Oolite Bulletins

If you're a fan of Serenity/Firefly, you'll probably love this game.. It's been described as a mashup of Firefly, Cowboy Bebop and Sid Meier's Pirates!.. It has a pumping blues rock soundtrack, and I'm so hooked my first session lasted 18 hours straight.. which NO game has ever done to me before. An...

That - and I'd guess many of us prefer to play rather than watch someone play. Heck, I very much enjoy watching others gaming, both IRL and on youtube/twitch, and even I find the vast majority of Oolite videos to be boring as hell.. (despite loving to play the game myself) So far as I can tell, thi...

BlackWolf wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 5:28 am Just ponderings.

Carry on pondering.. some good ideas you have there.

A possible subset of this sort of thing: The player might get a chance to join a system's local chapter of the Industrial Workers of the Galaxy, aka the Wigglies , contributing cash and goods (and maybe busting a few union-busters' heads) to let them put together a system-wide General Strike, thus ...

Cody wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 2:03 am I see MS has backported its Defender ATP toolkit from WX to W7/8 - almost tempts me to update my vanilla OS install.

I wouldn't bother.. it's designed for Enterprise use, and it's not free. Given that M$ charge like a wounded bull for Office 365, I don't see ATP being any different.

I second the advice about the Windows Defender and Malwarebytes combo.. that's all I use (and I'm an IT tech specialising in computer and network security). If you absolutely must have some full-blown antivirus program, Panda (free version) is pretty lightweight and effective, but the number of news...

I think the consensus from earlier on in the thread is that this is a nice idea and would be popular, except it is pretty much impossible to do within the way the game works. Agree.. with the proviso that I'd have added "at present" to the end of that sentence.. if the core code was chang...

Unless you're really into the "purist only open source" crowd, I'd recommend switching the "nouveau" NVidia driver with the one provided by NVidia as a first step into getting better graphics from your card. I was going to suggest the same thing.. your graphics chip is actually ...

Hmm.. nothing I can see of note in your logs.. other than your Mesa drivers being slightly out of date.. (I'm running 17.2.8 on my Mint machine) but I doubt that's anything to worry about. I can't think of anything else to suggest just now.. since the same set now causes no apparent problems, I'm in...

later today I can try getting rid of the error-spawning oolite.oxp.Griff.Santa.oxz and oolite.oxp.amah.noshaders_accessories_chunky_explosions.oxz, and so on, to see if I can narrow in more specifically on crash-inducing OXZs. To save yourself some time, try using a binary testing methodology to id...

DataPacRat wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2018 8:27 pm I forget the name of the one that adds pretty backgrounds to station menus... BGS?

That would be BGS.. but there's also Smivs' Better Screens.

DataPacRat wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:06 am I've been sending online messages since the days of the original Elite and dial-up BBSes;

I suspected it was something like that.. old habits, and all that.

Cody wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2018 12:35 am No doubt HIMSN have a file on him - a fat file - but he's quite pally with Navy, and has been of use to them.

Very good point.. as always, it helps to have friends in high places!

DataPacRat wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:40 pm /that/ /sorts/

Ermm. you are aware that you can highlight words in the text editor and then click on the bold, italic or underline buttons (or even combine them) as you'd like, yes?

Cody wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2018 5:19 pm Those ratfinks at photobucket have screwed-up so many older screenshots! <grumbles>

Aye.. I'd like to do a lot more than grumble at them..