Oolite Bulletins

I'm not sure if this is a Planetfall issue, or that I'm running v1.90 (the stable one) not 1.91 (the "dev" build), but for about the 47th time I've failed to d/l "Resources2".
Screenshot 1
https://app.box.com/s/3kr69rpasjdwxakr99na2uqdrgbkqyyb

Screenshot 2
https://app.box.com/s/79j5d5bhgqvy6dxec0e20ygy8irax7c5


(I remember getting this Box account for Oolite stuff. But I also remember it's ugly as sin and they muck with the images. I think I've told them where to shove their "AI enhancements, but I doubt they comply. (ForAll "they".)

Both SSs show an initial peak to about 1Mbps, a drop to about 100k, then time-out (Oolite.Space end, or mine ; I'm not sure) and I get between 145MB and 160 MB of the 167 MB download. I think PF/Resources is the largest expansion I've got, but I'm not certain of that. Regardless, I can't get it/

Could this be because I'm on 1.90, not 1.91? I think that 1.91 has the fixes for oolite.com -> oolite-space, but I've done the changes to the .ini files, so that shouldn't be an issue.
The profile of the D/L rate has a clear buffering aspect to it, probably at the oolite.space end. But I can cheerfully download a 4.7 GB DVD image, so it's not sheer download size.

I'm considering trying 1.91, but I've an obvious reluctance to touch "developer builds".

It’s unlikely to be a difference between 1.90 and 1.91 - if you’ve got 1.90 fixed for downloads, then the process is identical.

I can download the pack by clicking the link on the web, so it can certainly download. I can’t test inside Oolite at the moment though (at work) so I’ll try again this afternoon. Worst case is I break up the file into smaller chunks.

Well, I just downloaded it in 1.90 without a hitch. All I can do at this point is split the file up.

OK, new release is up, with the resources pack split into two. No other changes.

phkb wrote: ↑Fri Aug 01, 2025 1:20 am

I can download the pack by clicking the link on the web, so it can certainly download.

There's an out-of-game way of getting at the OXPs, OXZs, etc? (Doh! See below! Someone uploaded a new version while I wasn't looking.)

Ummm. Find the OXZ through the Wiki ; download from the link in that description (most of them have a link, IIRC) ; then manually install to somewhere in the .GNUstep tree. "~/GNUstep/Library/ApplicationSupport/Oolite/ManagedAddOns" on my system.
OK, found it in the Wiki - but it's 2 files (total size about the same as previously. And that came down at about 2.2 MBPS.
Extracting, I get 2 similar trees with {44+43+30+23} items and a couple of manifests. Which I have to wedge somehow into one zip file with one manifest. Or is the version of PlanetFall on the Wiki intended to work with these two resource files?

Just shunting the three OXZs into the ManagedAddOns folder ... the game loads, find a save game with the appropriate kit installed.

Fly into the station beacon after launching, and deciding to write notes into this message. I'm sure we've all done it. {SIGH}
This planet has two capital cities. Is there some Holyrood vs Westminster thing going on there? Whatever. They're next to each other.

Well, yes, the manual install seems to be working. I wonder if these station self-destruct codes work on planets? Sadly, no. And the planet still has a factory complex, a rubbish dump and it's original 3 capital cities.

Oh right, I see ; someone sneaked a change into the version in the extension manager in the last couple of days while I wasn't looking. Sneaky!
Going through the manual install route seems to have worked. So I don't know if it was just the size of the download that was breaking something, or ... BigFatQuestionMark.

Right-ho, I shall go exploring. At least, until the F1 is on the telly. I'll just grab Griff's new asteroids too.

Just probing if it was a download size issue.
Currently the largest object in the Expansion manager is "Lave is Earth 8k", at 130MB and some change. Which is giving about 1 minute of 1MBPS (I could get 2.2 MBPS by going to the wiki links). Then it drops to under 256 kBPS and slowly tails off. But it gets there at about the 12 minute mark. As I recall, the 160MB version of PLanetfall Resources was failing at about the 15 minute/ 145 MB mark.

Quick check - Do I get Lave in 8K? Yep.
So, it looks as if there's something in the server that breaks downloads at aboutb145MB/ 15 minutes timeout.