Oolite Bulletins

christina wrote:

one guy has amassed mega amounts of money ..... i,m still stuck in the first galaxy.... bugger must be cheating?

christina wrote:

One of the guys at work has discovered a great way to speed up the game!.
the keyboard actions are as follows.
press"p" to pause the game.
whilst in 'pause' press the right arrow key a few times.
then un pause.. the game runs at increased speed ,reflecting the increase by the amount of time you pressed the 'right arrow key'.
Press 'pause' again
BUt, this time press the LEFT arrow key ( the same amount of times as you pressed the right arrow key.
Unpause will bring you back to "normal speed'

OR will slow time down.
the guy who amassed huge amounts of money uses this.
.
He lines up the planet , does the above, ( dont try and fly .you will flip uncontrolable).
double, triples the time until very close to the planet,( almost instantly!).
then slows down , finds the station . then a combination of fast and slow .lines up and docks.
the total trip from witch space tp docking takes about 4 or 5 minutes!.

no wonder he has amassed so much money!

christina wrote:

the total trip from witch space tp docking takes about 4 or 5 minutes!.

christina wrote:

.. does oolite have a ID thingy i can put up... like in frontier the ships all had a reg'o number you could see..... it really helped in space.

christina wrote:

errmmmnot a making games person so would need "idiots , complete morans guide to putting in that script... like cut and paste

how do you get that image on the mail?.

i could put my textures on here for you guys to look at and take????
cant see

christina wrote:

errmmmnot a making games person so would need "idiots , complete morans guide to putting in that script... like cut and paste

script = "shipIDScript.js";

this.name			= "shipIDScript";
this.author			= "another_commander";
this.copyright		= "© 2007–2009 the Oolite team.";
this.description	= "Adds an ID of type XX-1234, displayed as part of the ship's display name. Warning! Hack! There has to be a better way of doing this, but it probably involves extra work and I feel lazy on a Friday afternoon :-P";
this.version		= "1.73.4";
this.licence      = "CC-by-NC-SA";


this.randRange = function(intFrom, intTo, intSeed)
{
	// This function written by Ben Nadel, taken from
	// http://www.bennadel.com/blog/199-Ask-Ben-Creating-Large-Random-Strings-In-Javascript.htm
	
	// Make sure that we have integers.
	intFrom = Math.floor(intFrom);
	intTo = Math.floor(intTo);
 
	// Return the random number.
	// Seed the random number if a value was passed.
	return (Math.floor(intFrom + ((intTo - intFrom + 1) * Math.random((intSeed != null) ? intSeed : 0 ))));
}


this.shipSpawned = function ()
{
	// the below is a shameless hack, there has to be a better way of doing this
	// construct a random XX-1234 type ID - note: check for duplicate IDs not implemented
	if (this.ship.primaryRole != "asteroid" && this.ship.primaryRole != "rock" && this.ship.primaryRole != "wreckage" &&
			this.ship.primaryRole != "buoy" && this.ship.primaryRole != "rockhermit" &&
			this.ship.primaryRole != "thargoid" && this.ship.primaryRole != "thargon" &&
			!this.ship.isMissile)
	{
		this.ship.displayName = this.ship.displayName + " ";
		for (var i = 0; i < 2; i++)
		{
			var idc = this.randRange(65,90); // 'A' to 'Z'
			this.ship.displayName = this.ship.displayName + String.fromCharCode(idc);
		}
		
		this.ship.displayName = this.ship.displayName + "-" + this.randRange(1000,9999);
	}
}