Oolite Bulletins

Thanks for the explanation. I see that the technical problems are considerable!

Good question! I think we've a convention for adopting or at least for part of that procedure. And we've a rule (prerequisite it) for it. That rule is: the OXP has to include, in its present form, a license that allows others to modify the code. The convention is: one notifies the person(s) who run(...

Here is an astonishingly late reply. I think that, well implemented, that would be good! The same goes for the Borg OXP, which someone did start implementing at some point. I'd like to see the Borg try to assimilate Iron Chicken. I'd help the latter, obviously. The difficulty lies in getting decent ...

Jolly good!

This sounds fun! I'll test it if I get a mo. (Sorry for the very late reply!)

Fleurgy (if I may so call you), I've just noticed that in your initial post in this thread you said No errors found in Extra Thargoids, but it has a tendency to report them when errors occur in other OXZs. Can anyone explain? I think you have in mind error messages in the log about ships wanting to ...

The only way to travel: it's a shame. I imagine the game could be changed (with some work) to allow allow a manual switch from one system to another. If so, then when one leaves one's ship running its jump drive in deep space and comes back, what, a few days later (or less than that if one is using ...

The OXZ at issue with the latest problem you found seems to be: Additional Planets SR Others Gas Giants pack. The maintainers of that seem to be 'Redspear, spara and collaborators'. I suggest you contact Redspear or Spara - if you don't hear from them - by commenting on one of their threads or, perh...

You might want to ask on the Linux subforum about freeware programs (for, even if you are not on Linux, those folks are likely to know of freeware stuff - some of which might work on other operating systems). As to unweaving the rainbow, as it were: I haven't found that this diminishes my appreciati...

Good stuff, phkb!

Thanks very much Rustem. I'm seeing what I can get working . .

Thanks! I'll have a go with that code and with the ideas offered elsewhere by rustem.

Dear all I am after a way of setting a (any) perpendicular course from a celestial object (sun or planet or secondary planet - or, better: a roughly - not exactly, i.e. I want some randomisation. I know how to get the celestial entity - with all its properties, I think - as an element in an array, b...

phkb, Yes indeed! That's the stuff! The magic of Oolite and Javascript! I now have the escorts recognising - without too much system load - when they are close to celestial bodies, messaging the player about it, and sometimes temporarily refusing to go further. The next and - for the moment, last - ...

Thanks, phkb! One more (slightly involved) thing, if I may. I'm making progress, but I'd like the calcAltitudeForShip function to return, additionally, a boolean that is true if and only the player is moving towards the nearest celestial body. To that, I imagine we'd need to check the ship's speed (...