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, please do so!

I should mention that both Montana05 and Cody have been very helpful in all this. As have Stranger, Redspear, and User2375. If I've forgotten your name, I grovel!

Some of the New Wiki pages

In-game equipment

• 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 to both the page and the template. Also added a taster of .oxp equipment to what was previously just standard optional equipment.

Also Cargo Hold, Compass, Engine, Life Support Systems, Shields & Ship's Hull. left to do (unless I find others!).

• Vanilla game
• Expansions Manager born through not finding a guide to what the colours meant - and utter failure to use the x button for extraction.
• Tutorial to list the various lessons and re-iterate the method of stepping through it

Out-game equipment

• 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 selection of examples

OXPs

• Diplomancy OXP, BPlanets
• Her Imperial Majesty's Space Navy, Monument,
• Ship's Library OXP with much detail about the excellent Ship's Manual and the Extracts from the Tre Clan: ditto
• The Strangers World OXPs (almost all) - and also Solar Wind Flux to explain it.
• Redspear's OXPs (some)
• Shaky Drive
• Mining IFF Scanner Upgrade - first OXP I've come across written by a woman!
• Vimana HUD: wanted to raise awareness of an inspiring HUD
• MFD with the missing MFD OXZs from the wiki
• BPlanets

• 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 hundred or so in my digging

People

• User:Another_commander - with his superb essay about Oolite vs Elite combat
• User:Captain Beatnik
• User:Diziet Sma
• User:Dybal - wanted to encourage the chap but very worried that I may have trodden on his corns instead!
• User:P.A. Groove‎ with links to his music & films
• 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!

Lore

• Lore, History, Time, Law, Economics, Species, The Eight
• Religion, ‎Church of Giles the Creator with some theology, applied theology & eschatology.
• Amnesty InterGalactic, Edible Poets
• Tibecea (Rough Guide)‎‎ learned use of templates & the ship pages for the Rough Guide.
• The Space Traders Flight Training Manual‎‎, Oolite Literature
• Combat Manoeuvers, Roll vs Yaw crusades
• Obnoxicorp, Murgh Shipyards, Zorgon Petterson Group, Marine Trench Co., Aegidian Industries, Lance & Ferman
• Slang, Vanilla game, Cheating
• Finally added in Captain Hesperus's Dicky-Bow Run‎ which had been languishing in the back of our BB for 14 years!

Structure of this wiki

• Redirect pages for ANA, STE, MTS etc. Also for equipment for GalCop Missions which has a wider usage
• New categories: Lore, Stranger's World, Racing
• Collecting the various Help pages and linking them together with a new head page: How do I ....

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Major Edits

Sorting out messes

• 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 lashes of lavish linking
• 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.
• 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.
• Sorted out all but the gnat's link on Complete Ship List
• Linked all the various Thargoid OXPs together.
• Trying to make sense of the Racing pages Zorg Racing, Ring Racer OXP et al.

People matter

• Lots of work on User:Cim with links to the fascinating debates on the development of v1.80 & v.1.82
• Ditto for User:Ahruman
• 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.
• In the handful of cases where I've been able to contribute meaningfully to the Frontier pages, I've done so too.
• Adding in a little historical context and links to the Realistic Shipyards page

Unearthing treasures

• Trying to raise awareness of SOTL and Strangers World, so bunged in links right, left and centre!
• Ditto with User:Redspear's work
• Links for downloading older versions of Oolite
• Snark was fun. Montana05 was very helpful.

Lore

• Rejigs of The Dark Wheel & Robert Holdstock
• Rejig of GalCop & Oolite timeline
• More links for the Powers and Organisations‎‎ page
• Added in gubbins on the history of the development of the game of Oolite
• Rough Guide: Isence (Rough Guide)‎‎, Qutiri (Rough Guide) and Zarece (Rough Guide)‎‎: built up the stubs
• Copied much of the planet-specific gubbins from the Powers and Organisations‎‎ page and detailed ship histories onto the relevant Systems Pages.
• Linking the better fiction to relevant pages in the wiki (eg Species).

Help pages

• More links for the Career Options page
• Fleshed out Milkrun with sample routes and maps - also Short Range Chart‎
• Links for the various Help pages (some of which have hopefully been thus rescued from utter obscurity)

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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 (half done)

• Do a Keyboards page if I ever get enough information: French keyboard keys troubleshooting, Nordic Keyboard & Numeric Keypad. Croatian Keyboard.
  

Broken '\': how to solve that?: 3 devs on keyboard issues (2009) Also swapping roll vs yaw.

• Enliven the Sector1/Digebiti page
• Sports 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

• User:Snork/to-do-list look over
• User:Spara look over
• User:Svengali look over
• User:Thargoid look over
• User:Treczoks look over
• User:Tricky look over
• User:Zireael look over

Links

• Alternative Galaxies for Oolite: Galaxy seeds and system properties 2012 thread; OoniverseRepopulation 2017 attempt.
• 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