Oolite Bulletins

Hi all,

I just downloaded 1.82 and am completely new to Oolite and Elite in general. I am working my way through the tutorial, and I made it to lesson 9, where you need to try to dock with a station. I figured out how to line myself up (although using the navigation beacon doesn't seem to work well, but I'll figure that out later), but the station is spinning very fast, faster than I can roll. So even when I'm rolling full speed in one direction, the station is still spinning quite a bit relative to me, and I haven't yet been able to time it just right to get in there without blowing myself up.

Is there something obvious I might be missing about the whole docking experience? Or is it possible there's a bug in the tutorial where the station is spinning faster than it was intended to?

Thanks for any advice
Kevin

Hi, and welcome! What speed are you approaching the station at? If slowly, try it faster - even at full speed.

It shoudn't be spinning too fast though - I'll have to check.



It is spinning at the correct speed - just checked.

Hi jacksonmead. Are you on a Mac by chance? I think we had a bug on the Mac port at some point which had this very symptom. It would be helpful if you could confirm what system you are running the game on.

another_commander wrote:

Hi jacksonmead. Are you on a Mac by chance? I think we had a bug on the Mac port at some point which had this very symptom. It would be helpful if you could confirm what system you are running the game on.

I am indeed on a Mac. OS X 10.8.5.

Thanks,
Kevin

Hmm... looks like the bug has resurfaced then (although to be honest, I don't recall if it was ever fixed or how). I do remember that it was a relatively rare occurence though. Could you try that part of the tutorial again and see if it repeats? If it repeats reliably, then we will need more information, but let's see how that goes first.

It had happened at least 3 times previously, but I realized that those were all in the same running of the program. So I quit out and restarted, and this time it was spinning at a reasonable rate and I was able to get in there easily. Also, the navigation beacon lined me up pretty nicely, so I wonder if the positioning of the dock is part of the bug, too.

So, anyway, it looks like it's at least sporadic, and if I run into it again, I'll just quit and restart. Thanks for the help!

Kevin