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Posted: **Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:56 am**

The update doesn’t trigger automatically, but I’ve kicked it off so it should appear in the list shortly.

Posted: **Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:02 am**

phkb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:56 am
The update doesn’t trigger automatically, but I’ve kicked it off so it should appear in the list shortly.

The question was why the previous version, from a fortnight ago, wasn't appearing!?

Posted: **Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:05 am**

Did the file name change?
Edit: The url for the download I mean. Did that change between versions?

Posted: **Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:26 am**

No. This file here is the beast in question:

https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File: ... rdrive.oxz

https://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/8/ ... rdrive.oxz

Posted: **Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:54 am**

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:49 pm
Here, try this one please. See if it's the rudiments of something you could ruminate on.

https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File: ... lp.oxp.zip

1) New Category entry on the F4 screen: "Help" with only the one listing (which you have only just identified as a matter of grave concern regarding your awarding of doofus points)

2) Only shows when docked at Main Orbital Stations (no help at the Ensorean SuperHub!)

3) Have yet to try selecting a target and jumping to G2

Here's a rumination:

If your druthers take you in this direction, you could make some of your OXP equipment only fittable at the Wildefire Astronomics Laboratories at say the Headquarters in Ceesxe or some such? Or half price there and more expensive everywhere else?

Posted: **Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:25 pm**

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:54 am

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:49 pm
Here, try this one please. See if it's the rudiments of something you could ruminate on.

https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File: ... lp.oxp.zip
1) New Category entry on the F4 screen: "Help" with only the one listing (which you have only just identified as a matter of grave concern regarding your awarding of doofus points)

Muppet points. I am not trying to police anyone's doings, I'm trying to raise awareness of this section in descriptions.plist - which has existed for a decade, but which apparently no-one has noticed:-

Code: Select all

	// Interfaces screen
	"interfaces-title"				= "Ship and System Interfaces";
	"interfaces-no-interfaces-available-for-use"	= "No interfaces are installed on your ship or enabled at this station";
	"interfaces-for-ship-@-and-station-@"		= "Interfaces for %@ and %@";
	// standard categories for easy translations
	"interfaces-category-uncategorised"		= "Uncategorised";	
	"interfaces-category-bounties"            	= "Bounties";	
	"interfaces-category-deliveries"          	= "Deliveries";	
	"interfaces-category-employment"          	= "Employment";	
	"interfaces-category-help"                	= "Help";	
	"interfaces-category-logs"                	= "Logs";	
	"interfaces-category-news"                	= "News";	
	"interfaces-category-organisations"       	= "Organisations";	
	"interfaces-category-ship-systems"        	= "Ship Systems";

As I wrote, when categories proliferate unchecked, they cease to be categories.

Anyway, that is irrelevant now. A kind benefactor has made this for you:

GalacticHyperdrive_1.4.oxz

Chart images back in the galdrive OXP. Let us have your reflections on that one, if you will.

Posted: **Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:29 pm**

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:54 am
If your druthers take you in this direction, you could make some of your OXP equipment only fittable at the Wildefire Astronomics Laboratories at say the Headquarters in ~~Ceesxe~~ or some such? Or half price there and more expensive everywhere else?

Vetitice. Always has been Vetitice. Those communists don't ask difficult questions about minimum wages, and so on.

Posted: **Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:28 pm**

Wildeblood wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:29 pm

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:54 am
If your druthers take you in this direction, you could make some of your OXP equipment only fittable at the Wildefire Astronomics Laboratories at say the Headquarters in ~~Ceesxe~~ or some such? Or half price there and more expensive everywhere else?
Vetitice. Always has been Vetitice. Those communists don't ask difficult questions about minimum wages, and so on.

Where in Vetitice?

Main Orbital? SLAPU? Astrogulag? Planet Surface?

And what is the name of the company? We have seen Wildefire Avionics & Wildefire Systems. Are there any other instantiations which need to be taken under advisement?

And have you seen Stranger's FPO planet texture for Vetitice?

Reference: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Sector1/Vetitice

Posted: **Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:07 am**

Re: your new Wildefire_Help.oxp add on for this

Just musing about your "pithy commentary goes here" at the top of the F4 screen on choosing Wildefire HELP/Wildefire avionics.

What might be rather useful would be a summary of the 4 jumpable systems on each of those charts.

eg (G2, alphabetic order):

Ramaan: Democracy, Mainly Industrial, TL 11, 5 Billion Human Colonials
Reenus: Feudal, Average Agricultural, TL 6, 2.8 Billion Harmless Bony Humanoids
Riardi: Democracy, Poor Agricultural, TL 4, 2.6 Billion Human Colonials
Sosole: Multi-Government, Average Agricultural, TL 4, 2.1 Billion Fierce Lizards

Probably better using the icons, and it might be nice to add in the Galactic Catalogue entries, too.

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