Oolite Bulletins

[RELEASE] Teleportation Drive 1.0


FE Shipyards

FE Shipyards is proud to unveil our H-fed T-drive technique. Long in development, this complex modification is finally ready for practical application and delivery to you, our valued customer.

We will link your ASC and Injector circuitry to the Hyperspace motor, allowing the formation of a miniature wormhole between the ship and its destination station. With a tap of the 'i' button, space is folded and transport is instantaneous.

We call it the T-drive.


Operation

Select your station of destination with the "next compass target" button linked to the Advanced Space Compass. Please make sure it's a station buoy and not a planet or moon!

With the station selected, tap the Injector button and you will arrive.


Remarks

In the event of dissatisfaction or sudden lack of cash, you may elect to remove the T-Drive and be granted a refund of the purchase price. Look for the entry 'Remove Teleportation Drive' on your Equipment interface.


Dependencies

Before the option to buy our Teleportation Drive even appears on the Equipment listing at the shipyard, Advanced Space Compass and Witchdrive Fuel Injectors need to be installed in your vessel.


Download

Teleportation Drive is available through the Equipment section of Oolite's in-game Expansions Manager or HERE.


Recommendations

Without far-flung stations to teleport between, there is really not much point having a T-drive. So you will need

• Stations for Extra Planets Base
• Stations for Extra Planets - Stations

and the extra planets themselves for the new stations to orbit:

• Additional Planets SR Base
• Additional Planets SR Redux Pack

Look for these two excellent Ambience packages in the Expansions Manager in-game.


Trade well!

D.R. of X.

[RELEASE] Teleportation Drive 1.1


CHANGES

• Minor cosmetic improvements.
• Dotting the t's and crossing the i's code-wise. (no more JS exceptions in the log!)

Trade well!

D.R. of X.

Picture: Isence Prime. T-drive destination set.



Picture: Isence III. Arrival.

Congrats on another release.

Not tried this but something you might wish to consider re nomenclature...

"T-Drive" overlaps somewhat unfortunately with  Torus Drive, a core game (rather than OXP) feature.

"H-Fed T-Drive Technique". Hmmm... How about the 'HT-Drive'?
It implies a relationship to both hyperdrives and the Torus drive which would appear to fit with your description.

Anyway, none of my business really, just a thought.

...Meanwhile, that HUD's definitely growing on me.

Thanks much for the suggestions, Redspear - I must think about it.

As for 'Torus Drive', I dislike that nomenclature, always preferring to call it the 'Jump drive' or 'J-drive'. (mainly because the 'j' key activates it.)

And of course the 'T' in T-drive stands for Teleportation.

Glad you're liking the GETter HUD!

or GET-drive...

hmm... yes indeedy. Food for thought.

[RELEASE] Teleportation Drive 1.2


CHANGE

• You are given the option, via an F4 'Customer Survey' Interface, to change the short name of the Teleportation Drive. The new designation is saved across sessions, and of course may be changed again as many times as desired.

Trade well!

D.R. of X.

Multiname oxps, now there's an idea

(it's easy enough to implement - just one global variable with the equipment-name).

Reval wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 8:13 am

You are given the option, via an F4 'Customer Survey' Interface, to change the short name of the Teleportation Drive.

Derek.

"Derek engaged"
Congratulations Derek

Reval wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 8:13 am

[RELEASE] Teleportation Drive 1.2


CHANGE

• You are given the option, via an F4 'Customer Survey' Interface, to change the short name of the Teleportation Drive. The new designation is saved across sessions, and of course may be changed again as many times as desired.

Trade well!

D.R. of X.

Whizzing around in the local region I stumbled across "The Enterprise of Xexedi" - that wasn't you by any chance?