Oolite Bulletins

I downloaded that shortly before Christmas. It's a fun way to while away 1/2 hour.

You mean there's no way to use a backward-compatible project format, like you can with .pbproj at the moment? That's annoying. I haven't upgraded from 10.3. I do want to play with the cool toys 10.4 but I'm not convinced they're a 'must buy' yet. What's the adoption rate of 10.4 among forum visitors...

Why do injectors use Witchdrive fuel? <technobabble>Just call it nanojumping . You see, the witchdrive engine is also the most economical way of moving around in-system because it acts on the fabric of space itself so there's no reaction-mass expended: the plumes of exhaust you see behind ships are ...

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Maybe we could argue with them and try to convince them not to explode yet...

"Bomb, how do you know you aren't just a computer simulation?"

Actually it could be fun to have these weakened energy bombs take up space as cargo, be ejected like cargo, and appear on the scanner as cargo, at least for a few seconds. And then they go into countdown mode... "I'm a thirty-second bomb! I'm a thirty-second bomb! Twenty-nine...Twenty-eight...&...

In the original game, energy bombs were necessary because the enemies were much more dangerous. I suspect it's because they all had captured lethal-thargoid style omnidirectional lasers or at least fudged the aiming if not (facing_in_completely_the_wrong_direction) then zap_player_with_450_volts end...

There's definitely something wrong with the the player being at the epicentre of the blast and being untouched! A dropped module and jump to full speed seems much more reasonable. It might be an idea to have energy bombs do a fixed amount of damage, decreasing with distance (inverse squared law, bab...

Murgh. you have a point there. At the moment I'm on the 'Plans' mission, so I'm blasting a lot of Thargoids, and have eighty-something thousand credits. (but here's an amusing aside: the kill that gave me 'deadly' status tonight was - you guessed it - an asteroid)

I support a 7 ly limit.

You could finesse it with a secondary fuel tank/fuel generator(I think you've mentioned something like that in a recent thread) and some device that allows jumping to an arbitrary deep space destination.

There is currently a 20% chance of a rock fragmenting when it blows up. The mining laser just makes it certain.

On the speccy version, you got 0.5cr for blasting an asteroid, and I believe you got full kill points. However, you didn't get fields of 10 or more asteroids and no boulders when they were destroyed, except with a mining laser you'd get *two* minerals. IMO, asteroids blasting is just too lucrative i...