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what would happen though if you scooped a cargo item you didn't have the correct bay for? My methodolgy is likely limited by my programming skill but I'm thinking the simpler the better in most regards. So, two possible scenarios with a basic hold to explain my thinking: 1) Upon launching from the ...

So you want to make the cargoholds with different (buyable) levels with each level you gain more options to buy certain goods? Yes. And the purpose is to make it harder to earn credits? Nearly... As you may already understand, based on the rest of your reply, the purpose is to make the profit to ju...

Suppose that a cargo bay must be fitted to a particular standard in order to ship goods through witchspace. Suppose further that this standard varied according to goods being shipped. Basic: Alloys, Minerals, Alien Items, Gold, Platinum, Gem Stones (all either found as space debris or otherwise unre...

Welcome Gnievmir! I had an idea to do something less sophisticated with target image display but hadn't found time to try (it will be interesting to see if you used a similar method). Having said that, some of the other things on the HUD in your video go way beyond my capabilities... Looks great! I ...

Not sure as to what extent (if any) that the following is already true... Shouldn't the size of the player ship influence the likelihood of predation by pirates? More specifically, the size of the player ship cargo bay could be an indicator of risk of pirate interest. It may be true that larger vess...

montana05 wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:54 pm

I am sure you figured it out yourself...

Still not tried it TBH, just too busy lately.
Thanks for the clarification though.

phkb wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 02, 2019 4:11 am

Also, it reduces the potential conflicts where two OXP's want to update the same equipment item

Awesome
Thanks phkb... and thanks for the example too

With a bit of luck I might get to do some oxp updating soon.

This version is tested and works, I just pasted parts of the code so you can see how I solved this problem. Thanks montana 05, I'll give that a try... I'd check the condition script for the laser (if one is specified). My guess is that you've included rules that prohibit the laser from being instal...

Hi, I'm Hijong Park who is having a hard time to enjoy Oolite. I like space and spaceships, so I want to like oolite, but simply can't. everything feels tedious and frustrating... Hi Hijong Park. I may have some good news for you: if you don't know it already there are likely oxps that can reduce b...

Trying to change the players lasers by script. Lasers are an odd case for equipment in that they have a facing and so player.ship.awardEquipment ("EQ_WEAPON_PULSE_LASER"); does not provide sufficient information (i.e. facing not specified). So I tried to use if (player.ship.aftWeapon === "EQ_WEAPON_...

This is something I'd considered in the past (for my own ship equipment oxp) but never had the time to work out an easy way to do it.
So thanks for making this a seperate oxp! I haven't tried it yet but it sounds very useful.

Good work once again phkb!

phkb wrote: ↑

Sun May 26, 2019 3:57 am

In the next nightly is the ability to limit star and nebula textures to particular galaxies, providing the opportunity to make galaxies more visually unique.

Nice Thanks

One other possible interpretation of where the witchpoint of a system is at...is it's in the same orbit as the main planet -- either leading or lagging it by maybe 30-60 degrees in orbit. The planet and sun of the system would remain in a relative fixed position to that and would look the same on e...

Suppose that rather than there being only one witchpoint that there were three, or even five, and each time you jumped into a system you were randomly allocated to one of these predetermined entry points. Very much different appearances are now possible and sunskimming could be affected also - we'd...

You are right that it will incur distance variations which are probably the most noticeable in the default configuration (like in strict mode), but I believe those differences will be "hidden" by encounters and masslocks. As for the looks, in the default configuration it already looks silly in my o...