Oolite Bulletins

You bastard! You're turning me into a pirate!

On the bright side this is a good way to make money! I do have a few comments. I haven't used a tug thingie yet or actually tried to tow a ship more than a few kms, but I just empty them and scavenge them, but I don't think it should drop cargo after you blow it up if you've already emptied it. When I blow up an anaconda after it's emptied I'll get some 20 pieces of sweet loot, but that really shouldn't be there.

Now when I'm doing a trade mission and I run across that convoy of clean ships with a python, boa or anaconda, it's really hard to resist! Look what you've done to me!!

Don't use the towbar on the Constrictor Hunt!! You end up w/o the crook or the ship and you have to load from a saved game! Maybe you can put some check in for that?

Well, if you read my story you can see that this tool is useful also when playing as a lawful hunter.

Thank you for the bugreports. There are more todo in my list before I can release the next version, so these will be fixed also, just after some developments in other projects.

Norby, where does one find/configure the mass value for a ship? On the wiki, there is a small table that states that the mass of an Asp is 59, Cobra MkIII is 186, et cetera. Where is that defined?

Absynthe wrote:

where does one find/configure the mass value for a ship?

It is not in a config file but calculated from the model: ship.mass is proportional with the volume, multiplied by the density property in shipdata.plist. You can see the final value within the game in Gallery interface.

Here is my table of core ships ordered by mass in the last column:

I've been enjoying playing 1.84 and also the towbar OXP. I have started noticing that when I pick up a parcel from salvaging a ship, multiple parcels with the same .find number appear. These parcels seem to increase in number every time I dock. So by the end of a run I have a lot more parcels, all with the same number and description. Although excellent for my bank balance, I think its a bug!

I have photo of the screen I can attach, but not sure how to post it.
https://s9.postimg.org/4anm7v4of/Untitled.png

Salvager Missions
I noticed that there are few missions available, so so far only been involved in the rescue of a medical boat. I'm an above average scavenger so suspect I may be missing out on this part of the activity.

Cmd Northgate wrote:

I noticed that there are few missions available

These are just plans, only the first is implemented yet. This is the main reason why the version number is still not reached v1.0.

Thanks for all reports above, I made many fixes meantime what I can upload when the wiki will accept oxz files again.

Hi, I had a look at the code, looks an awesome bit of work.
Have you had time to fix the multiple parcels being listed. I've only just started noticing it since upgrading to 1.84.

I had a look at the add parcel section , to see if I could understand what was going on there.
Do the scripting is and added bonus to playing the game.

Still really enjoying all the scavenging.

I think the non delivery of the multiple parcels has also affected my reputation. As my status is now saying I will have to work really hard to repair my parcel delivery reputation. Particularly as i'd been the most renown parcel deliver in the galaxy! My how the famous fall.

Its all a bit harsh really

Norby wrote:

Cmd Northgate wrote:

I noticed that there are few missions available

These are just plans, only the first is implemented yet. This is the main reason why the version number is still not reached v1.0.

Thanks for all reports above, I made many fixes meantime what I can upload when the wiki will accept oxz files again.

Hi - Do you know when the Wiki will accept oxz files again.
I've removed towbar as I was getting the issue with loads of parcels being generated that messed with my reputation, as mostly I couldn't deliver them on time.

Looking forward to a time I can get back into the Salvaging business.

Thanks Norby for all the extra fun you are adding to the core game.

Hello,

Towbar is great. I love going after pirates and scavenging their ships.

It is tough to do in a Dark Raven when the DR keeps firing after the pirate is disabled. I have to keep my finger on the disable weapons keys.

Any way to turns off the turrets, temporarily, in a DR?

Is there supposed to be a 'bottom_metal.png' texture? It is used in the file "more-cargo.obj".

Just wondering since I get this once in a while:

14:44:18.095 [TugDrone]: Payout for Derelict Granite Boa Mk2: Bounty 1000 ₢ [Ship "Granite Boa Mk2" position: (-11867, 9292.03, 339002) scanClass: CLASS_CARGO status: STATUS_IN_FLIGHT]
14:44:18.181 [files.notFound]: ----- WARNING: Could not find texture file "".
14:44:36.335 [script.javaScript.exception.ooliteDefined]: ***** JavaScript exception (Cargo Scanner 1.11): Error: displayNameForCommodity: Invalid arguments (null) -- expected string.

jtarheel42 wrote:

Is there supposed to be a 'bottom_metal.png' texture?

It is provided by the core Oolite in oolite.app/Resources/Textures folder.

About your previous post, try [wiki]Turret Toggler[/wiki], just avoid Maintenance Overhaul when you landed without turrets, due to deduct additional money to restore the "missing" subentities.

Cmd Northgate wrote:

Do you know when the Wiki will accept oxz files again

It is working now just I still have some code to finish and test before release.

Want to take a look at this post over at the SSC Oolite Embassy, Norby?

Norby wrote:

jtarheel42 wrote:

Is there supposed to be a 'bottom_metal.png' texture?

It is provided by the core Oolite in oolite.app/Resources/Textures folder.

About your previous post, try [wiki]Turret Toggler[/wiki], just avoid Maintenance Overhaul when you landed without turrets, due to deduct additional money to restore the "missing" subentities.

Cmd Northgate wrote:

Do you know when the Wiki will accept oxz files again

It is working now just I still have some code to finish and test before release.

Excellent news about a new release. It will be interesting to see the new code. I looked but couldn't figure out what might be wrong.