Oolite Bulletins

Sorry, my server is in dire need of an upgrade and I don’t find the time... I will post here if it gets to that!

I quite enjoyed battles with the thargoids, working with the Galactic Navy. Also some bar brawls / furballs were rather enjoyable

Thank you, that helped, I did not look further down in the readme.md after the "Building" headline :oops: Now I am running into an error with libstdc++ being deprecated though, in the build target jsoplengen, project libjs: clang: warning: libstdc++ is deprecated; move to libc++ with a minimum deplo...

I'm trying to build Oolite from source on macOS Catalina, in Xcode 11.4. I cloned the git repository, and following the instructions in readme.md I would only have to open the .Xcode project, and hit the run button to compile. What happens is that I get an error messages stating, correctly, that "Bu...

Look what is possible today

Five years? Where did they go?

Cody wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 04, 2019 8:44 pm

The  Wiki is a good place to start.

It is. Welcome aboard, Blue Lake!

Could you elaborate more on why you think it wouldn't be Oolite anymore? Oolite is indeed more than its game mechanics and media that come with the initial download. Its moddability and collection of OXPs/OXZs are a core part of it. A port that makes them incompatible results in a different Elite-b...

Cody wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 27, 2019 12:14 pm

After all the years of waiting, he's finally turned up, has he?

Good luck with that!

Hi skyace65,

Sounds interesting, which engine do you have in mind? And what improvements are you planning with the engine switch?

Welcome to the BB!

On the good news side, it is much more mobile friendly. Depends on what it means to you. With the theme from the old version I could see the complete list of forums with status information (new posts yes/no) on one page without scrolling on my phone, now it takes quite precisely two pages with scro...

Welcome, and thanks for the good feedback!

Try some of the mission OXPs for scripted stories, check their wiki pages for explanation on what they are about.

Hi Grindalf, welcome. For me, playability is linked to enjoying the visuals, e.g. BGS. In addition I like to have missions, most OXZs in that category are part of my game.

All those screenshots look gorgeous, but what is it with the shininess of the planets? They look a bit like they are from metal... or is it just me?