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Thanks for replies :) I personally have no trouble with believing in a ship a hundred km across. Do you believe in intergalactic travel, after all? In fact, I am sure interstellar trade would simply be not feasible with ships less than that. Look at Vader's flagship in StarWars to see what I mean. B...

If the planets and distances have to be scaled up hundreds or thousands times to be realistic, then why not scale up ships' and stations’ dimensions too? And radar field, indeed? Then the problem of encountering other ships vanishes, is it not? You will hardly miss a ship a hundred kilometers across...

A very friendly board indeed, and a very nice game. I have seen its predecessor on ZX Spectrum and looked for the modern port for a long time. Glad I found it :-) As for the dredger I have little to add to my previous post. As I approached it, I noticed that it's moving in large vertical circles. I ...

Not sure if it fits here. If not, I deeply regret the offtopic. I tried to create an account at Berlios site to post it as a bug, but my IE warned me that site's security certificate is not authorized, so I aborted. I am using Oolite 1.71.2 and Dredger OXP 1.1. I noticed a strange behavior of a dred...