Oolite Bulletins

Now that I've got more time on my hands I thought it might be a good idea to blow the dust off this thing and update it for 1.89, even if only for my own amusement. Every time I come back to it after considerable time off I need to spend a little while to get my head around the whole thing again. Sk...

Thanks for taking a look Astrobe. As you may know, I included the restriction as a route planning strategy. However, given that it only works well when a suitable detour is very near to your destination, it wouldn't be a big loss in its current form. So although I'm not sure about making it availabl...

Apologies folks. There's some apparently manifest related issue that's resulting in download failures regarding updating the oxz list. According to a log report, this oxz is the problem. I've set the oxz to draft state which returns things to normal but also prevents downloading this oxz. It should ...

That's right, cargo scoop, not fuel scoops. You'd still need fuel scoops to scoop fuel. Launching from the station on your maiden flight you can be a trader, smuggler or bounty hunter but that's about it. Piracy and mining are out because you can't reliably profit from either. Well, maybe with this ...

Well, yes, it's fake too, but it's still an attempt to make a model of an economy. Given that all model economies are either a) unsatisfactory; b) prone to producing money pumps; or c) both, I think it's better to ditch the idea entirely. Like any model, it depends on what you are expecting to get ...

That's one thing I don't think weve discussed yet. The current model make more sense when it's a GalCop standardised market. They're all GalCop stations so essentially, you're being paid to ferry stuff for GalCop. You don't even reall know what it is. It's labelled food so take it to the food marke...

Faced with the prospect of making do with something that is Not Very Good, or disposing of it altogether and just faking it, I'd vote for faking it. Interesting. I see the current model as faking it. With a totally fake economy running, then planets can export and import an endless variety of weird...

Rekrul wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 7:11 pm

How about if the game semi-randomly created shortages of certain items...

...The fluctuating availability wouldn't be player-centric and would somewhat simulate an active market that was being influenced by others.

Ah, you beat me to it

The problem with too much randomised price variance is that it all just becomes a crapshoot. I said price variance. No one wants 'too much' price variance ;) And how long will prices persist? What if you turn up at planet A, find a great price for Liquor and Wines, take it to the Industrial planet ...

I think we may be at the thread split stage but... Forgive me if I lay this out, if even only for my own clarity/sanity. Ok, so please correct me if any of this isn't true: We're talking about two different models here. One is the current model as it operates within a default install of oolite and t...

I don't have a problem with this idea - but the problem is, you can never see it. Agreed, it's handwaved. Whether or not that's enough is where we appear to differ. ALL Liquor & Wines from ANY (say) Average Agricultural planet will ALWAYS have the same narrow price range; and it will always have th...

Yes. For anything not scanned, we can handwave it by saying that the ship was going the opposite way from the player So it is, once again, the player action that brings it into (or in this case maintains) its existence, right? And to be clear: I have no problem with this. who could ever prove other...

Just a tad bit more to maintain the illusion of non-player centricity. Ah, I didn't know that :-) (as you surmised). So rather than the system the player is in it's the ships generated in the system that the player is in ... Yes, that does strengthen the illusion and at minimum resource cost :D Mus...

I haven't yet installed a rear military laser because I have so much trouble aiming at distant targets that I figured it would be a waste of money. Difference being that when it's you who is running, but not too fast ;), then they will usually help with the lining up (especially at first when they ...

It's only easy when a single ship flees straight away from you at normal speed and doesn't fight back. The way to 'create' this situation is to run. Once you have a military laser (rear mounted) and a fast ship (mk 3 will usually do nicely) then you only need to be occasionally accurate. If they do...