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Some ship's variations in OXPs like Random Hits have upgraded specs, perhaps there's a Cobra MK III variant somewhere with more pylons I don't have Random Hits installed. I only have Skilled NPCs, but the description says it affects pilot skills only and doesn't touch the weapons. As for any other ...

Thanks Cody!

BTW, It would be nice to restore it somewhere for public access.

There are gdrive download links of all 8 galaxies at the http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/PovrayPlanets_OXP page. However, there's only 6 galaxies available. Galaxies 4 and 5 are missing. Where can I get those?

Cody wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:12 pm

If I wanted dogfighting to be a doddle, I'd be flying a Constrictor not a Cobra!

Unfortunately it's not available.

Dogfighting: use injectors (briefly) to get in close, and make every shot count. This works 90% of the time. However, there's still a chance of a missile attack at close range or some crazy kamikaze pirate. Sometimes I can get to around 40 using this tactics. Sometimes I'm "lucky" enough ...

Manual retexture of ALL 2048 main planets is too complex task for mere mortal, agree? Yeah, that's obviously too much. What I was looking for was just better quality textures managed by the game OXZ manager. I don't mind if some distant planets look similar or the same. So I plan to overhaul defaul...

Planetary Systems changes textures of additional planets only, NOT main planet. Got it, thanks! BTW, the above screenshots look cool, but it's just one planet. For example, Lave is Earth 8K does not affect other planets. I'd like to retexture all of them. Looks like Povray Planets is the only way t...

I'm looking for better quality textures for the planets. I'm currently using PovrayPlanets OXP. It looks really cool,, but it's not included in the OXZ list and the textures are really huge. Are there any other oxp's available that provide similar quality and maintained by the game's expansion pack ...

I find the http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Target_Reticle OXP very useful and less irritating compared to the Auto Crosshairs OXP. However, the former is not included in the game managed OXZ list, while the latter is. Is it possible to add Target Reticle as well?

Are you using the CustomShields OXP by CommonSenseOTB by any chance? No, I don't have this OXP. I have Skilled NPC installed though. But all the settings are zeros which shouldn't affect their skills that much. Regarding missile avoidance tactics, if you have the Cloaking Device equipment you can u...

I can snipe from a distance with military lasers at small fry who are armed with beams and pulses (usually backwards from the rear laser - so that I can buzz off sharpish if they start getting nasty) That's how I started. Sometimes it works alright, but sometimes a better equipped pirate starts sho...

I've reconfigured the keyboard for the combat mode, having direction controls and laser close together. I'm not the slowest one, but I find it too hard to destroy some of the ships. I keep hitting them with my military laser, but they still seem to recover. Gecko is one of those. It's small and it m...

Recently updated to 2.5.1. Everything has changed now. I like the new hyper jump and docking effects.
But is it possible to keep old backgrounds somehow? Is there a configuration option for that or some other way?

Thanks!

Thanks for your detailed explanation.
I have naval grid oxp installed, but I don't have the device installed on my ship.
It just seems that shield recharge is too slow, especially when everyone around is shooting at you.

Thanks,
V.

I've been experimenting with shield boosters and military shield enhancement. Even though I have an extra energy unit on my cobra mk 3, military shield enhancement seems to cause a very slow shield recharge. It seems that shield boosters are much more effective in a fight, despite being a lot cheape...