Oolite Bulletins

And just to say on topic, I don't have a favorite ship really. I like to change and play many different ones from time to time. Variety is the spice of life.

I loved Elite on my C64 and I now love Oolite on my Linux box. I hacked the C64 Elite to fix the gun sight and make it better. I can make Oolite play just about any way I want. Being able to alter the game saves and OXP's is not a skill that most 'computer users' will have. The number of users far e...

curtsibling wrote:

I think starting off on a ship like the python is not so much cheating as role-play.
The whole premise of the Elite game built around getting a free Cobra anyway -

It might be a nice option to be able to start a new game with other ships. A pick a ship to play with menu option.

The original Boomslang had many problems; mostly due to it not being finished. My skills at ship making are not up to the level of the original author. So I've stripped down the Boomslang and "fixed" the problems mostly by removing the ambitious and unfinished work of the original. Here's ...

Commander McLane wrote:

My only advice for now is: Try to fix the OXP yourself, or get someone else to fix it, or de-install it for the time being.

I will look at it. It's a nice looking ship. At the very least, maybe I can break it in a new way!
where did I put that sonic screwdriver......

I've never used the joystick.

But I don't like the yaw either. After several decades of rock and roll the yaw does not compute.

Just downloaded and installed the boomslang ship. They replicate all over the place! I droped a q bomb and got hundreds of kills off it. But it never stopped! It would just about die out and then it would flash again. Must be were the boomslangs were beaming in. I watched if for about a half hour. I...

I assisted some galcops with a fugitive. They politely thanked me and then shot me to death when I collided with the victim who we were all helping by blasting the fugitive. I was quite put out by it all. I had no chance to do anything, the collision wasted my shields. The fugitive died, the victim ...

I left the station and the next time I docked my status was "Fuel":) Aarrgh! I remember that... My brother was playing Elite back in those days and he rolled it over and became status Fuel. He showed me, as I didn't believe it. I thought he was pulling my leg. But you did become status Fu...

DaddyHoggy wrote:

50Cr is pretty good - Alien Items don't usually sell for much more than that (and usually less).

I collect mine and sell them to the behemoths. They pay well for alien items.

Commander McLane wrote:

For me the lifeblood of Oolite is not ships and eye-candy, but missions!

Yes! Yes! Yes!

I finally got one eject. I was very far away and my laser was over heated. Which leads me to ask: 1) Do mil lasers fire less energy at the target when they are firing from an over heat? I was holding the fire button down and letting them auto fire on cool down. 2) Do laser hit with less energy at th...

A python or boa has 75% chance of a escape pod. An anaconda even 95%. My experience with anacondas or boa's is that they almost always turn in derelicts first. And in most cases you can stop firing in time before it completely destroys. Something is wrong with my OOlite then. With those percentages...

Hunters and pirates are much more likley to fight rather than eject. Find yourself an innocent trader, preferably a python or annaconda. These will most times eject when they start sparking. Well that may explain my troubles. I'm not a pirate. I only have attacked fugitives and offenders in my effo...

:cry: Spent two days and failed to cause even one forced eject! This is not easy. Many ships just explode; a mil laser is not easy to regulate. Many others where shot dead by 'helpers' who I guess were saving me from the bad guy. That hurts. After all that work to get the target into an arcing and s...