User:Cholmondely

With a deep abiding loathing of grammatical infelicities and typographical misdeeds, Cholmondeley is slowly assaulting the pages of this Wikipedia in an attempt to bring serenity and grammatical glory to its contents.

If you can replace any of my ghastly screenshots with a better, please do so!

Some of the New Wiki pages

• Torus Drive felt this was very much needed (I spent about a month with Shaky Drive .oxp installed - thanks to Norby's combination packs - and could not work out why I was not flying normally! - scoured the wiki, found nothing). This led to a reworking of the Equipment pages (originally for FFE) and the adding of Standard Equipment and a taster of .oxp equipment to what was previously just standard optional equiment.

• Expansions Manager born through not finding a guide to what the colours meant - and utter failure to use the x button for extraction.

• Buttonboxes raising awareness of putative Astrogation Boards!

• Joysticks and Gamepads‎‎ rehabilitated from an indirect - and with vital information about Precision Flying on it previously buried in the BB, linked to Linux page, Dizzy's page (& the Mac Thrustmaster Harness).

• Joysticks: Guide to Setting Up‎‎ with a small list of examples

• Roll vs Yaw crusades an anthropological assessment of the issues

• Vimana HUD: wanted to raise awareness of an inspiring HUD

• Ship's Library OXP with much detail about the excellent Ship's Manual and the Extracts from the Tre Clan: ditto

• User:Dybal - wanted to encourage the chap but very worried that I may have trodden on his corns instead!

• User:Redspear & Weapon Laws OXP: felt this was needed. Lots of fascinating stuff but virtually nothing on wiki

• User:Stranger & some of his OXPs: felt need to raise awareness: virtually nothing on wiki

• User:Uk Eliter & Fer-de-Lance 3G OXP - Put his excellent promotional material on wiki: learned use of tables!

• User:P.A. Groove‎ with links to his music & films

• Lore, History, Slang, Vanilla game, The Space Traders Flight Training Manual‎‎, Law

• How to tweak OXZ's - started - needs an expert to go over it.

• Guide to Ambience OXPs - started

• Guide to Unlisted OXPs - started - I've unearthed a handful in my digging

• Redirect pages for ANA, STE, MTS etc.

Major Edits

• Adding links & lists of relevant OXPs to Hyperspace/Quirium/Witch Fuel Injectors etc
• Sorting out the various Rock Hermit (Oolite) pages and their OXPs
• Sorting out the ghastly Lave & Tionisla messes with lavish linking
• More links for the Career Options page
• More links for the Powers and Organisations‎‎ page
• Tidied up the OXP List‎ page, reducing entry sizes to just the one line on my screen (11 inch?), and sorted out the Ship's Library oxps.
• Added in gubbins on the History of Oolite
• Lore: rejigs of The Dark Wheel & Robert Holdstock
• Links for downloading older versions of Oolite
• Trying to raise awareness of SOTL and Strangers World.
• Lots of work on User:Cim with links to the fascinating debates on the development of v1.80 & v.1.82
• Editing various user pages and then pm-ing the people in a desperate attempt to draw them back. People are important and deserve recognition for the things they do right. I'm fed up with only ever blaming people for things they do wrong.
• Sorted out the Ascension Sector1/Sori‎‎ mess. Also referenced Ascension in Weapon Laws OXP for those using it.
• Tried to sort out the muddle with 4/5 different library pages (library.oxp, cim's ship's library, spara's technical library, etc.) by adding a disambiguation section at the top of the most confusing pages: BB beg.

To do

• Finish Stranger's oxp pages (almost there!)
• Do Redspear's oxp pages

• Go over ship's basic equipment pages with new pages for installed stuff (like the Torus Drive) and with links to relevant .oxp's (started)
• Do a Keyboards page if I ever get enough information: French keyboard keys troubleshooting & Nordic Keyboard

• Enliven the Sector1/Digebiti page

• Finish incorporating programming tweaks from the BB onto the pages of relevant OXPs. (major project). Just a handful so far: Laser Booster OXP‎‎, Commanders Log OXP‎‎, Deep Space Dredger‎ & Commies‎.
• Update [OXPList] with OXZs from Expansion Packs list
• Extract lore from The Dark Wheel etc and incorporate into wiki pages

Links

• Quote: ... Oolite is not "just a shooter" game. But it would be very interesting someday to see what it could be like if even half of the attention and effort that has gone into the combat related functions was expended on the economic and cultural possibilities Ganelon
• Inspiration: A man I would be honoured to meet