Oolite Bulletins

Yeah, that's what I mean, I see them a long way off and can't always tell which is which until they enter scanner range, or at least come close to it. Big, grey, long... look Officer, it really wasn't my fault, I'm sorry your paintwork is damaged, perhaps you should touch it up in bright green so th...

Why not indeed! Plus, from a large distance I find the large asteroids and the Behemoth class warships look worryingly alike on my tiny screen (just as it should be in the murkiness of deep space). That's caused more than a few very quick "about turn" moments.... Being able to see things b...

Thread recycling is excellent! Save the planet, kids. When I eject cargo, I often find it bangs into my hull and is destroyed - and it doesn't seem to matter whether I'm moving or still. Sometimes I just want to pick something up, see if it's better than what I'm carrying, and if not collect my orig...

A fair evening to you, gents. It's finally here. Oh, the excitement. http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9721/fcvr6.jpg The Player Issue 8 is out now and available to download from www.the-player.co.uk or right here for you lazy clickers . The redesigned, renamed, re-prosed [Is this a word? -Ed] maga...

So what's everyone's personal proudest combat moment, then? Given that I'm only on my second ship (i.e. first purchase), my best is taking out 5 pirate ships that were escorting a boa but took an unhealthy interest in my cargo. I was in a Cobra Mk. III, four basic missiles, EMP, no witchspace inject...

I barely have ten OXPs installed - I like to add bits slowly, and appreciate each new mod. I was playing for months and months before I installed any; I wanted to get as much as I could out of the 'vanilla' game before I added anything. But for a new player, I reckon the my favourites would be (in n...

Alas though, the ships which are not jump-capable are NPC only. The only way to get one is to use the illicit-unlock.oxp, but this adds a hyperdrive to the ship. Bugger, I forgot. :( Well, if someone was being really adventurous, they could script a mission that included a special transport ship so...

yes, the invulnerability of the main station is hard-coded. The ability to make specific entities invulnerable might be useful, but could also lead to a new überness escalation. Comments? Probably not quite what you mean, but I honestly think it would be pleasant to give each entity a Q bomb-effect...

Ho ho ho! Never heard any of those before... :wink: I wasn't meaning to suggest any major updates or anything, I was just wondering if it was possible to put into a future build. I guess it could be a random probability at impact, or a parameter specified randomly for each asteroid as each system is...

Random bump, sorry, but I'm all for thread recycling... A Q-mine shouldn't destroy a space station, as the Q-mine works by doing somthing deeply unpleasant to a ship's witch-drive engine, causing it blow up. Who installed witch-drives in all those asteroids? I've been thinking about this for a while...