Oolite Bulletins

Mr. Drake has been eliminated. I'm not entirely sure how I didn't find him, but sure enough, went back, loaded up the save, left the planet station heading for the witch station, and within 40 seconds I'd found and killed him. Thanks for the help. The weird thing is, I know I'd gone right where I'd ...

My latest logfile, if it'll help. (Cross your fingers, as I've never done this before) 08:56:30.772 [log.header]: Opening log for Oolite version 1.76 (x86-32 test release) under Linux at 2012-04-30 08:56:30 -0500. 2 processors detected. Build options: spoken messages, mass/fuel pricing, JavaScript c...

Since I installed RH I've enjoyed the addition to the game however I have only done one bounty run thus far, and 'signed on' to pull my second. But I'm having major troubles. The mission is to "Destroy Chamberlain Muzzman flying a cheap Drake at Reonar." The problem is, I've been all aroun...

Not a bad little hunting trip. Now that you've got the light work done, are you going to seek out some excitement?

Funnily enough, the BBC reported today on another possible solution to the costs of getting into space. The Skylon spaceplane project. This is an spaceplane that can use standard airports, taking off and flying like a normal plane, but with a hybrid air-breathing engine that acts like a jet and swi...

I didn't get one. Once I got my account validated and my first post was approved, there's been very little guidance. It might be a silly offer, but if somebody could compile a list of tips/techniques for the novice pilot, maybe a few screenshots, I can knock it into a PDF in short order. "SandJ...

Nice writeup Smivs. It is a relief when you can sneak off without getting shot up.

This so-called 'pirate' doesn't use the aft laser, nor the side lasers... nor the yaw! I too find that most of my 'business' is conducted with the fore laser, and I rarely use yaw as the twisty function of my J-stick stopped twisting about 6 years ago... I'd like to interject though I wasn't compar...

@ CapnSkweek: Nice tale! :D Too bad, one little teeny part of my plan wasn't spot on. Since when did Thargoids hold their ground? I mean, seriously, why hasn't anybody mentioned that if you headlong charge a Thargoid, you'll not see him veer, he'll just hold what he's got while you SPLAT on his shi...

I'd just updated my cockpit, long overdue I might add, and I felt like a dancer saddled with mop buckets for shoes; I was ok, but I hardly felt comfortable with the changes. Add in that I was in a new-to-me ship, well it wasn't going to be a relaxed run. Wouldn't you know it, the one day I chose to ...

To learn, you're going to have to dig in and fight some. When I got sick of the trading grind I would leave a station empty and fueled all the way up, and hyper to a nearby planet. This would leave me out by the witchspace beacon, nearly full of fuel. Rather than dive out of the corridor to safe spa...

Oddly, mining on the moon has prospect. Helium-3 is fairly prevalent in lunar soil after heating the soil and capturing the gas. It would pay it's own way since it has several uses including lung imaging in the medical industry. Unfortunately, it's not really going to be put to good use because the ...

Unless you are referring to bandwidth used when downloading the 23 megs of Oolite 1.76? That was the bandwidth I was referring to. I'm so used to games of all sorts being into the gigabyte range for size, with patches running into the hundreds of megabytes. I figured this game would be at least in ...

I don't know why everybody is all fired up. Like everything that's every been designed for the masses, somebody sitting on a pedestal somewhere made the decision, and regardless of what this group, or any group, says it's not going to make a difference. 99% of the time whether it's this group or Wik...

Then you missed a trick. After about 6 Ping! s it goes Boing! instead for a while. If dentists played that in their surgeries, they wouldn't need to use anaesthetic. Ya know what would really be funny? Occasionally, rather than a ping or a boing, fire off the sound of an energy bomb going off, just...