Oolite Bulletins

Basic Handwavium Premise: The Perpetual Motion Machine that is a ship's drive engine generates Heat. That Heat needs to go somewhere lest the ship go boom. The Perpetual Motion Machine takes in stuff from space (Dark Matter, Hydrogen, anything else you might prefer). This stuff is then ignited in a ...

Any possibility of your additional Escape Pods/Capsules/Lifeboats not playing well with ESCAPE POD SLAVE FIX by phkb? Have not had the time as yet to personally test them out together so thought the question could be asked first. If you, or any else, has played with these two OXZs working well toget...

What follows is the formula for calculating quantities of goods at a Secondary Market which is entered into a dockable's shipdata.plist entry. This is taken from HERE . rnd = -1..1 // random number in range -1 to +1, slightly biased towards zero adjusted_quantity = (local_capacity / primary_capacity...

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Two things about M.F.D.'s. First there is M.F.D. FAST CONFIGURATION which allows for all sorts of possibilities. If you wanted you could set it up so that the M.F.D.'s vanish when in combat giving you the extra viewable screen space you might desire. Read that wiki page as it explains all that this ...

Am liking the one with the stars but it is missing something that definitively defines it as the GalCop logo. Perhaps the word "GALCOP" between the tops of the two side branches? With that word being there nothing is left to chance as to whom it represents. Let us not even discuss font usage as that...

Head back to the station you launched from. Dock with it if nothing else presents itself. Updates should then be forthcoming. Reading the missiontext.plist inside a Mission OXP/OXZ will give you some idea of what to do next should you get stuck during a mission. The tricky part is to not read too fa...

2010: Odyssey Two, the novel by Arthur C. Clarke, and 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the film based on that novel, feature a Russian Spacecraft named for Alexei Leonov, the non fictional Cosmonaut who was the first person to walk in space.

Buoys - we are all aware of THIS . Back in G2 there was a rash of Buoy destruction going on. All types of Buoys were being taken out on a regular basis. The above OXZ replaced the destroyed Buoys in a very short amount of time. It even provided temporary positioning of a destroyed Buoy, and a tempor...

19:17:43.379 [oxz.manager.error]: Downloaded OXZ does not contain a manifest.plist, has been left in ... Based on the above my guess was that the OXZ had been downloaded but placed somewhere other than the ManagedAddOns folder due to not having a proper manifest.plist. The WIki was back up (now dow...

The Broadcast Voice: This has been an actual Wiki emergency. Having been an actual Wiki emergency you were directed where to tune in your area for additional information. Those of you that panicked and managed to kiss yourself goodbye should have known better. We now return you to your regular Wiki...

The HUD Selector page on the wiki shows some MFD's I've not yet come across. Can anyone tell me what they are? *ExtraLarge HUD 4x3: Left-hand side, 3rd down --------------------- Not 100% sure about this one but it looks like something to do with Carriers or Escort Deck. Right-hand side, 2nd down -...

Nite Owl, you must have a lot of experience in these things to be able to spot these unintended insults in your posts. Been posting on Bulletin Boards for as long as there has been an Internet. Started with a dial-up connection at about 2k a second. What now takes seconds to download would, back th...

Remember reading that thread but did not realize until now what its results may have been. Again, such is the way of the interwebs. Interpersonal communication via only typed words can be a very tricky thing indeed. Without the tonal inflection of your voice and the facial and body expressions that ...