Oolite Bulletins

NPC mercenaries or wingmen for hire would be pretty cool, but would probably make the game too easy.

Drones that scoop up cargo for you would be really useful too. Then again, if you're mega-rich, you won't need to bother with cargo.

I just dropped my first ever Q-mine in front of a particularly tough enemy and WOW!! That thing's mental!!

I was looking out of my rear view and the blue glow was expanding towards me so I thought I'd better not stick around too long...

Is it possible to die by your own Q-mine?

I usually stop my ship and pick them off from a distance with my military laser. I line a ship up by firing a single shot and adjusting my position slightly until I can hear the laser hitting the ship, then blast away. Can usually take the ship out before my laser overheats or it decides to move :p ...

Woohoo I got 1.69 and it's running much better now

Had to lose a couple of OXPs to get it to start without crashing, but you can't have it all!

Hi All I am currently running Oolite 1.65 on Windows XP with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 and 2GB RAM. The game runs perfectly with no OXPs but when I installed a load of OXPs, I get occasional freezes. I have about 35 OXPs. I notice within Windows Task Manager that the game only seems to be using one ...

Hi all Just discovered this game a couple of days ago, and, being an old BBC 'B' Elite addict, I started playing on Friday evening and before I knew it, it was approaching 6AM on Saturday!! Anyway, I thought I'd try to download version 1.69 to make use of the Galactic map route planner thing, but it...