Oolite Bulletins

Sensible Sun OXP ver. 1.0

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Sensible_Sun

If you find the "suns" in Oolite obtrusively large, place the Sensible Sun OXP into your "AddOns" folder. Oolite will now create suns 2.75 times further from the planet than it does in its default configuration. Sensible Sun is intended to replace the Farsun OXP, which MOVES suns three times further away after they are created. Farsun's method is not compatible which other OXPs which want to specify details for a particular star system. Sensible Sun only changes the configuration of default sytems which have not been modified by other OXPs. Using Farsun and Sensible Sun together will result in stars being 8.75 times further from planets than Oolite's default setting.

Contracted Goods Reminder OXZ ver. 1.0

http://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/4/4 ... minder.oxz

If you are doing a cargo contract and mistakenly sell the goods on the market screen, this will immediately pop up a reminder that you needed that cargo to deliver elsewhere.

Dockside Services OXZ ver. 1.0

http://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/a/a ... es_1.0.oxz

This OXP de-nerdifies the "Ship and Station Interfaces" screen, for people who prefer English. (And fixes a spelling mistake in the ship registration screen, too. "Galactice" Co-operative, really?)

Untrumbled OXP ver. 1.0

https://www.box.com/s/qt5hvaqz6970k6erdtkg

Tired of being bothered by door-to-door salesmen? Simply place the Untrumbled OXP into your "AddOns" folder. It removes a core game feature which some players find irritating, and prevents any possibility of vermin infestation, but does not cure existing infestations.

HUD Vanisher OXP ver. 1.1

https://www.box.com/s/kn51atnmoo1dqziyloyt

HUD Vanisher OXP will automatically switch off Oolite's HUD when you change to an external viewpoint of your ship by pressing the v key, and switch the HUD back on when changing back to one of the normal views. (You can still switch the HUD on or off normally, by pausing the game then pressing the o key while paused.) To use, place the OXP into your "AddOns" folder.

Galaxy Names OXP ver. 1

https://www.box.com/s/qdjo6g45bjmojm6qevex

This OXP is only for versions 1.77 of Oolite or later. It provides an example of how to set distinctive titles on the long-range chart screens, instead of the usual numbered sequence, "Galactic Chart 1", "Galactic Chart 2", etc. The chart names in this demonstration reputedly originated in the Acorn Archimedes version of Elite.

Wildeblood wrote:

Oolite will now create suns 2.75 times further from the planet than it does in its default configuration. Sensible Sun is intended to replace the Farsun OXP, which MOVES suns three times further away after they created. Farsun's method is not compatible which other OXPs which want to specify details for a particular star system.

Revision log wrote:

Revision: 691
Date: 1 august 2006 23:26:51
Author: dajtxx

Added optional planetinfo.plist entry sun_distance_modifier to allow OXPs and player to change default distance to suns

Wildeblood wrote:

Using Farsun and Sensible Sun together will result in stars being 8.75 times further from planets than Oolite's default setting.

JazHaz wrote:

Wildeblood wrote:

Using Farsun and Sensible Sun together will result in stars being 8.75 times further from planets than Oolite's default setting.

Think I might do that even!

Smivs wrote:

Nice ones Wildeblood Sounds very, er, sensible.

Wildeblood wrote:

[Wow, four people have downloaded Empty Cargopod Incinerator OXP. Does it actually work? If it does I might write a little readme file for it.

• the product for sale is "Empty Cargopod Incinerator" which sounds like you pay to have it done, rather than something you buy. Just "Cargopod Incinerator" would be less confusing;
• as a product, personally, I don't like the "incinerate cargopod" concept. I'd rather it were either a:
  • "Cargopod repacker" or
  • "Cargo bay optimiser" or
  • it could be an automated secure-storage-and-stowage facility called a "Valuables vault" or "Precious items safe" which, when activated, slowly goes through the cargo bay moving platinum and gold and gems into the newly-fitted safe in the cabin, and transfers the previous packaging / asteroid dust / cargopods to the normal ship's waste disposal system where it is atomised and fed out through the witchspace engine vents;
• has it got its own thread on here? I can see it warranting one;
• it sounds like a complex piece of machinery that can go through a 400 tonne cargo bay collecting gems by the gramme and gold by the Kg, overcoming an inherited Elite 'feature':
  • it sounds expensive (and fitting would be slow);
  • it sounds like it would be something that gets damaged;
  • it sounds like a hi-tech item, not just mechanical, that can spot and extract a one gramme semi-precious gem from a cargopod.

• could/should it burn up some energy when used? (Like the Ore Processor or ECM do.) As it goes chug-chug-chug through the cargo bay, checking cargopods, transferring any valuables into the vault and any waste into the ship's waste disposal.
• Should it need to be primed and activated, or work automatically when something is scooped? (If it is to use energy, then it should be activated.)

SandJ wrote:

Should it need to be primed and activated, or work automatically when something is scooped?

Thargoid wrote:

It may also be better triggered by the this.shipScoopedOther worldscript event function rather than by a manual trigger?