Oolite Bulletins

Is it legal? If not, I want it. If so, I still want it.

Will download for my run this evening!

Very nice. It certainly does give you a bit of momentum. One thing I'm getting used to, though, is having to slow down before I start aiming after using the mil fuel injectors. Otherwise...yeah, forget hitting anything.

Very interesting, but will this improve the vortex's performance or is this of other vessels only?
I ask this as I have seen some MKI cobbies, Asps, and even an Adder suddenly light up and leave me in the dust, even on full injectors. When they do that, I usually give up the chase and turn my attentions to slower targets of opportunity.

Gonna check these out sounds interesting.

Yah-Ta-Hey wrote:

Very interesting, but will this improve the vortex's performance or is this of other vessels only?
I ask this as I have seen some MKI cobbies, Asps, and even an Adder suddenly light up and leave me in the dust, even on full injectors. When they do that, I usually give up the chase and turn my attentions to slower targets of opportunity.

They will work on any player ship, as long as said ship also has normal fuel injectors (these are an upgrade kit for them).

The NPC ships cannot use these specific bits of equipment, although they could be scripted to have something equivalent. So what you're seeing on NPCs are just normal injectors perhaps.

Ah so, I was just blown away by these ships acting normally then suddenly having tail plumes 3 time longer than they are.
You are probably right about normal injectors but man oh man it is really tough catching something that is flying around you like a hungry mosquito who has found a rich victim to plunder.

Thargoid wrote:

As requested elsewhere, this little OXP provides the military fuel injector upgrade as featured in the Vortex.

It gives regeneration of unburnt fuel back into the system (improved efficiency) and also a velocity boost compared to the standard civilian system.

I've recently fitted Military Fuel Injectors to Noomi IV, my Boa Clipper, and I'm certainly seeing the improved efficiency: when using the injectors, the fuel in the tank will occasionally drop by 0.1, only to go back up again (e.g. 3.2... 3.1... 3.2). I assume what I'm seeing here is the recovery of unburned fuel.

There's no velocity boost, however -- speed under injection is 2534, both with and without the Military Fuel Injectors. I was expecting to see a significant increase after fitting them.

Thargoid wrote:

[...]As for speed - you should see an increase whilst you are using them (ie whilst you are under injectors)[...]

I'm using NumericHUDv3, which, as you know, quotes speed explicitly. The actual speed displayed is 2534 with civilian injectors, and exactly the same after fitting the military version. Possessing no coding skills, I haven't a clue where the HUD gets its information from, however (in a programming sense).

Maybe it's a thoughtful feature added by the NumericHUD people to help you avoid speeding tickets

Just a question about the workings of the oxp. It works when your speed reaches near to the top speed of your ship, correct! But what if you have the fuel collector and are stuck in interstellar space which only collects fuel at the top speed of your ship? Do you see a problem?

Big hint...

Don't inject, with the Military Injectors, all the way from the witchpoint to the planet. Not unless you have enough fuel to cancel the Non-existent Newtonian physics