Oolite Bulletins

Nice. I like the idea of the glossy wrecks, in particular. I'll have to see whether my Interstellar Tweaks OXP - which as some wrecks in it - uses that or can use that.

EDIT: Yep. I can use your shipdata - if I may - to allow some of my interstellar hulks to use your paintjobs.

Thanks for trying to help, another_commander. What you wrote will be of use to those better at this colour malarkey than I. I tried and .. created something green that glowed brown. I had not realised glowing brown was a possible visual sensation, but it turns out that it is. I restored the OXP from...

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Fri Apr 05, 2019 9:55 am

The missile [. . .] does not track the cloaked ship anymore until [. .] it decloaks [. .].

Ah . . So only a temporary reprieve!

Plus it's very effective against missiles. It makes them lose lock on you and instead of actively chasing you, they just fly in a straight line until they either run out of fuel or you decloak (in which case they resume chasing you). It seems to me that that is no longer true. Or perhaps I mistook ...

Had you had the Deep State Pirates expansion pack installed, you would by now be toast!

@another_commander Those screenshots are amazing, the golden massurana in particular. Could you give me any hints on making my Fer-de-lance 3G 'deluxOTank' look like that? I can supply shipdata and textures. At present, that model looks like: EDIT: arg, how does one embed screenshots? Link: https://...

Redspear: yes, I suppose that make some sense.

I like the idea of reviving this oxp (/these OXPs). Sadly, I am no ship modeller, as one can see from my Fer-de-Lance 3G ships (and, if you think that actually those look alright - well, I had quite a bit of help with them . .).

> So if your ship (player or non player) comes preinstalled with an indestructible, damage resistant laser, then you have that chance to defend yourself, do you not?

Yes, but in-game realism requires that one be able to tell a story about where one got it . .

I think that my point, at least about the pulse laser, is: it seems reasonable to allow ships a chance to defend themselves a little (even if, as you say, this particular restriction will not affect the player).

> i won't be so harmless anymore now

Excellent! Go get 'em! (I want to say, 'Right on, Commander!', but, well, that doesn't seem quite right.)

I have had the thought behind this OXP myself. So I like it. However, given what the game is like as stock, restricting pulse lasers and missiles seems a bit extreme . .

I realise, now, that 'King Cobra' was a Oolite ship waiting to happen - because that snake exists (right? the 'King Cobra'?) and there have been various 'marks of Cobra', and the SuperCobra . .

But, oh no, the web page 'http://www.purgatori.net/kingcobra.htm' errors out!

Nice! Thanks. How about a close up? (Also, it's possible to embed images into posts, but the images dimensions must be below certain limits, though I forget what the limits are.)

Some screenshots would be nice!