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I would dearly love to see more made of the species in the game. All the gubbins I've dug up so far can be found on the new Species page in our wiki. Finger's crossed I'll be salvaging from my old PC soon, in whish case I plan to rescue this one . If I ration its ambition ever so slightly then I th...

Thanks to maik's hard work with the wiki, this is now available from the in-game manager.

Having done a little more testing in the last few day I can confirm that pirates still show up, just not very often.

montana05 wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:47 pm

It's a problem on the server, Maik knows about it but until today the problem still remains.

Appreciated, just hadn't seen the MIME message in any recent posts.

maik wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:57 pm

I'm aware, fix is still pending... Unfortunately, I cannot do it myself...

Again, thanks and understood.

So how does this sound: a ship can jump into a system regardless, but without a witchpoint beacon to lock onto, the location of the point of entry is unpredictable. It could be close to the space lane/station, it could be way out in deep space, it could be too close to the planet, it could even be ...

And on returning to the upload page, one finds this: The file you uploaded seems to be empty. This might be due to a typo in the filename. Please check whether you really want to upload this file. I've had that, preceeded by, File extension ".oxz" does not match the detected MIME type of the file (...

Ironically, mammals are more old group than birds. Reptiles and mammals are groups with independent evolution, having amphibians as common ancestor. First reptiles and first mammals were emerged in Permian period (late Paleozoic, approx 300 MY). Avians has reptile ancestors and first birds were eme...

Looks like there'll be a wait as the wiki isn't keen on my uploading the file for some reason.

I'll try again later.

The title is essentially a nod to Disembodied's idea of a safe area for starting players with this being my simple implementation of such. Should D object, I'll happily change it. What it Does: Turns the Leesti - Diso milk run into a much safer route for the beginning player. Leesti and/or Diso are ...

Am I correct in presuming that the main function of defence missiles is that of blowing up more aggressive missiles? NB: New wiki page - http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Missile_Combat_Reimagined Rather that they are sufficient for such a purpose. Most ships are unlikely to be 'taken out' by one, j...

planetinfo.plist sets the inhabitants for each system. Re inhabitants and there origins, various theories have been suggested, perhaps the most oft cited being that they all (along with human colonials) originated from Earth. For my (still WIP) station Variation oxp I drew upon evolutionary theory f...

Do you mean this thing?

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DISCLAIMER Acute affection to changing Oolite reality can harm your social life in real reality! :D Social life? What's that? :P Oh I know. that's why I 'work' in short burst with Oolite: on what amuses me, when it's amusing me. I typically feel little obligation to get stuff finished on any self-i...

Is it very difficult to change the game maps? Then we really could explore for real! Not difficult technically - you can change system coordinates, names, descriptions etc in planetinfo.plist. Just laborious. Oh my giddy Aunt... I can do this strategically to exaggerate or minimise quirks of the pr...

Tangentializing further... Might it be nice if Your Ad Here included more advertisments for other oxps? Even if it were only at the witchpoint buoy (and the solitary installed oxp) then you would have in-game advertisements/hints to other oxps: you'd learn about them as you play; becoming increasing...

Honourable mention for the Moray (esp. seeing as you've already mentioned the Adder). Cargo capacity of 7TC isn't that much yet lies between the Adder and the Mk I. Speed however is superior to both of them and so you may still make money faster with the Moray than with the Mk I. Key things to consi...