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by elmex
Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:48 pm
Forum: Testing and Bug reports
Topic: shooting my own ship
Replies: 5
Views: 3373

shooting my own ship

I don't know whether this was already reported, I skimmed through the reports here and found nothing: (FYI: I'm running the svn checkout of 1.71-maintenance (r1625) on my AMD64 (debian linux) without any OXPs) I just bought a new ship, a Boa 2 Class Cruiser, I started in the direction of the witchpo...
by elmex
Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:26 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Shame about the contracts
Replies: 37
Views: 29879

Hmm, I got my 8 hours of sleep or so... most of the 100,000 Cr I got from the lucrative gem/platinum/gold contracts. Once you get your reputation and a large enough ship to also get it back in times you don't actually deliver cargo, money doesn't seem to be a big problem anymore. And in the first da...
by elmex
Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:10 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Jumpgate Technology vs more planets
Replies: 32
Views: 7431

The Wiki has some hints for OXP writing:
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP_howto
See also 'Expansion Pack' in this forum:
https://bb.oolite.space/viewforum.php?f=4
by elmex
Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:32 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Shame about the contracts
Replies: 37
Views: 29879

Yes, I've been pirating and bounty hunting a lot too. Still, the 30,000C you get for a good contract far exceed anything I could earn by pirating in that time. But I've bought me a Python now (from the 100,000 C I saved, and my Mk.III) and doing as many contracts as possible to keep the reputation u...
by elmex
Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:06 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Shame about the contracts
Replies: 37
Views: 29879

It takes indeed 7 successful deliveries, but the problem is that there is a small chance on every witchspace jump that it decreases. That makes it quite painful to maintain the maxium reputation. And with the Cobra Mk. III it's really hard to find any contracts at all if your reputation isn't curren...