Oolite Bulletins

Alien = Fremde Lebensform ? Das funktioniert wohl nicht als Adjektiv in "Alien items". Ausserirdisch bzw. Extraterrestrisch oder nichtmenschlich passen nicht, da, wie McLane anmerkte, ja nichtmenschliche Lebensformen in Oolite nicht per se als "alien" gelten, sondern eigentlich ...

OK, I've now started to sidetrack from pure trading (mostly for the fun, trading still seems to be where the money is at in these early stages). I've seen my first rock hermit (had I known they show up on the enhanced targetting scanner I wouldn't have had to carefully inspect so many asteroids visu...

As far as economics are concerned, you've hit the button on the furs/computers trading thing Yes, it's quite the money maker, but what I'm trying to get is a feeling for what kind of trading makes sense, not just the one definitive "buy foo at bar and sell it at baz for quux" thing. Say I...

Thanks a lot for all the advice. Some of the tips I'd already picked up. What's missing, mainly, is a general feeling for the economics, but I guess that comes with time. BTW how rare, roughly, are rock hermites? I haven't found any yet.

Hi. I'm new to this game, and (unlike a lot of other newcomers) new to elite-type games in general, since I seem to have missed the original fad entirely. Playing the game for a few hours and browsing around what documentation I can find, some crucial information still seems to be hiding from me. Is...