Oolite Bulletins

Yes, I had this a while back. There's an aegidian-special OXP which contains ECM-hardened missiles. This was done before they became part of the game. If you have the OXP in a later version of Oolite that also contains the missiles, then they appear as yellow, not blue blips. Remove the OXP and all ...

Woo yay! Thanks for all your hard work.

Throw in a fat man in suit, and Christmas has come early.

Wiggy wrote:

Ditched the Beeb emulator, met Giles and NoSleep in a pub, and never looked back!

"Mother, I'm just off to meet some men I've been chatting with on the internet...."

I was playing Elite on a BBC emulator for the Mac, and doing the Constrictor mission. I googled "Reesdice mission", and got the Oolite BB.
Ditch the Beeb emulator, met Giles and NoSleep in a pub, and never looked back!

The argument that "you can get to Elite with no skill" would apply to Q-bombs, too. The energy bomb is an element from the original game. I think it would be a shame to play with it too much. Certainly, it does break the equitable kit rule for NPCs. But NPCs ships and players' ships are no...

I also had this problem: hardened missles appearing as ships on the the radar.
The problem was that I had the original aegidian-special.oxp installed, which included the ECM hardened missles before they were put into the game.
Removing this oxp solved the problem.

All graphics are see-through, you can see stars behind them. This is not intentional, but I think that was the case also with the original. One of the many clever things about Elite was that all the ships were designed with [some geometric feature] to make hidden line removal trivial. There weren't...

Wolfspirit wrote:

MS released vista WAY too early as usual with all their OSes.

Yes. It only took them six years.

Target one from afar, guns blazing. Once destroyed, afterburn passed them and turn round. Target another, and fire an optional missile.
If front lasers overheat, let them queue up at your rear and fire a full volley out the back.
Then back to close quarters out the front, chasing them as they sway.

I have actually sped forward using fuel injectors and hit my own missile.
Don't think it did me any damage, but it killed the missile.

Get an automated tea-making device instead.

Firing out the back can bring it down. Make sure it has a good zig-zag motion through the middle of your crosshairs, and fire sparingly. But keep a finger on the injectors in case it gets too close!

Also, turning on the Cloaking Device makes it lose it's focus and blow up.

Now who knows anyone who drives or even owns one.....? My mate, "Steve Capri", who is known for it. I remember trying to design ships for the RPG Traveller, to which Elite is supposed to pay some 'homage'. You specified the tonnage of your craft, which corresponded to an available area on...

One thing not to be forgotten is that NPCs in Oolite can have any of the equipment that players can, so a ship might be kitted out with Extra Energy Units, which may add some balance.

In Classic Elite, the other ships were always the specified value.

davcefai wrote:

This works on X86 PCs. If you have a Mac you're on your own

You're never alone with a Mac. Just use the Hardware Test CD that came with your computer.