Oolite Bulletins

Distances on the short range chart drive me crackers, sometimes. From Atistiso to Lezaer (G3) it’s 2 lights, from Atistiso to Esmaonbe it’s 2.4 lights, but Lezaer and Esmaonbe are a zero-distance double. I tell myself it’s because of the vagaries of the wormhole, and I do like the occasional quirk… but it does puzzle me.

Laenin to Xexedi -- try doing a couple misjumps going both ways on that if you want to see real insanity on distances.

Speaking of the short range, I noticed two quirks which have been there forever:
1. the planet sometimes look like it's outside of the fuel range (the green circle) but is 6.8 ly away
2. the estimated time is not displayed if I do not have enough fuel

Zireael wrote:

Speaking of the short range, I noticed two quirks which have been there forever:
1. the planet sometimes look like it's outside of the fuel range (the green circle) but is 6.8 ly away
2. the estimated time is not displayed if I do not have enough fuel

1. is due to rounding errors present in the original Elite and kept as-is in Oolite so that the representation of the Universe and all possible routes remain unchanged.
2. is on purpose. You only see the estimated travel time if you can actually reach the target.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Why is 2. on purpose? If I'm doing a contract (and I have Advanced Navigational Array), why rob me of the ability to see the time the jump would take?

Zireael wrote:

Why is 2. on purpose? If I'm doing a contract (and I have Advanced Navigational Array), why rob me of the ability to see the time the jump would take?

Because you can't jump there anyway?

Also, this is about the Short Range Chart. The ANA works on the Long Range.

Switeck wrote:

Laenin to Xexedi -- try doing a couple misjumps going both ways on that if you want to see real insanity on distances.

One of my favorite milk runs.

I really hate it when I see two planets that are so close that they look like they are joined together. I just tell myself it's a binary star system or something like that...

uua90 wrote:

Switeck wrote:

Laenin to Xexedi -- try doing a couple misjumps going both ways on that if you want to see real insanity on distances.

One of my favorite milk runs.

I really hate it when I see two planets that are so close that they look like they are joined together. I just tell myself it's a binary star system or something like that...

Or a 2D representation of a 3D slice of the Ooniverse, a kind of stellar equivalent of the London Underground map?