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ADVANCED SPACE COMPASS letters
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:41 am
by Chrisfs
The reference sheet says that if I have Advanced Space Compass an 'N' or a 'W' should appear by the compass when I am near a Nav Buoy or Witchspace beach respectively
and a 'Z' for a free trade zone wiith the FTZ OXP.
But I don't ever see letters for any of those items. am I missing something here?
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:44 am
by Kaks
Well, in order to see those letters, you need to switch between beacons (using '\' on the keyboard)!
PS: if you are on a windows pc and have problems with '\', have a look at the us keyboard layout.
Oolite on windows thinks that everybody has a us keyboard. After a while of hacking away, I managed to convince it to also use the standard '\' key on windows uk keyboards, but that's as far as it went...
Re: ADVANCED SPACE COMPASS letters
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:49 am
by Captain Hesperus
Chrisfs wrote:The reference sheet says that if I have Advanced Space Compass an 'N' or a 'W' should appear by the compass when I am near a Nav Buoy or Witchspace beach respectively
and a 'Z' for a free trade zone wiith the FTZ OXP.
But I don't ever see letters for any of those items. am I missing something here?
Are you getting nothing that looks like this:
or this:
Have you tried cycling through the Advanced Space Compass options? It's \ (next to the Z) on a QWERTY keyboard. Not sure on the Mac or Linux, tho.
<EDIT> Poop, Kaks got there first.
Captain Hesperus
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:52 am
by Chrisfs
doh, learn something new all the time.
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:54 am
by Kaks
Repeat after me: the Reference Sheet is my friend, the Reference Sheet is my friend!
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:59 am
by Captain Hesperus
Kaks wrote:Repeat after me: the Reference Sheet is my friend, the Reference Sheet is my friend!
The what? <scrabbles through 'Python Owners' Handy Guide to Your Ship'>
Oh, wow! There's a handy little sheet detailing all the ship's controls here! And a maintenance logbook.... oh, it's blank....ah...
Captain Hesperus
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:03 am
by Chrisfs
Maintainence log book...
I just spent 1400 cr on a maintenance overhaul that I'm not really sure did anything.
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:07 am
by another_commander
Chrisfs wrote:Maintainence log book...
I just spent 1400 cr on a maintenance overhaul that I'm not really sure did anything.
It did. If you want, next time don't take it and watch the slow degradation of your ship taking place
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:15 am
by Thargoid
And of course the small point to make sure you actually have the ASC installed and working on your ship
And given the problems with the \ key on UK keyboards, might using another key by default (e.g. "z") be a better option? Mine's redefined there via keyconfig.plist and it works fine for my fingers.
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 9:30 am
by Cody
Strangely, on my keyboard it's "#".
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:25 am
by Kaks
El Viejo: on uk keyboards it's both '#' (it's where the us keyboard places its '\') and '\' - apparently, best of both worlds...
Thargoid: 'ours is not to question why...' - the use of '\' is a Giles-given thing, and it doesn't cause any problem/confusion on either macs, where Oolite was born, or linuces. We're keeping it as the standard key at least until MNSR.
Hmmm, MNSR, you might notice a theme starting to emerge here!
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:26 am
by Thargoid
All hail billionaire Bill and the assumption that all keyboards will be US...
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:03 am
by Diziet Sma
It's a standard-issue US mindset thingy.. who else would hold a "World Series" that no other countries are even invited to participate in?
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:07 am
by Kaks
Hey, they do have 1 or 2 Canadian teams in it!
Mind you, one Canadian friend of mine refers to his home country as US-lite, which doesn't help...
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:56 pm
by Zbond-Zbond
Diziet Sma wrote:standard-issue US mindset
this is changing: emissaries have been heard referring to "petrol" when abroad
but what is this "" being near "z"
edit -- o I see, there's an extra button..