Oolite Bulletins

At your suggestion I've downloaded these and will use these as a potential reference for the 1.77version of CustomShields.oxp. Great job and thanks!

Thargoid wrote:

Next OXP added to the list in the first post - the updated v0.1 of Planetary Compass OXP for Oolite 1.77.

We already know about a small name glitch with Cim's Talkative Compass OXP that this OXP currently highlights, although it works fine on the ASC itself.

And v0.2 of this OXP is now uploaded. It works fine with Cim's Talkative Compass, and now adds sub-planet and moon names (repeatable from visit to visit, at least in theory) and overridable by other OXPs via system.planets[x].name .

And as with the others, this OXP will not work with play release 1.76.1

Thargoid wrote:

As the dev's have put some wonderful new toys into trunk at the moment...

Can you tell me who these "dev's" are?
(So that I may shower them with gratitude.)

Thargoid wrote:

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- a small tweak to the advanced space compass which adds sub-planets ("P") and moons ("M") to the detected list (and names them).
...

Comments, suggestions and bug reports welcome. And to reiterate - these will not work with 1.76.1

Uhm.... "M" is used in the Escort Contracts oxp.
It designates the Mothership. Very useful for (re)locating her after, or during, some skirmishing with bandits.

Flight Log causes an exception if you change to the status page while in flight.

Exception: TypeError: player.ship.dockedStation is null
Active script: FlightLog 1.10
script.js, line 65:
player.ship.dockedStation.setInterface("FlightLog",

Suggestion for consideration when your updating the Compass, as you currently use picture icons for sun and planet, may I suggest evolving this slightly for ease of reference and to allow OXPs to use letters:

- A circle with rays emanating from it for all stars in the system, that are 'Suns' (I would like to see some binary sun systems and pulsars)
- A ringed planet symbol for each of the 'Planets'.
- A crescent moon symbol for each of the 'Moons'.

While I am at it will we see...
Meteors? Comets? Black Holes?
Perhaps even areas of space with interesting anomalies in the laws of physics?

A more dynamic system...
Where planets and suns are formed and colonists and new stations are established and thargoids can destroy stations but we can rebuild...
Where governments systems, economies, populations all change over time as the stability/change of these should all be variable

(These should all be variable and at least the population should be displayed and I like the idea of populations varying as it could have an effect on economic demand as would the planets current place on the economic cycle, whether it is in boom or bust (recession and even more dramatically depression) or achieving the much desired sustainable steady growth... Plus each venture into the game will be different and have an unknowable)

Cpt wrote:

Suggestion for consideration when your updating the Compass, as you currently use picture icons for sun and planet, may I suggest evolving this slightly for ease of reference and to allow OXPs to use letters:

- A circle with rays emanating from it for all stars in the system, that are 'Suns' (I would like to see some binary sun systems and pulsars)
- A ringed planet symbol for each of the 'Planets'.
- A crescent moon symbol for each of the 'Moons'.

Thanks for the suggestions

The picture icons you refer to are actually the built-in ones for the ASC, rather than ones that Planetary Compass is adding. At the moment it's not possible to use picture icons for the additions that it does (they are via visual effects, you can only use picture icons with beacons of actual entities at the moment). Initially I did try something very much as you suggest, but the test didn't work.

At the moment multiple suns in a system aren't possible in the game, although I think such was on the very long-term suggestion list for the game.

Cpt wrote:

While I am at it will we see...
Meteors? Comets? Black Holes?
Perhaps even areas of space with interesting anomalies in the laws of physics?

Now that we have visual entities coming in 1.77 it opens up a few new and interesting possibilities. Some of the above could be coded, but such isn't on my to-do list right now. Although I did play about with black holes in the past, and they don't work so well in-game.

Cpt wrote:

A more dynamic system...
Where planets and suns are formed and colonists and new stations are established and thargoids can destroy stations but we can rebuild...
Where governments systems, economies, populations all change over time as the stability/change of these should all be variable

Could all be done, and indeed there are OXPs which do those kind of things. But generally people don't like that kind of dynamism, at least from feedback.

Cool, well I think we can all agree black holes suck...

Thargoid wrote:

Cpt wrote:

A more dynamic system...
Where planets and suns are formed and colonists and new stations are established and thargoids can destroy stations but we can rebuild...
Where governments systems, economies, populations all change over time as the stability/change of these should all be variable

Could all be done, and indeed there are OXPs which do those kind of things. But generally people don't like that kind of dynamism, at least from feedback.

I guess it has something to do with the missing options to check this fast enough. Imagine a OXP which tries to set a few destination systems based on gov, eco, etc. to display it on a screen. Then you'll have to check these systems via System.infoForSystem which is not really fast if you need to access more than a handful of systems. And if your script needs to do more than just selecting the systems you may hit the timelimiter.

I'm all for more dynamics, but dynamics without pairing the options to check it fast is what I'm worried about.

The glow from CargoSpotter would be useful to integrate into Military Targeting and AI Combat Assistant OXPs.

EDIT: CargoSpotter appears to make items unscoopable. I'm removing it, but also poking around code to see if I can repurpose it in conjunction with AI Combat Assistant.