Oolite Bulletins

I'd like to see the game itself define the ships. There should be an automatic trade off between size, agility, power, weapons, hull space etc that the game inforces some how. Ship OXPs would have to be 'accepted' by the game. The ships designers would then have to compete on a level playing field,...

capt.Pirk wrote:

Welcome aboard. Make sure you watch your six if your panzer down

Took me 9 days to understand the pun. Must sleep more

When I try to install the new version, I get this message: oolite.exe - Unable to locate component This application has failed to start because SDL.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem. I tried uninstalling Oolite, but it didn't make any different. What am I doing w...

Could be a good idea, especially if to use them you have to pay a humongous fee

ramon wrote:

You can check your FPS by pressing Shift+F (if you want to )

Well, I actually did that then jumped to an anarchy system to get as many pirate ships as I could, but once the action began I forgot to look at the fps count

MacBook 1.83 with 1.25 Go of RAM. Don't know the FPS but it is really smooth, even with ships and missiles dogfighting all around

Star Gazer wrote:

- bit bemused by a Frenchman with the nick of 'panzerboy'...!!

2 reasons :

1 - The "hardwired" novel by Walter Jon Williams
2 - back then draft was mandatory and I served one year in a light armoured recon regiment. Best year in my life (sigh)

I am French (Well, this happens, you know) Diecovered Elite on a Spectrum in 1984 while studying law in Bordeaux. Would spend Days and night playing it during the holidays (sad, I know). Got it later on an Atari ST, then Frontier on a PC. Now living in Guadeloupe, a French island in the Caribbean, a...