Re: Stationbuilder: new release

[David Henderson <orbiter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Duncan Sharpe wrote:

> See your point - but it's equally nice to use space stations or unpowered
> tanks as refuelling points, and you need to get the fuel in them somehow.

Yup, we have a couple of tanks in the present project (Rog's excellent
one, although it's a bit big for my launcher) and the hastily constructed
jumbo-orb. Since they're attached the station, I didn't think it too much
of a problem to allow the astronaughts to wander through the docking port
and turn on the switch. ;-)

Seriously, though, it's easy enough to do, I just didn't have time last
night.

On another point, the flow rate isn't controlled in this version. It'll do
10kg per MFD update (so that could be 10kg/s, or 20, or 40 if you have a
really quick refresh rate). Also fuel won't flow when you switch to
external mode. There are probably numerous other 'features' too (I don't
know what switching ships during a transfer will do for your sanity
either), but I thought it would be best to have the capability ASAP.

I assume Roger is working on is ship still. I *might* be able to do some
programming over Xmas (spending it with the folks at home, so only have
the laptop), so if you need anything looked into for the ship Rog, let me
know.

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