Oolite Bulletins

Well I think Oolite will keep me busy for a loooooong time so I'm in no rush for Elite IV (which I'm sure won't run on my crummy old PC anyway!)

Commander Learner wrote:

if you want to get the Elite feel, make sure you know that Oolite is much harder.

Do you mean that Oolite 'unrestricted' is harder than Oolite 'strict'?

Or do you mean that Oolite 'strict' is harder than actual Elite?

Cheers

Thanks for the prompt replies guys! Just a follow-up question: Is the 'strict' gameplay mode based on any specific version of Elite (e.g. I understand from Ian Bell's website that the original BBC version had some differences - apart from graphics - from the Archimedes version, and then Elite Plus f...

Rxke wrote:

you can use your savefile if you tinker with it.

Ooh, that's good to know - is there a guide available to transferring save files between 'strict' and 'unrestricted' modes, or is it pretty self-explanatory?

First of all, I would just like to say how happy I am to have discovered Oolite, and a massive thank-you to everyone involved. I never got into the original Elite (my big brother had it on our ZX Spectrum but I think I was a little too young for it), but later was massively into Frontier on the Amig...