Oolite Bulletins

Hi, this is my first post on these forums. Let me preface it by saying that I spent a lot of time playing Elite Plus as a child (American, too!). I loved that game like no other. Rediscovering it as Oolite has been immensely satisfying. I'm enjoying the bonus materials a great deal.

So far I have been focusing on trading purely. I eventually earned enough to buy a Python and I basically make milk runs. Right now, I have 50k credits in the bank (not bad considering I started 2 days ago!) and I am presently considering buying a battle capable ship again (the python just doesn't cut it).

Anyway, I bought some docking computers just now. I figured it would speed things up a bit (I literally race system to system selling 115 tc each time). Yes, I love witch injectors--they make docking a lot of fun. High speed kamikaze docking! Anyway, I figure if I had the docking computers, I could just press shift-D and be in the station that much quicker. But it doesn't work. C starts the docking process and s disables the music. But shift-D does nothing.

A look at keyconfig.plist reveals exactly that:
<key>key_autodock</key>
<integer>68</integer>
<key>key_docking_music</key>
<integer>115</integer>

Unfortunately, the "skip docking sequence/engage hypno sleep" or whatever it must be called is missing ("dock" is only in the two entries above). I wanted to know if anyone can tell me what the name of it is so I can add it to my keyconfig file.

I'm running Oolite 1.65 on Ubuntu linux with Nvidia drivers if you'd like to know

Thanks for reading my introduction!

Hi there, and welcome to the boards

Not sure this' ll help, but I've got "key_autopilot" = 99; as the very first entry.

hi, thanks for the reply. Yes, I have that, too. Is that supposed to initiate the auto docking skip sequence (instant dock)?

thanks

I really don't know, to be honest

I'm not sure if this is right but...

I believe the numbers referenced are the ASCII codes for the keys pressed. This gives key_autodock as D (i.e. SHIFT+d) so the shortcut is correctly in your system. Not sure why it isn't though.

OK, this was my fault. shift+d (D) does work. Previously, I was initiating auto dock sequence and trying to instant dock afterwards (that is, press c first, then try D).

Now I'm flying fast.

Thanks

Made the same mistake myself initially.