh!

Here's to you, in anticipation (and with condolences):

Thanks McLane... implemented!

Beneath Sombrero,
A broken grimace is there.
Fear! Spambot devils!

Low growl, hackles rise
Starlit feline eyes, danger
Claws unsheath… Furball!

Furball now runs sweet with r4041... thanks again, Ahruman.

Prolly need a new thread for this at some point, but I wanted to announce on the original thread, the release of Furball 1.0. I enjoyed the original so much, that I attempted to implement the commented-out features in the world script. One thing led to another and I've ended up pretty much rewriting, but I hope I've kept true to the original intent. I have tried to contact Caracal, but am still awaiting a response. I would like to think he would approve!

There are one or two things you can tune, but I'd like to get some feedback first on the vanilla configuration.

Works with Oolite 1.75+, and needs the Cabal Common Library

http://www.box.net/shared/4v1n5e0uc1

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?w436r9fc8mv3fp7

Forgot to mention, related the activation probability to system government type (very rare at corporate, very common at anarchy), and disabled furballs on launch from the station (this can easily be re-enabled by editing script.js). HTH, enjoy.

m4r35n357 wrote:

Forgot to mention, related the activation probability to system government type (very rare at corporate, very common at anarchy), and disabled furballs on launch from the station (this can easily be re-enabled by editing script.js). HTH, enjoy.

Caracal was last on the Forum 4 months ago (8th Jan to be precise) - but you never know - the email saying he has a PM might just wake him up (if he has the notification turned on, of course!)

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Caracal was last on the Forum 4 months ago (8th Jan to be precise)

That was only to change his password after the hack, though (I presume). I've had an uncollected PM to Caracal sitting in my outbox since last November, and there is no response to e-mails, even though his website is up and running.

It's a really good improvement on the original, maresnest... well done!
Approved by the Free Mexican Airforce.

I took the liberty of linking to it from Furball's Wiki page.

Thanks maik, much appreciated.

Furball 1.1 is available:

http://www.box.net/shared/2xxiod2him

This is just a port of the target scanning method that I have used in the Factions OXP and will make it easier for me to support both; it should not make any significant difference to the user experience

Ahem, version 1.2 has debug switched off, pardon me!
http://www.box.net/shared/h8vr29z5iv