Oolite Bulletins

Wildeblood wrote:

Addendum: Has anyone ever done this in a ship OXP - adding a sound effect to a shipSpawned event to alert the player when a particular ship is about?

Cabal_Common_Music (used in Vector and the demo) does something similiar. It plays the specified musicfile when a specific ship is close to the player. Dunno if it still works in v1.80/v1.82. Oh, and establishing streams is costly.

phkb wrote:

The problem is that "legality_export" is present on all items. It's just zero for most of them. Which means that the undocumented launch option will be available as long as the player has any cargo at all.

Yeah, nah. If it's zero the condition test (0 & 1) should fail, not pass. Something else is happening.

Wildeblood wrote:

Yeah, nah. If it's zero the condition test (0 & 1) should fail, not pass. Something else is happening.

WildeBlood, that sounds like you assume js treats market[prop].legality_export as a Boolean value where 0 equates false .

legality_export is a number according to wiki, and i think js doesn't convert that into a boolean value, but interprets your condition as "does market[prop].legality_export exist" .

Lone_Wolf wrote:

WildeBlood, that sounds like you assume js treats market[prop].legality_export as a Boolean value where 0 equates false .

JS treats various things as false in that sort of check - false, 0, "", null and undefined. Usually useful; occasionally a problem when the sort of false something is matters.

Wiki page put up for Dockside Services: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Dockside_Services

As far as I can tell, this OXP is now redundant. Everything it does is already incorporated into the Game Code.

Or am I wrong?

Wiki page put up for Undocumented Launch: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Undocumented_Launch

I just found the following message in my PM drafts, where it has been languishing since June 15th, 2012, 10:55 pm.

Wildeblood wrote:

SandJ wrote:

Wildeblood wrote:

Uh-huh. The same principle as the never released Wildefire Equipment Bay Shield System, which automatically added 100 dummy equipment entries on red alert and removed them again as soon as the red alert ended.

I considered making the Beer Cooler an item you could buy multiple times, and then call it "Sacrificial Armour Plating" but I couldn't work out how.

You can't buy any equipment item more than once, so you have to actually define EQ_ABLATIVE_SHIELD_1 through to EQ_ABLATIVE_SHIELD_100 in the equipment.plist. It actually worked very well.

After mentioning this to you the other night, I wondered why I don't still use it and went looking for it. About two hours later, at about 4 a.m., I remembered that I had accidentally deleted it several months ago. I blame you for my lack of sleep.

WEBS System

See "Download & Installation" for the download link