Oolite Bulletins

I tried the ironhide hoping it would give better protection against missile hits, but found the ironhide gets damaged before the shields are depleted. The oxp description states ironhide is intended as a hull stengthening technique, so i looked at the script. I believe the reason for the wrong behav...

While doing challenges from royal hunting lodge, i noticed feudal states disables the energy bomb by damaging it. As my cobra had the self-repair system (repairbots_2.00 oxp) , upon launch repairs on the energy bomb started. several times it was repaired before the duel ended and i could have used it.

Actually in 1.65 the trade-in value isn't so bad. A fully equipped Cobra (4 hardhead missiles, 1 military laser, every possible upgrade except galactic hyperdrive and naval energy unit ) costs 230 k and has max trade-in value of 228230 . Note : This assumes the trade-in factor is maximum (100) , lik...

I've played oolite on and off during the last year, but mainly messing around and testing things. Docking manually was a big problem, 80 failed attempts of my first 100 tries at lave station, UNTIL i found the milhud oxp. Now docking (and aiming lasers in fights) has become easy. About 3 weeks ago i...

1.65 is still the stable version , development is now 1.69.1 .
(It seems the next stable version will be 1.70, date unknown).

As to kde ARTS sound server : 90% of kde users i know have disabled it since it gives problems with many programs.

I have read this forum several times, but until now i had no reason to post. I play oolite 1.65 and also maintain an archlinux package to build oolite from source. Yesterday i updated binutils and oolite stopped working. The error i got was : /usr/bin/ld : can' t find libbfd-2.17.so In the new binut...