Oolite Bulletins

Yes, I'm only partially convinced by the cloak. I've turned it on and still get ships firing at me. I've tried moving away from the spot where I cloaked, and sitting still in case they can see the exhaust. It does draw power from the energy banks. However, it's still fun to turn it on and then de-cl...

Sorry to harp on about a slightly diverging sub-topic, but liquid oxygen IS blue.

(A small point, but is does seem to matter.)

I was playing Original BBC Elite on an Emulator for the Mac, and had got to the first mission.

I googled something like "reesdice mission" and found the board.

I've never looked back since.

There was an unimplemented Thargoid laser in early versions of the game. (it didn't work, but it was in the equipment list, and only available at a tech level beyond that of every planet!)

Giles --- when's it coming on stream...?

The keyconfig.plist file for key controls is editable, and there is a utility for creating a new plist file that comes with Oolite.

In Og. Elite, you could never come to a complete standstill. How do we feel about some slight residual momentum when your thrust is zero? Obviously, this should be a teeny-weeny amount of drift. But I think it would improve game-play for docking, and for things like sitting outside Pirate Coves, wai...

All the audio files currently in Oolite/Contents/Resources/Sounds can be replaced.

Any file with the same name in AddOns/Sounds will supercede the original file. Currently, everything is in Ogg Vobis format.

Oo, and can we have a submarine Ping?

The purpose of mining lasers is that they increase the probability of an asteroid splintering into scoopable pieces, rather than vapourising, which usually happens with military lasers. I'm kinda loath to have adaptable controls for each view. It may be a bit difficult trying to target your guns usi...

Say Wiggy me thinks thou areth cheating: no elite rating erefore 250 posts. Or some such Elite at the game. I'm still an amateur at posting twaddle. I think the smuggling compartment upgrade has been discussed earlier (by me mostly) There is nothing new under the sun. All is but vanity. (Yea, veril...

My thought was that it would work in the same way that you lose 5t for a passenger compartment, but get to take passengers on board. Likewise, you would lose some tonnage, but then would have some tonnage as secret. It might be tricky to implement a "sub-cargo hold" concept, just for one f...

How about: An expensive modification to your ship that provides "secret" smuggling compartments. Say it takes 1 ton off your cargo capacity, but allows you to hide 4 tons from GalCop eyes. In other words, if you buy 4 tons of Narcs, your Status doesn't change. You can then purchase multipl...

<rant> On the topic of Robert Holdstock's novella, which is often mentioned as a source of reference, I would like to point out that it is not canonical. There are facts in the novella which contradict gameplay in Original BBC Elite. Obviously, we are making up Oolite to whatever specs we like, and ...

When I die, I want to get straight back out there from where I last saved the game, which is usually the last planet. However, the saved game does not record your Witchspace destination pointer, so you have the huge extra effort of moving the crosshairs back onto the planet of your choice. Any chanc...

I've just restarted the game from scratch. It does seem a mite harder even than earlier versions of Oolite! But then, that may just be because I've got used to being hard as nails. I've got BBC Elite on an emulator, so may do some parallel piloting for comparison. Having lobbied Giles hard to implem...

I got to over 8000 kills and c. 1.2 MCr, but I've recently just started from scratch again, so my new score is .... 33